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Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and controversial politicians of our century, a man whose influence on American conservatism led President Ronald Reagan to honor him with the title "Mr....
The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico
This fascinating, richly illustrated book explores basic Precolumbian beliefs about the soul among ancient Mesoamerican peoples. It focuses on the Central Mexican Aztecs—called the Mexica—who believed in multiple souls that...
In the Shadow of War
The United States since the 1930s
In this magisterial book, a prize-winning historian shows how war has defined modern America. Michael Sherry argues that America's intense preoccupation with war emerged on the eve of World War II, marking a turning point as...
Tomorrow's Hospital
A Look to the Twenty-first Century
Hospital costs and the fees for physicians who treat patients admitted for inpatient care currently account for about half of the annual health care spending in the United States (around one trillion dollars). This situation...
The Women's Awakening in Egypt
Culture, Society, and the Press
Between 1892 and 1920 nearly thirty Arabic periodicals by, for, and about women were produced in Egypt for circulation throughout the Arab world. This flourishing women's press provided a forum for debating such topics as the...
Fifteen Modern Polish Short Stories
An Annotated Reader and a Glossary
Mr. Schenker now supplements his Beginning Polish with a selection of fifteen unabridged, annotated short stories, each by a different author, to be used in beginning and intermediate college courses in Polish. All of...
Functions of Sleep
This remarkable book brings together vast amounts of information and knowledge about a question that has always captured man’s imagination: Why do we sleep?The author begins with a pungent review of historical and...
The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volumes 1-25
Abstracts and Index
The completeness and excellence of the abstracts make this volume a valuable guide and reference book for all students and scholars who do not own the complete set. For those who do own the first twenty-five volumes, the...
Early Old Babylonian Documents
The largest group of texts from the interval between the fall out of Ur (c. 2000 B.C.) and the accession of Hammurapi (c. 1800 B.C.) to be published in a single volume. In presenting this material together for the first time,...
The Horse of Pride
Life in a Breton Village
“A marvelous chronicle of Breton lives and life, seen largely through the eyes of a child grown old, remembering how it used to be, in the years between the two world wars. The memoirs are magnificent. . . . The...