Performing patriotism

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleDuring the eighteenth century, North American colonists began to display an increasing appetite for professional and amateur theatrical performances and a familiarity with the British dramatic canon ranging from the tragedies of Shakespe...

Folktales from iraq

Who would not shudder when entering the skeleton-lined cave of the queen of the dead? How would a young man and his sister escape from the prison of a treacherous sultan? How would a poor farmer gain the hand of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest sheik? These and thirteen more tales are spu...

Positioning pensions for the twenty-first century

As the United States comes to terms with the pending insolvency of social security, workers are increasingly pinning their hopes for retirement adequacy on employer-sponsored plans. Positioning Pensions for the Twenty-First Century analyzes the role of pensions in retirement security, examining h...

The free man

The revolutionary patriot known as Henry Free had come to America as the boy Henner Dellicker—his new life as different as his name and the childhood he left behind in Germany. He had traveled to colonial Philadelphia in a ship crowded with starving emigrants, only to discover that it was indentu...

History of ideas about the prolongation of life

This study aims to trace the origin and evolution of the idea of prolongevity: the belief that it is possible and desirable to extend significantly the length of life by human action. Primary attention is given to developments before the end of the 18th century. There are, however, numerous refer...

Infectious anemias due to bartonella and related red cell parasites

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Illustration.

Feminist anthropology

Bringing together distinguished scholars and original voices from anthropology's diverse subfields, Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future probes critical issues in the study of gender, sex, and sexuality. Contributors offer significant reflections on feminist anthropology's winding tra...

Paradise restored

This is a print on demand ed. Since the Renaissance, historians, philosophers, and others have judged the positive and negative contributions of the Middle Ages (MA) to the development of Western civilization. These writers have assessed the extent to which medieval culture and institutions may h...

Ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the opuntia cactus

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Selling style

As the turn of the twentieth century approached, clothing and fashion reflected Americans' concerns with the rapidly changing social and cultural landscape. Clothing helped define social status, relationships between men and women, and ideals of American citizenship. The heightened importance of ...

India against itself

In an era of failing states and ethnic conflict, violent challenges from dissenting groups in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, several African countries, and India give cause for grave concern in much of the world. And it is in India where some of the most turbulent of these clashe...

Cultural intermediaries

Focusing on an epoch of spectacular demographic, political, economic, and cultural changes for European Jewry, Cultural Intermediaries chronicles the lives and thinking of ten Jewish intellectuals of the Renaissance, nine of them from Italy and one a Portuguese exile who settled in the Ottoman em...

Universal jurisdiction

When former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London at the request of a Spanish judge, the world's attention was focused for the first time on the idea of universal jurisdiction. Universal jurisdiction stands for the principle that atrocities such as genocide, torture, and war cr...

Revision of the tenebrionidae of america, north of mexico

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Pure resistance

The unmarried "care for the things of the Lord," said St. Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians, while married men and women "care for the things of the world." The doctrine that virginity for both men and women is superior to marriage remained strong in Augustine, who believed that consecr...

Greater new jersey

Living within the influence of one of the largest and most important cities in the world, how does New Jersey define itself? Is it simply a region of commuters, or have communities created effective local governments and satisfying cultural activities for one of the most diverse populations in th...

The religion of israel

An historical approach to the Old Testament, emphasizing the spiritual and social forces that influenced the period, the great creative personalities, and the changes in organization and ethical practice.

Contributions to ethnography and philology of the indian tribes of the missouri valley

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Mark twain in the company of women

Riverboat pilot, Western correspondent, silver prospector, and world traveler, Samuel Clemens has long seemed the quintessential man's man. To Laura Skandera-Trombley, however, he is a writer who intentionally surrounded himself with women, one whose capacity to produce fiction had almost as much...

Troubled experiment

Eighteenth-century Pennsylvanians killed and abused each other at a pace that outstripped most of their English and American contemporaries and rivaled some of the worst crime rates in the following 200 years. They victimized their kin and neighbors as well as their enemies and rivals, and the po...

Quaker aesthetics

The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domestic interiors is a subject with which scholars have long grappled, since Quakers have traditionally held both an appreciation for high-quality workmanship and a distrust of ostentation. Early Quakers, or members of the Society...

Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 16, part 2, 1888

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Ngos and human rights

The proliferation of nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, is one of the most striking features of contemporary international politics. While states remain the major protectors—and abusers—of human rights, NGOs such as Amnesty International have emerged as central players in the promotion of hu...

Invested with meaning

In the closing decades of the sixteenth century, England attempted its first colonial expansion into the New World through planned settlements in Ireland, Newfoundland, Virginia, and Guiana. All of these colonial efforts were unsuccessful. Yet these projects were a significant cultural force in e...

History of the pelycosauria, with a description of the genus dimetrodon, cope

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

A history of the gardens of versailles

The gardens of Versailles are perhaps the most famous in the world. Seemingly open to the horizon, their scale is monumental. Their grand east-west axis celebrates the Sun King, even as they offer an expression of the scientific spirit of the age in their geometrical layout and exploitation of th...

Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 14, part 3, 1871

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

The revolution of 1905 and russia's jews

The 1905 Revolution in Russia ushered in an unprecedented (though brief) period of social and political freedom in the Russian Empire. This environment made possible the emergence of mass Jewish politics and the flourishing of a new, modern Jewish culture expressed in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian...

