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Sweeping through two centuries of American culture and military history, War Stars comes to a startling new understanding of issues crucial to the survival of civilization and the human species. Vividly written and filled with dazzling insights, this unique book explores the culturalhistory of superweapons from Robert Fulton's eighteenth-century submarine through the strategic bomber and atomic bomb to Star Wars. H. Bruce Franklin tellingly re...

This fascinating study traces the artistic development of one of the major poets of the French Renaissance, Joachim Du Bellay (1522-1560). Tucker focuses on how the poet differed from his contemporaries, describes in detail the importance of his move to Rome in 1553, and provides a close analysis of Du Bellay's complex sonnet sequence, Antiquitez de Rome. In assessing the sonnets, Tucker first locates their central importance within the poet's...

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∗ An original and accessible discussion of some of the most important issues in current debates about women and the arts. ∗ Janet Wolff considers and challenges the invisibility of women in sociological and literary accounts of modernity.

∗ This is the only book to give an overall picture of the Annales movement from its beginnings to the present day. ∗ The Annales School is arguably the most influential movement in History during the 20th Century. ∗ Peter Burke is a well-known historian, and recognised world-wide as an authority on French historiography.

The Papers of Bulstrode Whitelocke, brought together from various sources, form an important archive - quite separate from his Diary - and much of it unpublished or even unknown to scholars. Ruth Spalding has selected about 1000 names from the Diary, assembled biographical details that elucidate the Diary references, and has worked into this framework much new material from Whitelocke's papers. Many entries shed light on the politics of the p...

No contemporary thinker has participated in more intellectual debates in the post-war period than Paul Ricoeur. His writings evolved from an initial concern with existentialism and phenomenology, through structuralism and psychoanalysis and the work he undertook within the hermenuetic tradition, to his recent studies in metaphor and narrative. This introduction is the first study to survey the entire range of Ricoeur's work and, exploiting the...

In 1914 Europe descended into a slaughter unlike anything that had beenseen before. Yet, far from seeing the conflict as a tragedy, many men welcomed it asa healthy development for society, a relief from peace. The Great Adventure exploresthe intellectual trends that made war seem a natural and high expression of socialvalues. This is not a book about the specific causes of World War I, but a study ofthe mood in which it could take place. Wha...

This issue includes articles on the current differences and debates between feminists on the questions around pornography and censorship.

Dieses Lehrwerk soll den Chorsänger in den Stand setzen, mit Notenzeichen so umzugehen, wie er es einst mit den Schriftzeichen gelernt hat: Er soll musikalisch lesen lernen und dabei sein Gehör entwickeln. Zugleich soll er aber auch den Wissensstoff erwerben und den Einblick in musikalische Zusammenhänge gewinnen, die in ihrem Zusammenwirken zu den Voraussetzungen für ein sinnvolles Musizieren gehören. "Singen nach Noten" ist ein Lehrwerk, um ...

This book is intended for the novice as well as for the experienced programmer who wants to learn Modula-2. We do not limit ourselves to just a description of Modula-2. Instead, we seek to familiarize the reader with the concept of algorithms and to show him/her how to implement algorithms in Modula-2. The programming language Modula-2 was developed by Niklaus Wirth (also the father of world-famous Pascal) and made public in 1978. Compared to ...

A comprehensive anthology of Chinese poetry from the 12th century B.C. tothe present."This magnificent collection has the effect of acomplete library rather than of an anthology of poetry.... A lyric quality comesthrough into our own language... Every page is alive with striking and wonderfulthings, immediately accessible." -- Publishers Weekly"SunflowerSplendor is the largest and, on the whole, best anthology of translated Chinesepoems to hav...

Grant McCracken is a member of The MIT Laboratory for Branding Cultures and a visiting scholar at McGill University and author of several books.

Der Band enthält die Vorträge der 53. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Unfallheilkunde 1989 in Berlin. Schwerpunktthemen waren: - Schock - Osteosynthese kindlicher Schaftfrakturen - Experimentelle Unfallchirurgie - Kniegelenksnahe Frakturen - EDV-Dokumentationssysteme in der Unfallchirurgie - Indikationsstellung bei Sportverletzungen - Begutachtung - Komplexe Handverletzungen Weitere Themen: - Replantation heute: Indikation, Technik...

Hermann Göring raised the Luftwaffe Field Divisions [LwFD] during 1942, when Nazi Germany was still making spectacular gains but was first feeling the pinch of its losses on the Eastern Front. The Reichsmarschall decided to raise his own divisions for ground service under the command of Luftwaffe officers. On 17 September 1942, Göring called for volunteers from throughout the Luftwaffe for combat duty in the East. Even before that date, howeve...

An examination of free water hydraulics. The topics covered in this book range from hydrostatic force calculations, to the refraction, reflection and diffraction of oscilatory water waves.

Typically the United States is said to have declared war on Great Britain in 1812 because of the Royal Navy's impressment of American seamen and the British desire to create an Indian buffer state. An Englishman William Cobbett, described the real cause of the conflict: 'There seemed to be wanting just such a war as this to complete the separation of England from America, and to make the latter feel that she had no safety against the former bu...