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A rich contribution to the study of autobiography.' - James Olney Suzanne Nalbantian provides a precise and highly original basis to identify literary art with her novel approach to autobiography. Re-examining key writers of the early twentieth-century - Proust, Joyce, Woolf, with Nin in their wake - Nalbantian discerns models of a hybrid genre characterised by a common aesthetics. She discovers in these writings a threshold of artistic transf...

The New World-this empty land dazzlingly rich in forests, soils, rainfall, and mineral wealth-was to represent a new beginning for civilized humanity. Unfortunately, even the best of the European settles had a stronger eye for conquest than for justice. Natives were in the way-surplus people who must be literally displaced. Now, as ecologist Wes Jackson points out, descendants of those early beneficiaries of conquest find themselves the displa...

This bio-bibliography is devoted to the American composer, John Alden Carpenter, whose work mirrors the tastes, trends and troubles of the American people from 1912 to World War II. The volume includes a biography, a list of his works and performances, discographies and bibliographies.

The author postulates that our feelings and emotions are cognitive constructions, with a logic that is informed by our needs and values, and that our feelings and emotions change considerably in the course of development.

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Liberalism at the Crossroads provides a fair but lively introduction to key thinkers and schools of thought in the contemporary debate regarding liberal political theory.

For several years, social psychologist Daniel M. Wegner has been investigating the inability to control thoughts. Drawing on the most recent breakthroughs in this area of research, this is an illuminating explanation of just how human minds work and of the glimmerings of madness in all people.

A regular guest on "The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour" and NPR, Etzioni explores the rapidly growing grass-roots political movement that calls for a new balance between individual rights and social responsibilty. "Shows us . . . how a philosophy based on shared values and mutual understanding can restore our nation's promise and moral leadership".--Sen. Bill Bradley.

The application of light microscopy to biological problems has made an enormous impact in recent years. This volume provides the key data required to optimize the analysis of biological samples using the light microscope, irrespective of the type of method selected. The Essential Data series provides rapid access to the core data required by researchers on a daily basis, in convenient pocket-sized volumes.

Veteran youth worker and nationally-known speaker Wayne Rich has carefully selected and crafted 100 of the best stories, parables and anecdotes available anywhere. These illustrations cover the spectrum - some will make you laugh, some will make you cry, and all of them will make your think. What they all have in common is that they work with teenagers.

These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western civilization. Neumann recommended a "cultural therapy" that he thought would redress a "fundamental ignorance" about feminine and masculine psychology, and he looked for societal healing to a "matriarchal consciousness" t...

Yes, contemporary musical creativity is alive and well and well-celebrated in this valuable book. Great music that often has audiences of three people is here discussed along with great music that has audiences of thousands."--Michael Snow, film, sound, and visual artist, and editor of a collection of essays, "Music/Sound

Each lesson included in this Youth Specialties collection brings home biblical truths in creative and enjoyable ways. In addition, each Bible study is quick and easy to prepare. 12 lessons.