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The Soviet Union, an atheist state, endowed itself with the attributes of God. This text shows through individual stories what it meant to construct an entire state on the basis of a false idea, how people were forced to act out this fictitious reality, and its tragic human cost.

An account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American governance since World War I - how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it.

This text presents an analysis of "Statesman", perhaps one of Plato's most challenging works. It contends that the main theme of this dialogue is defining the art of politics and the degree to which political experience is subject to the rule of sound judgement and to technical construction.

Why did millions of rational Germans join the Nazi Party between 1925 and 1933? In this book, the author argues that Nazi supporters were no different from citizens anywhere who select a political party or candidate they believe will promote their economic interests.

This is the fourth volume of Cassirer's "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms". In these writings, Cassirer grounds his conception of symbolic forms on a particular notion of human nature and discusses Basis Phenomena.

Over four million years ago, back at the origins of humanity, is where this book begins its account of the African continent, using regions, spaces and places for viewing its people and showing how they have responded to time. It ends at the onset of the colonial era in the late-19th century.

Explores the history and theory of literary translation as an art form. Arguing that literary translation goes beyond the transfer of linguistic information, the book emphasizes that imaginative originality resides as much in the translation as in the source text.

America emerged from the Reagan years transformed: socially, politically, technologically, and economically. This book tracks the changes of the 1980s in the context of Ronald Reagan's policies and convictions, providing a portrait of a president and of the watershed decade over which he presided.

During the tumultuous Civil War era, the border state of Maryland occupied a middle position both geographically and socially. Situated between the slave-labor states of the lower South and the free-labor states of the North, Maryland--with a black population almost evenly divided between slave and free--has long received credit for moderation and mediation in an era of extremes. Barbara Fields argues that this position in between concealed as intense and immoderate a drama as enacted in the Deep South. According to Fields, "The middle ground imparted an extra measure of bitterness to enslavement, set close boundaries on the liberty of the ostensibly free, and played havoc with bonds of love, friendship, and family among slaves and between them and free black people." Moreover, the work of destroying slavery and constructing a society of free labor proved to be as difficult in Maryland as in the former Confederacy--even more difficult, in some respects. Probing the relationships among Maryland's slaves and free blacks, its slaveholders, and its non-slaveholders, Fields shows how centrist moderation turned into centrist immoderation under the stress of the Civil War and how social channels formed by slavery established the course of struggle over the shape of free society. In so doing, she offers historical reflections on the underlying character both of slave society and of the society that replaced it. In this prizewinning history, Fields shows how Maryland's centrist moderation turned into centrist immoderation under the stress of the Civil War and argues that Reconstruction proved to be at least as difficult in Maryland as in the Confederacy. "A marvelous book, written with compassion and humor and a rare talent for irony. It establishes Barbara Jeanne Fields as a major historian of the American South, for she has provided new boundaries for understanding the relationship between race and class and she has contributed greatly to our overall understanding of the political economy of slavery."--Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Journal of Social History"[A] perceptive and provocative book.... Students of slavery and of the South cannot afford to overlook it."--Daniel C. Littlefield, American Historical Review"Writing in a clear, spirited style, Fields probes the relationships between slaves and free blacks, between slaveholders and nonslaveholders, and between Maryland's conflicting sections."--Choice"A stunning achievement.... The book is must reading for those with a special interest in the nineteenth-century South; those with a general interest in the development of capitalist relations of production will also not want to miss it."--Joseph P. Reidy, Science and SocietyWinner of the American Historical Association's 1986 John H. Dunning Prize

The author of this text claims that psychoanalysis offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility, insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good relations with others. It continues centuries of reflection and imagination about the good life.

A history of the use of anaesthesia in childbirth and the interaction between medical science and social values. It discusses how 19th-century physicians began to think like scientists and how people came to reject the belief that pain was inevitable.

This text is a case study of a woman, otherwise intelligent and apparently sane, who was convinced that she had internally a full set of functioning male sex organs. This account of her diagnosis and treatment is illustrated by excerpts from the patient-analyst dialogue during her therapy.

This text offers the story of the royal family's voluntary work from the 18th century to the 1990s. It is a study of the creation of a "welfare monarchy" and its social significance and underlying political meaning in a democratic, collectivist age.

"Shu pu", completed in 687, and "Xu shu Pu", written in 1208, are among early treatises on calligraphy. This work introduces and provides translations and annotations for these texts. It also includes a facsimile and a transcription of the original "Shu pu".

Discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging an opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. Donington's analysis includes scenes and characters from operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Puccini, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky, Berg and others.

This account of the evolution of a New Dealer to Washington lawyer and liberal and his subsequent resignation from the Supreme Court under threat of scandal, is fleshed out by the use of personal papers and interviews whilst drawing a parallel picture of American liberalism from the 30s to the 60s.

Explores the rise of China's economy and assesses its potential for growth. This book discusses the reality confronting American businesses and citizens. It states that, for the first time in over one hundred years, Americans face critical challenges to their economy and way of life, owing to China's impending economic might.