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David Walker's Appeal is a landmark work of American history and letters, the most radical piece of writing by an African American in the nineteenth century. Startling in its intensity, unrelenting in its attacks on slavery and white racism, it alarmed Southern slaveholders, inspired Northern abolitionists, and hastened the sectional conflicts that led to the Civil War. In this new edition of the Appeal, the distinguished historian Sean Wilent...

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Auf vier Bände ist »Der Mythos vom Zivilisationsprozeß« angelegt. Im hier vorliegenden dritten Band wendet sich Hans Peter Duerr vor allem gegen die Behauptung, noch die frühe Neuzeit habe einen Persönlichkeitstypus hervorgebracht, der im Gegensatz zum heutigen zu einer »hemmungsloseren Sättigung von Lust an Frauen oder auch von Haß in der Zerstörung und Qual alles dessen, was Feind ist« (Norbert Elias) bereit gewesen sei, während wir Heutigen...

Maritain argues that there are different `kinds¿ and `orders¿ of knowledge and, within them, different `degrees¿ determined by the nature of the thing to be known and the `degree of abstraction¿ involved. The book is divided into two parts: Part one discusses the degrees of knowledge for science and philosophy ¿ or `rational knowledge, ¿ and part two discusses the degrees of knowledge for religious faith and mysticism ¿ or `super-rational know...

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As China's reforms take root, citizens are allowed, even encouraged, to be socialist and profit-driven at the same time. This book examines this precarious dyad, demonstrating what reform has done to China's political and economic mechanisms and how this dyad dominates the thinking of reformers.

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Takes the approach that algebraic curves are best encountered for the first time over the complex numbers, where the reader's classical intuition about surfaces, integration, and other concepts can be brought into play. This book covers Riemann surfaces, with complex charts and meromorphic functions taking center stage.

Provides the most comprehensive look to date at the problem of family violence. Professionals in mental health, medicine, and law who encounter victims of family violence will find this book an invaluable resource.

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This study explores how Soviet leaders shaped the image their state cast since the death of Stalin. The fact that the leadership's legitimacy rested upon values and aims that were fundamentally at odds with the international system imposed a cumbersome task of image management. Each leader approached this task with a different strategy, and each strategy had direct consequences for Soviet behavior abroad and for the coherence of the Soviet sta...

No other nonhuman source has served as the basis for more metaphors than animals. Speaking of Animals is a dictionary of animal metaphors that are current in American English. It is comprehensive, historical, and metaphor-based. Each entry refers to the other dictionaries that catalog that same metaphor, and the dates of first appearance in writing are supplied, where possible, for both the metaphor and the name of the source. The main text is...

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Based on interviews with a diverse group of former high school, college, and professional athletes, Power at Play examines the important role sports play in defining masculinity for American men.

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How dangerous is someone's job? People from ages 22 through 64 spend roughly 40% of their non-sleeping time at a job where there is considerable potential for exposure to fatal safety and health risks. The purpose of this book is to improve the knowledge and working environment of American workers, by providing an in-depth look at the job hazards in 324 industries and 265 occupations. Human Resource managers, industry trade organizations, corp...