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Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989
This absorbing book chronicles the exploitation of Beethoven's life and work by German political parties from the founding of the modern nation to the East German Revolution of 1989. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped...
Sun Yat-Sen
Volume Four, Supplementary Reading Series for Intermediate Chinese Reader.
This book tells the story of Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Chinese Republic. It is the fourth volume designed to supplement the Intermediate Chinese Reader by John DeFrancis. The text is presented in simplified characters,...
Explanation from Physics to Theology
An Essay in Rationality and Religion
In this book Philip Clayton defends the rationality of religious explanations by exploring the parallels between explanatory effects in the sciences and the explanations offered by religious believers, students of...
Defending White Collar Crime
A Portrait of Attorneys at Work
The first inside look at how the elite white-collar crime defense bar goes about its work. Mann's book reveals that these lawyers see their main task as controlling information about their clients, especially the flow of...
Fascism and the Mafia
Although the Sicilian Mafia is a subject of endless fascination, few serious books have been written about it. In this provocative work, Christopher Duggan argues that the idea of the Sicilian Mafia is a fiction,...
Signals from the Hill
Congressional Oversight and the Challenge of Social Regulation
Does Congress do a good job of overseeing the work of the important legislative agencies—the EPA, FDA, OSHA, and others—that it has established to protect the public from some of the risks of modern technology? Combining...
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...
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...