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Out of Place
Restoring Identity to the Regional Landscape
Why do modern cities, suburbs, and industrial and farming landscapes all tend to look alike despite their regional settings? In this generously illustrated and provocative book, a landscape architect argues that the...
Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference
No issue has been more central to the American women’s movement than sexual difference. This book offers a unique study of the nature, origins, and consequences of sexual difference. Leading scholars in history,...
Paul the Convert
The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee
Although Paul’s writings have been intensively studied by Christian theologians, they have been dismissed by Jewish scholars as the meditations of an antagonistic apostate who broke completely with his Jewish past....
Competence Considered
In this fascinating book, a distinguished group of psychologists presents the latest research on competence and incompetence—real and perceived—from childhood through adulthood. This book brings the insights of social and...
When a Baby Dies
Psychotherapy for Pregnancy and Newborn Loss
This is the first full-length exploration of psychotherapy for those who have experienced the loss of a baby during pregnancy or in the first few weeks of life. Using many case reports, Irving G. Leon integrates recent work...
The Death of Literature
Literature has passed through a crisis of confidence in recent decades—a radical questioning of its traditional values and its importance to humanity. In this witty and eloquent book, a distinguished professor of humanities...
Women and the Work of Benevolence
Morality, Politics, and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Nineteenth-century middle-class Protestant women were fervent in their efforts to "do good." Rhetoric—especially in the antebellum years—proclaimed that virtue was more pronounced in women than in men and praised women for...
Abe Fortas
A Biography
Abe Fortas was a New Dealer, a sub-cabinet official, the founder of an eminent Washington law firm, a lose adviser to Lyndon Johnson, and a Supreme Court justice. Nominated by Johnson to be Chief Justice, he was...
Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process
In modern industrial democracies, the making of public policy is dependent on policy analysis—the generation, discussion, and evaluation of policy alternatives. Policy analysis is often characterized, especially by economists...
The Generals of Saratoga
John Burgoyne and Horatio Gate
This lively and colorful work offers a fresh account of the Saratoga campaign of 1777 through the lives of its opposing generals--John Burgoyne, the British commander, and Horatio Gates, the American (but British-born)...