Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 1 028 träffar
Unbounded Practice
Women have practiced as landscape architects for over a century, since the founding of the practice as a profession in the United States in the 1890s. They came to landscape …
The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series
The Papers of James Madison project, housed at the University of Virginia, was established in 1956 to publish annotated volumes of the correspondence and writings of James Madison, …
Intelligent Infrastructure
While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new …
A Way Out of No Way
An African American folk saying declares, ""Our God can make a way out of no way...He can do anything but fail."" When Dianne Swann-Wright set out to capture and relate the history …
Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery
Historians have often speculated on the alternative paths the United States might have taken during the Great Depression: What if Franklin D. Roosevelt had been killed by one of …
Victorian Women Poets
This book recovers and explores an important tradition of nineteenth-century women's poetry from Felicia Hemans to Charlotte Mew. Angela Leighton not only discusses the work of …
By Broad Potomac's Shore
Following her successful Literary Guide to Washington, DC, which Library Journal called "the perfect accompaniment for a literature-inspired vacation in the US capital," Kim …
Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), the novel born from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood in Haiti and immigration to New York City, was one of the great literary debuts of recent times, …
A History of the European Economy 1000-2000
Considering Europe as a whole rather than as a mosaic of individual states, Francois Crouzet presents this history of the European economy during the second millennium. Stressing …
Popa Singer
The latest novel by one of Haiti’s most brilliant writers The most recent book by renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet RenÉ Depestre, Popa Singer is a …
Culture and Irony
Conrad's major novels-Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes-tell of illusions and betrayals, dreams and lies. Ambiguity, contradiction, and irony so dominate …
Dialect Diversity in America
The sociolinguist William Labov has worked for decades on change in progress in American dialects and on African American Vernacular English (AAVE). In Dialect Diversity in …