In this wildly imaginative satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-published adventure novelist, Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers' Union is giving out fur hats to its members according to...więcej »
Meet “creative misbehavior” with an equally creative response
An unusual, touching approach to understanding the perceptions and feelings of children, w...więcej »
What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, 'Justice John' Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collec...więcej »
Stanley Hauerwas presents an overall introduction to the themes and method that have distinguished his vision of Christian ethics. Emphasizing the significance of Jesus' life and teaching in shapin...więcej »
This book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Onate, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the...więcej »
This book is a collection of the earliest essays of Thomas Szasz, in which he staked out his position on "the nature, scope, methods, and values of psychiatry." On each of these issues, he ...więcej »
It is splendid news for all classicists, especially those interested in the history of women in antiquity that Owsei Temkin's translation of Soranus' Gynecology is back again in print . . . thanks ...więcej »
In each station of this Way of the Cross, a particular character in a dramatic monologue responds to the question "Were you there" with Jesus on the road to Calvary. In the concluding prayer of eac...więcej »
The Field is John B. Keane's fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for the land and the lengths of ruthlessness he will go to in order to obtain the object of his desi...więcej »
This is the most recent and complete review on giant resonances in nuclei. It includes electric as well as magnetic collective states and a detailed discuss...więcej »
This book consists of theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, chapters devoted to 13 separate cases from various parts of the world and concluding chapters that both restate...więcej »
Over and over again Christ comes to our hiding places and our living spaces to offer us the gift of salvation. He calls the "treetop followers," the "grandstand Christians," and the cowering out...więcej »
Physics: Imagination and Reality introduces the reader to major ideas and the conceptual structure of modern physics, by tracing its development from the introduction of fields into phy...więcej »