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The Ancient View of Greek Art
Criticism, History, and Terminology
What did the ancient Greeks think about their own art? J.J. Pollitt attempts to answer this question by studying the critical terminology of the ancient Greeks—the terms they used to describe and evaluate sculpture,...
American Apocalypse
Yankee Protestants and the Civil War 1860-1869
Especially in times of war Americans have claimed for their nation a unique world mission, often defining it in religious terms. James Moorhead analyzes a crucial episode of this patriotic piety through the behavior of...
Aeronautics at the Mid-Century
From the Wrights to rockets . . . A noted aeronautical engineer here gives his views on the past, present, and future of aviation and its impact on our civilization. He outlines the short but...
Advanced Chinese Reader
A sequel to Beginning Chinese Reader and Intermediate Chinese Reader, this text, the eleventh in a series produced under the auspices of Seton Hall University, is closely correlated with the author’s Advanced...
Advanced Chinese
Designed to be used after either Beginning or Intermediate Chinese, this work is based on recordings of twenty lectures on academic topics in pinyin Romanization. The new material in each lesson is presented in...
Acts of Inclusion
Studies Bearing on an Elementary Theory of Romanticism
The copious attention visited on romanticism during recent decades has only rarely resulted in comprehensive theoretical constructions. This new work by Michael Cooke, offering an explicit theory of romanticism, is thus...
Economic Growth in the Third World
1850-1980
Recent years have seen an increasing body of literature on the economic histories of individual third world countries. This book by eminent scholar Lloyd G. Reynolds is the first to draw together this material and...
The Ecological Theater and the Evolutionary Play
In this delightful collection of essays, the author of The Enchanted Voyage and The Itinerant Ivory Tower turns his attention to the influence of environment on evolution. His discussion of the nature of the...
Fate and Freedom
The thesis of this volume is that the mechanistic interpretation of nature as a working hypothesis is capable of rendering important services to religion, and that the theory leaves intact our practical faith in freedom.
The Discovery of Dura-Europos
From the third century A.D. until the 1920s, the ancient city of Dura, which the Greeks called Europos, lay covered by the sands of time. Today, hardly a book that touches on the ancient Eastern Mediterranean or on...