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This volume begins with a short chronology of Wilde's life and career. Sections listing books and periodical publications by Wilde follow. The next chapters contain entries for books, articles and dissertations on Wilde. Most of the entries are accompanied by descriptive annotations.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end to it. He draws on his own life for illustration, from his early experiences teaching i...

David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain."A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience."-The New York Times Using portraits of America' s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country's recent history: Why did America bec...

This revised and updated edition remains the only book-length rhetorical analysis of national political debates from 1960 to the present. The contributors, all rhetorical critics, answer important questions about political debating in the United States, including: Why is the press involved in political debates? Why are debates likely to be an enduring part of our presidential campaigns? Why are some candidates successful as debaters while othe...

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Falls Sie Wissenschaftler oder Praktiker auf dem Gebiet der Umformtechnik sind, so stehen die ersten drei B¿e dieser umfassenden und detaillierten Standardreferenz wahrscheinlich schon in Ihrem Regal. Der vierte Band komplettiert das Werk. Auch er wurde von f¿hrenden Industriepraktikern und Wissenschaftlern unter der Federf¿hrung eines der renommiertesten Fachleute auf diesem Gebiet verfa¿. TOC:BZum Inhalt/B: BSonderverfahren:/B Hochleistungs-...

Die mittelhochdeutsche Verserzählung von Helmbrecht, dem 'verlorenen Sohn' des Meiers (Bauern) Helmbrecht, der gegen den Willen des Vaters seinen Stand verläßt, als Raubritter sein Unwesen treibt und dafür vom Richter durch Verstümmelung bestraft, vom Vater verstoßen und endlich den von Bauern aufgeknüpft wird, liegt hier in neuer Auflage vor. Der Text, in Kurt Ruhs Revision der Ausgabe Friedrich Panzers als Standardausgabe dieses Werkes bewäh...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Two works in one volume Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first, and the most eloquent and versatile, of that extraordinary line of radical modern thinkers who aimed their disenchantment at the very roots of the human social order and thereby forever reshaped the way we deal with one another. Of Rousseau's many contributions to the tradition he inaugurated, the one for which he is most revered and that makes these ...

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Heart of Darkness" grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River, the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power. Apparently a sailor's yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz ...