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In the informal, engaging essays brought together in ONE SOUTH, John Shelton Reed focuses on the South's strong regional identity and on the persistence, well into the last decades of the twentieth century, of Southern cultural distinctiveness. Reed argues that Southerners are similar in much the same way that members of an ethnic group are similar. He discusses the South's shared cultural values, ranging from serious examinations of Southern ...

Philosophy of Josiah Royce".

A small guide to meditation which makes us conscious of our place in the great rhythms of the world.

There's nothing available that I know of that comes as close to representing the range of Royce's works. . . . " -- John H Lavely

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Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas—an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But above all, Treasure Island is a complex study of good and evil, as embodied by that hero-villain, Long John Silver, the merry unscrupulous buccaneer-rogue whose greedy lust...

A young boy flees from an orphanage to London, only to be captured by thieves.

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Next to the six-shooter, barbed wire most affected the way the West survived. In The Rider of Lost Creek, L'Amour spins a highly-charged tale about a prickly strand that took a bigger bite out of Live Oak country than any man could have ever anticipated, and became a tragic symbol for all that these men stood for and against.

If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor, " his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener, " his famous story about a...

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Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places.

This book is the true story of H. L. Hunt and family. It is not an authorized biography. However, in the course of researching the book and the Texas Monthly and Playboy articles which preceded it, the author was able to interview members of all three branches of the Hunt clan, among them Nelson Bunker Hunt, William Herbert Hunt, Mrs. H. L. (Ruth) Hunt, Ray Hunt, and Hugh S. Hunt. Hurt also conducted over 250 interviews with relatives, friends...

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Verma modules and Schubert cells: A dictionary.- Invariant dimension and restricted extension of Noetherian rings.- Generating modules efficiently over noncommutative rings.- Algebres simples centrales sur les corps ultra-produits de corps p-adiques.- Caracterisation des algebres de representation finie sur des corps algebriquement clos.- Ideaux primitifs dans des algebres universelles.- Ultra-produits D'algebres de Lie.- Grade et theoreme d'i...

On the geometry of interpolating varieties.- Fonctions plurisousharmoniques et id¿ d¿nissant un ensemble analytique.- Relations entre les diff¿ntes notions de fibr¿et de courants positifs.- Scindage holomorphe d'un morphisme de fibr¿vectoriels semi-positifs avec estimations L2.- Integrales de courbure et potentiels sur les hypersurfaces analytiques de ?n.- Foctions holomorphes et particule charg¿dans un champ magn¿que uniforme.- Int¿ale de dir...

Fiber spaces, connections and Yang-Mills fields.- A geometric introduction to Yang-Mills-equations.- Symmetry as a clue to the physics of elementary particles.- Topological excitations in gauge theories, An introduction from the physical point of view.- Particles, fields and quantum theory.- Monopole solitons.- Yang-Mills theory and Gravitation: A comparison.- The twistor description of linear fields.- Twistor techniques in gauge theories.- Si...

Olden Times Revisited: W. L. Clayton's Pen Pictures by W. L. Clayton edited by Minrose Gwin "If I had the pen of a ready writer, "Clayton wrote, "enabling me to give a pen-picture of the appearance of the virgin forests in these olden times, covered with the upstretching trees, with occasional vines entwining them from top to bottom, loaded with wild grapes or luscious muscadines, and the plains and hillsides waving with beautiful wild flowers...