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A New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater
Play and Playtext
This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention....
Moral Panic
Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America
It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty...
Vixi
Memoirs of a Non-Belonger
A distinguished historian, Harvard professor, and White House adviser looks back on his own life and on the tumultuous twentieth century Sixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw...
Stuart Davis
A Catalogue Raisonné
The highly anticipated, definitive reference on Stuart Davis’s paintings, watercolors, drawings, and published illustrations Stuart Davis (1892–1964) made a mark on the art world early in his career...
The Memory of Judgment
Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust
This powerful book offers the first detailed examination of the law’s response to the crimes of the Holocaust. In vivid prose it offers a fascinating study of five exemplary proceedings—the Nuremberg trial of the major Nazi...
Set the Stage!
Teaching Italian through Theater
Set the Stage! is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theater. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers...
Character Text for Speak Cantonese Book One
Revised Edition
Speak Cantonese, Book One, is one of a series of books that teaches the modern spoken language of Cantonese, one of the major dialects of Chinese. As appropriate for a text of its kind, it is entirely in romanization. In...
Fifty-Five T’ang Poems
A Text in the Reading and Understanding of T’ang Poetry
Four masters of the shi form of Chinese poetry, who are generally considered to be giants in the entire history of Chinese literature, are represented in this book: three from the eighth century, and one from the ninth. A few...
Chinese Cursive Script
An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese
In this useful volume, Fred Fang-yu Wang presents materials designed to help solve an often vexing problem for students of Chinese: how to recognize and write handwritten or cursive-style forms of Chinese characters. Such...
A Primer of Newspaper Chinese
Second Revised Edition
This primer is a basic introduction to the grammar and vocabulary used in traditional Chinese newspapers. It uses unsimplified characters.