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Offers a behind-the-scenes account of American foreign policymaking in the late twentieth century. Through the eyes, diary, and notes of a key participant, the book provides a contemporaneous perspective on such major events as the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, and the elections of the 1960s.

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, while also exploring how Shakespeare's texts have been cut apart beginning in Shakespeare's own time.

Excerpt from Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities Upon the Hospitals and Charities, Etc. Of the Province of Ontario: Being for the Year Ending 30th September, 1904In 1893, the total Government grant to the Orphanages of the Province of Ontario was while in 1903 the grant was or only more than ten years ago.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Excerpt from Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities Upon the Hospitals and Charities, Etc. Of the Province of Ontario: Being for the Year Ending 30th September, 1904In 1893, the total Government grant to the Orphanages of the Province of Ontario was while in 1903 the grant was or only more than ten years ago.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

Just who is "Shakespeare"? And what is it that makes him continue to resonate so powerfully with performers, critics, and scholars? In this original examination of Shakespeare's works and their appeal to our senses, acclaimed Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith asserts that the undiminished staying power of Shakespeare has less to do with ideology than with the distinctive ways in which his poems and plays capture our imagination. Phenomenal S...

In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare Cut considers contemporary practices of cutting up Shakespeare in stage productions, videogames, book sculptures, and YouTube postings, while also exploring how Shakespeare's texts have been cut apart beginning in Shakespeare's own time.

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We know how a Shakespeare play sounds when performed today, but what would listeners have heard within the wooden "O" of the Globe Theater in 1599? What sounds would have filled the air in early modern England, and what would these sounds have meant to people in that largely oral culture? In this ear-opening journey into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, Bruce R. Smith explores both the physical aspects of human speech (ears, l...

List of IllustrationsPreface to the Paperback EditionPreface1. Sexuality and the Play of Imagination2. Combatants and Comrades3. The Passionate Shepherd4. The Shipwrecked Youth5. Knights in Shifts6. Master and Minion7. The Secret SharerNotesIndex

America's governing system is unique in the extent to which scientists and other outside experts participate in the policy process. No other nation uses these experts so extensively, not merely for advice on the allocation of resources to science but also in broad policy issues. This wide-ranging study traces the rise of scientists in the policy process and shows how outside experts interrelate with politicians and administrators to produce a ...

The most up-to-date and current statement of our understanding of the issues in southeastern bioarcheology.... [W]hat we need are more studies like these.

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After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe. During his long career, Gordon worked as an aide to National Security Adviser Averill Harriman in President Truman's administration, for President John F. Kennedy as an author of the Alliance for Progress and as an adviser on Latin American policy, and for President Lyndon B. Johnson as assistant secretary of sta...

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Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "comic" and "tragic" is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization. Though medieval writers and readers distinguished stories with happy endings from stories with unhappy endings, it was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--fifteen hundred years after Sophocles, Euripid...

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare's global reputation. In pursuit of that vision, this work is transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary. Volume 1, Shakespeare's World, 1500-1660, includes a comprehensive survey of the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived, while Volume 2, The World's Shakespeare, 1660-Present, examines what the world has made of S...