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The author documents the reality of daily life in Ban Vinai, a refugee camp in north-east Thailand, focusing on the activities of five families over a year. She describes their interactions with camp relief workers and the changes in their family relationships caused by the camp.

This comprehensive history takes us from the birth of the novel in the 18th century through its growing pains in the 19th century to its angst-ridden maturity in the 20th century.

This translation of the 5th-century Indian epic love story of Kannaki and Kovalan follows the conventions of classical Tamil poetry and is told in three phases: the erotic, the mythic, and the heroic. The author provides an introduction to the poem.

Tackles the issues central to contemporary Jewish thought: from Zionism in America to God and the Holocaust, from Christian-Jewish relations to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hertzberg also analyzes such noted leaders and personalities as Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir, and Pope John Paul II.

From Shakespeare's memorable sonnets to Keats's haunting odes to T.S. Eliot's mediations on the conditions of modern life, the collection contains many of the best-loved treasures of British poetry, enhanced by incisive introductions to the poets. Covering the new and the ancient, the classic and the rediscovered, this generous volume reimagines the horizons of British poetry.

A comprehensive study of American poetry from colonial times to the present day, which features a wealth of views and reviews by contemporary American literary critics. The poets discussed range from Longfellow and Poe to Ginsberg and Plath.

This handbook offers an overview of group dynamic theory and the essentials for adolescent group work in a variety of locations, including schools, clinics and family violence programmes. The text has been revised and updated to emphasize the social problems that teenagers face today.

An examination of the historical debate over US labour relations and the expansion of government agencies that provided the basis for the labour system. The study argues that bodies set up to stabilize industrial relations often acted at the expense of important business interests.

A survey of the controversial issue of foetal protection policy in the workplace. The author argues for a practical strategy which will maximize women's employment choices and reproductive health while keeping foetal risk and harm to a minimum.

The author demonstrates the social uses of cultural interpretation by analyzing the later writings of Foucault and the careers of critics in relation to Foucault's work, including Derrida, Kristeva, Said, Rorty, Harold Bloom and others.

A powerful affirmation of the necessity and importance of a wide-ranging American space program that can develop lunar outposts and, ultimately, permanently staffed, self-sufficient bases on the Moon.

Entering into the debate between three schools of thought - the Frankfurt School, existentialism and poststructuralism - this text reflects on the ways in which Enlightenment precepts, rather than being fundamentally mistaken, have historically miscarried.

This study charts the evolution of Bishop's poetry, aided by newly discovered diaries, previously unpublished work and early drafts. It focuses on the poet's 20-year residence in Brazil, and attempts to provide a new understanding of Bishop's treatment of love, sex and gender.

An interdisciplinary analysis of the process of frontier change in one region of the Brazilian Amazon, the southern portion of the state of Para.

A reinterpretation of three modern Chinese writers whose work, the author argues, gave rise to the polyphonic development of realism in Chinese literature.

In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries.

This is a discussion of the contribution and effects of East Asian art on American culture. The author portrays the assembling of the great American collections of East Asian art and explains how this art became part of the cultural consciousness of the people of the USA.

From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, this work offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines. It traces the effect of the arrival of large numbers of Jewish and Italian immigrants - and later black and Puerto Rican migrants - on the Irish-dominated political machine.

Including a wealth of vivid detail and ranging over theology, poetry, painting, heraldry, fashion, and daily life, this book elucidates the attitudes toward color in medieval times and the effect these attitudes still have on modern society.

The book is a series of twenty-three linked interpretive essays on the most significant developments in modern times--ranging from athletics to art, the economy to the environment.

The first book to approach the Cretaceous extinction-the period during which dinosaurs disappeared from Earth-from the perspective of the fossil record.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) is best known as the author of the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and a utopian novel, "Herland". This reader offers a representative sample of her nonfiction writing. Presented chronologically, it emphasizes her thoughts on gender, evolution, economics, radical political movements, and women's groups.

Designed to help students make better taxonomic judgments, this case book contains exercises and case studies which describe how to recognize similarities and differences in sets of comparative data. It explains interpretation with reference to the various ranks in the Linnean hierarchy.

Experts from both the natural and social sciences provide vital information for understanding the interactions of forest peoples and forest resources in the lowland tropics of Central and South America. They investigate patterns of traditional resource use, evaluate existing research, and explore new directions for furthering the conservationist agenda.

Experts from both the natural and social sciences provide vital information for understanding the interactions of forest peoples and forest resources in the lowland tropics of Central and South America. They investigate patterns of traditional resource use, evaluate existing research, and explore new directions for furthering the conservationist agenda.

As the importance of race and gender has become established recently in literary studies, the concept of class has been seen as crude and unnecessary. This study argues for the continuing vitality as well as the energizing problematics of the category of class in literature.

In a series of readings, the author examines Shakespeare's five major history plays and accounts for their continued popularity, both in film and on stage. He examines the historical context out of which the plays emerged, and describes how the period gave birth to a modern form of politics.