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Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. He asked, and was granted, permission to make a extended tour of the country. This previously unpublished diary is a firsthand record of life in the USSR during the 1920s as seen by a leading American...

What impact has the end of mandatory retirement had on colleges and universities as well as on the academic job market? From the Wharton School, "To Retire or Not?" outlines the critical issues associated with faculty aging, retirement policy, and human resource needs in higher education over the next decades.

Places the Lombard laws in their historical context, showing the importance of barbarian codes, the development of the Lombard policy and society in the early Middle Ages, and the use of laws as sources for these topics... The translation is excellent."-Choice

Selected by "Choice" magazine as an Outstanding Academic BookArgues that the origins of courtliness lie in the German courts, their courtier class, and the education for court service in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

Synthesis of a high order. . . . A praisworthy accomplishment."--

The best of Hegel's early writings, with an introduction on Hegel's philosophical development.

All the contributions are interesting and, from their own different perspectives, throw light on the different aspects of the vexed question of human rights."--"Political Studies

Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monast...

Conceived by the author as a workshop in print.

Traces the history of the corps since its founding, in 1901. "A work essential to any study of the corps or military medicine."--"Choice

With 160 photographs, Historic Houses of Philadelphia brings the region's most impressive museum homes to life. The only comprehensive readers' tour of the area's rich array of historic residences open to the public, the book is complete with maps, touring information, and historical notes on fifty distinctive homes. The spectacular homes included in the book range in location from Center City, Fairmount Park, and Germantown to Philadelphia ou...

Mark Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League. With their long winning streaks, distinctive traditions, and impressive victories, Ivy teams started a national obsession with football in the first decades of the twentieth century that remains alive today. In so doing they have helped develop our ideals about the role of athletics in college life.

Explored in this book are women's contributions to letter writing in western Europe from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries. The essays represent the first attempt to chart medieval women's achievements in epistolarity, and the contributions to this volume situate the women writers in a historical context and employ a variety of feminist approaches.

In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were