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From his boyhood call to prophecy in 627 bce, which Jeremiah tried to refuse, to his scathing judgments against the sins and hypocrisy of the people of Israel, Jeremiah charged through life with passion and emotion. This book investigates the opening twenty chapters of this Old Testament giant.

In the wake of Persia replacing Babylon as the ruling empire in the ancient Near East, the Judahites exiled in Babylon find reason to hope again. Their hope is rooted in the fulfillment of the prophetic promises that they would one day return to their homeland. This book presents the story of Israel's experience begun in the biblical books.

Offers descriptions of the people, places, customs, and noteworthy features of the language of "I Samuel".

"Esther", the biblical book named after the beautiful Jewish woman chosen by the Persian King Xerxes to be queen, is a story of love, political intrigue, and religious faithfulness. This volume offers a treatment of scholarly issues and provides an explanation of the popular Jewish festival of Purim.

"Lamentations" is traditionally thought to have been written by the prophet Jeremiah. This volume gives evidence against Jeremiah's authorship and suggests that the poems should be treated as an intelligible unity, most likely written by an eyewitness to the events described.

"The Book of Numbers" is an account of how the Israelites wandered in the wilderness after receiving the Ten Commandments of Mount Sinai. This volume unravels the complexity and confusing details in this Old Testament book.

"Exodus" is the heart of the Hebrew Bible, the defining moment in Israel's birth as a people, the dramatic triumph of their God. This volume offers an exploration and analysis of the book's first eighteen chapters.

Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before. This work captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting.

Presenting a historical overview of vocal performance practice and style, this title provides an introduction to how such issues as ornamentation, vibrato, rubato, portamento, articulation, tempo, language, and accompaniment with period instruments have been handled since the seventeenth century.

Provides a survey of the history of the American West, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This title introduces the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of different ethnic groups were affected when they met, mingled and clashed.

The china used by the First Families, both at the White House and in their private homes, reveals a story of culture and society as it has evolved in the United States since its early days. This book documents over 200 items and sheds lights on the trends in taste, style, and modes of entertaining, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan.

Looks at a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art - the funeral monument. This book demonstrates that tombs and inscriptions are of manifest worth to the student of eighteenth-century English value systems, providing as they do an archaeology of ideal types.

Convinced that he had uncovered the single source of psychosis, Henry Cotton, superintendent of the Trenton State Hospital, New Jersey, launched a ruthless campaign to 'eliminate the perils of pus infection'. This book reconstructs a nightmarish, cautionary chapter in modern psychiatry when professionals failed to police themselves.

Offers a look at Asia from 700 to 1500 AD, a time when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia's many travellers - the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore.

The classical period in economics is an important chapter in intellectual history, yet the myths and stereotypes of later eras have clouded the picture of who the classical economists were and what exactly they proposed. This book critically examines the analysis and methods of this era in the development of economics.

Features a collection essays on Chaucer's poetry. Written with American undergraduate and graduate students in mind, this work provides information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of available critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.

George Stubbs is rightly recognised as one of the greatest and most original artists of the eighteenth century. This is the catalogue of Stubbs' paintings and drawings. The catalogue entries are preceded by a study of Stubbs' art and career that sets his work in context.

Provides a comprehensive review of grammatical structures and usage for intermediate to advanced students of German. This book was written primarily for use in a course dedicated to a rigorous review of German grammar, but it can also be used by students in conversation, culture, and literature courses.

Seeks to shape different trends toward employer self-regulation into a fresh paradigm of workplace governance in which workers participate. This book argues that the trend toward self-regulation is here to stay.

A work of literary theory which explores the wilderness of positions that grew out of the collision between Anglo-American practical criticism and Continental philosophic criticism. This second edition includes a preface by the author as well as a foreword by Hayden White.

While historical and fictional accounts have tended to stress the exceptional circumstances or psychological compulsions that drove men to sea, this book shows how normal a part of life seafaring was for those living near a coast before the mid - nineteenth century. It offers a social history of seafaring in the colonial and early national period.

Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest Focuses on three major 'testing grounds' where 19th-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace 'everything' in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying 'the idea of creation'.

Presents important ecological concepts through animal parables. This book tells the stories of particular birds and mammals - the packrat, ivory-billed woodpecker, penguin, dingo, European rabbit, and others - and what their fates reveal about the interactions between environmental change and the extinctions or explosions of species populations.

More than 70 million Americans have some form of heart disease. This book offers facts about the best treatments available and an innovative approach that shows how treatment programmes can be tailored to meet the needs of each unique patient. It guides readers through the process of assessing personal variables to develop an individual treatment.

With over 10,000 entries, this dictionary covers Standard Nigerian Hausa but also includes numerous forms from Niger and other dialect areas of Nigeria. It contains Hausa terminology for products, events, and activities of the modern world. It pays attention to idioms, figurative meanings, and special usages.

We were at sea, together at risk, and he was a poor fisherman. He happened to fill the equation in the geometry of appetite I trace. And so you see it's not so much about the eye as whatever is made to serve the master who asks for wine, wants the pickled fruits de mer alongside the treatise on navigation and the maps that show what oceans hide.

The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle. This book, a blend of biography and theatrical and cultural history, chronicles Jefferson's remarkable career and offers an original account of the heroic age of the American theatre.

Talks about the revelatory and controversial Pop art movement that emerged in America in the 1960s. This illustrated book focuses on 40 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures by influential artists in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum. It shows how the artists pointed revisions of the movement's relationship to art history.

Features essays by Valerie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Daniel Harkett, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stephane Guegan, Godehard Janzing, Dorothy Johnson, Mehdi Korchane, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Issa Lampe, Mark Ledbury, Simon Lee, Heather McPherson, David O'Brien, Satish Padiyar, Todd Porterfield, Susan Siegfried, and Helen Weston.

Presents the work of Douglas Garofalo, principal of Garofalo Architects, internationally renowned for its innovative residential, commercial, institutional, and public building projects. This book looks at the architect's work, drawing from the full spectrum of his built work, theoretical and visionary projects, and competition entries.