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Ursula King believes that women everywhere are seeking a life-affirming spirituality in response to the needs and opportunities of the age. Women and Spirituality gives a wide-ranging account of women's relations with the world's religions and the spiritual dimension of human life.

...Luard presents his arguments with clarity, commitment, and persuasiveness. The breadth, relevance, timeliness, and readability of this book strongly recommend it...--Choice

Well crafted and absorbing. Middleton reproduces, with perfect pitch one painful progress of love going sour. --Publishers Weekly

To compare the history of English watercolors into 160 pages might seem foolhardy, yet this jewel of a book does so with style.--Publishers Weekly

Anyone whose heart thrills to the skirl of bagpipes or a flash of tartan should lay aside those Scottish Tourist Board pamphlets and read Invisible Country--Kansas City Star

Harris assesses the development of the Asian Gang of Four (Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore) and the two largest Latin American countries (Taiwan, and Singapore) and the two largest Latin American countries (Mexico and Brazil), and describes a newly emerging global economy that is now superseding the old national state and politics based on it.

The authors argue that it is futile to ask, What decides elections? without first considering, What do elections decide? Their book examines competitive electoral systems as well as non-competitive ones.

...a most disturbing portrait of the effects of nuclear weapons testing on the people of Micronesia...--Library Journal

The entire population of the globe is caught up in a single organism, hugely complex but closely interrelated. In this book, Evan Luard analyzes that wider society, and presents a fresh and sometimes startling characterization of the gravitational force of the new world community that is willy-nilly changing the consciousness and actions of individuals and peoples.

This is both a diverting story, and an elegant piece of writing--double your reading pleasure...--Chicago Tribune

Hodgson's work contains more than 1, 300 entries that define and illustrate dramatic theory and theatrical practice...This work is replete with clear definitions of the drama and of the theatre. Recommended."-Choice

Documentary photography at its best--imaginative, comprehensive, confident and concerned.--Independent Magazine

This history of the art of biography and case-by-case analysis of some of the great literary biographies, from Johnson's Life of Savage (1744) to Edel's monumental Henry James (1953-1972), confirms the idea that life-writing is a flourishing art form.

Mr. Valency killed off his hero, Ashby, in the novel of that name, but has thought better of it...the dialogue crackles, the episodes are hilariously unpredictable... --The Atlantic

A fascinating historical novel, ...Lapouge is clearly a passionate historian. --The Time

Treats, through excerpts from contemporary opinion and official documents, various aspects of the little world of theatre in the full context of Elizabethan-Jacobean life and times.

This updated edition aims at simplicity in all aspects of designing and making costumes.

In this powerful and visionary novel of Celtic Britain in the tenth century, Sian Hayton writes of the Christianizing of the pagan world that was the overthrow of woman, of one particular woman in the north of Britain who comes to the monks to learn about the new faith, and they are scandalized by her beauty and her physical strength.

Two destinies intersect in this novel -- that of Gjorg, a young mountaineer who has just killed a man in order to avenge the death of his older brother, and who expects to be killed himself in keeping with the code of the highlands, and that of a young couple who have come to study the age-old customs, including the blood feud.

A fascinating historical novel, ...Lapouge is clearly a passionate historian. --The Time