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Forbidden Journeys
Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
by Michael Spitzer
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
"The scholarship of Michael Spitzer's new book is impressive and thorough. The writing is impeccable and the coverage extensive. The book treats the history of the use of metaphor in the field of classical music. It also covers a substantial part of the philosophical literature. The book treats...
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self
Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long work on the relationship between knowledge, power, and the self. The lectures...
by Thomas Medvetz
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of “research”...
Rethinking America's Highways
A 21st-Century Vision for Better Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, their exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America provides...
What Editors Want
An Author's Guide to Scientific Journal Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Research publications have always been key to building a successful career in science, yet little if any formal guidance is offered to young scientists on how to get research papers peer reviewed, accepted, and published by leading scientific journals. With What Editors Want, Philippa J. Benson and...
by Shira Brisman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience...
Women in the Club
Gender and Policy Making in the Senate
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a “war on women,” while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually undermined women’s rights. The women of the...
by William Russo
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
"Although it will be of primary interest to those who are engaged in composition themselves, [this] book is also recommended for readers who may wish to gain further insight into just what makes jazz composition so different from traditional approaches."—Malcolm Bessom, The Music Magazine
The Dramatic Writer's Companion, Second Edition
Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
In just eight years, The Dramatic Writer’s Companion has become a classic among playwrights and screenwriters. Thousands have used its self-contained character, scene, and story exercises to spark creativity, hone their writing, and improve their scripts.
Having spent decades working with dramatists...
by George Steindorff, Keith C. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Here, adequately presented for the first time in English, is the fascinating story of a splendid culture that flourished thirty-five hundred years ago in the empire on the Nile: kings and conquests, gods and heroes, beautiful art, sculpture, poetry, architecture.
Significant archeological discoveries...
The Constitution in the Supreme Court
The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Currie's masterful synthesis of legal analysis and narrative history, gives us a sophisticated and much-needed evaluation of the Supreme Court's first hundred years.
"A thorough, systematic, and careful assessment. . . . As a reference work for constitutional teachers, it is a gold mine."—Charles A. Lofgren, Constitutional Commentary
Transmedium
Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
If you attend a contemporary art exhibition today, you’re unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media—such as painting, or woodcuts—and instead focus on collisions between...
Cultural Misunderstandings
The French-American Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Raymonde Carroll presents an intriguing and thoughtful analysis of the many ways French and Americans—and indeed any members of different cultures—can misinterpret each other, even when ostensibly speaking the same language. Cultural misunderstandings, Carroll points out, can arise even where...