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Becoming Entitled
In the 1930s, the unemployed were organizing. Jobless workers felt they were "e;entitled"e; to a new kind of government protection-the protection from undeserved …
Mirrors of the Divine
Mirrors of the Divine brings into focus how four influential authors of the late ancient world--Tertullian of Carthage, Clement of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine of …
Making of Modern Children's Literature in Britain
Lucy Pearson's lively and engaging book examines British children's literature during the period widely regarded as a 'second golden age'. Drawing extensively on archival material, …
Alexander von Humboldt
An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the …
Spain's Civil War
This study offers a succinct analysis of a critical period in Spain's history. It assesses the causes and course of the Civil War and covers Franco's New Spain. For the Second …
Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's Macbeth like you've never seen it - or read it - before!Classics in Graphics: Macbeth has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and …
Arcimboldo
In Giuseppe Arcimboldo's most famous paintings, grapes, fish, and even the beaks of birds form human hair. A pear stands in for a man's chin. Citrus fruits sprout from a tree trunk …
Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture
This book considers howscientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of thehuman body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a …
Technology and the Logic of American Racism
In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to …
Understanding Marilynne Robinson
A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfictionAlex Engebretson offers the first comprehensive study of Marilynne Robinson's fiction and …
Trachiniae
The Trachiniae Sophocles - The story begins with Deianeira, the wife of Heracles, relating the story of her early life and her plight adjusting to married life. She is now …
Glasgow Enlightenment
The Glasgow Enlightenment is widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive …