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The Latin inscriptions in the Kelsey Museum are among the best primary sources we have for documenting the lives of the lower classes in the Roman world. They provide unique evidence of the details of Roman daily life, including beliefs, occupations, families, and attitudes toward death. The 400 entries in this volume include all of the Latin inscriptions on stone or metal in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan, they...

Thutmose III was without question one of Egypt's greatest pharaohs. His 54-year reign was packed with momentous events as well as being unusually long. Thutmose III includes an overview of his life, and detailed examinations of civil administration, the religion and cults, the monumental architecture and royal building program, royal tombs and iconography, royal portraiture and ideology, the artistic production, the Northern and Southern campa...

A remarkable team of experts spotlights and questions the soaring number of children diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and placed on medication, some not even old enough to attend school, and many--up to 40 percent--placed on multiple psychiatric drugs that have never been clinically tested on children.

Using El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (the "Guide for Blind Rovers" by Alonso Carrio de Lavandera, the best known work of the era) as a jumping off point for a sprawling discussion of 18th-century Spanish America, Ruth Hill argues for a richer, more nuanced understanding of the relationship between Spain and its western colonies. Armed with primary sources including literature, maps, census data, letters, and diaries, Hill reveals a rich wor...

E.T. Culture" is a very strong theoretical intervention and a fascinating read. It is remarkable for its expansive, multiple-explanations approach. Each article makes a different, and each a compelling, argument for what UFOness is all about."--Kathleen Stewart, author of "A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America

Cultural readings of alien encounters

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Through moving personal interviews, the author allows legislators to tell their own stories about how and why they came to politics, the experience of serving in their state legislature, their decisions to stay or leave, and the many trials they face in the name of public service. He contends that these politicians do have the public good in mind.

Over the past few years, media outlets have spotlighted coverage of terror attacks. Drawing on both popular and academic articles, Media, Terrorism, and Theory analyzes the larger issues surrounding media's portrayal of terrorism. From such diverse fields as political science, media studies, architecture, and information science, each contributor brings a distinctive perspective. Answering a growing need to understand media discourse on terror...

This is the story of Gautreaux, told by its principal lawyer, moves with ease through local and national civil rights history, legal details, political matters, and the personal costs - and rewards - of a commitment to fairness, equality, and justice. This story urges us to take an essential step in ending the racial inequality.

Sheds new light on the Bard's life through an examination of the wide variety of friends he cultivated throughout his life.

The authors use groundbreaking research to develop four primary patterns of relating that shed light on people's actions and how they can learn to love and be loved even better.

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of...

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of...

Henry Venn was born and bred among the British evangelical aristocracy at Clapham. Wilberforce, Grant, Macaulay, Stephen, and Thornton were at the height of their powers -- leading the campaign against slavery, promoting public morals, founding philanthropic and missionary societies -- at the turn of the nineteenth century. As powerful leader of the most prominent British missionary society from 1841 to 1872, Venn unhesitatingly used his conne...

First published in 2002, Wild Orchids of Florida was the very first field guide for this orchid-rich state, and it inspired many to try their hand at orchid hunting. Because of its overwhelming popularity and in an attempt to provide the latest developments in orchid research, native orchid expert Paul Martin Brown follows up with this newly revised and expanded edition. With its comprehensive yet easy-to-follow treatment, Wild Orchids of Flor...

This is a play on Latin words and phrases by roughly converting them into English on the basis of meanings, sounds and interpretations.

A personal story of a physician who becomes disabled and rallies around the concept of a spiritual athlete as a way out of his ravaged life.

In this helpful and artfully done work, one of great academicians of the nineteenth century provides the student with a path toward developing competency in Hebrew vocabulary. The work is organized by parts of speech and by frequency. This provides a handy tool for memorization as well as parts of speech and derivations. William Rainey Harper (1856-1906) was the first President of the University of Chicago. Among his publications are 'Introduc...

All children growing up in America learn who the Founding Fathers were. Most, however, never learn of the founders' connections to the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and other esoteric orders. In" Founding Fathers, Secret Societies, " Robert Hieronimus investigates these important connections and how their influence can be traced throughout our most significant national documents and symbols.