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The Eagle and the Lion
The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations
A thought-provoking exploration of the American-Iranian relationship, from the 1940s through the Iran-Contra affair and its aftermath. James Bill, a well-known authority on the Middle East, has not only lived in Iran but also...
The Rise of American Air Power
The Creation of Armageddon
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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...
Nietzsche's Teaching
An Interpretation of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"
The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra—an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert’s...
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 History and Sociology of Genocide
Analyses and Case Studies
Genocide is not an invention of the twentieth-century, say Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn in this absorbing book, but has occurred throughout history in all parts of the world. This study—the first comprehensive survey of the...
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...
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,...
The Diary of Joseph Farington
Volume 3, September 1796-December 1798, Volume 4, January 1799-July 1801
Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional topographical artist and lived most of his life in London. Through his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Royal Academy, his wide circle of friends, and his...
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,...