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Liberty A Better Husband
Single Women in America: The Generations of 1780-1840
“For liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.”—Louisa May Alcott This sensitive account focuses on the women who chose to remain single in antebellum America. Based on a study of the lives...
Intermediate Chinese Reader
Part II
A sequel to Beginning Chinese Reader, this text is closely correlated with the author’s Beginning Chinese, Advanced Chinese, and the character versions of these two texts. It contains 400 new characters, some 2...
Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art
Studies in Musical Iconology
This book first appeared in 1967. In the years since then, it has spawned the new academic sub-discipline of musical iconology, which belongs equally to the histories of art and of music. Emmanuel Winternitz, who...
Ourselves Unborn
An Embryologist's Essay on Man
Dr. George Washington Corner, one of the most eminent embryologists in the United States, has written in this book an account of what happens to man (and other mammals) before birth. Here is the latest knowledge in...
Order and Life
This volume, which is based on the Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in 1935, deals with the problem of the unity of natural knowledge. It considers the cleavage between the inorganic and biological...
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...
Nature
Cosmic, Human, and Divine
This volume is based on the Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University on the Dwight Harrington Terry Foundation.
The Poetry of Tennyson
This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of the entire range of Tennyson’s poetry, with emphasis on the great period up to and including In Memoriam, but also with chapters on Maud, the Idylls...
Refugee Scholars in America
Their Impact and Their Experiences
What were the contributions to American scholarship and culture made by European refugees from Nazi persecution? How did these émigrés react to the experience of being strangers in the land of their refuge? In this...
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...