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Eine bezaubernde Novelle über einen eigenbrötlerischen Gymnasialprofessor, der das Alleinsein satt hat und sich auf die Suche nach einer geeigneten Ehefrau macht.

Eine amüsante Sammlung kürzerer Reiseerzählungen des großen amerikanischen Schriftstellers Mark Twain, darunter "Die Besteigung des Riffelbergs", "Berliner Eindrücke", "Besuch des Niagara" und "Britische Festlichkeiten". Ebenfalls enthalten sind in dem Band die beiden berühmten Texte "Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache" und "Wagnermusik". Ergänzt werden die Texte durch ein ausführliches Kapitel zur Lebensgeschichte Mark Twains.

The U.S. marine transportation system handles large volumes of domestic and international freight in support of the Nation's economic activities. As a vital part of that system, the Nation's container ports handle cargo and are sources of employment, revenue, and taxes for businesses or communities where they are located. This book provides an overview of the movement of maritime freight handled by the Nation's container ports. It summarizes t...

Playwright and actor David Greenspan has been a leading figure in Manhattan's downtown performance scene for over twenty years. This brings together five of Greenspan's most important works, accompanied by a critical introduction and new interview with the playwright.

Faguet identifies the factors that determine the outcomes of national decentralization on the local level

A series of essays on poetry, music, and "making" by renowned poet T. R. Hummer

A leading playwright explores issues of memory, family, doubt, and sexuality

In The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress, Ashley Craig Lancaster examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. While other studies address the familial and labor issues that challenged female literary characters during the 1930s, Lancaster focuses on how the evolving eugenics movement reinforced the dichotomy of altruis...

Geoffrey le Baker's chronicle covers the reigns of Edward II and Edward III up to the English victory at Poitiers. David Preest's new translation includes extensive notes and an introduction by Richard Barber.

Explores the land masses and seas of the world. This two-volume set describes mountain ranges, the oceans, continental movement, and a wide variety of features that have influenced life on earth. Detailed explorations of the evolution of dinosaurs, fish, birds, plant life and humans, as they were influenced by the earth's surface, fill this set. Fantastic disruptions, from Mount St. Helens to the ice ages are woven into the story of how the ea...

Provides a detailed look at the dynamics of the earth's mass and how its chemistry produces change. This two-volume set's scope is broad. For instance, the set goes beyond the basics of climate change to explore many underlying factors surrounding the issue, including geothermometry and geobarometry, glacial events, and mass extinction theories. The set also explores earthquakes, their engineering, hazards, predictability, and the role of faul...

Doctor Kiss is quite prepared to say yes when she finds a letter asking her to come to the aid of a young knight who has been injured in battle. She waits until after her usual goodnight kisses and hugs from her parents, and then she takes her medical bag and climbs through her bedroom window into a gilded, magical world from the age of chivalry.Teddy Jam and Joanne Fitzgerald have created a richly satisfying story about a very imaginative you...

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Visionary. Iconoclast. Rebel. William Trufant Foster set out in 1911 to launch the 'ideal college', and succeeded in building an intellectual liberal arts powerhouse that over the next century would perpetually seek to break the hard crust of custom and orthodoxy. Drawing from interviews with more than 1, 400 people and from unpublished memoirs, John Sheehy weaves together a riveting story of this unique community's early formation and its ong...

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Migrant sex workers are commonly cast as victims, moved by desperation to flee poverty and hopelessness in their home country. The Brazilian erotic dancers Suzana Maia presents in "Transnational Desires, " however, are women from the Brazilian middle class--some of them well-educated professionals--who migrated to the United States not just to better themselves economically but also to realize their personal dreams. Their motivation to migrate...

During the 1960s and 1970s, when writers such as Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa entered the international literary mainstream, Cold War cultural politics played an active role in disseminating their work in the United States. Deborah Cohn documents how U.S. universities, book and journal publishers, philanthropic organizations, cultural centers, and authors coordinated their efforts to bring Lati...

Paul Clements develops a new, morally grounded model of political and social analysis as a critique of and improvement on both neoclassical economics and rational choice theory. What if practical reason is based not only on interests and ideas of the good, as these theories have it, but also on principles and sentiments of right? The answer, Clements argues, requires a radical reorientation of social science from the idea of interests to the i...

In this philosophical tour de force, Joseph J. Godfrey argues that trusting is a matter of what a person does - well or badly - and not at heart a matter of beliefs about someone. And believing someone's words is a manner of trusting. Employing tools of analytic, Continental, and Thomistic philosophy, Godfrey offers a wide-ranging reflection on the nature of trust.