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A collection of twenty-five years of research on theatre styles from around the world, Theatre, The Search for Style contains interviews with over twenty acclaimed directors on the Commedia Dell'Arte, Peking Opera, Kabuki and Noh theatre, Sanskrit, The Spanish Golden Age, Greek theatre, American Musical Comedy, Phedre, Chekhov, Brecht, and Racine.

Through a lifetime of passionate scholarship, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) uncovered the "domains of tradition hidden under the debris of centuries" and made the history of Jewish mysticism and messianism comprehensible and relevant to current Jewish thought.In this paperback edition of his definitive book on Scholem's work, David Biale has shortened and rearranged his study for the benefit of the general reader and the student. A new introduct...

The monumental "Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups" is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. "Dimensions of Ethnicity" is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynami...

The monumental "Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups" is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. "Concepts of Ethnicity" is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynamics...

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The monumental "Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups" is the most authoritative single source available on the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of ethnic groups in the United States. "Dimensions of Ethnicity" is designed to make this landmark scholarship available to everyone in a series of handy paperbound student editions. Selections in this series will include outstanding articles that illuminate the social dynami...

Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as Les Misérables. Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish.Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggle...

A combination of detailed instruction and text (based on actual adventures) of all the techniques of canoe camping and wilderness cruising. You learn how to "find a river, " navigate, cope with accidents and much more. With 65 drawings and 11 maps.

Why do some democracies succeed while others fail? In seeking an answer to this classic problem, G. Bingham Powell, Jr. examines the record of voter participation, government stability, and violence in 29 democracies during the 1960s and 1970s. The core of the book and its most distinguishing feature is the treatment of the role of political parties in mobilizing citizens and containing violence.

A great moralist and social thinker illuminates the most vexing issues of our time¿war, old age, racism, abortion, boredom, crime and punishment, sociobiology, and seventy odd others¿in a dazzling book that is by turns hilarious and somber but always vigorous and stimulating. Upon each subject Robert Nisbet offers piercing and often unexpected insights.Joining the colorful company of Montaigne, Voltaire, Burke, and Mencken, Nisbet writes for h...