From primitive European and African carvings and cave drawings to the classical poetry, pottery, and sculpture of Attic Greece, from mysterious and disturbing female shapes...
With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing...
A transitional book in the development of Royce's thought, originally published in 1908, The Philosophy of Loyalty is a key to understanding his influence on...
With The Relevance of Philosophy to Life, eminent American philosopher John Lachs reminds us that philosophy is not merely a remote subject of academic research...
Increased personal contact among people of all parts of the world has underscored the inadequacy of traditional language study to meet contemporary communications needs. Linguistic...
Winner Of The Pulitzer Prize For Biography In 1936This Out Ofprint Classic Returns, In A New Paperback Edition, Through The Vanderbilt Library Of American Philosophy....
Intended for a general audience as well as the scholar and student, this first fulllength study of Flannery O'Connor's fiction available again in a paperback...
Intended for a general audience as well as the scholar and student, this first fulllength study of Flannery O'Connor's fiction available again in a paperback...
Democracy needs the extraordinary efforts of ordinary people. The experiences of the twelve creative community health leaders, which this book presents, provide excellent examples of...
This work revisits and expands upon Yankelovichs seminal 1991 book, Coming to Public Judgment, which argued that people advance through several distinct stages to form...
Written by engaged scholars and practitioners, Transforming Cities and Minds is an "instrumentforaction" on the problems faced by U.S. cities that have suffered from decades...
Surprisingly, there are few booklength studies available that approach the poems in Charles Baudelaires collection on an individual basis. Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills...
Centered on the former slaving port of Ouidah, Benin, Dana Rush's research extends through Togo to Ghana, a region where exchanges of histories, ideas, and...
Community organizers work at their jobs because they are passionate, because they believe that change is possible, and because they enjoy working with people. Although...
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The community of Agua Blanca, deep within the Machalilla National Park on the coast of Ecuador, found itself facing the twentyfirst century with a choice:...
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2006Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author...
A penetrating and illuminating exchange of views between Richard Rorty, a highly influential and sometimes controversial philosopher, and seven of his most thoughtful critics, providing...
A penetrating and illuminating exchange of views between Richard Rorty, a highly influential and sometimes controversial philosopher, and seven of his most thoughtful critics, providing...
In this highly suggestive work, Philip Silver confronts and corrects the entire critical tradition on Spanish romanticism and suggests a new "restitutional" theory of that...
In this readable and wellresearched book, Ken Terry analyzes the current state of health care reform and finds it wanting. Instead of tackling the core...
In Selfmade Men, Henry Rubin Explores The Production Of Male Identities In The Lives Of Twentytwo Ftm Transsexualspeople Who Have Changed Their Sex From Female...
The Standard Biographical Source For The Last Decades Of Stravinsky'S Life And A Unique Trove Of Primary Material On Twentiethcentury Cultural And Intellectual History, Now...
This unique volume contains studies not only of Corneilles and Racines tragedies but also of the best work of the lesser Frenchclassical tragic dramatists, too...
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA provides the only booklength study of the impact on residents of the USMexico border of NAFTA's Environmental...
In 1562, Teresa de Avila founded the Discalced Carmelites and launched a reform movement that would pit her against the Church hierarchy and the male...
At The End Of The Eighteenth Century, Just Eighteen Colleges Existed In The United States, With An Average Enrollment Of Fewer Than Seventy. One Hundred...
At the end of the eighteenth century, just eighteen colleges existed in the United States, with an average enrollment of fewer than seventy. One hundred...
At the end of the nineteenth century, American artists demonstrated a preference for gardens as artistic motifs as well as a growing appreciation of the...