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[Cohen] discusses in lucid detail the manner by which policymakers in Israel and Egypt were caught in difficulties of intercultural communication.... a most interesting and persuasive argument." Middle East Journal"Culture and Confict is a tour de force, and this reviewer's candidate for 1990 book-of-the-year on the Middle East. Cohen's wide reading and analytic brilliance enable him to offer stunning insights and build a persuasive argument a...

Everyone gestures while speaking, in a specific and generally unconsciousmanner. What are the functions of gestures? What relationship do they have tospeech? How do gestures work to create meaning? In this valuable book, Genevi veCalbris undertakes to answer those questions. Based on theauthor's own extensive experimental research, The Semiotics of French Gesturespresents a systematic description and a detailed semiotic analysis of Frenchgest...

The Midwest and the Nation is a call for historians to examine the region as a unique cultural center. The authors argue that the distinctive quality of midwestern culture is its thorough identification with capitalism. The Midwest and the middle-class world of individual industry and piety came of age together.

This is a groundbreaking contribution to the literature of sexualassault and family violence." -- SusanBrownmiller "(Russell) has done a superb study which yieldscomprehensive and undeniable findings about a subject no one had even whisperedabout before... a classic work." -- Phyllis Chesler One outof seven American women who have ever been married has been raped by a husband orex-husband. Written by the principal investigator for the National...

Assess women as women, as they actually appear in the laws, in works written by women, and in canonical literature. This book contains essays that address, correct, and round out the nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxon critical tradition. It also explores the women in Old English literature.