Each the work of a specialist on the antebellum South, these essays address broad issues such as the slavery system, the growth of the cotton industry, and the growing sectional self-consciousness of the South. The authors' local, microcosmic approaches permit examination of subjects such as local justice, economic failure, slave marriages, and slave insurrection with an in-depth attention rarely possible in general works.
St. Thomas Aquinas enables the reader to appreciate both Thomas's continuity with earlier thought and his creative independence. After a useful account of the life and work of St. Thomas, McInerny shows how the thoughts of Aristotle, Boethius, and Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius were assimilated into the personal wisdom of St. Thomas. He also offers a helpful study of the distinctive features of Aquinas's Christian theology.
This is a biographical dictionary of some 1500 conductors. . . . Much of this information is valuable and would be hard to find in other sources. The author's style is ingratiating and fresh. . . . His coverage is superb." Library Journal
?Examines the legal, emotional, and economic effects of separation and divorce on middle-class American women. The methodology is as interesting as the content. Halem role-plays a fictitious, separated woman, Sheila Ash, ' whose identity has been statistically constructed from divorce figures. ...When a competent scholar researches an important and timely issue with an imaginative and thought-provoking methodology, and organizes and writes the...
?The reality of voting rights policy (or, indeed, any policy) rests in its actual enforcement. The enforcement of voting rights policy (a compliance policy that reflects the realities of policymaking and policy implementation in a federal system) is more important than the existence of printed rights--this is the thesis of this exceptionally perceptive study....An important, sophisticated, quality book. Good bibliography, footnotes, appendixes...
Goethes Gedichte gehören neben dem Faust zum Lebendigsten seines Werkes. Mit den Gedichten seiner Jugendzeit gab er den Deutschen zum ersten Mal Verse, die nach dem Herzschlag gestaltet zu sein scheinen - Gebilde von bezwingender Sprachkraft. Die Lyrik der späteren Zeit ist weniger vom Ton des Erlebens, des Gefühls und der Stimmung getragen als von dem einer aus Erfahrung gefilterten Welt-Weisheit und einer sich im sprachlichen Maß aufhebenden...
Inhalt: I Zuneigung, II Gott und Welt, III Natur, IV Geist und Geschehen, V Welt-Leben, VI Lebensbezüge, VII Bilden und Erfahren, VIII Problem und Erwiderung, IX Gegenwart, X Kunst und Schöpfung, XI Idee und Liebe - Vermächtnis, Nachwort, Nachweise
Die Edition Schott spiegelt die ganze Vielfalt der Musik in einer umfassenden Noten-Bibliothek für den Schüler, Amateur- und Profi-Musiker wider.Die Edition Schott bietet Musik von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne, vom Solo-Instrument bis zum Orchester, von klassischen Standardwerken bis zu interessanten Raritäten. Sie enthält rund zwanzig der anerkannten und bestens bewährten Schott-Instrumentalserien, wie Gitarren-Archiv, Violin-Bibliothek, I...
This book includes eight essays which help give the reader an understanding of the legal framework of American collective bargaining. It demonstrates how and why collective bargaining has become the basic and accepted procedure in the settlement of disputes between labor and management.
In recent years the discussion of imperialism has become so compartmentalized that it is difficult for somebody who is not directly involved to put the often polemical discussion and the various scientific and political positions forward into a relevant context. Mommsen's survey is an excellent guide."--"German Studies, " on the German edition.
"Theories of Imperialism" is the most succinct, fairest, and most sophisticated statement I have se...
He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail of blood is all that remains. He is a monster, Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear. Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, knows something must be done to stop Grendel. But who will guard the great hall he has built, where so many men have lost their lives to the monster while keeping watch? Only one man dares to stand up to Grendel's fury --B...
