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This introduction to the field of cultural anthropology from a Christian perspective exposes students to the excitement and significance of human history and culture.

This book-a guide to intensive preparation for taking a modern sailing vessel to sea-is the distillation of Carl Chase's famous course in nautical science given at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and aboard the schooner Westward. For those who are going to sea for the first time as well as for those who have some experience, the book offers an introduction to all the knowledge needed to become a truly qualified sea-...

From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. "Medieval Warfare" begins in the time of Charlemagne, who maintained a military system of freemen and of vassals bound to him in service for lands granted in fief. These pages are crowded with recreations of famous events like the Battle of Hastings and movements like the Crusades, with the brightest flowers of knighthood, and with the mercenar...

The author writes: This book began as an expansion of my essay, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West, " in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Reader's Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed account of his philosophical views. To treat so compl...

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Reading Kathy Greenwood's account of growing up on a small ranch in southeastern New Mexico, I kept wondering where she had heard the story of my life. From her ill-starred introduction into the fine art of milking a recalcitrant Jersey cow to her uneasy homecoming from graduate school, she kept reflecting incidents out of my own West Texas experience. In many ways she reflects the life of almost everyone--man or woman--who has grown up on a r...

With the same authority, insight, and unique ability to bring music to life on the printed page that he brought to his Guide to Chamber Music, Melvin Berger gives us an indispensable guide to the sonata form. Comprehensive, analytical, and historical, including descriptions in nontechnical language of over two hundred of the best best-known sonatas, Guide to Sonatas is designed to help all music lovers-casual listeners, experienced concertgoer...

Representing four prominent American women writers who flourished in the period following the Civil War, this collection includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Country of the Pointed Firs" by Sarah Orne Jewett, and "Souls Belated" by Edith Wharton.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ...

All the trivia you never knew you wanted to know, from the author of Book of Strange Facts and Useless Information.Ever wondered how many teeth mosquitoes have? Did you know that their favorite color is blue, that Major Clark Gable's discarge papers were signed by Captain Ronald Reagan, or that garlic rubbed on the soles of your feed will be noticeable on your breath within one hour? Armed with these facts, you might join the ranks of spermolo...

The art of divining, or dowsing, has for years been cloaked in mystery and superstition. Recognized by some as a means of finding water and minerals, it is actually a method for anyone to develop intuitive skills. This thought-provoking book demystifies dowsing and presents this ancient science as a powerful tool for self-knowledge.

With a rich man footing the bills and a handsome lover on the side, Isabel Kerr was taken care of well. When someone takes care of her in a more final sense, her murder is pinned on a detective friend of Nero Wolfe's. Agreeing to help clear his buddy's name, Wolfe winds up entertaining a party of fools and lovers connected with the doxy's death.

Gumbrechts Geschichte der spanischen Literatur ist ein Ereignis nicht nur für die wissenschaftliche Gemeinschaft der Hispanistik. Von der propädeutischen Literaturgeschichte trennt ihn zumal der Anspruch resolut moderner Wissensbestände und Diskurse, welche hier in die scheinbar veraltete Disziplin eingebracht werden. Dabei interessieren Gumbrecht in erster Linie Aspekte der soziologischen Systemtheorie, der Mentalitätsgeschichte sowie der jew...

Die in diesem zweiten und dem noch folgenden dritten Band dieser Ausgabe gedruckten Manuskripte gehören zu Peirce' wichtigsten Beiträgen zur Theorie einer philosophischen Semiotik, die an die Stelle der Erkenntnistheorie tritt: sie wird zu einer Theorie der formalen Bedingungen der Objekte aller Darstellungen, also alles Wissens. Statt transzendentale Erkenntnistheorie und -kritik zu treiben, untersucht Peirce die Bedingungen der Möglichkeit v...