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In May of 1986 Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, he began "helplessly & spasmodically" to record her passage in a diary. The Zea Mexican Diary is a collection of excerpts from this diary and other notes from this period of the Brathwaites' lives, and few who read this book will fail to be caught up in the depth of Kamau Brathwaite's grief. The Zea Mexican...

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Blissfully zany… …it is mainly just a free-wheeling romp that takes off some of the characters, incidents, and ideas in Cervantes's book. It is that form of comedy, known as burlesque or travesty, which achieves its humor by the low and ridiculous transformation of a loftier subject. (Actually, since the original DON QUIXOTE was itself a burlesque of medieval romances, DON QUIXOTE DE LA JOLLA is in effect a travesty of a travesty.) More ac...

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Presents a collection of HLA phenotyping and genotyping techniques. This work covers topics including microlymphocytotoxicity assay, monoclonal antibodies, complement testing, serum screening for HLA antibodies, lymphocytotoxic crossmatching, and mixed and primed lymphocyte testing.

A thorough examination of the job search process, from resumes to headhunters.

This collection of case studies deals with the adoption or rejection by society of technological techniques and processes. Contributors demonstrate that such choices result largely from cultural factors rather than benefits inherent in the technology.

This collection interrogates the historical importance of national traditions, many of which depend on geographical boundaries that took their shape only after the emergence of the nation state in the modern period.

Browning was fascinated by hatred, returning again and again to the topic in his poetry. This study of Browning's hatreds and their influence on his work offers a striking new perspective on one of the greatest poets of human passion.

This selectively annotated bibliography includes entries for nearly 4, 000 books and monographs on philosophy published around the world between 1976 and 1992.

During the early 198Os, Israel's inflation rate rose to almost 500% per year - one of the highest inflation rates in the developed world. In 1985, the Israeli government implemented a program that immediately reduced inflation to 15%-20%, where it remained for the rest of the decade. How did the economy deal with these major changes so rapidly and successfully? In these eighteen articles, Leonardo Leiderman discusses why the Israeli plan worke...

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Level of Words 1: The Rhapsodic Fallacy 2: Three Essays on Confession I: Pure Feeling II: Pure Pain III: Applied Poetry 3: A New Sweetness: Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop 4: The Romance of the Perceptual: The Legacy of Wallace Stevens 5: The Signatures of Things: On Howard Nemerov 6: Deeper Than Declared: On Seamus Heaney 7: "Irreference": On John Ashbery 8: The Cure of Poetry Conclusion: The Poet's Call...

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Daniel Berkely Updike (1860-1941) founded the Merrymount Press in 1893, which quickly came to represent the flowering of the Arts and Crafts movement in American book arts. At the same time, the quixotic and patrician Updike championed his vision of the "scholar-printer"--an artist whose work mixes a practical understanding of the printing trade with a deep knowledge of and reverence for the history of the book. This catalogue demonstrates the...

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Parents are taught new approaches to say what they mean and mean what they say--as well as how and when to provide positive support when children behave. They also learn how to avoid being manipulated by their children's "I don't care" attitudes, threats, and anger.

Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, where he devoted himself to research in sociology and lexicology. He was a professor at the College de France until his death in 1980.