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Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights -- the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this book offers a new, accessible translation of a representative play by each playwright, accompanied by a general introduction to the author's life and times, a scholarly article on a prominent ...

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The classic novel of 1950's American youth is now back in print with rare photos and a new Foreword by the "real" Gidget, Kathy Kolner Zuckerman.

Poetry. "Julianne Buchsbaum's SLOWLY, SLOWLY, HORSES is a quietly furious book. Her language is as rich and eerily fascinating as bending down to look closely at something decomposing. But this is a different sort of nature poetry - her landscape is "a pasture of taints, " and her close observation of nature is really a close observation of language...There is something of Wallace Stevens in her precision, her incredible diction, and in the wa...

Poetry. Steve Orlen is the foremost contemporary embodiment of the poetic legacy of Randall Jarrell. Orlen's poems are more streetwise, but they have Jarrell's sad, wise eyes, the not-quite-jaded wonder, the vision of our folly which both sees and forgives. And the voice, in its alloy of the ruthless and the sentimental, is Jarrellian, a vehicle of such casual, confiding earnestness, one hardly notices the many chord changes, the masterful loo...

Here are stories about David Toews, Annie Funk and the Titanic, Orie Miller, Emma Richards and Marilyn Miller, Peter Dyck, Mesach Krisetya, a new search for Clayton Kratz, and more.

Leibiger has written an important narrative and analysis of the collaboration between Madison and Washington . . . that forces readers to rethink the history of the early Republic" --Choice

This book presents the views of Aldo Leopold, author of the best-selling A Sand County Almanac and the most famous of 20th century American conservationists, on the topic of "land health, " which he defined as "the capacity for self-renewal in the biota." The focus in this volume is mostly on how to promote conservation on privately held lands, which constitute about two-thirds of the land in the United States.

Eyewitness To The Alamo is the actual account of the siege and Battle of the Alamo by those who were present during the attack. This book is the first complete accounting of the Battle of the Alamo by one of our country's foremost authorities on the event.

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The study of emergency management is inevitably the study of words and of those elements of language that act like words. Emergency managers, to a degree that may exceed the practice of many other managers, depend on words to standardize performance, communicate information and decisions, describe situations, etc. However, our meanings often differ from place to place and document to document, making the management and interpretation of inform...

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Hidden in the Nevada desert is America's most advanced aerospace weapons testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nation's top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force's top guns come to test them-on the front lines of a new era in warfare…The fiasco of a spy's infiltration has the Pentagon looking for an excuse to close Dreamland down. To clean up the mess-and save Dream...

Hold your dream cottage in your hands! Both a practical plans book and an inspirational idea book, Dream Cottages is a must for would-be cottage owners and for those who just like to dream.The cottage holds a special place in our minds and hearts as a place of retreat, peace, and relaxation as well as an expression of a family's own personality and lifestyle. In this elegantly illustrated book, Catherine Tredway presents 25 dream-inspiring cot...

On a blind date in Greenwich Village set up by Allen Ginsberg, Joyce Johnson (then Joyce Glassman) met Jack Kerouac in January 1957, nine months before he became famous overnight with the publication of On the Road. She was an adventurous, independent-minded twenty-one-year-old, Kerouac was already running on empty at thirty-five. This unique book, containing the many letters the two of them wrote to each other, reveals a surprisingly tender s...

50 years of writing about Japan, from postwar to the age of Pokemon.

Alex Gondola says that in our modern culture we sometimes "experience Christmas at its worst: overcommercialized, expensive, exhausting, nearly devoid of spiritual significance." In this collection of twenty cogent and inspiring sermons for Advent and Christmas, he reminds us of the key to putting the season in its proper perspective -- "Don't forget the child!" For it is only when we are drawn nearer to the child of Bethlehem, celebrating the...