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This text offers a method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles embedded in the UN Charter and international law and relating them to a pivotal principle of "unity in diversity".

The story of how workers in the Wyoming Valley, led by Min Lurye Matheson and her husband, Bill, banded together and built one of the largest and most activist movements of garment workers in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) vast network.

Originally published by Routledge in 1988, this pioneering collection of essays now features a new preface and updated bibliography by the editor, reflecting the most significant developments in Plato scholarship during the past decade.

What is a Nittany Lion? With the help of colourful illustrations, this work uncovers the fascinating and colourful history behind the Penn State icon. Elements of the tale include the story of the Original Nittany Lion, the elusive mountain lion that once roamed the hills of Pennsylvania.

Using data from local surveys, interviews, and rational statistics, this is a comparative study of two Central American cities similarly positioned in the world economy. It explores how development and state policies have affected the lives of people working in the informal economy.

An exploration of American philosophy, connecting the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey and James with Native American beliefs and practices. Bruce Wilshire's search is not for exact parallels, but rather for fundamental affinities.

The twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late-19th and through the 20th centuries, focusing particularly upon the enduring quest of policymakers to restore urban community.

An exploration and survey of the activities of right-wing extremist parties in the region stretching from Germany to Russia. It seeks to show that radical right activities can have pernicious effects even if right-wing extremists do not themselves succeed in obtaining seats in government.

The text provides a description of how and why Peruvian white-collar workers have defined themselves as members of a distinct middle class and their quest for economic stability, respectability and recognition in Peruvian society.

This text examines how two epics from different cultures, the "Iliad" and the "Ramayana", were evoked by and acted upon by their respective societies. It also examines the role of literary "persuasion" in maintaining harmonious social interaction and in religious mystification.

This examination of Bishop's work - poetry, prose and selected unpublished material - reveal how personal loss becomes implicated in her vision of self and how gender and sexual identity influence the experience of loss in her writing.

This text presents a psychoanalytic portrait of the biblical prophet Ezekiel. The author argues that Ezekiel was dominated by a pathological dread and loathing of female sexuality.

Examines the problem of rhetorical violence in American political discourse, and maps the history of one form, the politics of resentment. Investigates key events in American history that have led to a current culture of resentment.

A study in social democratic political theory that examines the writings of Jean Jaures (1859-1914), the parliamentary and philosophical leader of French socialism.

An English translation of the Abbe Prevost's 1740 novel The Greek Girl's Story. Includes foreword by Jean Sgard, notes, and appendices.

Traces an epistemological legacy from Romantic and Victorian ecological literature to modern scientific ecology. Investigates two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that continue to be debated today.

A transcription and annotation of the diary of Emilie Davis, a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War.

Examines the literary and visual works of the Spanish vanguardists, which engaged with and incorporated the mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age and anticipated the modern fields of material culture, technology studies, and network theory.

Explores listening as a fundamental human endowment connected with language and thought, and its potential for social, personal, and political action. Incorporates historical, literary, intercultural, scientific, musical, and philosophical perspectives.

In the context of legal privileges based on status and class in premodern Spain and Europe in general, investigates conflicts over and resistance to the status of hidalgo in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Castile.

Essays by American and Dutch scholars and museum curators explore the collecting and reception of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in America, from the colonial era through the Gilded Age to today.

Examines seventeenth-century sculpture in Rome. Focuses on questions of historical context and criticism, including the interaction of theory and practice, the creative roles of sculptors and patrons, the relationship of sculpture to antique models and to contemporary painting, and contextual meaning and reception.

Examines the creation in 1483 of the first illustrated travelogue, Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land), by Bernhard von Breydenbach and his artist, Erhard Reuwich of Utrecht. Focuses on the early use of the print medium to influence public opinion.

An interpretive study of the pictorial program of the Ottonian Bernward Gospels. Examines how the manuscript conditioned contemporary and future viewers to remember early medieval Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim.

Describes the creation, function, and change in significance of liturgical furnishings and manuscripts in southern Italy from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.

This work studies the art of interpreting.