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." . . one of the few truly important works of political thought."--Russell KirkIrving Babbitt was a leader of the intellectual movement called American Humanism, or the New Humanism, and a distinguished professor of French literature at Harvard. "Democracy and Leadership, " first published in 1924, is his only directly political book, and in it he applies the principles of humanism to the civil social order.Babbitt rejects all deterministic p...

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An econometric study of the demand for energy in industrialized and underdeveloped countries, examining the role that energy plays as a consumption good and as a factor in industrial production.

With detailed documentation from primary sources, Derthick shows how policymaking has been dominated until recently by a small group of specialists. But now, with difficult times ahead, the pattern is changing, and more people inside and outside the government seek to influence decisions. Derthick argues that this trend should be encouraged.

The distinguished folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand has selected 26 essays, arranged in four sections of increasing sophistication and difficulty, to introduce the beginning student to the best in modern folklore scholarship. As he writes in the Preface: These articles were chosen to illustrate a variety of approaches and folklore genres, they are rich in actual examples of folk materials and are above all well written and thought-provoking. Many...

During the period from 1820 to 1860 American writers in New York and the South were concerned with breaking away from English themes and literary models, exploring the Americanness of their nations literature. The scope of their work was wide - they were novelists, poets, essayists, editors, humorists, reformers, abolitionists, historians and scientists. They portrayed native peoples and life on the American frontier. They mined local history ...

The book of a strong tournament is more than just a games collection. Most knowledgeable chess players now rate the Zurich 1953 tournament as the greatest since World War II, and possibly the greatest tournament of all time. Here David Bronstein offers the games plus thorough and perceptive annotations.

The Byzantines had a remarkably sophisticated approach to politics and military strategy. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they learnt very early in their history that winning a battle did not necessarily win a war, and they frequently bought off their enemies with treaties and bribes rather than squander men and materiel in potentially fruitless campaigns. The Byzantine army of the 10th and early 11th centuries, at the height of its power...

Focuses on the theory and practice of presidentialism and constitutionalism.

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Nowadays clinical medicine is to a great extent dependent on techniques and instrumentation. Not infrequently, instrumentation is so complicated that technical specialists are required to perform the measurements and to process the data. Interpretation of the results, however, generally has to be done by physicians. For proper interpretation of data and good com­ munication with technical specialists, knowledge of, among other things, principl...

." . . one of the few truly important works of political thought."--Russell KirkIrving Babbitt was a leader of the intellectual movement called American Humanism, or the New Humanism, and a distinguished professor of French literature at Harvard. "Democracy and Leadership, " first published in 1924, is his only directly political book, and in it he applies the principles of humanism to the civil social order.Babbitt rejects all deterministic p...

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The New Diary is about a completely modern concept of journal writing. It has little to do with the rigid daily calendar diary you may have kept as a child or the factual travelogue you wrote to recall the Grand Canyon. Instead, it is a tool for tapping the full power of your inner resources.The New Diary is as much for those who already keep a journal as it is for those who have never kept one. It does not tell you the "right" way to keep a d...