The Chiltern Hundreds were three subdivisions of South Bucks - Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last is shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. This book celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical and lyrical. It includes Classical odes, and ballade and villanelle.
The Chiltern Hundreds were three subdivisions of South Bucks - Desborough, Burnham and Stoke. This last is shared with Berkshire and dominated by the urban sprawl of Slough. This book celebrates it with a hundred poems of many kinds - historical, topographical, satirical and lyrical. It includes Classical odes, and ballade and villanelle.
Examines the complex intersection where art and philosophy merge. This collection includes topics such as the criticism of Robert Wolfe, the minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, the metaphysics of photography, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, and some reflections on why women have been denied entrance to the pantheon of great artists.
Develops a point of view in the philosophy of liberal religion. This book explores the reasons for personal religious freedom, the limits of this freedom, and the possibilities it offers to intelligent, thoughtful human beings.
As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor, one of the few lone voices of conservative government was that of Edmund Burke. He focused on the social and political ramifications of egalitarianism and what its dissemination in France might mean for the future of the liberty, order, and political tradition.
The Pulitzer Plays as an Approach to American Drama
Adler's intent here is not to read the American experience through its theatre, but to approach American drama through a considerable body of representative, and oftentimes critically acclaimed, popular plays. He analyzes each of these plays-including such classics as O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Wilder's Our Town, Miller's Death of a ......
Terms, Laws, Court Decisions, and Arbitration Standards
Comprehensive and current, ''Labor and Industrial Relations'' is an essential, three-part reference and source book for students, teachers, and practitioners of labor-management relations. Drawing from both classroom and bargaining-table experience, Matthew A. Kelly provides a detailed glossary of collective bargaining and labor-related terms, a ......
Ethnographic fieldwork and formal linguistic analysis have traditionally been thought to be diametrically opposed. In this provocative analysis Peter Manning argues that these methods of qualitative research are complementary. After examining the potential benefits and limitations of each method of analysis, the author shows how a synthesis of the two is more powerful than either alone.
