136 títulos para "Longleaf Services On Behalf Of Syracuse University"
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Meaning of Mind
Szasz, Thomas
978-0-8156-0775-5In this brilliantly original and highly accessible work, Thomas Szasz demonstrates the futility of analyzing the mind as a collection of brain functions. Instead of trying to unravel the riddle of a mythical entity called “the mind,” Szasz suggests that our task should be to understand a...
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Reader's Guide to William Faulkner
Volpe, Edmond
978-0-8156-3047-0The new guide, the first comprehensive book of its kind, offers analyses of all Faulkner's short stories, published and unpublished, that were not incorporated into novels or turned into chapters of a novel. Seventy-one stories receive individual critical analysis and evaluation. These discussio...
27.82€ (26.75€ sin IVA) -
Frankenstein's Daughters
Donawerth, Jane
978-0-8156-0395-5Women Science fiction authors - past and present - are united by the problems they face in attempting to write in this genre, an overwhelmingly male-dominated field. Science fiction has been defined by male-centered, scientific discourse that describes women as alien "others" rather than r...
28.18€ (27.10€ sin IVA) -
Petty Business
Pinkus, Yirmi
978-0-8156-3551-2Winner of The Israel Institute's Literary Prize As they do every year, Yosef Zinman, a well-to-do Tel Aviv grocer, and his beloved wife Zippi plan a vacation during the holiday of Sukkot to Seefeld in the mountainous Tirols region of Austria. This year, Zippi decides to invite her sister, who ha...
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J. M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival
Bruna, Giulia
978-0-8156-3545-1Between the late 1890s and the early 1900s, the young Irish writer John Millington Synge journeyed across his home country, documenting his travels intermittently for ten years. His body of travel writing includes the travel book The Aran Islands, his literary journalism about West Kerry and Wicklow...
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Ministers' War
Doyle, Michael
978-0-8156-3576-5Unbridled passions threatened nineteenth-century America, a vulnerable young nation already feeling beset by foreigners, corruption, and disease. Purifying crusaders like Hamilton College philosophy professor and Presbyterian minister John W. Mears mobilized to fight every sin and carnal lure, from...
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Youth Encounter Programs in Israel
Ross, Karen
978-0-8156-3554-3As the level of distrust and alienation between Jews and Palestinians has risen over the past fifteen years, the support for grassroots organizations' attempts to bring these two groups closer has stagnated. Jewish-Palestinian youth encounter programs that flourished in the wake of the Oslo Acco...
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Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel
Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen
978-0-8156-3567-3The desire to engage and confront traumatic subjects was a facet of Irish literature for much of the twentieth century. Yet, just as Irish society has adopted a more direct and open approach to the past, so too have Irish authors evolved in their response to, and literary uses of, trauma. In Trauma...
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Political Muslims
978-0-8156-3565-9In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world. Specifically, the rising population of young Muslims has generated concerns about religious radicalism, Islamism, and conflicts in multicultural societie...
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Breaking Broken English
Hartman, Michelle
978-0-8156-3620-5Black-Arab political and cultural solidarity has had a long and rich history in the United States. That alliance is once again exerting a powerful influence on American society as Black American and Arab American activists and cultural workers are joining forces in formations like the Movement for B...
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Laying Out the Bones
English, Bridget
978-0-8156-3536-9English sheds new light on death and dying in twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature as she examines the ways that Irish wake and funeral rituals shape novelistic discourse. She argues that the treatment of death in Irish novels offers a way of making sense of mortality and provides in...
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Forever Wild
Terrie, Philip G
978-0-8156-0288-0In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and scholars, the travellers and sportsmen, the publicists and bureaucrats, who together have contributed to the wilderness aesthetic.
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