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As its lengthy title suggests, "Motetti B" consists of a wide range of devotional motets on the Passion, the Veneration of the Cross, the Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary. This edition also includes detailed concordances and critical commentary on the sources of the works.

Addresses the many questions involved in conceptualizing and measuring inflation. This book evaluates the accuracy of COLI, a Cost-of-Goods Index, and a variety of other methodological frameworks as the bases for consumer price construction.

Analyzes late-medieval society, exploring questions of essence and appearance, being and belief, at a time when the divine right of kings confronted the rise of mercantile culture.

This guide provides an overview of what is known about extragalactic radio sources, with especial emphasis on the physical processes associated with them: their evolution, environment, and use as probes.

This edition combines in one book the two volumes previously published separately. Volume 1, 'The Structure of Experience, ' contains essays on metaphysics, the logic of inquiry, the problem of knowledge, and value theory. In volume 2, 'The Lived Experience, ' Dewey's writings on pedagogy, ethics, the aesthetics of the 'live creature, ' politics, and the philosophy of culture are presented.

With a new Foreword by Derek De Vries It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles.

Homi Seervai is a Parsi scientist, who invents a machine which activates the memory store of the brain. When a love affair finishes, Homi uses the machine to relive good times, but the machine goes wrong, and he experiences ancestral and racial memories. This is the author's first novel.

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549) was the sister and wife to kings and a pivotal influence in sixteenth-century France. This book contains sampling of Marguerite's varied works: from verse letters and fables to mythological-pastoral tales, from spiritual songs to a selection of novellas.

Garcilaso de la Vega (ca 1501-36) was a Castilian nobleman at the court of Charles V. As the first poet to make the Italian Renaissance lyric style at home in Spanish, he is credited with beginning the golden age of Spanish poetry. This title can help to explain to the English-speaking public this poet's preeminence.

This history of the American Revolution uses 79 first-hand accounts from veterans of the war to provide the reader with the feel of what it must have been like to fight and live through America's bloody battle for independence.

Reveals that virtually all of the critics, as well as many supporters, have long misunderstood both the true implications of faith-based partnerships and their unique potential for advancing social justice.

This work represents, in many ways, the French Enlightenment. It traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751 and includes a revision of Diderot's "Prospectus", and an introduction to the "philosophes".

'Toward a Geography of Art' offers essays that examine the intricacies of accounting for the geographical dimension of art history during the early modern period in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Arguing against Andy Warhol's apparently superficial "pop" image, this study seeks to show that Warhol was deeply engaged with the people around him, and that this was reflected in his art. It looks at the underground culture of poets, artists and film-makers who regularly interacted with Warhol.

Despite the rapid disappearance of pensions and health-care benefits for retirees, older people are healthier and better off. This book analyzes the foundations of disability decline, quantifies this phenomenon in economic terms, and proposes what might be done to accelerate future improvements in the health of our most elderly populations.

When his client is murdered, Grofield must take his chances against the mob in the perilous depths of the Puerto Rican rain forest. The client's husband, who thinks Grofield is the murderer, wants his revenge--in blood.

This work brings together 14 short erotic stories by contemporary Italian women writers. Contributors include Angela Carter, Jean Baudrillard, and Georges Bataille in her introductory essay on the theoretical issues of desire and seduction.

Explores the complex interrelationships among creativity, sexuality, the body, and the mind in eighteenth-century France. This work examines the different forms of deviance ascribed to male and female artists. It also demonstrates that the perceived connections among sexuality, creativity, and disease also opened artistic opportunities for women.

This volume looks to the legislative and executive branches for insights into the development of constitutional interpretation. The author, David Currie, examines the period of Republican hegemony from the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson in 1801 to the election of Andrew Jackson in 1829.