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In this memoir, Carolyn See embarks on a re-evaluation of the American Dream. It tells the story of See's family, and of others who believed in the American vision but found that it eluded their grasp.

A collection of essays covering a range of topics and includes titles such as "Outer Space and Inner Space," "What Is an Aesthetic Fact?," "As I Saw Children's Art," "Two Ways of Being Human," "Consciousness - an Island of Images," and "From Chaos to Wholeness."

This work explores the performances and transactions that lie at the heart of public events in contemporary Anakalang, Indonesia. The author argues that by looking at representations as concrete practices we may find them to be entangled in the tensions and hazards of social existence.

Drawing upon his discourse theory, Jurgen Habermas has elaborated an account of law that purports to bridge the gap between democracy and rights, by conceiving law to be at once self-imposed and binding. His proceduralist paradigm of law and further explorations by others are included.

What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces more than the conflict with North Vietnam. This title considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology.

Explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. This book avoids treating the Arab and Jewish communities as if they developed independently of each other.

This story of a South Korean social movement offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest. It describes the period in which farmers, student activists and organizers joined to protest the corporate ownership of tenant plots never distributed in the 1949 Land Reform.

This biography of the American legislator Phillip Burton, describes how he played a pivotal role in championing welfare and civil rights, labour legislation, environmentalism and congressional reform, causing him to become one of the most influential representatives on Capitol Hill.

Challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. This title argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state.

This work shows how damaging 12th-century stereotypes developed and goes on to chart the powerful, lasting role of the new anti-Jewish imagery in the historical development of antisemitism.

Presents a study of the art of female monasticism that explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. This book discusses the distinctive visual culture of female communities.

This text is an annotated translation of Hesiod's "Work and Days". The work deals with agricultural practices and society in general. It also offers insights into Greek mythology and religion, and sheds light on economic history.

This collection of essays demonstrates that the death of democracy and the rise of fascism during the first half of the 20th century suggest crucial lessons for contemporary political and legal scholars. It includes writings on constitutionalism, political freedom, and both Nazi and liberal law.

This is a study of Roman architecture on the Iberian peninsula, covering six centuries from the arrival of the Romans in the third century BC until the decline of urban life in the third century AD. During this period the peninsula became an influential cultural and political region.

Contains 338 letters that document the first two years of the author's loving marriage to Olivia L Langdon. This title recounts a tumultuous time: a growing international fame, the birth of a sickly first child, and the near-fatal illness of his wife.

This text shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions in East-Central Europe come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism, but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule.

This is a study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical right-wing movement has left its mark on almost every part of Argentinian society.

At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, this book shows how to bring the two together. Applying classical concepts of virtue to the premises of modern democracy, the book proposes a model of organizational management applicable to the state and business.

Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. This book presents her biography that pieces together the story of Bishop's life and traces the writing of her poems.

Demonstrates the transforming radicalism of the Sixties grew from the legacy of an earlier generation of thinkers. This book focuses on individuals, each of whom in his or her distinctive way carried the ideas of the 1930s into the decades after World War II, and each of whom shared in inventing a different kind of intellectual partisanship.

Along with increasing life expectancy comes the knowledge that many Americans will one day enter nursing homes. Drawing on field research and on theories of work and bureaucracy, this book presents a study of institutional care that focuses on nursing aides, the backbone in US nursing homes.

In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic world. These essays are the result of that convergence.

The ritual culture of image-worshipping Sventambar Jains of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Rajasthan are explored in this volume, with the author linking Jain tradition to the social identity of existing Jain communities.

Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, this title unveils a modernity in these early forms of textual interpretation.

This investigation into two of the world's most pressing needs (biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World) challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops in the Andes may not be as hopelessly endangered as was thought.

Using contemporary Algerian politics as a case study of the intellectual movement labeled 'Third Worldism', this title elucidates the broader transformations affecting countries of the Third World that once embraced ideologies of state-centered radical change.

Gives an interdisciplinary view of contemporary Japanese women. This title looks at women politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers of Japanese society. It provides a "second generation" analysis of roles, issues and social change.

Provides an overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. This title introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in character of the state's many rivers.

From majestic Redwoods to ancient Western Bristlecone Pines, California's trees have long inspired artists, poets, naturalists - and real estate developers. Illustrated color photographs and detailed black-and-white drawings, this book introduces each of the state's dominant forest types. It also describes the unique characteristics of the trees.

Focuses on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, this book offers fresh understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right.