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Irving Babbitt
An Intellectual Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Few men in America's intellectual history have sought as much as Irving Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural values that America, expecially in its "progressive" epoch, had no inclination to receive. Over sixty years after his death, Babbitt remains a figure of controversy. He retains...
Electra and the Empty Urn
Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Metatheater, or "theater within theater," is a critical approach often used in studies of Shakespearian or modern drama. Breaking new ground in the study of ancient Greek tragedy, Mark Ringer applies the concept of metatheatricality to the work of Sophocles. His innovative analysis sheds...
The Limits of Sisterhood
The Beecher Sisters on Women's Rights and Woman's Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to women's power. Although they did not always agree on the nature of that power, each in her own way--Catherine as educator and...
Pie
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Sara Foster takes the expression "easy as pie" seriously. New and experienced bakers alike will thrill to Foster's encouraging approach to tossing together the most delicious made-from-scratch pies. A southern kitchen is unimaginable without pie, says Foster, who grew up on a farm in Tennessee, where...
Bourbon
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Did you know that bourbon must be made in America and aged for at least two years in new American oak barrels that are charred on the inside? In this spirited little cookbook, Kathleen Purvis explores the history, mythology, and culinary star power of this quintessential southern liquor. On the scene...
Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice
New Conversations across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
The need for informed analyses of health policy is now greater than ever. The twelve essays in this volume show that public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care. Integrating...
by Susan Strehle
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover, William Gaddis, John Barth, Margaret...
Bread and the Ballot
The United States and India's Economic Development, 1947-1963
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Dennis Merrill examines the origins and implementation of U.S. economic assistance programs in India from independence in 1947 to the height of John F. Kennedy's "development decade" in 1963. As the Cold War spread to the Third World in the late 1940s and 1950s, American policymakers tried...
Living with Spina Bifida
A Guide for Families and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
It is the most common complex birth defect. Spina bifida affects approximately one out of every 1,000 children born in the United States. In this comprehensive guide, Dr. Adrian Sandler offers a wealth of useful information on the medical, developmental, and psychological aspects of this condition.
Accurate,...
The Romantic Fragment Poem
A Critique of a Form
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The fragment poem, long regarded as a peculiarly Romantic phenomenon, has never been examined outside the context of thematic and biographical criticism. By submitting the unfinished poems of the English Romantics to both a genetic investigation and a reception study, Marjorie Levinson defines the...
Confessional Subjects
Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bronta's Villette, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles,...
The Transformation of Criminal Justice
Philadelphia, 1800-1880
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Allen Steinberg brings to life the court-centered criminal justice system of nineteenth-century Philadelphia, chronicles its eclipse, and contrasts it to the system -- dominated by the police and public prosecutor -- that replaced it. He offers a major reinterpretation of criminal justice in nineteenth-century...
by Elizabeth Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The author believes gardening in the middle South, where seasons have no definite boundaries but merge imperceptibly, could and should be a year-round pleasure. She takes us through the cycle of seasons, telling which plants are most suitable to which season. The book includes tables giving blooming dates of over eight hundred varieties of plants which were recorded over a period of years.
by Larry Eugene Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Jones offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of the development and decline of the German Democratic party and the German People's party from 1918 to 1933. In tracing the impact of World War I, the runaway inflation to the 1920s, and the Great Depression of the 1930s upon Germany's middle-class...