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This treatise defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that he absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. It describes the political contexts surrounding his novels.

These essays inspired by the possibilities of narrative, each present stories of illness and healing drawn from a range of ethnographic contexts. Recognizing the value of theoretical consciousness among those eliciting and analyzing narratives, these essays explore a variety of perspectives.

The people living in rural Africa are being asked by the world community to move their families, change their means of making a living and disrupt their cultures to save the wildlife. This book explores a joint African/Western approach to conservation with the aim of returning control to Africa.

A study of the American urban West after 1940. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes - Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - it shows how each cityscape created a sense of cohesion and sustained people's belief in their superior urban environment.

"Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees".

Considers the "Montaigne of the Essays" on of the first 'moralists' in the French sense of the term, recording with anthropological fervor and in fresh, informal language the full spectrum of human thought and commerce.

Emphasizes the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions, from Morocco to South Africa and from the precolonial era to the present. This title illustrates how the most basic facts of everyday life encourage the spread of disease and chape the possibilities of survival.

Examines six hypotheses - animism, mysticism, formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism - and surveys the field of metaphysics. This book is suitable for use as a text in courses in metaphysics, types of philosophical theory, or present tendencies in philosophy.

John Donne's sense of form and arrangement, his psychological insight, his differences of mood and emphasis and his religious fervour should make this selection of ten sermons particularly interesting to the attentive reader familiar with Donne's poetry.

Includes essays that explore the relationship between philosophy and art through a number of cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms.

This text examines contemporary Chinese history from the Great Leap Famine (1958-1960) to the 1990s. Stories from this period described as "the age of ghosts", convey aspects of pain, loss, and social upheaval and give an insight into the lives of the people who lived through them.

A guide to writing comedy that goes far beyond stereotypic jokes and characters. It describes comedy as a perspective rather than merely as a genre and then goes on to identify the essential elements of comedy. It offers tips on networking, marketing, and even producing comedies, and includes a list of recommended comedies and a bibliography.

Brings together texts documenting the encounter between Western artists and writers and what has historically been called primitive art - the traditional, indigenous arts of Africa, Oceania, and North America. This book charts artistic aspirations, aesthetic theories, and cultural debates that have developed from this encounter.

Examining Iraqi history in a search for clues to understanding contemporary political affairs, this title illustrates how the quality of Ba'thi pan-Arabism as an ideology, the centrality of the first experience of pan-Arabism in Iraq, and the interaction between the Ba'th and communist parties in Iraq from 1958 to 1968.

Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, this volume investigates metropolitan-colonial relationships. It shows how "civilizing missions" often provided new sites for a bourgeois order.

This study of mesozoic birds covers a wide range of topics, including discussions of avian origins, the fossil record of feathers and footprints, bone histology, and locomotor evolution. Controversial taxa such as Protoavis, Caudipteryx, and Mononykus receive special treatment.

Ten years of research back up the theory advanced by author Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered. The authors establish a new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of contact-induced language change.

A revisionist study of Roman imperialism in the Greek world, which considers the Hellenistic context within which Roman expansion took place.

The names of early Germanic warrior tribes and leaders resound in songs and legends; the real story of the part they played in reshaping the ancient world is no less gripping. This book presents the history that spans the great migrations of the Germanic people and the rise and fall of their kingdoms between the third and eighth centuries.

Amid the turbulence of political assassinations, the civil rights struggle, and antiwar protests, American society was experiencing growing affluence and profound cultural change during the 1960s. This text looks at the way in which the film industry interpreted the era.

This text argues that to understand the Vietnam War, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture and their ways of looking at the world. The author spent many years living and working in Vietnam. Winner of the 1994 American Library Association's Outstanding Academic Book Award.

Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theatre, and the novel, the essays in this volume reasses the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity.

This anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them.

Examines the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. This title investigates the use of reproductive technologies in non-Western countries.

Specifies the Tibetan terms that correspond to the submeanings of a single English term. This dictionary contains roughly 16,000 main entries, most of which have multiple subentries. It also notes grammatical features, and presents examples of usage with the romanticization of the written Tibetan and phonemic notation of the spoken forms.

Presents a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Frehel, and Damia. This book offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall and the cafe-concert.

More than twenty years after its original publication, "The Case for Animal Rights" has a new and fully considered preface, in which Regan responds to his critics and defends the book's revolutionary position.

A seminal figure in post-World War II literature, Charles Olson has helped define the postmodern sensibility. This work selects some 70 poems, presenting a personal reading of Olson's decisive and inimitable work - 'unequivocal instances of his genius' - over the many years of their friendship.

A text on socio-political violence that highlights the human experience of domination, resistance and terror as they are woven into the fabric of everyday life. It takes the reader from the Americas, Europe, the Middle East to Asia to capture the cultural construction of socio-political violence.