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by Scott McMillin
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Derived from the colorful traditions of vaudeville, burlesque, revue, and operetta, the musical has blossomed into America's most popular form of theater. Scott McMillin has developed a fresh aesthetic theory of this underrated art form, exploring the musical as a type of drama deserving the kind...
The Corruption of Angels
The Great Inquisition of 1245-1246
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1, 1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners, butchers and monks, concubines and physicians,...
Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear
Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321. During this time the crown tried to force churchmen to accept policies many considered inconsistent with ecclesiastical freedom and traditions--such...
Sans-Culottes
An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and...
The Presidential Difference
Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama - Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Fred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In The Presidential Difference, he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the presidential qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's first...
Byzantium
The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism--gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium--long history, she identifies the fundamental questions...
Margins and Metropolis
Authority across the Byzantine Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
This volume explores the political, cultural, and ecclesiastical forces that linked the metropolis of Byzantium to the margins of its far-flung empire. Focusing on the provincial region of Hellas and Peloponnesos in central and southern Greece, Judith Herrin shows how the prestige of Constantinople...
Walden
150th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work,...
Hamlet's Arab Journey
Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's...
Mountain of Fame
Portraits in Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
Generations of Americans have debated the meaning of Abraham Lincoln's views on race and slavery. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and supported a constitutional amendment to outlaw slavery, yet he also harbored grave doubts about the intellectual capacity of African Americans, publicly used...
License to Harass
Law, Hierarchy, and Offensive Public Speech
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First Amendment...
by C. G. Jung
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
C. G. Jung, son of a Swiss Reformed pastor, used his Christian background throughout his career to illuminate the psychological roots of all religions. Jung believed religion was a profound, psychological response to the unknown--both the inner self and the outer worlds--and he understood Christianity...
F.B. Eyes
How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released...