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The artist Dan Graham (b 1942) has a wide-ranging practice that encompasses writing, performance art, installation, video, photography and architecture. This title includes an interview with the artist and focuses not only on Graham's latest commission but also on his previous landscape-oriented installations.

Contains the correspondence between Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph V Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, helps in understanding the relationship that developed between these two great world leaders during a time of supreme world crisis.

Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870 - the rise of women's rights activism and the drive to eliminate chattel slavery.

The name Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, has been used for centuries by European chroniclers and gazetteers in the titles of periodicals that have featured the latest news reports, anecdotes, short stories and satires.

This title presents an account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. The essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade.

An account of liberal thought from its roots in 17th-century English thinking to the end of the 18th century. The author rescues the term "Whig" from the low regard attached to it, and argues that although Whigs may have strayed from liberal principles on occasion, many were true progressives.

An exploration of the broad range of ways in which Christian thought intersects with American legal theory. Legal scholars describe how various Christian traditions, including Catholic, Calvinist and Anabaptist, understand law and justice, society and the state, and human nature and striving.

While technology for keeping death at bay has advanced greatly, people are less well informed about how to face death and how to understand or articulate the emotional or spiritual need of the dying. This work aims to help medical personnel and patients to view death as a defining part of life.

The memoirs of a Belgian during the Gold Rush years in America.

Felix d'Herelle demonstrated the use and application of bacteria for biological control of insect pests. Drawing on family papers, archival sources, interviews, and d'Herelle's published and unpublished writings, William C. Summers tells the story of the scientist's life and work.

The welfare state has become increasingly unfair, the author argues, and in this book he analyzes developments and failings of welfare arrangements. The text looks to policy-makers to develop programmes that balance the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

This volume examines official Soviet concentration camp literature from the early 1920s through the mid-1960s. It probes the evolution of this literature, the totalitarian thinking that inspired it, and the scandalous role played by Russian literary intellectuals who created it.

Rhetoric is widely regarded as a kind of antithesis to reason. Here, Farrell restores rhetoric as an art of practical reason and enlightened civic participation, grounding it in its classical tradition - particularly in the rhetoric of Aristotle.

During the 1960s a group of lawyers - in collaboration with welfare recipient activists - mounted a legal campaign to create a constitutional right to welfare. This book tells the behind-the-scenes story of that campaign - the strategies, successes, failures and frustrations.

Provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures and contemporary accounts it follows the German Jews from their first settlements on the Rhine in the fourth century to the destruction of the community in World War II.

It has been assumed that a gulf existed between science and the humanities and that the writings of scientists had no literary features. Locke argues that scientific language can be imaginative and expressive and shows how modes of literary criticism can be keys to the reading of scientific texts.

Fifteen tours of the city for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists and information on cultural history accompany captioned photographs of more than five hundred buildings.

Discussing a range of literary theory, Scholes considers texts from literature and life including paintings, novels, photographs and biographies. He argues that reading is incomplete unless it enters the consciousness of the reader.

'The book is a major contribution- the product of serious research, competently written, and almost entirely free of partisan emotion.' -C.L. Sonnichsen, Journal of Arizona History

Offers a commentary on the first thirty-nine chapters of the book of "Isaiah".

First of two volumes on the "Gospel According to Luke", this title provides an introduction, a definitive new translation, and extensive notes and commentary on "Luke's Gospel". It also discusses "Luke's" unique literary and linguistic features, its relation to the other Gospels and the book of "Acts", and its distinctive theological slant.

Political scientist Anne Norton proposes 95 theses that launch a polemic against the reigning orthodoxies in her own field, and offers practical advice for students of politics, culture and method.

Discusses the relationship between humans and machines, pondering the implications of humans becoming more mechanical and of computer robots being programmed to think. He describes early Greek and Chinese automatons and discusses ideas of previous centuries and of individuals on this subject.

First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, "The Recording ""Angel" charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how digital technology, file trading, and other recent developments are accelerating--or reversing--these trends. Influential and provocative, "The Recording Angel "is required reading for anyone who cares about the effect recording has had--and will have--on our experience of music.

Examines the role of peer relationships in child and adolescent development by tracking research findings from the early 1900s to the present.

This volume presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems, including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation.