This brilliant new study is the first comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the complex and important aesthetic and intellectual relationship between the Jameses. Hocks relates organically w...więcej »
Here is a study of Salem, Massachusetts, as that community went about conducting a self-study to discover its needs and moved toward meeting some of them. The story of how a committee was appointed...więcej »
Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it mea...więcej »
Robert Schwartz examines the French government's attempts to suppress mendicity from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution. His study provides a rich account of the evolution of poverty, the va...więcej »
This is a thoughtful examination and analysis of the general theory and practice in agency-school cooperation and, specifically, of student learning within a recognized Block Plan Program of the Un...więcej »
This volume is the third of a series of works sponsored by the Duke-University of North Carolina Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. It presents the public lectures delivere...więcej »
Conner explains the background, organization, and workings of the National War Labor Board, created by President Wilson in April 1918. She analyzes the board's struggle to succeed and reveals how b...więcej »
This is an examination of one of the many humanitarian movements that have sought to influence the public to improve conditions regarded as contrary to Christian and democratic doctrines. It is an ...więcej »
The essays and their authors are: Medieval Borrowings from Further Asia" by Lynn White, Jr.; "Twelfth-Century Spirituality and the Late Middle Ages" by Giles Constable; "On Editing Shakespeare: ...więcej »
This volume is the first of a series of books sponsored by the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Although no attempt was made in advance to limit or direct approaches to s...więcej »
East has constructed a well-written study of the model of the Childs system as well as of its inventor. He uses a new approach involving a tough-minded empirical testing of municipal reform doctrin...więcej »
The author presents a comprehensive picture of the furniture manufacturer's marketing policies and the framework of the industry out of which marketing policies evolve. He thoroughly investigates a...więcej »
The importance of this book lies in the historical background and in the dynamic and original description of a process that grows immediately and authentically out of the author's experience in the...więcej »
Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines...więcej »
The proceedings of the first symposium ever held to consider in a comprehensive manner the multiple problems of hemophilia are recorded in this volume. Containing the complete material presented at...więcej »
This volume, based on the second international symposium on hemophilia held in Rome, includes not only the presented material but also other significant contributions by fifty-five of the most outs...więcej »
Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the...więcej »
A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. The...więcej »
In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas gather emerging and leading voices in the study of Native American religion to reconsider the complex and often m...więcej »
In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist...więcej »