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Short-Term Counseling
Guidelines Based on Recent Research
How can counselors be most effective in advising clients who seek help in making vital decisions concerning health, career, marriage or other aspects of their personal lives? Irving Janis offers this practical guide, basing...
The Evolution of the Flightless Bird
Richard Kenney's The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, the winning volume in the 1983 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, was selected from among 650 entries in this annual competition. All...
The French Correction
Grammatical Problems for Review and Reference
"This useful and approachable book can...do much to help students at the intermediate level and beyond to identify many of the more troublesome points of idiomatic French usage. It probably should be required reading in...
Memoirs of King George II
The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs
Justice Accused
Antislavery and the Judicial Process
What should a judge do when he must hand down a ruling based on a law that he considers unjust or oppressive? This question is examined through a series of problems concerning unjust law that arose with respect to slavery in...
The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain
An important study that establishes what Victorian writers said about Greek culture and how their interpretations both molded and reflected the attitudes and values of the Victorian age.“No doubt about it, The...
Conversations in Modern Standard Arabic
The Arab peoples of Africa and the Middle East speak to each other in a variety of local dialects, but the language that serves educated Arabs all over the world when they need to converse across national boundaries is...
Which Road to the Past?
Two Views of History
Two distinguished historians, one an advocate of the new scientific or “cliometric” history and the other a traditional historian, debate the validity of their respective methods of studying the past. While they differ...
John Ruskin
The Early Years 1819-1859
This authoritative biography of John Ruskin, the most influential nineteenth-century critic of art and society, is the fruit of almost twenty years of research and the first to return to the original sources. It draws on the...
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Horace Walpole's "Miscellany" 1786-1795
The Miscellany is Horace Walpole's third and last "book of materials," or literary notebook. Laris Troide has supplied here a transcription of that text together with an introduction and extensive notes providing the...