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An exploration of the personalities and perspectives of the men and women who are part of the adult heterosexual pornography industry. Their stories, as told to the author, reveal the inner workings of "the industry" and the fantasies and motivations of its participants.

Intended to help teachers and teacher trainers develop an understanding of French discourse, this book is devoted to informing teachers-in-training, as well as experienced teachers, about methods for teaching grammar. It also describes the grammatical features of the French language in its social context.

This work applies public choice theory to perennial questions of constitutional law, legislative interpretation, and administrative law. It argues that in many cases public choice theory's reach has exceeded its grasp, but in others public choice insights have not been pursued far enough.

The ways in which people respond to sickness differ from society to society. In this book, the author examines how Western and non-Western cultures influence the definition, experience and treatment of sickness.

How has the end of the Cold War affected America's intelligence agencies? When are aggressive clandestine operations justifiable? Should the US engage in more aggressive economic espionage? These are a few of the issues examined in this study of strategic intelligence.

Reflecting on Goethe's statement that he was a pantheist in science, a polytheist in art and a monotheist in ethics, Pelikan analyzes Goethe's character "Faust" and his development as a theologian. Pelikan is the author of "The Christian Tradition" and "Through the Centuries".

"American artist James Castle inhabited a world of utter quiet, where the mundane became miraculous. Born to a family of homesteaders in the mountains of central Idaho in 1899, he was deaf from an early age. Perhaps not coincidentally, he developed an extraordinary visual and spatial memory. This gave him a dictionary of images of his home, farm, and valley that he replicated and manipulated for the rest of his life in a series of extraordinary soot and saliva drawings. Castle's particular environment and experience gave him access to other, more surprising sources for his art. His parents ran the local post office and store, which supplied an array of images from burgeoning early twentieth century print culture. He collected scrap paper and cardboard, which he cut up and stitched together into farm animals, furniture, and clothing. Castle spent several years at a school for the deaf, where he picked up only the rudiments of language. But he used his knowledge of letters, words, and multiple alphabets-some of his own devising-to create an arresting range of enigmatic text-based drawings. In this book, author John Beardsley delves into Castle's work as an expression of his acute capacity for remembering, managing, and improvising on visual information. Castle's work will be presented as if moving through a series of environments: inside, outside, landscape, figure, book. This allows us to imagine the visual and spatial world Castle inhabited. This publication will also be the first to include a definitive biography of the artist"--]cProvided by publisher.

How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally. In this highly readable book, Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public. His portrait of Mussolini draws on sources ranging beyond political history to reveal a leader who, at times, shaped Hitler's decisions and was not the gullible buffoon he's often portrayed as. The first comprehensive study of the Mussolini-Hitler relationship, this book is a must-read for scholars and anyone interested in the history of European fascism, World War II, or political leadership.

An original look at how literary characters can transcend their books to guide our lives, by one of the world's most eminent bibliophiles

An illuminating exploration of the Bible and many of our most contentious contemporary issues

A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding

This revelatory new translation of Job by one of the world's leading biblical scholars will reshape the way we read this canonical text

A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets

The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign

A lively account of the rise of the Victorian entertainment industry and popular recreation in nineteenth-century Britain

The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles

An essential new look at the design philosophy that interrogated modern living against the turbulent political landscape of 1960s Italy

The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman

The importance of Colonel Edward M House in 20th-century American foreign policy is enormous: from 1913 to 1919 he served not only as intimate friend and chief political adviser to President Woodrow Wilson but also as national security adviser and senior diplomat. This book establishes his contributions as one of the greatest American diplomats.

Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, this title explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context.

Written in the style of a Chinese folktale, this book presents the story of "The Lady in the Painting" with vocabulary and structures familiar to students who have completed a basic course in Chinese. It uses an inventory of only about 300 Chinese characters, serving as a smooth transition between the short and long reading passages.

A guide to the piano sonatas of Beethoven. Charles Rosen places the works in context and provides an understanding of the formal principles involved in interpreting and performing this unique repertoire. He also looks at the sonatas individually. There is a free CD of extracts from the sonatas.

According to the work, the premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors.

Written by a member of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the postwar experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes. This second edition includes an updated and expanded introduction and new bibliography by Holocaust scholar Lawrence L. Langer.   “Delbo’s exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer and richer with time. The superb new introduction by Lawrence L. Langer illuminates the subtlety and complexity of Delbo’s meditation on memory, time, culpability, and survival, in the context of what Langer calls the ‘afterdeath’ of the Holocaust. Delbo’s powerful trilogy belongs on every bookshelf.”—Sara R. Horowitz, York University   Winner of the 1995 American Literary Translators Association Award