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The Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. Their long history of city-states and Islamic caliphates, their complex trading economies, and their cultural traditions have attracted the attention of historians, political economists, linguists, and anthropologists. The large body of scholarship on Hausa society, however, has assumed the subordination of women to men. "Hausa Women in the...

Originally composed in Latin by Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman), his "Compendium of Medicine" was a primary text of the medical revolution in thirteenth-century Europe. Composed mainly of medicinal recipes, it offered advice on diagnosis, medicinal preparation, and prognosis. In the fifteenth-century it was translated into Middle English to accommodate a widening audience for learning and medical secrets. Faye Marie Getz provides a...

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The appearance of this translation is a major event in English-language Hegel studies, for it is more than simply a replacement for Wallace's translation cum paraphrase. Hegel's Prefaces to each of the three editions of the Enzyklopädie are translated for the first time into English. There is a very detailed Introduction translating Hegel's German, which serves not only as a guide to the translator's usage but also to Hegel's. Also included ar...

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Carl MacDougall has written for theatre, radio and television in addition to being a short story writer himself. His first novel, Stone over Water was preceded by a collection of short stories, Elvis is Dead, published to great acclaim in 1986. He has had many posts as writer-in-residence both in England and Scotland, and recently wrote and presented the BBC's Writing Scotland series.

In defending just war against Christian pacifism by arguing that decisions regarding war must be governed by "political prudence", the author joins a line of theological reasoning that traces its antecedents to Saint Augustine and Saint Thomas Aquinas.

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Bojer's novel of Norwegian emigration in the 1880s tells of young villagers who leave the Old World to seek a better life. Their trek takes them to homesteads in North Dakota, where they find that breaking the sod and surviving blizzards are easier than feeling at home in this new land. First published in 1925.

In this richly illustrated book, Frank McKinney and Jeremy Jackson argue that the growth pattern and form of a bryozoan colony is more an expression of its ecological niche than of its phylogenetic history, pointing out that similar forms have evolved in similar situations throughout the history of the phylum.

Like the writings of M. Scott Peck, this practical parenting guide emphasizes the importance of traditional values. The advice given is gathered from 100 exceptional American families--all fully-functioning and happy--representing traditional, single-parent, and extended groups, and is designed to help every family enjoy more successful and loving lives.

Providing quality education for all children is a challenge in multicultural societies such as the United States. Historically, individual educators and theorists have proposed a variety of approaches to educating children whose native language is not English. In the 1930s Loyd Tireman organized two experiments in cross-cultural education in New Mexico. These experiments were remarkably successful and anticipated contemporary trends, yet they ...

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Every student in engineering or in other fields of the applied sciences who has passed through his curriculum knows that the treatment of nonlin­ ear problems has been either avoided completely or is confined to special courses where a great number of different ad-hoc methods are presented. The wide-spread believe that no straightforward solution procedures for nonlinear problems are available prevails even today in engineering cir­ cles. Thou...

Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today. The papers span nearly nine decades of ecological research, from 1887 on, and are organi...

Skaggs has performed a service in focusing the attention of historians on an important but neglected aspect of the cattle business." W. Turrentine Jackson "This book definitely has its place both in business history and in western history." Joe B. Frantz, Journal of American History "By diligent research [Skaggs] has pieced together the careers of some twenty men who moved, according to his estimates, three­ fourths of all the cattle d...

The appearance of this translation is a major event in English-language Hegel studies, for it is more than simply a replacement for Wallace's translation cum paraphrase. Hegel's Prefaces to each of the three editions of the Enzyklopädie are translated for the first time into English. There is a very detailed Introduction translating Hegel's German, which serves not only as a guide to the translator's usage but also to Hegel's. Also included ar...

Paul R. Spickard has performed a tremendous service to historians and other students of ethnicity in writing this study of the historic patterns and changing meanings of out-group marriage. -Hasia R. Diner American Historical Review

The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them.Virginia Woolf said of Emily Brontë that her writing could "make the wind blow and the thunder roar, " and so it does in Wuthering Heights. Catherine Ear...