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This work introduces readers to a philosopher who used ordinary English to address traditional problems of philosophy. Murphy gives a critical account of speculative philsophy and, at the same time, offers a constructive attempt to outline a philosophy true both to reason and reality.

In this novel, the winner of Harper Prize 1927, the young Alwyn Tower leaves Wisconsin to travel in Europe, but finds himself haunted by a family of long-dead spirits - his grandparents and great-uncles and aunts, a generation whose young adulthood was shattered by the Civil War.

In this work Jewish-American scholars share their reflections on the interconnectedness of identities and ideas. They examine how their Jewishness has shaped and influenced their intellectual endeavours, and how their intellectual work has developed their sense of themselves as Jews.

Focusing specifically on the figural adornment of Hellenistic architecture, this study provides extensive information about the chronology and interpretation of figural motifs adorning religious, civic, commercial, commemorative and domestic constructions.

Looking beyond the story related in Sophocles' drama, this book examines variations of the Oedipus tale from around the world. Taking sociological, psychological, anthropological and structuralist perspectives, the 19 essays reveal the complexities and multiple meanings of this centuries-old tale.

This text provides a theoretical experiment in anthropology and an analysis of myth and ritual in Papua New Guinea societies. Fashioning an anthropological method from psychoanalytic theories, it uncovers a discourse on sexuality, consumption, voice and subjectivity.

This text examines the activities of the Nevada regulatory agencies and organised crime in their respective efforts to control gambling. The focus is the ""Black Book"", a list of ""notorious and unsavoury"" persons banned for life from all licensed casinos in the state.

This volume contains 100 kanji that often appear in documents related to solid-state physics and engineering. Ten new kanji and related vocabulary are presented in each lesson, along with exercises for vocabulary building, kanji recognition and translation practice.

A compilation of articles on the cinematic period from 1919 to 1945. Many treat such early film-makers as Mary Ellen Bute and Theodore Huff and there is a listing of American avant-garde films produced before World War II and a bibliography of relevant criticism, literature and news accounts.

This text demonstrates the significance of constitutional disputes in instigating the American Revolution. It addresses the issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights and others.

This text provides an anthropological account of the Yanomami and their social organisation, kinship and marriage, moving from the microcosm of individual experience to the broader sociological trends that engulf them. It draws on extensive fieldwork among the Sanuma.

A history of native American tribes in Wisconsin, this account follows Wisconsin's Indian communities from the 1600s through 1960. It covers the ways that native communities have striven to shape and maintain their traditions in the face of enormous external pressures.

This work offers an analysis of the way in which the phenomenon of ""not in my backyard!"" operates in the United States. The author takes the situation further by offering hope for a heightened public engagement with the pressing environmental issues of the day.

This study asks, "What is the relation of criticism to literature?", "What does it mean to call oneself a woman?", and "What does a (feminine) coming to writing imply?". Lydon identifies with some French literary theorists.

An account of the political, social, and educational transformations, emphasizing the effect of Wisconsin's partisan politics on the University, the growth of the faculty's role in institutional governance, the development of student communities and the enhancement of its academic reputation.

This work overturns traditional conclusions about the work of Edith Wharton, showing that the writer's post-World War I writings are acutely engaged with the cultural debates of her day - from reproductive control, through authoritarian politics, to mass culture and its ramifications.

This text explores the sources and meanings of tales and figures that have dominated the American imagination: the Horatio Alger story, the western and the figure of the private eye. They emerged in the late 19th century as a response to immigration, expansion of industry and urbanisation.

The Jewish community in Spain was the largest and most important in the West for almost a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and political affairs with Christian and Muslim neighbors. Norman Roth traces the chain of events that led to mass conversions of Spanish Jews to Christianity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the rise of animosity against them, the establishment of the Inquisition, and finally, the 1492 Expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Citing evidence from his extensive research of medieval documents, he firmly refutes the traditionally accepted story of "crypto-Judaism", which contends that the conversos were forced publicly to abandon their faith, while continuing secretly to maintain their Jewish traditions. Roth argues persuasively that the conversos were, in fact, sincere Christians.

This text is a historical and ethnographic account of Mexican-American folk culture. The devil appears as a recurrent motif, signalling the ideological contradictions of folk practices in a South Texas on the verge of postmodernity.

The aim of this text is to demonstrate how advertising can better serve its audience. It points out that advertising is full of legal falsity, and argues that the problem with this falsity is not so much the bald lie, as it is the deception, and so calls for regulatory adjustment.

Case studies on aluminum (aluminium) production, blending empirical data with theories of the state, the firm, industrial organisation and industrial development. Historical, sociological, economic and ecological factors affecting the organisational dynamics of aluminum production are considered.

As he challenges classical semiological accounts of cultural representation in this ethnography of Melanesian religious phenomenology, Maschio aims to show that ritual and poetic performance are about the enactment, expression and invention of the self.

This is an introduction to the most important recent court decisions affecting women in the United States. Abortion, sexual harrassment, pornography, surrogate motherhood, rape, custody rights - the legal and social questions surrounding these issues are brought to life in this casebook.

This collection of autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present day. The 30 narratives included cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years.

A study probing the ambiguities of German nationhood. Berman takes a theoretical perspective of cultural studies, exploring such themes as: the constitution of nationhood; what holds a citizenry together; and history's role in providing a framework for current identities and institutions.

This poem commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Simone Weil. Acquaintance of Trotsky, Spanish Civil War revolutionary, fighter in De Gaulle's French Resistance, Simone Weil (1909-1943) has also been called the greatest woman philosopher in the Western tradition.

Standing as a tribute to Fred Harrington of Wisconsin-Madison University, this book argues that in the last 100 years, United States presidents have received foreign policy advice from government servants who define world views for them, not only advising but often taking action to implement them.

Eminent political scientist Crawford Young and a distinguished panel of contributors assess the changing impact of cultural pluralism on political processes around the world, specifically in the former Soviet Union, China, India, Ethiopia, Guatemala and the United States.