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This biographical study is concerned with Locke's career as editor, publisher, lecturer, politician, and public figure, aspects of his life that have been largely obscured by the image of the fictitious Nasby. It also examines the broader aspects of Locke's significance as a journalist. Originally published in 1969.

This skilfully set forth argument convincingly demonstrates that Skelton's morality Magnyfycence, one of the most important survivals of early English dramas, has until now been consistently misread and that its theme and its structure are not organically unreconciled, as historians and critics have supposed. Originally published in 1965.

Offers a powerful and convincing attack on modern mechanized thinking, psychology, and progress. Hertz believes that the bourgeois emphasis on the external material must be focused on the inward creative, if man is to have a chance for survival. This volume is an adventure in philosophical reading. Originally published in 1946.

This book is based on actual cases carried by members in a course for public health workers given at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It identifies and discusses what is meant by casework, the idea of movement, empathy, avoiding self-involvement, not disarming the client, purposiveness in interviewing, and what it means to be a caseworker. Originally published in 1957.

This book is composed of two sections: the first dealing with native wild flowers; the second, with the exotic or cultivated varieties. The descriptions accompanying the illustrations are concise and explicit for purposes of identification, and useful information on flower arranging and cutting is included. Originally published in 1953.

With the use of song, music, poetry, dance, pantomime, and story-line, Green has created a colourful symphonic drama, presenting Thomas Jefferson's single-handed triumph over the dissension and discouragement of his fellow Americans to keep alive their ideal of liberty. It is an absorbing story punctuated with high comedy. Originally published in 1948.

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 doctrine - which to a considerable extent is a doctrine developed by Childs.

Bulletin number three of the Southern Humanities Conference presents a digest of replies to over a thousand personal letters sent to executives in business and government, asking their opinion of the value of humanistic studies in the training of personnel. It is a revelation to those who see no practical advantages in the study of humanities. Originally published in 1951.

Offers a structured course of twenty-six discussion guides for in-service training of the child care staff in children's institutions presented by Broten, executive director of the Mary Bartelme Home in Chicago and former associate director of the Group Child Care Project at the University of North Carolina.

Godly Rebellion: Parisian Cures and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662

Explores how Woodrow Wilson, having fought against war with monumental patience, finally led the US into world conflict. He proved himself a militant fighter and strategist, and when victory came he believed that it had made possible a warless world. Wilson's fight for the League of Nations is vigorously told, as is the deep damnation of its defeat.

Reappraises the fourth royal governor of North Carolina, one-time surveyor-general of Ireland, known for his pamphlets on Irish and colonial economics and for his geographer's interest in the Northwest Passage. Dobbs is presented as a man with ideas in advance of his time.

Edward A. Pollard of Virginia was one of the ablest journalists of his time. Until 1867, he was a fierce defender of southern institutions, but during 1867-68 he was converted into a free-labour unionist and became one of the most advanced of "reconstructed" southern conservatives.

The life of Flaminio mirrors the first half of the sixteenth century in Italy. He was a member of the courts of Leo X and the Duke of Urbino. As the finest lyric poet of he age, he was patronized by the church. He joined Valdes's circle in Naples and was coauthor of the most popular and most controversial religious works of the century. Originally published in 1965.

While this study deals with an essentially technical subject, Brown's analysis is cast in language that is readily understandable to non-specialists. Written primarily for labour economists, this book should also interest all members of the academic community.

Contains a chemical summary of all the lichen substances, a botanical index to the occurrence of these compounds in all taxa from which they have been reported, and a discussion of the biogenetic and structural relationships of the compounds produced by the symbiotic lichen-forming fungi.

The first full-length biography of the leading educational statesman, Charles Duncan McIver. It is the story of his efforts to spur a renaissance in education, particularly for women, which resulted in the founding of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

In words and photographs, the authors provide a picture of North Carolina as it was and as the authors envision it might be tomorrow when the people of the state have learned how to put their resources to the best use. Written especially for teenagers, it includes sections on natural wealth, the patterns of agriculture and industry, and the state's institutional wealth.

With the erudition that has distinguished his lifelong study of literary criticism, Wellek considers the trends, theories, and quarrels of recent years. He continues to insist that criticism makes judgments and also takes into account "a common humanity that makes all art accessible to us." He also considers the relationship between literature and linguistics.

Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays

Revolt of the Provinces: The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920-1945

Theory of Political Decision Modes: Intraparty Decision Making in Switzerland

This is an unusual exotic novel of coastal Louisiana, unique in the local color movement for its impressionistic use of the southern landscape. Introduction by Arlin Turner.

Bentley Glass, one of the world's leading investigators in the field of human genetics, is concerned with the moral absolutes and ethics involved in experimentation with human life in the laboratory. He feels that with the development of knowledge must come wider recognition of consequences. His book indicates that we are responsible for all living things.

Provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to the structure and nature of politics in North Carolina. The book examines several major subjects with a focus on the 1940-66 period, delineating intra- and inter-party competition during that crucial period of transition. Originally published 1968.

These plays are the most original work in the field in recent years. They constitute a signal contribution to contemporary verse drama. Rich with a wide range of dramatic mood and characterization, from witty repartee to solemn high-drama, they are new evidence of a major American poet.

Abbot's study of the colony of Georgia, from the time it came under the administration of the Crown in 1754 until the beginning of the American Revolution, tells the story of unprecedented expansion and growth against a backdrop of fast-developing crisis throughout the Empire. Originally published in 1959.

This absorbing appraisal of colonial South Carolina political history is developed in three parts: The Age of the Goose Creek Men", covering 1670-1712; "Breakdown and Recovery", in which the central dispute was over local currency, 1712-43; and "The Rise of the Commons House of Assembly, 1743-63". Originally published in 1966.

In the battle for empire that was the Seven Years' War, France's Sugar Islands, Guadeloupe and Martinique, were stakes as important as the Dominion of Canada. This book sketches the background strategy that led William Pitt to send an expedition to capture them, but it is chiefly the story of the campaign itself. Originally published in 1955.

This is the first full-length biography of Rufus King. It emphasizes politics and diplomacy but also presents a well-rounded appraisal of King's personality, outlook, and interests. Many little-known facets of King's life are illuminated, including his relationship to the Burr-Hamilton duel. Originally published in 1968.