..". an interesting and valuable contribution to geoarchaeology." GeoarchaeologyThe geomorphology of Franchthi paralia, soil profiles, classification of sediments, stratigraphic succession, submarine sediments, holocene environment of the Argolid, and more.
Exploring the relationship between art and philosophy, this treatise argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. The author explores painting, architecture and literature to elaborate the various aspects of ontological difference.
This volume comprises papers presented at the Third Isle of Thorns Conference on Finite Geometries and Designs. The papers explore the structure and associated incidence structures of Galois geometries, and their related authomorphism groups.
This book is a compilation of statistics about smoking in the United Kingdom. It aims to provide a comprehensive study by amalgamating published and unpublished data from several sources, including the General Household Study carried out every two years, and the annual survey carried out on behalf of the tobacco industry.
Presents the personal testimonies of six people, who were all born around 1900, which reflects on the changes in their lives as old age comes upon them. This work describes their lives, and explores the meaning of old age, the fear and acceptance of death, the deterioration of their bodies, and the resilience of their spirits.
A major work of feminist film criticism examining questions of sexual difference, the female body and the female spectator through a discussion of such figures as Pabst's Lulu and Rita Hayworth's Gilda.
..". an expert work... remarkable for its objectivity, judiciousness, andits sure handling of the available evidence." -- Political ScienceQuarterly..". a fine piece of historical writing." -- SovietStudies"An able and scholarly inquiry into the perplexingabortive Petrograd uprising of June and July 1917... a very interesting view ofrevolutionary action on the local level." -- Foreign AffairsFirstpublished in 1968, this pioneering study of rev...
When it appeared in 1887, H. Rider Haggard's She caused a sensation andbecame one of the best-selling novels of the nineteenth century. The idea of apowerful woman endowed with immortal beauty and penetrating intellect ruling asavage people among the ruins of a vanished civilization in the heart of Africacaptivated Victorian readers. Freud recommended the book to his patients. Jungequated its imaginative power with Dante's Inferno and Wagner's...
Modernity" is a troubling concept, not only for scholars but for the general public, for it seems to represent a choice between oppressive traditions and empty, rootless freedom. Seeking a broader understanding of modernity, Kolb first considers the views of Weber and then discusses in detail the pivotal writings of Hegel and Heidegger. He uses the novel strategy of presenting Heidegger's critique of Hegel and then suggesting the critique of H...
Creative Problem Solving • Total Systems Intervention • Robert L. Flood and Michael C. Jackson Department of Management Systems and Sciences, University of Hull, UK In the modern world organisations are faced with innumerable and multifaceted issues which cannot be captured in the minds of a few experts and solved with the aid of some super-method. It would be equally wrong to revert to a trial and error approach. We need to retain rigorous an...
..". Strickland's own deep involvement with the works of thesecomposers (is) revealed by the questions and comments he poses in an appreciative, Paterian way. His profound pleasure in these works also leads him to scrutinize andchallenge them intimately." -- Publishers Weekly"Thisis an indispensable book about American music... " --Fanfare..". exhilarating... Any of the interviews inAmerican Composers will stimulate your curiosity and appetite...
In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such as Asian and African texts, the theories of Barthes, questions of spectatorship, the enigmas of art, and the perils of anthropology. When the Moon Waxes Red is an extended argument against reduc...
It is the best group portrait of German Jewry that we have."-- Washington Post Book World..". weaves a fascinating socialtapestry of German Jewry from 1780 to 1945.... Richarz's introduction furnishes aprobing analytic overview of German Jewish social history." -- LibraryJournal"Richarz's Jewish Life in Germany represents a majorcontribution to filling the void between broad generalization and actual humanexperience." -- Contemporary Jewry.."....
The contributors point the way to a new interpretation of the employer's role in industrial relations, by evaluating and explaining the distinctiveness of British developments in comparison to a variety of other countries.
