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Extensively illustrated with photographs, plans and period engravings, Michael Thompson's book examines the decline of the castle as both fortification and seigneurial residence.

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Comprises: "The Admirable Bashville", "How He Lied To Her Husband", "Passion, Poison and Petrifaction", "The Glimpse of Reality", "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets", "Overruled", "The Music-Cure", "Great Catherine", "The Inca of Perusalem". "O'Flaherty V.C.", "Augustus Does His Bit", "Annajanska, The Bolshevik Empress", "Village Wooing", and more.

It is often said that Jane Austen in the countryside remained isolated from the great events of her time. But as Marilyn Butler points out in Jane Austen and the War of Ideas, Austen was not isolated from reading novels, and novels carried controversy. The sentimental novel of the previous generation, the Jacobin novel of William Godwin, the philosophical comedy of Robert Bage and Maria Edgeworth--all conveyed their own kind of ideological mea...

Research in discrete systems is expanding rapidly, and specialized languages are proliferating. This book is a remarkable attempt to bring together researchers from a diverse range of application areas. This is the proceeding of a workshop on Discrete Event Systems Models. The 30 participants included researchers working in communication networks, manufacturing, digital signal processing, Markov decision theory, and automatic control. The purp...

Expanded and updated from the first edition published in 1978 by Louisiana State University Press.

Features Lester Young, early black recording, Earl Hines, jazz and bop harmony.

A study of the occurrence of germ warfare tests over populated areas in order to discover America's vulnerability to biological weapons. The book considers how many civilians have suffered illness, even death, as a consequence.

Avoiding jargon and using well-chosen illustrations, "Technology and Women's Voices assesses technological changes in terms of their impact on women's social lives.

Vidor recounts his early days in Texas, his years at the birth of Hollywood, and his rise through the MGM Studios to become a prominent film director.

An excellent introductory historical survey...an important resource to both literary scholars and followers of Jungian psychology."--ARBA ..".a great help...succeeds quite well in achieving his stated purpose..."--PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Available again, this book discusses nine Romance languages in context of their common Latin origins and then in individual studies. The final chapter is devoted to Romance-based Creole languages, a genuine innovation in a work of this kind.

Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and culturalforces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, med...

David O. Levine teaches history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Offers a model for self-management based on research in effective schools. Guidelines and illustrations based on successful adoption are offered throughout. The aim is quality in education, with the beneficiary being the pupil.