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Miryam Sas is Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

One of today's foremost art historians and critics presents a strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. In engaging a subject that has been of continuing interest to Damisch over the last 30 years, he develops a unique way of looking at the city and its architecture, the landscape and its spaces.

Stoicism is one of the richest and most influential intellectual traditions of antiquity. Now, in this excellent volume, leading scholars contribute new studies of a set of topics that are at the center of current research. They combine careful analytical attention to the original texts with historical sensitivity and philosophical acuity, providing the basis for a better understanding of Stoic ethics, political theory, logic, and physics.

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The role and characteristics of armed force at sea in western Europe and the Mediterranean prior to 1650.

Martha Grimes's Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year's best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl's unexplained death with another young girl's attempt at making sense of her own life.

Within a federal system, government agencies and regulatory policies can be fractured -- even at odds with each other. National actors share power with their counterparts in states and localities, as do presidents with Congressional leaders, and bureaucrats with judges. Understanding the broad economic and political contexts of environmental policymaking illuminates the motivations behind policy choices of various interested parties, from the ...

Meadow takes us on a Cook's tour of communication technologies across time-the alphabet and moveable type printing, cave drawings and carrier pigeons, telephones, television and, of course, the Internet. In each case, Meadow shows how these (and other devices) are connected to each other, even as they serve to make connections between people. Part One discusses the basics of communications, while Part Two delves into telecommunications before ...

An Ounce of Prevention is a comprehensive and practical guide to the process of disaster planning. This completely revised and expanded publication builds on the strengths of its award-winning predecessor. Used as a planning tool, it will help you develop strategies for effective disaster prevention and recovery.

The most complete edition of Twain's two stories, it uses Mark Twain's preferred text and includes passages not previously included--and not available in any other version. The editor's afterword tells how Twain came to write the "Diaries, " which are recognized today as his most personal works of fiction. "Funny? Yes. And you expect that from Twain. But this is also a love story... " --Birmingham Weekly, May 1999 "The sort of book that makes ...

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The sociology of religion and religious studies have experienced a surge of ethnographic research. Scholars now use ethnography, as anthropologists have long done, as a valued source of knowledge from which they draw their pictures of the religious world.Yet, many researchers of religion have yet to grapple with the issues that are changing anthropologists' use of the method. Personal Knowledge and Beyond seeks to foster a cross-disciplinary r...

Drawing on interviews with French Environment Ministry officials, Szarka (U. of Bath, UK) adds to the sparse English language literature on environmental policy-making in France. The author first discusses theoretical constructions of the environment, Sabatier's advocacy coalition model of policy-de

Symbols of the Christian Faith is an illustrated guide to the major visual symbols used by the Christian church throughout history. These stylized illustrations, designed by artist Alva William Steffler, are intended to provide usable, up-to-date resources for contemporary church worship and Christian education.Throughout church history symbols have been used to aid worship and to communicate difficult spiritual ideas. Steffler here collects t...

The claim 'I'm straight' is the psychosexual analogue of 'The check is in the mail': if you need to say it, your credit or credibility is already in doubt". So begins Paul Morrison's dazzling polemic, which takes as its point of departure Foucault's famous remark that sex is "the explanation for everything".Combining psychoanalytic, literary, and queer theory, The Explanation for Everything seeks to account for the explanatory power attributed...

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