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The complete story of the American Constitution, told in the words of those who created it. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen has gathered together the fundamental documents needed to understand the genesis and evolution of the United States Constitution-from the exploratory notions concerning the nature of constitutions in 1776, the Articles of Confederation in 1777, and various constitutional plans proposed at the Philadelphia ...

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In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand. Sports Spectators, the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining, comprehensive and succint.Guttmann first exa...

The author lived in a hamlet in the central highlands of Vietnam, surrounded by jungle on one side and a river on the other, where he and the villagers encountered animals daily--some easily tamed, others, like tigers and wild hogs, which were terribly dangerous. "This first-person narrative brims with life".--School Library Journal.

This book includes many seminal articles by film scholars such as Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Stephen Heath, Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, and Noel Burch. Also included are articles by the era's leading cultural thinkers: Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Jean-Francçois Lyotard, to name a few.Philip Rosen has carefully organized these essays to open the reader to a number of central issues in film theory including the classical narrativ...

Es fehlte nicht an Krisen, denn sowohl Rilkes Lebensführung wie seine künstlerische Entwicklung stießen auf von der Heydts Kritik, etwa die »Karl und Elisabeth von der Heydt in Freundschaft« gewidmeten Neuen Gedichte I. Der Leser nimmt aber auch teil an Rilkes Venedig-Erleben: in einem unter den 123 Briefen und Karten dieses Bandes einzigartigen Brief-Essay aus dem Jahre 1908, er folgt ihm nach Ägypten und Spanien und zuletzt in die Kriegs- un...