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Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Vorbemerkung -- Sigelliste -- Liste verkürzt zitierter Sammelwerke -- Bibliographie -- 4.0 Verlagswesen und Buchhandel, allgemein -- 4.1 Verlags- und Buchhandelsgeschichtsforschung -- 4.2 Organisation und Struktur von Verlagswesen und Buchhandel -- 4.3 Verleger und Buchhändler -- 4.4 Verleger, Buchhändler und Antiquare -- 4.5 Verlagswesen und Buchhandel nach verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten 4.5 Verlagswesen un...

The first edition, by the late Edward Malins, of this informative guide to the life and works of one of the most important and difficult poets of the 20th century, has now been extensively revised by John Purkis. It begins by providing biographical details on Yeats, with particular emphasis on his education, his appearance and his characteristics. It then places the poet in his cultural background, discussing the history of Ireland and major i...

Title insurance is central to the health of the home mortgage market and the commerical real estate business, and its regulation has a profound impact on the prices that consumers pay for title insurance and the kinds of coverages that are available. Dr. Lipshutz provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the key economic policy issues that arise in regulating this small but critical segment of the insurance industry. This is the first b...

This volume focuses on Appalachians as a case study of internal migration in developed countries. Since World War II, Appalachian miners have left the coal towns of their mountain region for the car towns of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Migrations have ebbed and flowed with economic expansion and recession. Some descendants who are several generations removed from the migration experience do not identify with their mountainous backgr...

Green Delusions" should be required reading for environmental advocates. If nothing else, it contributes to a frank discussion of issues that all too often break down into greener-than-thou posturing."--James Jay Gould, "The Progressive"Lewis's argument is a goldmine of thoughtful assessments of a wide range of social reasoning in the modern environmentalist debate, and he incorporates texts that will probably be new to even the most well read...

Explores what types of regulation, whether market, industrial or governmental, might be used to help solve the crises of private and governmental insurance systems in the US. This text discusses under- and over-regulation, and compares the US system to Canada's.

Ginger Rogers had a versatile and successful career as a dancer, singer, comedienne, and Academy Award winning dramatic actress. Here is a detailed guide to her many accomplishments in the entertainment world. Though she is remembered chiefly as the dance partner of Fred Astaire, her work spanned a number of media and she was one of the most famous actresses in the United States. Faris provides detailed information on all of her performances.

Mordechai Bar-On was General Moshe Dayan's personal assistant during the Suez campaign and has drawn on both his own diary and many years of research to produce a gripping, definitive account of the Israeli side to the war.

This volume calls up the voices of the antebellum labor movement and abolitionists, enabling the reader to understand more clearly the process that led Northern workers to support Lincoln in waging war against slaveholders.

Two plays by the Lancashire playwright Jim Cartwright, author of Road. Two is an evocation of English pub life, in which two actors play a series of characters. Bed is a surreal journey into old age and sleep.

An essential book for students of Greek drama and literature: Aristophanes is widely regarded as one of Ancient Greece's foremost satirists - offering students of the period a unique insight into the world of Athens and its theatreWritten in the century following the defeat of Athens by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, these four plays signal a change of emphasis in stage comedy more appropriate to the new world order of the fourth centu...

Drawing on articles appearing in popular women's magazines from 1950 to 1989, this study documents changes in justifications of gender-based division of labour in the home and work-place.

The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writersFlint premiered just before the 1970 General Election which was to replace the Labour Government of Harold Wilson. It is driven by the figure of Ossian Flint, a seventy-year old swinging vicar who believes in "crossing lines not drawing them" and espouses the romanticised Communism of Lenin and Guevara, In the BBC play The Bankrupt, Ellis Cripper, a woman aged fifty ha...

Provides a reinterpretation of US policy toward the West Indies since 1940, establishing links between Afro-West Indian groups and African Americans who influenced both US and British policy. This text considers this impact of race and the historiography of inter-American relations.

The third collection of plays by "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today" Brian Friel"James in The Morning After Optimism is literally on the run, a comically exaggerated villain in flight form his crimes, seeking refuge in a fairytale forest. Harry in The Sanctuary Lamp is holed up in a church like a mediaeval outlaw, hoping to keep at bay the guilt of his messy life. JPW Kin...

This collection of essays emphasizes the style and content of the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet. The contributors, who are leading critics in the field of Robbe-Grillet studies, set out to tie these topics to the theme of the fantastic as a vehicle for subversion.

This volume features original essays which combine feminism and Bakhtin by interpreting texts through these two perspectives, to arrive at new theoretical approaches. Together, the essays point to a direction that would lead to a feminine "etre" rather than a feminine "ecriture".

This is an interview book with a methodology, focusing on the experience of actors in their training and career development, through a series of unique narrative histories.

Explores how the elderly help each other through formal and informal volunteerism. Based on a stratified sample of hundreds of individuals, this study assesses many dimensions of this care-giving, which is central to family and community ties. Age, sex and marital status are considered.