This text deciphers and explains the geopolitics of Europe. The first part deals with the general geopolitical tendencies in Europe, as well as the conflicting tendencies between culturism and universalism, between national-romantic ethnic primordialism and cosmopolitan post-national identities, between territory and escape from territory. The ......
At a time when technology can sustain marginal life, it is ever more important to understand what constitutes a person. What are the medical, ethical, moral, mental, legal, and philosophical criteria that determine protectable human life?Following immediately on the publication of his highly praised book Choosing Who's to Live, James Walters ......
''What will make this volume's reputation as an important book is the author's use of economic evidence and methodology to produce important insights into behavior and attitudes.'' -- James C. Riley, author of International Government Finance and the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1740-1815 Using the Amsterdam Municipal Orphanage as a window through ......
This pioneer work in a complex, interdisciplinary, and still-developing field explores the prospects for a more comprehensive approach to evaluating environmental programs. Experts in the fields of biology, chemistry, ecology, economics, management, planning, sociology, political science, and public administration provide coherent, integrated ......
When Miller Williams read his Inaugural Poem, ''Of History and Hope,'' to a world-wide audience in January, his proverbial ''fifteen minutes of fame'' lasted far less--somewhere between three and four minutes. That was long enough to make a big impact on many. Said poet Paul Zimmer, one of the millions in his viewing audience, ''I came up out of ......
A surefire cure for the headaches and stomach upsets of the twenty-first century, The Lemon Jelly Cake carries readers back to kinder, gentler times in a small town at the turn of the last century. Evoking a forgotten America of lush lawns, bountiful summer picnics, and shady front porches, the tale is set when the day's toughest decision might ......
The Chicago Tribune's Bill Dahl praised Robert Pruter's Doowop for ''vividly describ[ing] an enchanting time on the local music scene, when a handful of teenagers could taste rock 'n' roll stardom with harmonies they cooked up on a street corner.''Pruter foraged sources from fanzines to the Chicago Defender and conducted extensive interviews in ......
This is the first volume--in English or Spanish--to analyze the work of the principal women poets of Modern Spain. In it, John Wilcox draws on recent feminist critical theory and shows how Spanish poetry by women is not just a modern phenomenon but an ignored tradition whose roots reach back to the very beginnings of poetry of the Iberian ......
One of the best novels ever to portray the lives of American Communist activists, The Great Midland is a story of love and radical politics set just before World War II. It was published in 1948, when cold-war hysteria engulfed the United States; the publisher subsequently tried to pretend the book did not exist, and review media and bookstores ......
