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This collection of essays, with diverse perspectives and theoretical approaches, challenges the boundaries of scholarship on Russian foreign policy in the post-Soviet era. Drawing on archival sources and interviews, it covers issues such as Russia's decision to use military force in Chechnya.

Covering sensationism, a philosophy of the French Enlightenment and 18th-century French literature, this study presents the main ideas of sensationism philosophers such as Condillac, Bonnet and Helvetius. An examination of the mind-body problem is also included in the discussion.

Examines how the religious environment around Emily Dickinson, specifically New England Protestantism, helps in understanding her poetry, and conversely how her poetry brings attention to religious aspects of her culture and surroundings.

Originally published in 1854. Memoirs and observations of Philip Tome, an early Pennsylvania pioneer, adventurer, and hunter who served as an interpreter for two of the Seneca Nation's most important chiefs, Cornplanter and Governor Blacksnake. Includes a preface by folklorist Henry Shoemaker.

First published in 1875. A detailed history of the Pennsylvania Railroad, its construction, management, and the various lines and their stations, starting with the first experimental track laid down in 1809 in Delaware County and continuing as the railroad expanded westward across the state.

Originally published in 1898. Biographical sketches of women in Pennsylvania who played a valuable role in the American Revolution. Discusses their family history, their character, and their contributions to the revolutionary effort.

Originally published in 1912. A collection of stories focusing on Pennsylvania's folklore, history, and wildlife, set in the Bald Eagle Mountains of Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Juniata, and Union counties.

Examines the place of rhetoric in John Locke's political and philosophical thought. Traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of his work.

A collection of essays weaving together theoretical insights from philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, literature, and history, as well as the authors' personal narratives, to examine the forms and persistence of white privilege.

Analyzes the deliberations and impact of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Argues that while it failed to realize its idealistic goals, its very failure generated valuable contestation within and beyond the TRC process.

An examination of David Hume's philosophy of religion that situates his conception "true religion" within the context of his overall science of human nature, his rejection of popular religion, and his Ciceronian influence.

Examines how the Jews in the Crown of Aragon in the twelfth through fourteenth centuries negotiated the overlapping jurisdictions and power relations of local lords and the crown.

Examines key moments in the early history of the blogosphere to understand how bloggers use digital media technology to engage in public argument. Explores blogging from a rhetorical perspective, asking how the digital medium of communication changes the conditions for persuasion.

Examines the ways religion influenced reform during the American Revolution in New Jersey. Focuses on two pivotal figures: Jacob Green, a Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, an Anglican minister and a leading loyalist spokesman.

Examines Immanuel Kant's understanding of rhetoric. Argues that the general thesis that Kant disparaged rhetoric is untenable, and that communicative practices play an important role in his account of how we become better humans and create morally cultivating communities.

An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Britannicus. Includes critical notes and commentary.

Examines the book collection of Thomas Connary, a nineteenth-century Irish Catholic New England farmer, to reconstruct how Connary read and annotated his books. Reveals how books can structure a life of devotion and social participation, and presents an authentic, holistic view of one reader's interior life.

Explores how priests and bishops who embraced the French Revolution creatively followed or destructively rejected traditional versions of priestly ministry.

Evaluates Christine de Pizan's literary engagement with fifteenth-century French politics. Locates the writer's works within a detailed narrative of the complex history of the dispute between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, the two largest political factions.

Maps the current distribution of all of Pennsylvania's 190 breeding birds and documents the changes in climate, habitat, and distribution since the first edition of this work. Includes habitat analyses and color photographs for each species.

First published by Penn State Press in 1992, William Moraley's first-hand account of bound servitude provides a glimpse of life among the lower classes in England and the American colonies during the 18th century. This revised edition features additional information and shows how to read and interpret Moraley's autobiography.

This text concentrates on the theory and practice of art criticism during the 1980s. Giving a personal view of the artistic activity of the decade, the author examines the relationship between art criticism and art practice using work from Jean Baudrillard and Jacques Derrida and others.

Julian of Norwich, a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English. This book presents an edition of Julian's writings in Middle English, one that makes possible the serious reading and study of her thought for students and scholars of Middle English.

This work, based on materials from the Leningrad archives, interviews with Russian contemporaries of Rand and a diversity of sources within the written and oral tradition of objectivism, provides an analysis of the intellectual roots and philosophy of Ayn Rand.

This work explores European roots and native expressions in American public architecture.