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Knowing Your Place directs groundbreaking attention to the role of rural and urban places in identity construction. Written to redress the longstanding neglect and denigration of the rural, this book argues that the cultural dominance of the city has been reinforced by postmodern theory's near fixation on the urban and the sophisticated. The essays explore rural identity in a number of cultures and situations, and look at issues of contemporar...

Covers such topics as financial distress and capital structure choice, optimal capital structure and valuation of the firm in multiperiod context, regression tests of the present value model of stock prices, and, intra-industry information transfers and stock repurchases.

Behind the scenes of Parliament Hill: examining the architecture, heraldry, and history of the buildings.

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By placing its professional expertise in the service of maintaining the democratic values of free expression and pluralism, American librarianship not only defended its professional autonomy in the area of book selection, but also developed an ideology of intellectual freedom and claimed its defense as a central jurisdiction. This volume charts the library profession's journey from the adoption of the 1939 Library's Bill of Rights to the 1969 ...

A story about life, challenges and approaching death, told with a humorous twist by a former professor and author facing ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known to most as "Lou Gehrig's Disease). Paralyzed for more than six years and already beating the odds, Bob Horn found that through a pulse in his right big toe, he could control the cursor on his computer. Through this slow and frustrating process, an autobiography was born. The result i...

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The definitive biography of a fascinating and enigmatic figure.

The Cost of Being Female is 30 cents, " say the authors of this new book on discrimination against women. They support their thesis by constructing an index that documents the costs of discrimination against women in five aspects of life: economic, political, social, education, and health.

Frontmatter -- Avant-Propos -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Einführung -- Einleitung -- Dokumentenverzeichnis -- I. "Que faire de l'Allemagne?": Die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen 1949-1955 -- I.1 Frankreich und die "deutsche Frage" im Zeichen des Besatzungsstatuts -- I.2 Anlauf zur europäischen Integration -- I.3 Die Saarfrage -- I.4 Das Problem der deutschen Wiederbewaffnung -- II. Neue Voraussetzungen und neue Aufgaben: Die deutsch-französische...

This work considers how the economics and history of the closing years of the 20th century may turn out to mark the era of transformation when the nation-states lose most of their ability to manoeuvre in ecnomics as finance and investment beome transnationalized.

Susan Gray explores community formation among New England migrants to the Upper Midwest in the generation before the Civil War. Focusing on Kalamazoo County in southwestern Michigan, she examines how 'Yankees' moving west reconstructed familiar communal institutions on the frontier while confronting forces of profound socioeconomic change, particularly the rise of the market economy and the commercialization of agriculture. Gray argues that Ya...

Elliott Carter (b.1908) is now generally acknowledged as America's most eminent living composer. This definitive volume of his essays and lectures -- many previously unpublished or uncollected -- shows his thinking and writing on music and associated issues developing in parallel with his career as a composer, his reputation became established in the 1950s, and the material in this book offers an important and knowledgeable commentary on the c...

Linking historiography and political history, Victor Feske addresses the changing role of national histories written in early twentieth-century Britain by amateur scholars Hilaire Belloc, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, J. L. and Barbara Hammond, G. M. Trevelyan, and Winston Churchill. These writers recast the nineteenth-century interpretation of British history at a time when both the nature of historical writing and the fortunes of Liberalism had ...

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The first comprehensive guide to pre-1934 female popular vocal recordings sung in English-from around the world and including all styles-this discographical study includes solos, duets, trios, and quartets composed by the great songwriters of the early 1900s (from Irving Berlin to Victor Young). The majority of the listings includes material that has not been previously published, and a large number of entries profile such prolific artists as ...

Dieser biographische Essay zeichnet die Jugendjahre des berühmten Kunst- und Kulturhistorikers Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929) anhand zahlreicher, zumeist unpublizierter Quellen nach. Er zeigt die Geschicke eines Juden im Kaiserreich, erzählt vom Schüler, vom Studenten, vom "¿einfachen Soldaten" Warburg, dessen Tagebuchnotizen und Briefe zum Spiegel des Fin de siècle werden.