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This study attempts to analyze the multi-faceted and complicated relationship between the Central European, Germanic-Austrian cultural milieu and the Jewish national literature and culture which evolved within it at the turn of the last century. Issues regarding the construction and differentiation of a modern Jewish national identity and culture as an aspect of Cultural Zionism are central to this project, as are the problematical literary an...

While the literature on American wilderness preservation is well-known to environmental historians, the Canadian experience has only begun to be documented. This book is the first full-length history of wilderness protection in Ontario. Drawing on government records, the private files of environmentalists and their organizations, and personal interviews, Protecting Ontario's Wilderness examines the changing idea of wilderness and the politics ...

Between 1125 and 1135, it is generally agreed, a sculptor of genius usually referred to as Gislebertus carved a tympanum and a series of capitals for the cathedral dedicated to Saint Lazarus at Autun. The capital depicting the suicide of Judas is unique in the Romanesque repertoire both for its beauty of technique and for its execution of subject matter. The iconography is at once baffling and rich in possibilities of interpretation, which ext...

The Beat Movement, which first rose to attention in 1955, has often been viewed by critics as an urban phenomenon -the product of a postwar-youth culture with roots in the cities of New York and San Francisco. This study examines another side of the Beat Movement: its strong desire for a reconnection with nature. Although each took a different path in attaining this goal, the writers considered here-Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Lew Welch, and Mi...

Beppe Fenoglio (1922-1963) is one of Italy's major postwar writers. His contemporary Italo Calvino described one of his novels, Una questione privata, as the work that his generation had dreamed of writing. But it is Fenoglio's posthumously published Il partigiano Johnny, based on the author's experience as a partisan in the Langhe hills during World War Two, and written in an intriguing mixture of Italian and English, which is considered to b...

Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) stated that one of his greatest influences was the English novelist Charles Dickens. This study focuses on Dickens' use of type characters as tools for social criticism and the manner in which Galdós utilizes these same types in order to critique Spanish society. The three major types analyzed in this study are the religious ascetic, the miser, and Dickens' and Galdós' versions of the Lazarillo,...

Lope de Vega's (1562-1635) vast dramatic output and his solid reflection of the attitudes and practices of his day uniquely represent seventeenth-century Spain. Similarly, the saint's play uniquely represents Spain's Golden Age because only there did it achieve such heights of development and popularity. This study treats Lope's twenty-five Comedias de Santos, clarifies their cultural setting, and traces their ancestry. It reveals the Siglo de...

Impossible Performances: Duras as Dramatist argues that Marguerite Duras is one of the most important figures on the landscape of twentieth-century theater. Like Artaud and Beckett, she is exemplary of the most radical inquiry into the limits of performance. Duras used theater against itself and dramatized the failure of mimetic realism to represent the post-colonial, post-atomic moment. Unlike Artaud's and Beckett's, Duras's metaphysics of pe...

Ein Handbuch für Städteplaner, kommunale Regierungen und private Bauherren: Beschrieben werden die technisch besten Landinformationssysteme, Hochpräzisionstechnologien zur Feststellung des Eigentümers und Ansätze zur Abschätzung der Kosten der Landerschließung (Straßenbau, Transportmittel, soziale Einrichtungen). (07/00)

An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is a report that is required for any proposed project that has the potential to result in significant impacts on the environment. If it is a privately funded project, such as a new factory or other large construction project, an EIS needs to be filed. This is the most practical guide available on EIS preparation, while also presenting a solid working strategy for any large-scale project that gets the wor...

This major new textbook provides a concise introduction to employment and industrial relations. Unlike many other textbooks, this adopts a comparative approach, examining the changing nature of employment practices in relation to the processes of globalization, and engaging critically with the literature on Human Resource Management. By taking account of the international dimension of employment relations, this book is at the forefront of new ...

..". a most welcome addition to the body of scholarship on the SokotoJihad and Caliphate." -- Religious Studies ReviewThe fascinatinglife and times of Nana Asma'u (1793 - 1864), a West African woman who was a Muslimscholar and poet. As the daughter of the spiritual and political leader of theSokoto community, Asma'u was a role model and teacher for other Muslim women as wellas a scholar of Islam and a key advisor to her father as he waged a ji...

Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the grouse and the deer, and the hunter's gun. There is Magdalena, the beautiful mistress of the village priest, whose suicide unleashes her ghost to haunt the parish. There are also the loving grandparents...

How can we value an enterprise, like a young internet start-up company, that has no earnings or cash flows, so that traditional and conventional valuation techniques are therefore not applicable? One of the most notable recent industrial revolutions has been the emergence of Biotechnology and Internet companies. Most of these technology companies are predominantly young with no history of earnings or cash flows to evaluate. This book addresses...

Die im Jahr 1902 von der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften begonnene Ausgabe von Kants gesammelten Schriften ist bis heute die maßgebliche Kant-Edition. Die kritische Ausgabe gliedert sich in 4 Abteilungen: In Abt. I werden in 9 Bänden die Werke, in Abt. II (Bd 10-13, Nachtrag Bd 23) der Briefwechsel Kants ediert. Abt. III (Bd 14-23) enthält den Handschriftlichen Nachlass Kants. Die Edition der Vorlesungen in Abt. IV ist noch ...

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Demonstrates how non-linear models help us understand political phenomena

Myth: Black and biracial children dislike their race from the time they are preschoolers. Reality: Young black and biracial children are unable to understand racial prejudice. In fact, developmentally they are incapable of understanding the concept of race. A childs concept of race is quite different from that of an adult. Young children perceive skin color as magical -- even changeable -- and unlike adults, are incapable of understanding the ...

American education is facing the challenging situation of working with students with disabilities in the regular classroom. Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students provides a much needed and balanced perspective of the issues faced by educators committed to understanding how to best serve children with disabilities in schools.

Top scholars contribute to this book of essays on the complex series of battles and political maneuvers for control of Kentucky during the Civil War.