This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The status of American children at the beginning of the eighteenth century was so insignificant that writers apologized for wasting their talents on the subject and physicians seldom condescended to prescribe for them. the Changing attitude toward the child since then, however, can be classed as one of the great revolutions of history. In this volume Monica Kiefer traces the development of various phases of child life, including religion, mann...
The chronic dissatisfaction with representative institutions makes this chronicle of the development of the English parliament, from its beginnings in the thirteenth century to the outbreak of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, a most timely work for every student of history and government. In this book George L. Haskins is primarily interested in singling out the persistent currents in English society and government in order to show s...
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
This first English translation of the only comprehensive and thorough history of Russian culture in any language is a publication of unique importance. Endowed with scholarly authority, it traces in broad outline the long rich story of the development of religion, literature, and the arts from their earliest manifestations to modern times. Originally published in 1941 in three sections, Religion and the Church, Literature, and Architecture, Pa...
The Beneficiary in Life Insurance consists of ten lectures by leading authorities explaining the principles of designating and protecting the beneficiary.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
In the years since Proust's death there have been many specialized studies of his extraordinary novel, and his character and viewpoint have been violently attacked and warmly defended. Here at last, written with sound scholarship but addressed to the general reader, is a full, frank, and unbiased account of the man and his work, and a clear statement of what he has to say to the world today.
Chronological biography is interpolated with detaile...
Originally published by Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen, in 1948 and 1953, and reprinted (unrevised) by Bouma's Boekhuis n.v. publishers, Groningen, in 1972.
Textual and 'higher' criticism have decimated the faith of many and made divinity schools message-less. This is an analysis of questions asked by textual and higher criticism with the purpose of vindicating the viewpoint of an infallible Bible.
Volume 3 of a 3 part series. "These contemporary song settings may be freely used in worship by Christians of all denominations, but those who use the three-year lectionaries will welcome the liturgical indexes that relate them to these lectionaries." Ogden is the Director of Music at Clifton Cathedral and Regional Director for the South West and Midlands of the Royal School of Church Music. Alan Smith is Secretary to the Composers' Group of t...
Offers ideas for twirled art - aliens, alphabets, bugs, birds, cats, cows, flowers, frogs, food, monkeys and more. This title gives thirty projects with the step-by-step treatment, along with coiled creations.