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Now available in paperback, this provocative study examines the street-level decisions made by police, caught between a sometimes hostile community and a maze of departmental regulations. Probing the dynamics of three sample police departments, Brown reveals the factors that shape how officers wield their powers of discretion. Chief among these factors, he contends, is the highly bureaucratic organization of the modern police department. A new...

This volume of Contemporary Authors(R) New Revision Series brings you up-to-date information on approximately 250 writers. Editors have scoured dozens of leading journals, magazines, newspapers and online sources in search of the latest news and criticism. Writers appearing in this volume include: Seamus Heaney Robert Ludlum Susan Sontag Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

National Socialist rule, World War II, and the postwar years figure prominently in the works of German writers who established their literary reputations between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s. A desire to tell the truth, to come to terms with Germanys guilt and to prevent the recurrence of a fascist dictatorship are also reflected in most of their works. German literature of this period is highly politicized, displaying a predominantly leftist o...

This illustrated series covers more than 600 writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Typical entries consist of a listing of major works and awards and criticism from significant reviews and commentaries on the authors or artists works. Each volume includes cumulative author name and nationality indexes as well as a volume-specific title index. A cumulative title index to the entire series is published separately (included in s...

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately four to eight short story writers by providing full-text or excerpted criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Among those profiled in this volume are: Margaret AtwoodWilla CatherAnton ChekhovDorothy Parker

This is the groundbreaking sequel to Fortna's The Gospel of Signs which reconstructed a source underlying the Fourth Gospel narrative. Here he not only brings that reconstruction up to date but also provides commentary, section by section, on both the text of the reconstructed Johannine source and its redaction in canonical John (Part One).In Part Two, Fortna systematically draws together the theological movement from source to present Gospel ...

This is a book of poetry. Lisa Zeidner brilliantly inverts her subjects, tipping them over to find what fascinates her.

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Long argues that the literary form and dynamics of biblical texts can and should make a difference in the kinds of sermons created from those texts, not only because of what the texts say but because of how they say it. He presents a methodology for taking the literary characteristics of biblical texts into account in the text-to-sermon process and then applies that methodology in separate chapters on preaching on psalms, proverbs, narratives,...

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Offering a unique perspective on the origins of American fiction, Cathy N. Davidson focuses not only on the early novels themselves but also on the people who produced, sold, and read them. She demonstrates how, in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the novel found a special placeamong some of the least privileged citizens of the new republic. Though now mostly forgotten, these early American novels enabled those who bought and read the...

Don't rely upon the kindness of strangers to show you the way. Embrace the tangled, dreamy sensibilities of Southern literary life evoked by the gentle pastels of this landmark map which traces the 80+ birthplaces, homes and haunts of significant historical Southern authors from Tennessee Williams to Faulkner and from Carson McCullers to Margaret Mitchell. * This handy folded map unfolds to a beautifully illustrated 24 x 30 inches.

A list of the holdings, both printed and archival, about women in the two world wars found in the Hoover Institution in Western European languages as of 1987.

This novel tells the tale of the rumors of war that circulated in Moon's Ottery, an East Devon village, during the time of the armada. The life of the community is unsettled by the threat of invasion and arrival of a mysterious Spanish sailor. Between Rosalind, a skeptical and shrewd observer, and Henry Suckbitch, a man with intriguing connections beyond the Ottery world, the drama of a family at the moment of change and a nation at a point of...

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For use in schools and libraries only. This volume includes the first three books in the popular science-fiction Dragonriders of Pern series: Dragonflight, Dragonquest, and The White Dragon.

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