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Ketzerprozesse, Hexenjagden, Judenverfolgungen und die Inquisition - ein Geschichtsroman und eine aufrüttelnde, zeitlose Studie über Massenwahn und den Zerfall einer Gesellschaft. Wenngleich es der Roman >Die schöne Frau Seidenman< war, der Szczypiorski - quasi über Nacht - weltberühmt machte, halten doch viele >Eine Messe für die Stadt Arras< für das Hauptwerk dieses großen Homme de lettres, der mit Leben und Werk einen bedeutenden Beitrag z...

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Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace.Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Thos...

By examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity--both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men--was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Her emphasis is not on "women" so much as on the category of "femininity" as deployed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the critical l...

Written primarily for business managers and government officials, this is a comprehensive handbook on how to initiate and implement joint ventures and direct investments in China. Case studies of various actual joint ventures are provided.

Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawthorne mounted a sophisticated challenge to America's collective fantasy of national unity. She shows how Hawthorne's idea of citizenship emerged from an attempt to adjudicate among the official and the popular, the national and the local, the collective and the individual, utopia and hi...

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This "what's what" of television provides data on production companies, distributors, organizations, genres, and historical and technical terms. International in scope, it covers all areas of the industry, including "free", public and cable television.

This book examines how the spiritual longings of ordinary people have shaped the most progressive political and cultural movements of the twentieth century and given birth to a new postmodern perspective on existence that recoups the traditional religious verities on the far side of both literary modernism and neo-Marxism. Inchausti focuses on figures who have been instrumental in defending the sacred traditions of indigenous cultures and oppr...

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With a characteristically broad and provocative treatment, Dahlhaus examines a single music-aesthetical idea from various historical and philosophical viewpoints. "Essential reading for anyone interested in the larger intellectual framework in which Romantic music found its place, a framework that to a remarkable degree has continued to shape our image of music."--Robert P. Morgan, Yale University Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989) is the author of a h...

This book describes the evolution of an increasingly independent women's movement committed to pursuing women's issues on all fronts. It provides historical analysis and rich documentation drawn from legal statutes and judicial decisions, demographic data, and public opinion polls, as well as biographies and other narrative accounts.

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Since the Second World War, congressional parties have been characterized as declining in strength and influence. Research has generally attributed this decline to policy conflicts within parties, to growing electoral independence of members, and to the impact of the congressional reforms of the 1970s. Yet the 1980s witnessed a strong resurgence of parties and party leadership--especially in the House of Representatives. Offering a concise and...

In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of theprimitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields(anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popularculture), "Gone Primitive" will engage not justspecialists but anyone who has ever worn Native Americanjewelry, thrilled to Indiana Jones, or considered buying anAfrican mask. "A superb book, and--in a way that goes beyon...

A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist politicalanalysis that consistently draws the reader into thenarratives of the author and those of the people ofviolence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . .Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect"--Thomas M. Wilson, "American Anthropologist" "One of the best books to have been written on NorthernIreland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book."Formations of Violence" is...

This book traces changes in the social and political orientations of the publics of Britain, France, Italy, Spain, West Germany, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Greece and Luxembourg from 1970 to 1988. It charts the persistence of distinctive national outlooks in many domains, alongside the emergence of a European consensus within the framework of an increasingly integrated European Community. Written by leading social sc...