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American Romanticism and the Marketplace

Gilmore, Michael T.
American Romanticism and the Marketplace
This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's "Virgin Land" and Leo Marx's "The Machine in the Garden."--Choice "[Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, "engagement "with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. In effect, he relocates the American Renaissance where it properly belongs, at the centre of a broad social, economic, and ideological movement from the Jacksonian era to ...

CHF 41.90

Trout Bum

Gierach, John
Trout Bum
While most of us fly-fish to escape from daily life, for John Gierach and his friends fly-fishing IS a way of life. They are trout bums. But John Gierach is also an exceptional "writer." The essays in "Trout Bum" are reflective, bitingly humorous and enormously wise in the ways of fishing and men. In vivid, unforgettable detail they recount the emotional, spiritual and tangible adventures and pleasures of stalking trout in and around the Rocki...

CHF 25.90

The Managerial Imperative and the Practice of Leadership ...

Cuban, Larry
The Managerial Imperative and the Practice of Leadership in Schools
With this significant new work, Larry Cuban provides a unique and insightful perspective on the bridging of the long-standing and well-known gap between teachers and administrators. Drawing on the literature of the field as well as personal experience, Cuban recognizes the enduring structural relationship within school organizations inherited by teachers, principals, and superintendents, and calls for a renewal of their sense of common purpose...

CHF 53.50

Oral History and Delinquency

Bennett, James
Oral History and Delinquency
From Henry Mayhew's classic study of Victorian slums to Studs Terkel's presentations of ordinary people in modern America, oral history has been used to call attention to social conditions. By analyzing the nature and circumstances of the production of such histories of delinquency, James Bennett argues that oral history is a rhetorical device, consciously chosen as such, and is to be understood in terms of its persuasive powers and aims. Benn...

CHF 65.00

Roughing it in the Bush or Life in Canada

Moodie, Susanna / Ballstadt, Carl
Roughing it in the Bush or Life in Canada
Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to terms with their new environment.

CHF 55.90

Inorganic Reactions and Methods, the Formation of Bonds t...

Zuckerman, J J / Hagen, A P
Inorganic Reactions and Methods, the Formation of Bonds to N, P, As, Sb, Bi (Part 1)
This 18-volume series is a true first. In a clear, concise, and highly organized manner, it provides an in-depth treatment of bond formation reactions categorized by element type. The series presents current knowledge in all areas of inorganic chemistry including chemistry of the elements, coordination compounds, donor-acceptor adducts, organometallic, polymer and solid-state material, and compounds relevant to bioinorganic chemistry. A unique...

CHF 718.00

School-Age Children with Special Needs

Fink, Dale B.
School-Age Children with Special Needs
This book resulted from a national search for models of before- and after-school child care that served children and youth with disabilities. After an opening section which summarizes the results of a national parent survey, there are separate chapters that profile home-based (family child care) models, public school-operated models, models operated in partnership between schools and other organizations, and community-based models. Appendices ...

CHF 81.00

Light from Many Lamps

Watson, Lillian
Light from Many Lamps
A classic treasury of inspiration featuring hundreds of passages and quotations—selected from the wisdom of the ages—offering invaluable insight and guidance on the challenges of daily life.Here are not only the best of the world's most inspiring thoughts and ideas, but the stories behind them: how they came to be written and what their impact has been on others. A storehouse of inspired and inspiring reading, it is a collection of brief, stim...

CHF 26.50

The History

Herodotus / Grene, David
The History
David Grene, one of the Best known translators of the Greek classics, captures for the first time the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past.

CHF 21.50

Ford Foundation

MacDonald, Dwight
Ford Foundation
Thirty years since it was first published, Macdonald's masterful book on the Ford Foundation remains the only book-length account of this institution that has been published. Despite the calls for a book carrying on the story from 1956 on the part of Richard Magat and McGeorge Bundy, that book has yet to be written. In his stimulating introduction to this new edition, Francis Sutton suggests why this is so.

CHF 72.00