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This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of the spring revival of the earth after a long winter.

This outstanding book deals with the Soviet model as a distinctive pattern of modernity. Its historical background and its institutional structure are thoroughly examined as are its implications for understanding Modernity. The book challenges many of the simple assumptions and judgements made about the Soviet road. It is essential reading for students of Political Science, Sociology and Soviet History

A wise, scholarly, and interdisciplinary work that explores multiple meanings in art, life, music, literature, film, myth-even graffiti--and, most of all, psychoanalysis.' --'Choice

Editor Biography:Peter Washington is the editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including Jazz Poems and Marriage Poems and is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America.

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Dieses zweibändige Lehrbuch führt in die grundlegenden Verfahren des Entwurfs und der Berechnung von Hochfrequenzschaltungen ein.Zahlreiche Übungen und Aufgaben mit Lösungen dienen dazu, diese Verfahren kennenzulernen und sie sicher anzuwenden. Behandelt werden die wichtigsten HF-Schaltungen und Anwendungen, Kreis- und Smithdiagrammme werden ausführlich vorgestellt. Bei der Darstellung der allgemeinen Wellenübertragung werden auch die Schwieri...

The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."—Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film DepartmentComments on previous volumes:"The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."—Thomas Cripps"Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

This collection of papers provides a prismatic guide and reckoning to one of the most controversial and poorly understood writers of the present day. His work in relation to consumption, politics, feminism, culture, theory and postmodernity is clearly discussed and evaluated.

This autobiography describes a woman's attainment of enlightenment in modern Japan. Satomi Myodo rejected the traditional roles of good wife and wise mother, broke with her unhappy past, and followed her spiritual path beginning as the disciple of a Shinto priest. At midlife she turned to Zen Buddhism encouraged by a female dharma friend and by various teachers. Under the guidance of Yasutani Roshi she attained Kensho, the goal of her lifetime...

Outlines the crucial debates going on within contemporary Black feminist activity. In doing so it brings together a collection of some of the most exciting work by Black women scholars around.

Defoe's most celebrated story of Crusoe's shipwreck, his resourcefulness and ingenuity in his soliatry life on a desert island and his rescue of Man Friday has been abridged and retold many times since its publication (in two volumes) in 1719.

The legends of King Arthur - the most revered hero of British Mythology - have been retold many times, but Roger Lancelyn Green's version has become a classic since its first publication in 1953.

Every child's bookshelf should start with a collection of nursery rhymes so that these fantastic and nonsensical verses (some so old their meaning is long forgotten) are among the first magical words to sound in a child's ear.

This was the second in a series of international symposia designed to circulate every two years around North America, Europe, and Asia. The objective is to present and discuss in depth the research results and current developments in Robotics. A broad spectrum of fields is presented in the papers, e.g. manipulator control, mobile robots, legged locomotion, perception and vision, and control architectures. The papers in the proceedings provide ...

An exciting addition to Everyman's Library: a new series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets. Our books will have twice as many pages as Bloomsbury Classics' 128pp and will cost 7. 99 against Bloomsbury's 9. 99. The binding, paper and production will be visibly superior in every way to that of Bloomsbury

Dostoevsky's genius is on display in this powerful existential novel. The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th-century Russian official, Notes from Underground, is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'underground'.

We Are But Women sets the history of Irish women in the context of the broad sweep of Irish history, dealing even-handedly with the diverse traditions of unionism and nationalism. Through an examination of exemplar individuals and organisations, the book traces the growth of Irish awareness of such women's issues' as emancipation, divorce and abortion. Above all, it acknowledges the key role played by women in finding a solution to the Irish Q...

Reveals how queer activists and theorists have come to challenge basic assumptions of social and political thought.

This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time.

In this text, Christopher Macann guides the student through the major texts of the four most eminent figures of the phenomenological tradition - Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Each chapter is devoted to one of the four thinkers.