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Henry Pearson is often linked to the Op Art movement of the 1960s because his best-known paintings feature a labyrinth of undulating parallel lines. This text accompanied an exhibition of Pearson's drawings from 1959 to the mid-1970s, the years when the artist moved toward geometric abstraction.

In honour of the centennial of Beauford Delaney's birth, this study examines the close artistic and personal friendship between two important American artists of the 20th century - Beauford Delaney, a black American from Tennessee and Lawrence Calcagno, a white American from California.

This catalogue, which accompanied two exhibitions, "An Interlude in Giverny: The French Chevalier by Frederick MacMonnies" and "An Interlude in Giverny: Dans la Nursery by Mary MacMonnies Low", explores the artistic and personal milieu surrounding the creation of two works by the MacMonnieses.

A guide for identifying and imitating nymphs, with a focus on flyfishing. Also provides information useful to students, stream conservationists, and scientists concerned with monitoring the health of stream ecosystems.

From 1951 until 1974, Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia was the site of thousands of experiments on prisoners conducted by researchers under dermatologist Albert M. Kligman. This work retells the story of the experiments through the eyes of one black man, Edward "Butch" Anthony, who suffered greatly from the experiments for which he "volunteered".

Mid-Latitude Weather Systems has become a classic text in synoptic meteorology. It is the first text to make extensive use of conventional weather charts and equations to illustrate fully the behavior and evolution of weather patterns. Carlson presents selected concepts, facilitating the interpretation of this active and challenging area of study.

A collection of essays addressing the relationship between inequality and politics in Latin America. Examines the socioeconomic context and inequality of opportunities; elite culture, public opinion, and media framing; capital mobility, campaign financing, representation and gender equality policies; and taxation and social policies.

Explores the origins and the reciprocal influences of globalization and the recent economic crisis, and suggests what new ideological foundations and geographic regions will be ascendant.

A collection of American antiwar speeches from every major conflict starting with the Mexican-American War. Includes critical analyses, biographical and bibliographical information, and an appendix describing common rhetorical devices used by antiwar speakers.

Examines drug trafficking through Central America and the efforts of law enforcement to counter it. Details the routes, methods, and networks involved, while comparing the evolution of the drug trade in Belize, Coast Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama over three decades.

Analyzes the movement for Indian independence, the framing of the Indian Constitution, and contemporary contestations over women's legal and political status as crucial moments of transition in which feminist and other progressive activists in India have challenged racialized and gendered underpinnings of democracy's social contract.

A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face.

An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Iphigenia. Includes critical notes and commentary.

With specific focus on Brazil and Honduras, examines electoral and nominating institutions and clientelism in Latin America, and the capacity of poor people to monitor and sanction officials.

An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of all twelve of seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine's plays.

Examines the founding in 1850 of the first library in the White House purchased with public funds, which was intended to remain there as a permanent collection. Documents the contents of the library and considers it within the political, social, and intellectual milieu of mid-nineteenth-century America.

When Richard Rorty died on June 8, 2007, obituaries lionized him as one of the 'world's most influential cultural philosophers'. This title presents classic and new essays on Rorty's engagement with feminist philosophy, including essays about the relevance for feminism of pragmatism, philosophy, rhetoric, realism, and liberalism.

Compares the tax systems in Argentina and Chile. Examines differences in law abidance between the two countries and the effectiveness of legal enforcement.

Examines the embedding of Jewish history and culture in depictions of English racial and national identity in nineteenth-century novels.

A collection of essays in feminist philosophy. Contributors theorize how we act through differently acculturated bodies in a variety of interpersonal and political contexts. Addresses recent feminist challenges to bring the body more fully and positively into theory.

A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza. Examines the ways in which his philosophy presents a resource for the re-conceptualization of friendship, sexuality, politics and ethics in contemporary life.

Studies the development of religious congregations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1730 to 1820. Focuses on German Reformed, Lutherans, Moravians, Anglicans, and Presbyterians. Also examines how Roman Catholics, Jews, and African Americans were absorbed into this predominantly white Protestant society.

An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording.

Analyzes why typical postmodern theoretical approaches simply aren't effective tools for dealing with the realities of people and their activities, and he describes the philosophical confusion that lies at the heart of the problem. This book is suitable for students writing a thesis in the humanities and the social sciences and for their teachers.

An autobiographical account of the author's childhood and young adulthood in Nazi Germany, the postwar occupation, and her eventual relocation to the West. Contributes to current debates on history and memory, and on everyday and women's history from a feminist, psychoanalytically informed perspective.

Examines organization, leadership and changes within Mexico's historic pro-democratic opposition parties, the Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) and the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD). Explores the implications for overall party organization and the future of Mexico's democratic experiment.

Explores the nature of time and its implications for questions of politics, ethics, and the self. Shows how a conception of time that breaks with common sense notions of chronological order can help us rethink the understandings of identity, difference, power, resistance, and overcoming.