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Gold Seeker
Adventures of a Belgian Argonaut during the Gold Rush Years
“A splendid piece of Americana, for Perlot was a witty, gingery, intelligent man with a sharp eye for significant detail. . . . His book . . . has been translated and thoroughly annotated by the late Helen Harding Bretnor,...
George Ball
Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy
Diplomat and "wise man" George Ball wielded enormous influence in American foreign policy for more than forty years. Best known for his dissent from U.S. Vietnam policy when he was under secretary of state during the Kennedy...
Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England, 1500-1800
Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy—the social and cultural dominance of the male—has long been a fundamental feature of...
Participation in Congress
For every issue that arises on the legislative agenda, each member of Congress must make two decisions: What position to take and how active to be. The first has been thoroughly studied. But little is understood about the...
Thinking Ecologically
The Next Generation of Environmental Policy
Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so contaminated that it caught fire, air pollution in some cities was thick enough to taste, and environmental laws focused on the obvious enemy: large American factories...
Igbo-English Dictionary
A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index
This is the first comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the Igbo language, one of the three national languages of Nigeria. Michael J. C. Echeruo, a native speaker of Igbo, focuses on basic words and phrases that the...
Yale French Studies, Number 92
Exploring the Conversible World: Text and Sociability from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment
In a famous essay, David Hume located the Republic of Letters in the domain of the "conversible," that is, in the space of sociability, conversation, and the observation of common life. The present volume explores the...
Preschool Education in America
The Culture of Young Children from the Colonial Era to the Present
This comprehensive history describes policies and programs for the education of three-, four-, and five-year-olds in the United States from the colonial era to the present. It also traces efforts to make preschool education a...
The Supervisory Encounter
A Guide for Teachers of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Good supervision is crucial to the training of any therapist. Yet most who are asked to supervise receive little instruction in how best to proceed. What is missing is a theory and technique of supervision that can help them...
The Peopling of Africa
A Geographic Interpretation
Discovering the African past takes one on a journey back to the origins of humanity over four million years ago, which is where James L. Newman begins his account of the continent's peoples. He ends it at the onset of the...