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Another Future Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780819567840
Pub Date: 27 Mar 2006
Illustrations: 40 illus.
Description:
How do we write and think about poetry and visual art in the wake of postmodernism? Questions like this are central to poetry and art, especially when taught within an academic context. Another Future is a collection of critical essays on contemporary poetry, art, culture, and politics that investigates the current state of these fields by bringing together writings on the work of a number of poets and visual artists.
Baby Steps Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 284
ISBN: 9780819566300
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2006
Description:
Each year hundreds of children around the world are born to lesbian mothers who conceived through alternative insemination. This unique form of family-making creates families with no legal or psychological father, and challenges some of our most basic assumptions about what it means to be a family. How and why do lesbians use insemination to build their families?
Transylvania Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9780813191676
Pub Date: 10 Mar 2006
Description:
Chartered in 1780, Transylvania University played a significant role as an educational pioneer in the developing trans-Allegheny West and served as its first institution of higher education. Strategically located in the growing city of Lexington, Kentucky, the university established schools of law and medicine at a time when there were few such educational offerings in the country. Noted alumni include emancipationist Cassius M.
Berea College Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813123790
Pub Date: 03 Mar 2006
Illustrations: 184 b&w photos
Description:
Berea College's spiritual motto, "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," has shaped the institution's unique culture and programs since its founding in 1855. Founder John G. Fee, an ardent abolitionist, held fast to the radical vision of a college and a community committed to interracial education, to the Appalachian region, and to the equality of women and men hailing from all "nations and climes.
Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 258
ISBN: 9780813123783
Pub Date: 03 Mar 2006
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Cora Wilson Stewart (1875--1958) was an elementary school teacher and county school superintendent in eastern Kentucky who, in the fall of 1911, decided to open the classrooms in her district to adult pupils. Convinced that education could eliminate the poverty that plagued the region, she founded the Moonlight School movement, ultimately designed to combat illiteracy. The movement's motto, "Each one teach one," characterized education as the responsibility of every literate citizen.
Dictating Development Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780822959144
Pub Date: 10 Feb 2006
Description:
Dictating Development presents a powerful and original analysis of how colonialism has profoundly impacted the varying economic growth of developing nations. While previous studies have focused primarily on the domestic neoliberal policies of government and the political capacity of developing states, Dictating Development argues that economic growth is equally influenced (positively and negatively) by colonial powers. Jonathan Krieckhaus examines both historic colonial influences (on human capital and state structures) as well as contemporary ones (war, market access, and foreign aid).
Funeral Festivals in America Cover Funeral Festivals in America Cover
Format: 
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780813123806
Pub Date: 13 Jan 2006
Series: Material Worlds
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780813192994
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Material Worlds
Description:
When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how extraordinarily creative and technical human funerary practices would become. Jacqueline S. Thursby explores how modern American funerals and their accompanying rituals seem meant to benefit the living rather than the dead.
Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780822959137
Pub Date: 10 Jan 2006
Description:
The events of September 11, 2001, combined with a pattern of increased crime and violence in the 1980s and mid-1990s in the Americas, has crystallized the need to reform government policies and police procedures to combat these threats. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas examines the problems of security and how they are addressed in Latin America and the United States. Bailey and Dammert detail the wide variation in police tactics and efforts by individual nations to assess their effectiveness and ethical accountability.
Civil Rights Crossroads Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780813191546
Pub Date: 05 Jan 2006
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Description:
Over the past thirty years, Steven F. Lawson has established himself as one of the nation's leading historians of the black struggle for equality. Civil Rights Crossroads is an important collection of Lawson's writings about the civil rights movement that is essential reading for anyone concerned about the past, present, and future of race relations in America.
Stone Knapping Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 275
ISBN: 9781902937342
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2005
Series: McDonald Institute Monographs
Illustrations: 143 ills., 36 tables
Description:
How were early stone tools made, and what can they tell us about the development of human cognition? This question lies at the basis of archaeological research on human origins and evolution, and the present volume fulfils a growing need among advanced students and researchers working in this field. The individual chapters by a range of leading international scholars approach stone knapping from a multidisciplinary perspective that embraces psychology, physiology, behavioural biology and primatology as well as archaeology.
RRP: £35.00
The Complete Works of Philo of  Alexandria: A Key-Word-In-Context Concordance (vol 1-8) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 7545
ISBN: 9781593333508
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
The Complete Works of Philo of  Alexandria: A Key-Word-In-Context Concordance (Vol 1) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 930
ISBN: 9781593333515
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
The Complete Works of Philo of  Alexandria: A Key-Word-In-Context Concordance (Vol 2) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 845
ISBN: 9781593333522
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
The Complete Works of Philo of  Alexandria: A Key-Word-In-Context Concordance (Vol 3) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 844
ISBN: 9781593333539
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
The Complete Works of Philo of  Alexandria: A Key-Word-In-Context Concordance (Vol 4) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 952
ISBN: 9781593333546
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.
The Complete Works of Philo of  Alexandria: A Key-Word-In-Context Concordance (Vol 5) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 860
ISBN: 9781593333553
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2005
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
This concordance is a result of The Norwegian Philo Concordance Project and a printout of a database containing all the Greek words in the writings of Philo of Alexandria. All words of Philo have been tagged and lemmatized. It presents all Philo words within its context in alphabetic order.