Co-published with Abt Books, this volume is a thorough and dispassionate inquiry into the concept of a mutual U.S.-Soviet freeze on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons.
A psychobiography of an outstanding spiritual leader, Francis Libermann, founder of the Spiritans and contemporary of Soren Kierkegaard. His life illustrates how consonant spiritual formation overcame the too rigorous initial formation of an oversensitive child, condemnation by his father, suicidal tendencies, and discrimination as a member of the Jewish minority.
Originally published by Sage Publications in 1979, the authors observed life at a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children and reported on staffings, activities, and individual treatment sessions. This important book points out the great need for improvement in the quality of care and services given to these special children and their families.
This Roman play is one of ShakespeareOs last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus, is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and outspoken contempt of the Roman rabble. The Tribunes banish him and he raises an army to take his revenge on Rome.
Part of 'The New Penguin Shakespeare' series, this text looks at 'King Lear' with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nowhere in America is there a more beautiful, more varied, or more endangered shoreline than in Louisiana. Because of its setting at the mouth of the Mississippi River, Louisiana differs from other coastal states. In addition to long stretches of sandy beach there are 12, 000 square miles of marsh along the coast. Although the state's shoreline has not yet experienced the urban sprawl of a New Jersey or Florida, two-thirds of all Louisianans n...