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?There has been much need for a dictionary of this kind, and Nunez is to be commended for producing a solid one. Drawing on 14 glossaries and dictionaries, 126 books, and 20 articles, the author has carefully selected for this attractively organized reference tool more than 4500 entries pertinent to the study of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean....Highly recommended.?-Library Journal

?A masterful study of the personalities who guided Britain's naval strategy from the climax of sail to the nuclear age....The material is smoothly presented and will be relished by the interested lay reader as well as the maritime expert.?-Library Journal

?Littlefield's account of the freed blacks' social and economic life is very valuable....students of the West and race relations will welcome this book. Recommended for university libraries.?-Library Journal

?Crafted by an editor of John Marshall's papers, this volume presents a meticulous and fully documented study of a critical episode in American diplomacy that almost caused a war between the US and France in 1798. Stinchcombe engages the reader's interest through carefully focused chapters that mingle description with analysis in the unfolding story.?-Choice

?A comprehensive listing of writings about crime literature including biographies of writers....There are both title and subject indexes, the latter will be the book's most valuable feature for researchers. An appendix covers materials in foreign languages. This book will be used by both reference librarians and researchers. Recommended for larger collections.?-Library Journal

This study of the vascular plant taxa in the southeastern United States includes keys, descriptions, habitats, distributional data, and pertinent synonymy to every vascular species without cultivation in the southeastern United States.

?A very readable chronicle of the struggle for control of radio broadcasting during its formative years. Rosen has focused on the political and commercial conflicts, the infighting and manipulations among the personalities and organizations seeking authority over the new medium. Of particular interest is the role of Herbert Hoover and the Department of Commerce. The book is well researched and documented with an excellent bibliography.?-Choice

?Thorough, even exhaustive, analytical style is applied throughout. Clearly Modern Products Liability Law will appeal most to lawyers, insurance industry officials, and others with a working interest in this field. In addition, economists and lawyers interested in the interaction between law and economic analysis will find challenging material here.. ..The critique of the state of modern products liability law and the deft case made for the sy...

Continuing his explorations of life in the Roman provinces, Paul MacKendrick surveys the rich and varied culture that spread from the eastern borders of modern Libya to the Atlantic. He focuses on the ascent of Roman hegemony in the African world, beginning with the romantic and sanguinary rise and fall of Punic Carthage, Rome's ancient enemy, and lasting through centuries of imperial rule until the Vandal invasion of Africa and the decline of...

A study of post-Civil War Texas, following the rise and functioning of the Republican party until 1874. It focuses on Republican leaders, constituents, ideology, policies and relations with the national party in an attempt to uncover the basis of the Southern Republican movement.

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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the foremost spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century. Though he lived a mostly solitary existence as a Trappist monk, he had a dynamic impact on world affairs through his writing. An outspoken proponent of the antiwar and civil rights movements, he was both hailed as a prophet and castigated for his social criticism. He was also unique among religious leaders in his embrace of Eastern mysticism, positing...

Larger churches are different--in expectations, in performance, in staffing, and in use of lay volunteers. Their unique differences require special handling. And that's what this first-of-its-kind book is all about. Expert Lyle Schaller helps the leaders of larger churches understand the special characteristics of these churches and helps members of multiple staffs see their role and the context of that role more clearly. Schaller fully descri...

Winner of the 1980 Booker PrizeSailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and ...

This volume contains the extensive revisions that Reich made to his made to his groundbreaking 1927 study on the function of the orgasm.

For fifteen years, Emile Durkheim worked on the journal L'Annee Sociologique--selecting, editing, writing, shaping the goals and methods of the "French School" of sociology. Now, for the first time, Durkheim's own contributions to L'Annee are available in English. Classified and explained by Durkheim scholar Yash Nandan, this useful collection clarifies: the role of "L'Annee Sociologique" in the development of scientific sociology, the positio...

SPANISH EDITION. The pastor of the largest church in the world tells us the secret of answered prayers and of church renovation.