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Examines the ways in which six literary modernists - Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan - have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning.

This text is an analysis of what philosopher Eric Voegelin described as ""the decisive problem of philosophy"": the dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of this discovery on human self-understanding.

In this second, expanded edition of Resolving Racial Conflict, Grande Lum continues Bertram Levine's excellent scholarship, adding what has transpired over the last twenty-five years for the Community Relations Service (CRS) of the US Department of Justice.

Tells the story of how film-makers use and manipulate the appearance and performances of muscular men and women to enhance the appeal of their productions. The authors show how this practice evolved from the art of photography through magic lantern and stage shows into the motion picture industry.

Mad magazine stands near the heart of post-WWII American humour, but at the periphery in scholarly recognition from American cultural historians, including humour specialists. This book fills that gap, with perceptive, informed, engaging, but also funny essays by a variety of scholars.

Adolf Dehn belongs to a group of distinguished midcentury American artists who were eclipsed by Abstract Expressionism and the following movements in American art. In this wide-ranging biography, Henry Adams explores how a once central figure can come to be forgotten.

In the age of #MeToo and a radical re-envisioning of cultural attitudes, Nancy McCabe sets out to re-examine and gain new understanding of her ill-advised marriage through the lens of multiple metaphors, images, and forms.

As word of the discovery of gold in northern California spreads, an English physician, Nathaniel Trennant, accepts an offer to serve as doctor on a ship carrying immigrants to America. Alongside some two hundred emigres from northern Europe is a contingent of wealthy British people who call themselves not immigrants, but colonists.

Despite the many books and articles written about him, none considers in depth how General George S. Patton Jr's love of history shaped the course of his life. In this thematic biography, Furman Daniel traces Patton's obsession with history and argues that it informed and contributed to many of his successes, both on and off the battlefield.

Offers a history of Civil War commemoration in Missouri, shifting focus away from the guerrilla war and devoting equal attention to Union, African American, and Confederate commemoration. In doing so, Amy Fluker provides the most complete look yet at the construction of Civil War memory in Missouri.

Written by expert scientists, this collection of essays addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on earth possible.

In this blunt critique of the leadership of the US Army, Colonel Pat Proctor contends that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the US Army refused to reshape itself in response to the new strategic reality, a decision that saw it struggle through low-intensity conflicts in the 1980s and '90s, and leaving it unprepared for Afghanistan and Iraq.

Based on his war journal, letters and personal records, this account of the 1943-1945 campaign in Italy is an account of Lloyd Wells's personal war.

As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have travelled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience.

A challenge of the 21st century is the danger of conflict between peoples and cultures, among and within societies. This study explores the nature of this problem and sets forth a theory about what is necessary for peaceful relations to be possible.

Three weeks prior to the bombing of Pear Harbor, Japanese Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu visited Washington in an attempt to further peace talks. For more than seventy years, many have viewed Kurusu's visit as part of the Pearl Harbor plot. Garry Clifford and Masako Okura seek to dispel this myth with this edition of Kurusu's memoir.

Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain's reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.

The purpose of this edited and abridged edition of Truman's memoirs is to find the essentially important story, told in the authentic voice of Harry S. Truman. Raymond Geselbracht's aim is for a new generation of readers to find this edition of Truman's memoirs readily approachable and enjoyable to read.

Tells the story of the first nation-wide economic collapse to strike the US. The Panic introduced Americans to the new phenomenon of boom and bust, changed the country's attitudes towards wealth and poverty, spurred the political movement that became Jacksonian Democracy, and helped create the sectional divide that would lead to the Civil War.

Chronicles the experience of raising a severely autistic child. In a powerful, deeply personal narrative, the author recounts the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding their son's disability. It is a story that takes the reader into the life of a child who exists in his own world, and describes the hardships faced by those who love and care for him.

The second volume of this critically acclaimed autobiography chronicles events in Samuel Langhorne Clemens's life between his departure with his family from Buffalo for Elmira and Hartford in spring 1871 and his departure with his family from Hartford for Europe in mid-1891.

From 1971 to 1976, (MORE) addressed newsroom diversity, the relationship between the press and politicians, and other issues essential to ensuring the institution's vitality. In telling the story of (MORE), Kevin Lerner explores the power of criticism to reform and guide the institutions of the press that, in turn, influence public discourse.

Why do images of entertainers abound in European literature and art since Romanticism? Naomi Ritter investigates this phenomenon and her analysis implies much about the triangle of creator, work and audience that inevitably controls all art.

The author argues that the victory of the Democratic party in the 1992 presidential election marks not only the end of the Reagan-Bush era, but also the failure of American conservatism.

Rather than as a Falstaffian figure of limited intellect, Edmund Wehrle reveals Babe Ruth as an ambitious, independent operator, one not afraid to challenge baseball's draconian labour system. This new perspective, approaching Ruth more seriously and placing his life in fuller context, is long overdue.

Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history, who devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. This volume seeks to remedy the misconceptions surrounding Bethune, showing that she was a transitional figure with one foot in the nineteenth century and the other in the twentieth.

"Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the Emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the end of slavery really were."--Jacket flap.