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Sula Wolff discusses the nature and origins of the difficulties some children have in adapting to the social and educational demands of school life and compares them with autism, Asperger's syndrome and schizoid\schizotypal personality disorders.

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This is a fascinating, brilliant, compelling study of how many Europeans came to conceptualize the little-known 'barbarians' on the eastern fringes of Europe in the Enlightenment. . . . This new book goes still further in demonstrating how complex the whole question of recognizing difference and establishing what the definitions of civility were."--Anthony Pagden, Johns Hopkins University "A fine imaginative historian who makes a persuasive ca...

The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend", Thom Jones, "A White Horse", Andre Dubus, "The...

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In this second novel of Wolff's "Make Lemonade" trilogy, 15-year old Verna LaVaughn is visited by Jody, a boy she knew as a child who comes back to the housing project where she lives. Jody behaves as if he's in love with her, but Jody is wrestling with questions of his own identity.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Sally Wolff and Floyd C. Watkins, both of Emory University, took students of southern literature to Lafayette County, Mississippi, to explore the region where William Faulkner lived. They visited Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi, trekked around the countryside, and met people who were the prototypes for some of his characters. During these excursions, they discovered firsthand how profoundly Faulkner's...

Winner of the 2003 Barnard Women Poets Prize, a new award for a poet's second collection. Figment is a book of dark and witty poems, an amalgam of discrete parts: postconfessional lyric, poems that inhabit a territory of attempted engagement, of earnest failure to engage, poems written under the guiding star of the sentence fragment, and a series of spoofs and riffs on the vagaries of social interactions.

Pierri Wolff provides a new translation from the authorized Latin text of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. The translation is accompanied by Mr. Wolff's learned commentary.

The boys" are Adam and Huck, former college roommates. A decade out of college and just as long out of touch with each other, they are reunited when Adam arrives to share Huck's apartment on Russian Hill in San Francisco."Their baby" is Christopher, Huck's entrancing almost-one-year-old son, whose mother is nowhere in evidence and, at first, much to Adam's befuddlement, mysteriously unmentioned. The story centers on Adam as he sets out to cons...

The tools and techniques to fully leverage coplanar technology Coplanar Microwave Integrated Circuits sets forth the theoretical underpinnings of coplanar waveguides and thoroughly examines the various coplanar components such as discontinuities, lumped elements, resonators, couplers, and filters, which are essential for microwave integrated circuit design. Based on the results of his own research findings, the author effectively demonstrates...

Culled from over 100 prestigious writing programs around the United States and Canada, this collection offers a splendid array of writing talent that showcases the literary stars of tomorrow. Includes stories written from such programs as Breadloaf, the Sewanee Conference, the University of Iowa, and others.

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In its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Each philosopher in this volume made intellectual history, each created a revolution in ideas, each reaffirmed man's view of himself as a sentient being capable of creating order out of the baffling contradictio...

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This issue of Human Studies is dedicated to Alfred Schutz on the twen­ ty-fifth anniversary of his death. It also is meant as a fond and admiring salute to one of Schutz's most outstanding students and his intellectual biographer, Helmut R. Wagner, on the occasion ofhis eightieth birthday. The first paper, by Wagner himself, is the first of three that were presented at the session in honor of Alfred Schutz, which was chaired by George Psathas,...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is one of the works which dominate contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal "night-watchman" state and challenges the views of many contemporary philosophers, most notably John Rawls. This book is the first full-length study of Nozick's work and of the debates to whi...

Based on the time-tested spiritual exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the 16th-century founder of the Jesuits who developed a systemic way of considering and making choices, this revised edition helps those who want to make fruitful choices and manage decisions with faithfulness to God.