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From its origins as a dusty mining camp, Helena quickly grew into a bustling cosmopolitan city, eventually to become the capital of pioneer Montana. At the heart of this growth and development was the vision of Colonel Charles A. Broadwater. Featured here in over 200 vintage photographs is the history of this pioneer town, its involvement in the settlement of the West, and the towering achievement and mysterious decline of the Colonel's tribut...

This book offers an innovative examination of the interactions of science and technology, art, and literature in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on thermodynamics, electromagnetism, inscription, information theory, and virtuality.

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David Atkinson examines the ways in which the body of ballads known in England make reference both to ballads from elsewhere and to other English folk songs. The book outlines current theoretical directions and offers readers an approach for exploring the creation of meaning(s) out of ballad texts.

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This account of London in the medieval period considers the city as the centre of politics, finance, trade and government in England. It describes up-to-date archaeological discoveries that throw new light onto the history of the medieval capital.

Despite widespread urban revitalization and renewal, Americans still prefer the suburbs to the cities. While many of the underlying causes of the urban predicament are familiar, there is also the less recognized possibility that regulatory policies of the federal government disadvantage the cities and ultimately burden their ability to attract residents and businesses. This book encourages renewed reflection on the suitable balance between nat...

Don Logan's latest book "his tenth with Schiffer Publishing, and the first in a planned multi-volume set on F-4 Phantoms chronicles the service of the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 and RF-4 Phantom II in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. The book is organized by AFRES and ANG units and illustrates the F-4's service, colors, and markings with over 700 color photographs and 100 unit patches.

This text addresses the issue of change in organizations and the resistances and defensive behaviors that obstruct transformation.

A unique book written by and for patients with schizophrenia, with contributions by psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and psychiatric rehabilitation workers. "Diagnosis: Schizophrenia" is intended to develop and strengthen the understanding of this disease, and to offer tools for patients, their families, and those who provide treatment. Chapters 1 through 15 contain personal stories of patients with schizophrenia, detailin...

In her latest work of personal criticism, Nancy K. Miller tells the story of how a girl who grew up in the 1950s and got lost in the 1960s became a feminist critic in the 1970s. As in her previous books, Miller interweaves pieces of her autobiography with the memoirs of contemporaries in order to explore the unexpected ways that the stories of other people's lives give meaning to our own. The evolution she chronicles was lived by a generation ...

As OPEC approaches its 50th anniversary, the paperback edition of NathanJ. Citino's well-received study advances a challenging, revisionist interpretationof U.S.-Saudi relations and OPEC's historical significance. Citino re-examines therelationship between President Eisenhower and King Sa' d in the context of thetransition from British imperial hegemony to an American capitalist order in theMiddle East. He shows how the political realignment t...

Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru. This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries C.E. in old Tamil -- the literary language of ancient Tamilnadu -- was composed before Aryan influence had penetrated the south. It is thus a unique testament to pre-Aryan India.Beyond its importan...

The Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things really constitute a unique "girl culture?" Catherine Driscoll begins by identifying a genealogy of "girlhood" or "feminine adolescence, " and then argues that both "girls" and "culture" as ideas are too problematic to fulfill any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture. She relates the increasing public...

The Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things really constitute a unique "girl culture?" Catherine Driscoll begins by identifying a genealogy of "girlhood" or "feminine adolescence, " and then argues that both "girls" and "culture" as ideas are too problematic to fulfill any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture. She relates the increasing public...

>Bilder vom Erzählen< ist Wolfgang Hilbigs letzter Gedichtband. Er erschien - illustriert mit Radierungen von Horst Hussel - im Jahr 2001, ein Jahr bevor ihm mit dem Georg-Büchner-Preis der bedeutendste deutsche Literaturpreis zugesprochen wurde. »Seit ich den Dichter Wolfgang Hilbig das erste Mal gesehen und gehört hatte, spürte ich, dass da etwas Ungeheuerliches passiert sein musste. Hier hatte sich etwas Unerhörtes in meine Gegenwart verirr...

In Georginas Leben wäre alles in bester Ordnung, wenn sie nicht diese seltsamen Träume hätte: von Druh, dem Hund, der Set und ihr einst das Leben rettete, und von schrecklichen Dingen, die ihm passieren. Sie versucht, mit Set Kontakt aufzunehmen... und erwacht in einem Wald, vor ihr steht Set. Auf ihrer gemeinsamen Suche nach dem Druh finden sie heraus, dass der Hund in der Unterwelt von Culann, dem Schmied, gefangen wurde. Für seine Rettung m...