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Studies the place of the feminine in Nietzsche's work, bringing together scholars in philosophy, feminism, comparative literature and German studies. Without dismissing his misogyny, the work argues that Nietzsche's many statements about women are ambivalent and cannot be labelled simply.

Considers the changing identity and status of women in India today - how they view themselves and how they are viewed - through the current work of seven anthropologists, historians and sociologists from India, the UK and the US. The essays illustrate the overall problem of women's subjectivity.

Moore traces the roots of the rejection of the Western church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and argues that heresy had less to do with faith than with the changing world of the time. A reprint of the corrected edition first published in 1985.

The Art of Asylum-Keeping is a social history of medical practice in a private nineteenth-century asylum, the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia. It recreates everyday life in the asylum and explores its social, as well as its scientific, legitimation.

A religious study of the attempts made by the rulers of the territories of Brandenburg, Germany, to move from Lutheranism to Reformed theology and practice, and the resistance with which these efforts were met by the clergy, lay leaders, and citizens.

Discover the awesome answers to these and other fascinating mysteries in biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, and astromony. Just try these 201 fun, safe, low-cost experiments at home or in the classroom. You'll look through a drop of water to find out how a magnifying lens works. Using a Styrofoam ball, a pencil, and a lamp, you'll learn why the Moon appears and disappears. With just a jar and some ice cubes, you can demonstrate how ra...

By taking Women's Studies curricula and classrooms as models, Jean O'Barr eloquently documents the ways that inclusivity and student-centered learning are necessarily linked. Anyone in higher education who is concerned with answering critics' charges that faculty do not care about educating students will have much to learn from this splendid account of creative teaching, learning, and institution-building.' - Marcia Weskott

Professor Leiber's exuberant but incisive book illuminates the inquiry's beginnings in Plato, in the physiology and psychology of Descartes, in the formal work of Russell and Godel, and in Wittgenstein's critique of folk psychology.

This is not a revision but an entirely updated volume of selected high-quality literature published from 1986 to 1993. Volume 2 shows how to create a literature-based program--either thematic or across the curriculum--based on quality contemporary and classic literature. The authors explain how to select the most appropriate books and how to use them in the classroom to encourage learning through literature. Each volume contains six chapters a...

Traces the relationship between the American labour movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. It focuses specifically on the 'labour question' as a lens through which to view more clearly the basic political, economic, and social forces that have divided citizens throughout the industrial era.

Harvey Potter was a farmer, but he didn't farm like most farmers. He farmed a genuine, U.S. Government Inspected Balloon Farm. This enchanting original tall tale--told in the great tradition of summer nights and front porch yarns--is filled with wonderful impossibilities and magical imagination. Full color.

Once upon a time there were two girls who lived next door to each other. Cinder Edna was forced to work for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, just as her neighbor, Cinderella, was. But Edna had learned a thing or two from doing all that housework, such as how to make tuna casserole sixteen different ways and how to get spots off everything from rugs to ladybugs. And she was strong and spunky and knew some good jokes. Now, one day the king...

This work on the culture of the potato presents recent scientific information for potato growers in an accessible language and format. It offers all the information needed to harvest a bountiful crop, and is addressed specifically to field production-oriented technicians and growers.

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These eight volumes, which developed out of the international con­ gress "Update and Future Trends in Fibrin Sealing in Surgical and Nonsurgical Fields" held in November 1992, present the state of the art in fibrin sealing. Initially, fibrin sealant played an important role in surgery. During the past few years, it has been increasingly applied in nonsurgical applications and we can now say that it has become an integral component of medical t...

This is a pathbreaking, often brilliant book that every journalist, 'drug expert, ' and elected and unelected policy maker in the U. S. should be forced to read."--Craig Reinarman, University of California, Santa Cruz

Die vorliegende Dissertation entstand wiihrend meiner Tatigkeit als wissen­ schaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Fraunhofer-Institut fur Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IP A) in Stuttgart sowie als Leiter der Fertigungsstattenplanung am Europaischen Kernforschungszentrum CERN in Genf. Herrn Professor Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c. H. J. Warnecke, dem Prasiden­ ten der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft und ehemaligen Direktor des IPA sowie Leiter des Ins...

David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students held nonviolent protests daily for five months, m...

Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, this presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a decisive impact on the nature of change in Guatemala. He looks at the ways in which ethnic and class relations affected government policy and identifies the conflict generated in the ...