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Behind the Lines
Gender and the Two World Wars
What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material—from government policy to popular media, poetry and fiction, and personal letters—this book...
Three Medieval Views of Women
"La Contenance des Fames," "Le Bien des Fames," "Le Blasme des Fames"
This bilingual edition of three French poems dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries contains two poems that assail the vices of women and a third that lists women's virtues. The lively and amusing...
The Demise of Nuclear Energy?
Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology
Three Mile Island, Seabrook, Diablo Canyon: their controversies have come to symbolize the unhappy fate of American nuclear power. Three decades of effort and an investment of several hundred billion dollars have culminated...
Out of the Woods
The winning volume in the 1988 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Out of the Woods by Thomas Bolt. As James Merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said: "Here is an...
Interpreting Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier
A Performer`s Discourse of Method
This book sets forth the provocative theories of a musician who has been called the outstanding harpsichordist of this century. The late Ralph Kirkpatrick reveals here his approach to a deeper comprehension of music,...
Early Education and Psychological Development
Barbara Biber, a seminal figure in twentieth-century education, here presents a selection of her writings on developmental and educational psychology over a forty-year period. Each of the older articles is introduced by...
The Quest for Self-Determination
All over the world, ethnic groups are striving to break away from the larger political entities that control their affairs. The quest for self-determination is one of the most persistent, pervasive movements of this...
Methods of Book Design, Third Edition
A new edition of this now classic work is long overdue, and, with the filmsetting revolution almost complete, it has been possible to write it. The processes and methods of a book production are of course still changing...
Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845
“A first-rate introduction to a still largely extant North America away from the great cities. This 400-page documentary by a dedicated exploring scholar explains how and why the landscape changed between the times of...
Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century
The Achievement of Intimacy
Michael Cooke examines the essential structure of Afro-American literature as it has developed in the twentieth-century, with special attention to works by Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison,...