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A volume of Mark Twain's letters, the twenty-fourth in the comprehensive edition known as "The Mark Twain Papers" and "Works of Mark Twain".

These 16 literary and historical essays cover a wide range of subjects, from Greek attitudes toward death to the mysteries of the Delphic Oracle. The text reveals the author's concern that we are losing the legacy of antiquity through corrosive methodologies of modern academic criticism.

Explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. This title focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171.

Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs - such as computer viruses - as new forms of life. This book looks at the social and simulated worlds of Artificial Life - primarily at the Santa Fe Institute, a well-known center for studies in the sciences of complexity.

In this text, Lea Jacobs uses the "fallen woman" film, which served as a focal point for public criticism of the film industry, to explore Hollywood's system of self-censorship and the evolution of the rules governing representations of sexuality.

This text demonstrates how Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. It discusses ideas of political realism and its limits, claiming that the political examples of the classical past continue to be useful.

A study of what happens in the weeks and months after disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes strike. Using case studies it focuses on the recovery of damaged housing, demonstrates fundamental factors that have changed in contemporary urban disasters and proposes a housing recovery policy.

Argues that the Bent's Old Fort grew and prospered because of ritual and that ritual shaped the subsequent history of the region to an astonishing extent.

Examines one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh. This book details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War.

Using a combination of Sung sources and modern ethnography, this text examines the questions: were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers; or were they personal beings, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice.

Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates a crucial issue in California history - the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. The frenzied speculation in land and resources, labour protests, and feminist organizing of the time, are exemplified in the book by the story of one independent young woman.

Develops a system for teaching students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between lines, colors, and dark and light patterns. Greatly influenced by Japanese art, the author expounds a theory of "flat" formal equilibrium as an essential component of telling pictorial creation.

Includes essays that counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices and agendas. This book examines a broad range of histories relevant to the preservation and planning professions.

A collection of essays by leading American film scholars that charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather than assuming that genres are self-evident categories, It features contributors who offer innovative ways to think about types of films, and patterns within films, in a historical context.

Written by the author of "The Floating World", this novel explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, gas and education cannot be taken for granted.

In this analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, the author shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labour relations.

This portrait of a polycultural community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers. It shows that "tromba", or spiritual possession, is central to understanding the complex identities of insiders and outsiders in this community.

Examines how industries spawned by the USA's entry into World War II prompted a mass migration to America's west coast that would cause lasting social, cultural and political changes. Focusing on the San Francisco Bay area, this study chronicles such issues as labour, housing and racial conflict.

This account of the "peasant revolt" of 1381 demonstrates that the rebellion was not an uncontrolled, inarticulate explosion of peasant resentment, but an informed and tactical claim to literacy and rule. It focuses on six brief texts by the rebels themselves.

American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life - however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. This book presents an account of how Jews celebrate and observe the cycles of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. This work gives us a portrait of the whole man.

A study that exposes the human side of the decline of the US auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes.

Features twelve essays that emphasize the cultural interaction of Greek and non-Greek societies in the Hellenistic period, in contrast to more conventional focuses on politics, society, or economy. This volume is dedicated to Frank Walbank and includes a bibliography of his work.

Based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995, this title presents a distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology. Each chapter considers a different level of sociological analysis.

Tracing the evolution of the lesbian movement from the bar scene to the growth of alternative families, this book illustrates how a generation of women transformed the woman-centered ideals of feminism into a culture and a lifestyle. It analyzes shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Linking the recent past with an imagined future, the author aims to capture life in Los Angeles in the `70s and `80s, in a blend of feminist fiction and nuclear apocalypse fantasy.

This study of the films of Oshima Nagisa is an introduction to the work of a major postwar director of Japanese cinema and a theoretical exploration of strategies of filmic style. His films, directly and indirectly, provide a commentary on the postwar cultural and political tensions in Japan.

Interprets the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and criticism, and diverse genres of performance from solo dancing to mass movement choirs. This book presents the work of such well-known figures as Rudolf Laban, Mary Wigman, and Oskar Schlemmer.

Overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, this book shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy.

Until the late 19th century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers, their sacred center - Jerusalem, Zion - fatefully out of reach. This book examines the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the realignment of the people with their original center.