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  • - The Back-to-the-land Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future
    av Jeffrey Jacob
    607

    The new pioneers of this text are ordinary people who have tried to break away from mainstream consumer culture and return to small-town, rural America. The dilemmas, frustrations, adaptations, and triumphs of these neo-homesteaders offer insights to anyone thinking of a move "back to the land."

  • av Laurence D. Cooper
    431

    An interpretation of Rousseau's thought that focuses on his complex concept of nature as one major key to understanding his legacy to modern political philosophy. It examines his efforts to show why, despite a challenge from science, nature can remain a standard for human behaviour.

  • - Sovereignty Under Siege
    av Ivelaw L. Griffith
    491

    This study of illegal drugs in the Caribbean examines the nature and scope of drug operations, probing the security implications of those operations and the problems they cause, and assessing countermeasures for dealing with drug traffic and resulting problems.

  • - The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790)
    av Timothy (University of California Irvine) Tackett
    557

  • - David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
    av Peter P. Hinks
    424

  • - The Culture of the Knights of Labor
    av Robert E. Weir
    557

  • - Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature
    av Katherine Heinrichs
    424

  • - Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being
    av David Farrell Krell
    491

    A series of essays which scrutinize Martin Heidegger's thought, written by an American scholar who has already translated into English Heidegger's works "Early Greek Thinking", "Nietzsche" and "Basic Writings".

  • - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music
     
    501

    The essays in this volume address fundamental questions about the ontology and meaning of music, about composition, performance and song. They range over problems in the evaluation of music and of the place of music in history and culture especially.

  • - The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement
    av Ethan Nadelmann
    627

    A comprehensive analysis of the US criminal justice system as it operates in the international arena. The book examines how and why US law enforcement officials have extended their efforts beyond American borders and looks at the history of US law enforcement abroad.

  • - Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth. Revised Edition
    av Wilson Jeremiah Moses
    491

    This text is a study of the black messianic tradition in American literature and history, brought up to date with treatment of recent black leaders, from Jesse Jackson to Louis Farrakhan.

  • - An Anthology of Prose and Poetry
     
    547

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    387

    Written at a time when the lumber industry had shifted westward, the chapters in this book recall the days when giant rafts carried lumber down the rivers of Pennsylvania.

  • - Nancy, Derrida, Levinas, Deleuze
    av Todd May
    491

  • - Belief and Practice Under the Tsars
    av Valerie A. Kivelson
    491

    Concentrating on lived religious experience, "Orthodox Russia" brings together some of the best contemporary scholarship on Russian Orthodox beliefs and practices covering a broad historical period - from the Muscovite era through the immediate aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

  • - Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973
    av Margaret Power
    547

  • - Black Theology, Hermeneutics, and African/American Ways of "Telling the Story"
    av Will Coleman
    501

    This text studies slave narratives as a source for a constructive black theology, while paying attention to their literary and rhetorical value. It explores from a theological, historical and literary perspective the oral traditions of African American culture, and its impact on slave narrative.

  • - Meaning, Morality, and Society
     
    321

    These essays by philosophers of art consider what can be learned from the meaning of art about society, morality and life in general. This leads to discussion of other issues. Is art distinct from life? Is a concern with art's messages consistent with an aesthetic appreciation of its works?

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    547

    Using as a reference point the issues and theories that dominated social science research on Latin America in the period 1960-80, this volume contributes to "rethinking development", by examining the historical events that accounted for the erosion or demise of once-dominant paradigms.

  • - Metaphor and Metonymy in the Renaissance Lyric
    av Jane Hedley
    424

  • - Politics, Ideology, and Interpreting the Bible
    av Burke Long
    424

  • - A Comparative Study in Religion and Reason
    av Arvind Sharma
    424

  • - Focalization in Four Eighteenth-Century French Novels
    av William F. Edmiston
    424

  • - Continuity and Change Among Viennese Youth, 1890-1938
    av Robert Wegs
    424

  • - The Decisive Decade, 1924-1933
    av Doris Alexander
    561

  • av Stefania Buccini
    424

    An analysis of the perception of the New World in Italian literature and culture of the 18th and early 19th centuries. This study begins by analysing the motivations and circumstances behind the emergence of the myth of the "noble savage".

  • - The Carson Valley School
    av David R. (Chestnut Hill College) Contosta
    424

  • - The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland
    av Jan Kubik
    627

    In this study of the culture of opposition, the strategies of the Polish Communist party for remodelling national culture are examined. This is followed by a history of the rise of Solidarity, the circumstances that led to it, and why it did not happen in other communist-run countries.

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