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A complete look at women's fashion buckles with over a thousand color photos. Belt buckles and clasps, shoe buckles, and rare and unusual pieces are displayed in glass, metal, plastic, and natural materials. Each has a complete description, including size and current value.

J. Chein & Co. was an important tin toy company during the Golden Age of toymaking in America until the 1970s. Over 450 color photos of their toys, including prototype models and rare catalog pages, are featured with trademarks and current values. This is an indispensable reference for antique toy collectors of comic characters, banks, sand pails, carnival, and transportation toys.

This multidisciplinary volume documents the resurrection of the importance of narrative to the study of individuals and groups and argues that narrative may become a lingua franca of future debates in the human sciences. "The topic of narrative is as significant as the editors claim in their Introduction. It is becoming central to various social science fields, particularly for scholars who want to challenge traditional realist and positivist ...

Drawing on literature, the law, and popular media--and "taking her (counter)cue from that celebrated sitcom of American life, 'The Reagan Years'" (Homi K. Bhabha)--Berlant presents a stunning and major statement about the nation and its citizens in an age of mass mediation. Her intriguing narratives and gallery of images will challenge readers to rethink what it means to be an American and seek salvation in its promise. 57 photos.

Die Thematik der 'Ausgliederung' der romanischen Sprachen aus dem Lateinischen wurde bisher vor allem aus phonetischer und lexikalischer (onomasiologischer) Sicht behandelt. Die vorliegende Studie versucht, das Problem der Entstehung der romanischen Sprachen aus wortsemantischer Sicht anzugehen. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf insgesamt 32 panromanisch erhaltene lateinische Verben, welche auf ihre Bedeutungsentwicklung in den älteren Entwick...

The Delicate Distress (1769) focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage-the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. At the story's center is the deep distress of Emily Woodville, a virtuous young newlywed who suspects her husband of infidelity with a French marchioness from his past. Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien ré...

Since the 1960s, U.S. political leaders have engaged in a controversial debate regarding the deployment of a strategic ballistic missile defense (BMD) system to protect the American homeland. Using an analytic framework consisting of prerequisites for successful strategic weapon programs, this book assesses BMD proposals from the Cold War era (focusing primarily on the 1967 'Sentinel' proposal).

Wild orchids evoke a particular and sometimes addictive fascination among naturalists, botanists, and wildflower enthusiasts.

This book contains a compilation of papers based on pres­ entations made at the International Symposium on Penile Disorders held in Hamburg, Germany, 26-27 January 1996, under the Chairmanship of Hartmut Porst. This was a unique conference in that it comprehensively addressed various disorders that affect the organ situated at the "center of the male", the penis. As an important beginning, the sociocultural aspects of the erect phallus were pr...

Essays reflecting on our understanding and moral judgement of violence. The essays argue that even serious violence is not a simple fact, but a category of thought and practice rooted in history, culture and society.

Caffeine is the most popular psychoactive substance in the world, and one of the widest-traded commodities in the forms of coffee, tea and cola soft drinks. But is consumption of caffeine safe in terms of physical and mental health? Addressing this question, the author of this volume traces how caffeine consumption evolved as well as how caffeine is absorbed, distributed and metabolized in our bodies. He then discusses the effects of caffeine...

In the last few years there has been a growing interest in the development of numerical techniques appropriate for the approximation of differential model problems presenting multiscale solutions. This is the case, for instance, with functions displaying a smooth behavior, except in certain regions where sudden and sharp variations are localized. Typical examples are internal or boundary layers. When the number of degrees of freedom in the dis...

Das späte 18. und frühe 19. Jahrhundert war eine literarische Blütezeit. Die Ästhetik habe dabei, so eine weitläufige Annahme der Forschung, das Bildungssystem 'Rhetorik', das bis dahin die geistige Kultur des Abendlandes maßgeblich geprägt hat, verdrängt. Die Studie will dagegen zeigen, daß das Interesse der Gebildeten an Rhetorik im allgemeinen und an öffentlicher Rede im besonderen um 1800 keineswegs erloschen ist, im Gegenteil. Zwar fehlte...

We live in a world where capital is free to move. Increasingly this determines the pattern of international growth. Savings are invested in the country yielding the highest return, thus adding to its stock of capital. This development is espe­ cially true of common markets such as the European Union, which are based on free trade and financial openness. The present monograph deals with internatio­ nal growth, featuring the dynamics of foreign ...

A new piece, commissioned by the innovative music/dance/theatre group Second Stride, which shows eighteen characters simultaneously experiencing one night in the same hotel.

In dem beliebtesten literarischen Genre der deutschsprachigen Literatur im 'Jahrhundert der Geschichte', dem Geschichtsdrama, spiegelt sich die Anziehungskraft einer 'Geschichtskultur' wider, in der das Wissen und die Repräsentationsleistungen von historiographischer Forschung, Geschichtsschreibung, historischen Museen, Archäologie, Kunst und Literatur zusammenfließen. Sie bildet damit den Ausgangs- und Zielpunkt für eine Reihe von Lektüren, d...

Der Band versammelt 15 neue Beiträge zu Goethes Werk, darunter Interpretationen zu den »Mitschuldigen«, zu den Sturm-und-Drang-Hymnen, zur Reise- und Briefliteratur, vergleichende Studien zu Herder und Milton, systematische Arbeiten zu Goethes Symboltheorie und Antikebild, Untersuchungen zur Goethe-Rezeption bei Simmel und Jandl, ein Beitrag zur Begegnung Goethes mit Polen sowie eine Dokumentation seines Mietvertrages über das Haus am Frauenplan.

Kathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of...

An examination of the importance of knightly combat in Malory's "Morte Darthur".

Miller's Bolt is the fast-paced fictional story of a top-notch manager who is in danger of being fired. For although Jim Manion does his job well, his relationship with his coworkers have become increasingly antagonistic. Given just three months to turn himself around, Jim consults his friend Peter Miller, a personal performance coach, and together the two of them work to save Jim's career. We watch Jim as he learns new interpersonal skills, m...