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An exploration of the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors that Langer examines are Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel and Art Spiegelman. He appraises the art of Samuel Bak, the Holocaust painter, and assesses the "Holocaust Project" by Judy Chicago.

Based on letters, this title tells the history of a 17th-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complaints - of sexual harassment, fears of demonic possession, alliances among the other sisters against her - led to her banishment from the convent on two occassions.

The reform of American medical care is an important topic in America's domestic agenda and the centrepiece of the Clinton administration's plans for social policy and long-term economic development. This book intends to clarify the current debate over the bill and the proposed alternatives to it.

Aims to shed new light on the issue of literacy in America, providing a social history that broadens the definition of literacy, considering who was reading what, under what circumstances and for what purposes. The book assesses trends in Americans' reading abilities and reading habits.

This text depicts the long-running battle within the fundamentalist movement over the roles of men and women both within the church and outside it. Drawing on interviews and written sources, the author surveys the interplay between fundamentalist theology and fundamentalist practice.

An assessment of the status of psychoanalysis as a discipline and a discourse in contemporary culture. It brings together a group of theorists and practitioners, such partisans and critics of Freud as Frederic Crews, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Juliet Mitchell and Robert Jay Lifton.

In this illustrated volume, two eminent ecologists explain how the millions of species living on Earth - some microscopic, some obscure, many threatened - not only help keep us alive but also hold possibilities for previously unimagined products, medicines and even industries.

An exploration of the biological, social and economic causes of tropical deforestation and remedies appropriate to the biology and culture of diverse regions and localities. The authors look at the relationships between forests and poverty, and examine successes and failures in agroforestry.

This work explores basic pre-Columbian beliefs about the soul among ancient Mesoamerican peoples. It focuses on the Central Mexican Aztecs (the "Mexica"), who believed in multiple souls that gave humans their shared and individual characteristics and survived the body after death.

Traces the history of the bonding myth and explains its continuing popularity despite its demonstrated lack of validity. Ever also shows how it reflects a tendency in society to accept "scientific" research without question and without awareness of how it can be distorted by professional agendas.

An account of the life of the German composer, Johannes Brahms. It draws on a wide array of documentation to illuminate Brahm's personality; his outlook as a composer; his activities as a pianist, conductor, scholar and traveller; his friendship with the Schumanns; and more.

The first of five surviving Arthurian romantic poems by 12th-century French poet Chretien de Troyes, this work narrates a vivid chapter from the legend of King Arthur.