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A Poison Stronger than Love
The Destruction of an Ojibwa Community
“I can’t explain it to you, because I can’t explain it to myself. The only thing I know is that alcohol is a stronger power than the love of children. It’s a poison, and we are a broken people. We suffer enough...
A Child's Parent Dies
Studies in Childhood Bereavement
This study of twenty-three children who suffered the death of a parent during childhood seeks to understand the psychological impact of bereavement on the young and to offer concrete suggestions for helping children cope with...
Environmental Leadership Equals Essential Leadership
Redefining Who Leads and How
An innovative guide to reshaping leadership practices to meet the needs of our changing world The important new approach to leadership that John Gordon and Joyce Berry explain in this book is built upon the...
Berlin and Its Culture
A Historical Portrait
This beautiful book—a full cultural portrait of Berlin—reveals the spirit of this vital and important city by focusing on the culture it produced from its medieval beginnings to the reunification of 1990. Lavishly illustrated...
Constitutional Cliffhangers
A Legal Guide for Presidents and Their Enemies
The United States Constitution's provisions for selecting, replacing, and punishing presidents contain serious weaknesses that could lead to constitutional controversies. In this compelling and fascinating book, Brian Kalt...
C. R. Ashbee
Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist
Charles Robert Ashbee—architect, designer, social reformer, and a major force behind the Arts and Crafts Movement—was one of the most significant figures in British artistic and cultural life at the turn of the century....
Boyle
Between God and Science
Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world’s most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker—pioneering the modern experimental method...
Yale French Studies, Number 124
Walter Benjamin’s Hypothetical French Trauerspiel
In the summer of 1927, Walter Benjamin wrote about a possible future project on what he called French Trauerspiel, or mourning drama. In this volume of Yale French Studies, an international team of...
Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting
The World in the Workbench
The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members...
A New Handbook of Literary Terms
An indispensable literary reference guide that comes at a time of formidable complexity in literary studiesA New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts...