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This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God and human beings. Applying the methods of analysis developed in built environment studies, the autho...

McAdams provides the first extensive synthesis of American and world history with the war film genre. He demonstrates how the war film reflects the currents of history of the time in actual events portrayed and in dramatic plot points.

This study of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus demonstrates the applicability of narrative models to drama. It presents a major contribution not only to Sophoclean criticism but to dramatic criticism as a whole. For the first time, the methods of contemporary narrative theory are thoroughly applied to the text of a single major play. Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus is presented as a uniquely rich text, which deftly uses the figure and history of t...

This work presents a new critical edition of The Spartan Constitution, a treatise in state philosophy attributed to the historian Xenophon (c. 430 - c. 355 B. C.). The Greek text, reconstructed on the basis of extant manuscript sources, is prefaced by an introduction and supplemented by a critical commentary and an English translation. The introduction discusses the problem of the text's authenticity and dating and provides a comprehensive acc...

Adopts a figural and deconstructive approach to suspense, focusing on representations of hanging figures in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

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Addresses the central negotiating issues involving the trade policies and relations between the United States and Japan

Provides a country-by-country survey of the growing importance of Islam in Europe.

Despite different belief systems and other divisive problems, people can still learn from each other and in doing so create new knowledge. This text aims to show how conversations can not only facilitate learning within organizations, but actually create the subject of learning: knowledge itself.

This work traces American policy on acquisition of major weapon systems back to decisions made and actions taken by policy-makers in the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary War. To provide context, the author also examines the environment in which these plans were made.

An examination of world-system theory from the perspectives of global processes, antisystemic movements, and the aftermath of the colonial system. The volume address three myths tied to Eurocentric forms of thinking: objectivist and universalist knowledges, decolonization and developmentalism.

Examines world-system theory from the perspectives of global processes and antisystemic movements, feminist theory, and the aftermath of the colonial system.

Explores the implications of recent research on the U.S. Congress for legislative research outside the United States

The first biography of the Grand Duke, the only intellectual in the Imperial Family, a political liberal who fought tirelessly for reform from within the system.

Discusses one hundred post-1970 Australian films, focusing on the issue of heroism as reflected in depictions of men, women, aboriginals, and youth.

Mark Twain's life--one of the richest and raciest America has known--is delightfully portrayed in this mosaic of words and more than 600 pictures that capture the career of one of America's most colorful personalities. The words are Twain's own, taken from his writings--not only the autobiography but also his letters, notebooks, newspaper reporting, sketches, travel pieces, and fiction. The illustrations provide the perfect counterpoint to Twa...

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To avoid the clutches of her greedy guardian until her 21st birthday, when she can claim her inheritance, Caroline Trent flees--and runs directly into the path of handsome agent of the crown, Blake Ravenscroft, who believes he has captured a notorious spy. Caroline realizes that she's landed in the perfect hideout from her guardian, so she plays along--until her virile captor's penetrating eyes arouse her most sensuous desires. (August)

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Learning the woman he married is of royal blood--but a woman who has abandoned their marriage--Lord Matthew Weston vows to put her out of his life forever. But Princess Tatiana comes back to him, asking for the kind of help only he can give. Matthew will never give her his heart, yet he's determined to tame the beauty and change her from a perfect princess to his passionate wife. (August)