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Russia's rapid industrial growth in the late 19th-centuryresulted in a breathtaking proliferation of commercial art and design. Now, for the first time, this book acquaints the reader with the spectacular graphic art of this period. The majority of the 294 works reproduced herehave never before been seen in the West. Full-color and black-and-white illustrations.

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A companion volume to the new Oxford Classical Text of Sophocles, expounding the editors' views on many disputed passages.

These essays, written by such distinguished scholars as C.M. Gowra, N.M. Horsfall, R.O.A.M. Lyne, D.A. West and R.D. Williams, constitute a broad range of twentieth-century and classic criticism on Vergil's Aeneid. Intended as a supplement to standard reading for undergraduate courses in ancient epic poetry, the essays are all in English and include several documents gathered from rare, out of print, or previously inaccessible sources. In addi...

This catalogue, the most complete bibliography of its kind, contains entries for all printed harpsichord music known to have existed in France in the period 1699-1780, including over 230 volumes and 150 manuscripts. It offers precise transcriptions of title pages, full contents, dating, locations, editions, facsimiles, evaluations in the contemporary press, identifications of dedicatees, and stylistic comments. Indexes and appendices provide a...

This provocative new study contends that Jules Verne was indeed more than just a writer of science fiction or harmless fantasies for children. Placing him squarely within the center of a strong literary tradition, Martin convincingly shows that a recurrent narrative, describing the strange destiny of a masked prophet who revolts against an empire, runs throughout Verne's Voyages extraordinaires. This theme, Martin argues, illuminates the parad...

This new reference is the first fully self-contained and unified monograph on the design and operation of undulators and free-electron lasers. It will be of use to all those working in free-electron laser research as well as for physicists and graduate students who need an introduction to the field. The book includes a convenient overview of early developments and general principles. The different models that are used to describe free-electron...

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The covers of Cajun Night Before Christmas and Gaston the Green-Nosed Alligator as well as selections from the interiors. Set of 8 notecards with envelopes.

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Images of Youth demonstrates the significance, long underestimated, of the male adolescent in British society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The male working-class youth was regarded as posing a serious problem--not only economically, but morally and socially as well. Investigating the causes of this, Hendrick examines the attitudes towards youth and its behavior, contemporary perceptions of "boy labour, " and the "disco...

This is the first book to examine early Tudor theater from the perspective of the great households of England. Westfall provides an illuminating account of those aristocrats of the sixteenth century that commissioned, funded, and staged complex and often lavish entertainments for their households, including plays, masques, concerts, dances, and sports.

This book examines and compares the theological views of Dr. John Owen (1616-1683), the Puritan pastor and theologian, and John Wesley (1703-1791), the evangelist and founder of Methodism. A.C. Clifford offers a critical, in-depth discussion of the philosophical foundations of the ultra-orthodoxy of John Owen, suggesting a positive solution to the controversy between Calvinism and Arminianism, a controversy that today continues to vex those wh...

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