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Opening up the Suburbs
An Urban Strategy for America
In this fast-paced, fact-filled short book, Anthony Downs takes a close look at a national problem of increasing importance—opening up the suburbs to the poor. After marshalling the arguments in favor of introducing low and...
Childhood in China
This perceptive volume gives a detailed account of Chinese children at home and at school. Recently, thirteen American experts in child development visited China under the sponsorship of the Committee on Scholarly...
Wiltshire
From prehistoric Stonehenge and Avebury to railway age Swindon, the rolling countryside of Wiltshire encompasses every aspect of English building. Thirteenth-century Salisbury cathedral is set in a spacious close, within a...
Annotated Quotations from Chairman Mao
Students and teachers will welcome this new addition to the DeFrancis series of Chinese language texts. The famous little red book of Mao Tse-tung’s thoughts contains basic ideas that permeate virtually all discussion in...
The Ethics of Fetal Research
“So here we have an entity too alive to be dead, not mature enough to be a viable baby, yet human enough to be specially protectable.” -- Paul Ramsey A storm has been brewing over legal and ethical...
The Renaissance Chaucer
For Elizabethans, modern English literary history began with Chaucer. Looking back, they say him as a noble primitive, a genius in spite of the barbarity of his age and language. In this book, Alice Miskimin...
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 39
With Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Lord Beauchamp and Lord Hugh Seymour
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 38
With Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, Lord Beauchamp and Henrietta Seymour Conway
The Yale Editions of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 37
With Henry Seymour Conway, Lady Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Hertford, and Mrs. Harris
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 18
Volume 18: January 1, 1771 through December 31, 1771