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For years, many of Twain's philosophical, religious, and historical fantasies concerning the nature and condition of humanity remained unpublished. This title includes thirty-six of these writings.

Offers a survey of California Indian native cultures.

A study of the French Pacific islands. It offers an evenhanded treatment to both French Polynesia and New Caledonia, in which the authors view the Pacific from the perspective of Franco-African experience.

How religious are Americans these days? How many still believe in God, in Biblical miracles, in heaven and hell? Do people pray? How much money is being given to churches, by Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Lutherans, and other groups? This study of religious commitment, answers these questions about contemporary religious scene.

Traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. This work offers insights into the political crisis of 1797-1801, on the thought of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.

This volume contains the poems of Dryden extending from1685 to 1692. Along with the poems of Dryden and associated extensive commentaries and textual notes from the editors, this volume contains the dramatic prologues and epilogues Dryden wrote for the plays of other writers from this period of time.

What is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings.

Provides the texts of Twain's writings, both fictional and factual, about the people and places of his home town, Hannibal, Missouri. This title presents details about antebellum Hannibal, its society and its attitudes toward slavery, and to vivid memories about the child, his mother, and his father in the 1840's and 1850's.

Perhaps no country's history is as fascinating and perplexing as that of Mexico. Including a map of Mexico showing political subdivisions, this title covers: bloody conquests and revolutions; men, good or evil; art, religion, and institutions brought from Spain or made in Mexico; topography and climate; and the conflict of cultures and races.

In several instances Mark Twain gave the impression that for him plotting a novel was a rather simple affair... But in actuality, this volume illustrates that he experienced much more trouble than this statement would suggest in delimiting his fictional world, establishing its nature, and maintaining control over the characters placed therein.

During the author's study of the Slavophiles in particular, he became increasing aware of the paucity of our knowledge of this so-called Official Nationality frequently combined with a deprecating attitude toward it. This book developed from a much more modest interest in Uvarov's doctrine of "Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality".

Presents a fresh approach to philosophy. This book treats philosophy as a study of problems. It recognizes in traditional philosophical systems the historical function of having asked questions rather than having given solutions. It traces the failures of the systems to psychological causes.

Deals with an indigenous group of Tzotzil-speaking Indians living in the mountain highlands in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico.

Chaucer and the French Tradition, first published in 1957, is notable among modern studies of Chaucer for its attention to the importance of style. The author offers an analysis of the two dominant traditions of style in the French literature on which Chaucer's poetry is based: the courtly, and the "bourgeois" or realistic.

Kroeber's intellectual robustness is all the more refreshing when viewed against the background of the narrowness and overspecialization, the relative isolation from the main currents of contemporary thought, and the inbred parochialism which have, on the whole, characterized twentieth-century anthropology. This book deals with his work.

Offers an account of Indonesian agricultural history, covering the period of Dutch control, from 1619 to 1942. Drawing on ecology, sociology, and economics, this book provides a description of the most crucial dilemma in contemporary Indonesia.

Contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1649 to 1680. Along with the poems of Dryden and associated extensive commentaries and textual notes from the editors, this title also contains the dramatic prologues and epilogues Dryden wrote for the plays of other writers from this period of time.

A book of poetry of "poet maudit" Tristan Corbiere, first published in 1873 in Paris. It features 101 poems that was published two years before the death of the poet at the age of 29, and it went completely unnoticed at the time.

Suitable for a course in literary criticism, the title is concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symbolic action," and to show how the marvels of literature and language look when considered form that point of view.

Presents the most important uses of plants by early inhabitants of California, as well as methods of preparing the plants for use. This title deals with the subjects such as the Indian method of leaching acorn meal so it could be eaten, the medicinal value of Yerba Mansa, the use of other plants for making baskets, rope, and clothing, and more.

The Rat Bastard Protective Association was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who lived and worked in a building they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of midcentury San Francisco. This book presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle..

A study of upper-class masculinity from the end of the ancien regime in 1789 to the end of World War I, this title argues that manhood, masculinity, and male sexuality is, like femininity, a cultural construct, comprising a strict set of heroic ideals and codes of honor which few men have been able to realize in practice.

This examination of the dynamics of international relations attempts to define the impact of both domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights and trade.

Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, this title demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced each Communist to reflect intensely and repeatedly on his or her "self", an entirely novel experience for many of them - had their antecedents in the Orthodox Christian practices of doing penance in the public gaze.

A collection of essays by anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality. Their studies in cross-cultural variations in homosexual behaviour in a non-Western culture area indicate that contemporary theories of sex and gender development need revision.