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This international collection of essays by leading authorities in literature and education presents the first comprehensive view of the impact of Romanticism on education over the course of the last two centuries. Romanticism's reconception of self, nature, writing and the imagination forms a chapter of intellectual history that has led to a number of innovative programs in the schools. The book returns to the educational thinking of key figur...

Armstrong argues that conflicting readings occur because readers with opposing suppositions about language, literature, and life can generate irreconcilable hypotheses about a text. Without endorsing a particular critical methodology, the author offers a theory designed to help readers better understand the causes and consequences of interpretive disagreement so that they may make more informed choices about the various interpretive strategies...

This book is clear, crisp and jargon-free. It is presented as an analytical narrative, and presupposes no previous knowledge of the events it surveys. It deals with the war in Asia and the Pacific as well as the European arena. It combines interpretative authority with up-to-date scholarship and a companionable writing style. And it tells the story richly but concisely, within the covers of a single manageable volume.

A study of American capitalism in the 20th century and the effects that it has had on the world economy. Topics covered range from the historical significance of the New Deal to the theoretical basis of Reaganomics.

The aim of this reader - one of a set of four volumes on urban history covering the late 12th to early 20th centuries - is to gather together in an accessible form a number of key contributions to the study of the English medieval town.

The purpose of this book is to decide where the achievement of Renaissance art and letters lay, by exploring the needs for which artists and humanists catered and by exploring why their work took place. It is not a history of the Renaissance, but an attempt to define its value.

The stereotype of the Victorian man as a flinty, sexually repressed patriarch belies the remarkably wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of manhood during the mid- to late- nineteenth century. A complex pattern of alternative and even competing behaviors and attitudes emerges in this important collection of essays that points toward a "gendered history" of men.

The ideas presented here are not intended to explain what is widely done in publishing, though many references are made to general practice. They are meant to focus analytically on the problems of management: organization, communication, external and internal relationships, types of decisions, work flow, personnel, finances, planning, new technologies and so forth.

Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gathers some of his rich and varied writings. Harris takes us from John Philip Sousa to Superman, with stops along the way to explore art museums and world fairs, shopping malls and hotel lobbies, urban design and utopian novels, among other artifacts of American cultures. The essays fall into three...

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Der erste Band des mehrb{ndigen Lehrbuchs behandelt die thermodynamischen und verfahrenstechnischen Grundlagen von Verbrennungsmotoren. Es verschafft dem Leser einen raschen und dennoch umfassenden Õberblick }ber die wichtigsten Zusammenh{nge der motorischen Proze~verl{ufe und versetzt ihn in die Lage, Betriebsdaten von Hubkolbenmotoren n{herungsweise zu berechnen. Das Buch wendet sich in erster Linie an Studenten des Maschinenbaus an U...

Das Buch enthält die Beiträge des 3. Einbecker Workshops der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinrecht. Im Vordergrund standen die Fragen: Was kann die Transplantationsmedizin schon heute und in absehbarer Zukunft? Darf aus rechtlichen und ethischen Gründen alles auf dem Gebiet der Transplantationsmedizin getan werden, was machbar ist? Ist die Finanzierung auf Dauer möglich? Dem Gesamtkomplex "Anenzephalus auch als Organspender" wurde besondere ...

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In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . (A) provocative and timely study."--Michael Gareffa, "Theological Studies" "A 'must' for readers interested in the borderlands between philosophy, hagiography, and ethics."--Mark I. Wallace, "Religious Studies Review

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This history is . . . the first fully-fleshed story of African Nairobi in all of its complexity which foregrounds African experiences. Given the overwhelming white dominance in the written sources, it is a remarkable achievement."--Claire Robertson, "International Journal of African Historical Studies " "White's book . . . takes a unique approach to a largely unexplored aspect of African History. It enhances our understanding of African social...

(This collection) is distinguished by its wide range and the care which has clearly gone into the selection of texts for inclusion. . . . Attention has understandably been focused on what might be called the religious aspects of Islam, such as scripture, theology, sects, law, ritual and mysticism, but within those limits the texts chosen are marked by substantially of content, by geographical, chronological and social diversity, and by an inte...