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Frederick Banting was thirty-one when he received the Nobel Prize for his part in the discovery of insulin. He was catapulted to instant fame, for which he was neither personally nor professionally prepared. Set up as head of his own research institute by a grateful government, he struggled fruitlessly to duplicate his first triumph. His marriage to a beautiful socialite ended in a scandal that rocked Toronto, and he returned to work and paint...

Secession has become this decade's single most important issue - a worldwide phenomenon, threatening violence, instability and a radical redrawing of international boundaries. While the literature on secession has focused on issues of politics and ethnicity, there has been very little written on the economic issues involved: Dr Bookman's new work goes a long way to correcting this. The Economics of Secession studies some thirty contemporary se...

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This book presents classroom writing practices-teaching poetry, fiction, report writing, persuasive writing, and writing across the curriculum-that Jack Wilde uses in his fifth grade classroom.

An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.

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Secession has become this decade's single most important issue - a worldwide phenomenon, threatening violence, instability and a radical redrawing of international boundaries. While the literature on secession has focused on issues of politics and ethnicity, there has been very little written on the economic issues involved: Dr Bookman's new work goes a long way to correcting this. The Economics of Secession studies some thirty contemporary se...

Rising concerns among scholars about the intellectual and cultural foundations of democracy have led to a revival of interest in the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism. In this book, Hans Joas shows how pragmatism can link divergent intellectual efforts to understand the social contexts of human knowledge, individual freedom, and democratic culture. Along with pragmatism's impact on American sociology and social research from 1895 ...

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Finally the section on refrigeration gives more prominence to the heat pump and vapour absorption plant.

All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations.

Pre-eminent among European political philosophers, Norberto Bobbio has throughout his career turned to the political theory of Thomas Hobbes. Gathered here for the first time are the most important of his essays which together provide both a valuable introduction to Hobbes's thought and a fresh understanding of Hobbes's place in the theory of modern politics. Tracing Hobbes's work through "De Cive" and "Leviathan, " Bobbio identifies the philo...

Translator's NoteAbbreviationsIntroduction: Roman Man by Andrea Giardina1. The Citizen, The Political Man by Claude Nicolet2. The Priest by John Scheid3. The Jurist by Aldo Schiavone4. The Soldier by Jean-Michel Carrie5. The Slave by Yvon Thebert6. The Freedman by Jean Andreau7. The Peasant by Jerzy Kolendo8. The Craftsman by Jean-Paul Morel9. The Merchant by Andrea Giardina10. The Poor by C. R. Whittaker11. The Bandit by Brent D. Shaw12. Huma...

In an intriguing and provocative bookan important thesis. An important addition to libraries serving both academic and general readers."--Choice

Now in paperback, a dramatic insider's account of the world's most dangerous profession: king-crab fishing in the frigid waters of the Bering Sea where the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90 mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and superhuman stretches of on-deck labor). But the payback, if one survives, can be tens of thousands of dollars for a month-long season. Photographs.

The Third Texas Cavalry Regiment, recruited from twenty-six counties of northeastern Texas, was one of the most famous Confederate units from the Lone Star State. Douglas Hale narrates troop movements and battle actions, sensitively portraying the sufferings and private thoughts of individual cavalrymen and their commanders as they marched back and forth across the Southern landscape. Douglas Hale is Professor Emeritus of History at Oklahoma S...

Archer B. Gilfillan was an anomaly. An Ivy League scholar with a broad knowledge of classical literature and a talent for writing, he nonetheless chose to herd sheep from 1916 to 1934 in a lonely, isolated part of the West. Out of this strange juxtaposition of expertise and experience, Gilfillan produced the classic narrative of American sheepherding. First published in 1929, Sheep: Life on the South Dakota Range provides a personal, informat...