Organized business and the myth of the china market

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Joachim du bellay

To the Reader:This little book, reader, that we give you now has at once the taste of gall and honey mixed with salt. If it pleases your palate, come as a guest. This feast has been prepared for you. If not, please go away. I did not mean to invite you to the feast.Joachim du Bellay (1522-60) was...

Saros cycle dates and related babylonian astronomical texts

These texts are probably from Babylon, although their exact provenance is unknown. All concern luni-solar phenomena with the exception of a text on the last visibility of Mercury, which is found on one side of a tablet whose other side deals with lunar eclipse magnitudes & longitudes. The tex...

Plant colonization studies on black wastes from [anthracite] mining in pennsylvania

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Moravian architecture and town planning

The industrial city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was originally settled in colonial times by Moravians from southeastern Germany. These religious utopians were noted for urban planning. In this large-format, richly illustrated volume, historian William Murtagh compares more than 20 Bethlehem landm...

Cape gelidonya

This book forms the final report of the underwater excavation which the author directed at Cape Gelidonya, Turkey, in 1960, for the Univ. Museum of the Univ. of PA. The formation of such a novel excavation, involving divers and equipment from five countries, took an unusual amount of paperwork. T...

Emblems of desire

This is the first large-scale English translation of Maurice Scève's poem cycle Délie, originally published in Lyons in 1544 and only rediscovered in the early twentieth century as one of the great forgotten masterpieces of French poetry. A contemporary of Sir Thomas Wyatt in England, Sceve occup...

Creole america

Innovative in its scope and conceptual frameworks, Creole America reveals how literary culture in the New Republic period is formed not only by expansionist designs on the North American continent but also by a push for commercial empire in the hemisphere via the roots and routes of the West Indi...

The first crusade and the idea of crusading

Focusing on the inner workings of the First Crusade in a way that no other work has done, The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading delves into the Crusade's organization, its finances, and the division of authority and responsibility among its leaders and their relationships with one another a...

Pension mathematics with numerical illustrations

A text that quantifies and provides new or improved actuarial notation for long recognized pension cost concepts and procedures and, in certain areas, develops new insights and techniques. With the exception of the first few chapters, the text is a virtual rewrite of the first edition of 1977. Am...

Indoeuropean classification

The lexicostatistical method is frequently used to gain information about family trees of languages which are not accessible in study by more traditional methods. The first & major purpose of this work is to validate the lexicostatistical method by presenting the classification it yields for ...

Theory of garden art

C.C.L. Hirschfeld was perhaps the most important writer on gardens and landscape in eighteenth-century Germany. Acclaimed as the "father of landscape garden art," he was influential not just in Germany but also in France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Russia. Popular with both...

Liquid assets, dangerous gifts

In this book Valentin Groebner addresses the notions and practices of gift giving in late medieval and early modern Europe between 1400 and 1550. Focusing on the prosperous cities of the Upper Rhine, it explores the uses of gifts in political ritual and the different functions of these donations....

Early history of the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters and of pangenesis

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction; (I) The inheritance of acquired characters: From the beginning to the 16th century; 16th century records; 17th century records; 18th century records; Some 19th century records to the time of Charles Darwin; (II) Pangenesis: Records fr...

Becoming greece

Enjoy the original ideas and heroes of the Greeks: the developers of philosophy, history, drama, geometry, architecture, and science. Their achievements have had an immeasurable impact on the world today. Becoming Greece weaves together an exciting narrative with extensive passages from Greek his...

While america slept

Robert C. O'Brien's collection of essays on U.S. national security and foreign policy, with a forward by Hugh Hewitt, is a wake up call to the American people. The world has become steadily more dangerous under President Obama's "lead from behind" foreign policy. The Obama Administration's foreig...

Why we walk on eggshells

Political and social movements seldom appear out of nowhere. They have roots. Some of the Woke Era’s roots lie in our civil rights laws. By prohibiting discrimination, these laws were intended calm tensions among the races and between the sexes. And they’ve had a lot of success. But some c...

Futurepast

Analyzing the terminal narcissism of our present, and contrasting it with the conviviality of our past (and possible future), Gasda navigates beyond the binary of blind techno-optimism and the equally naïve “return to tradition,” a dichotomy that’s plagued and stalled our discourse. Instead, he c...

I know best

In 1979, Christopher Lasch published the epochal The Culture of Narcissism warning of the normalizing of narcissism in our society. Lasch may have understated it. 35 years later, in the Obama era with its parade of endless, often inexplicable, scandals we have a full blown epidemic of what has re...

Becoming rome

Follow the Romans through Kingship, Republic, and Empire. Understand their society, their values, their heroes, their victories, and their defeats. The name “Rome” brings to mind an array of images: a Senate, an empire, an army, the Seven Hills, the seat of Christianity, and the marvels of engine...

Golden ikigai

In Golden Ikigai: Unlock Japanese Secrets to a Life of Purpose and Joy After 50, Tim Tamashiro, the author of the bestselling How To Ikigai, offers a powerful guide for those over 50 to unlock a life rich with purpose and joy. Drawing from both timeless wisdom and evidence-based practices, this b...

The crochet bag recipe book

Crochet Bags Made Fun, Modern, and Sustainable The Crochet Bag Recipe Book is the debut pattern collection from designer and social media creator Hannah Bygalk (Bygalk)—a modern, beginner‑friendly guide to crochet bag patterns that you’ll actually carry. With step‑by‑step photos, QR video tutoria...

Dubai chocolate at home

Master the Viral Dubai Chocolate Viral meets doable: Dubai Chocolate at Home shows home bakers how to master the internet-famous Dubai chocolate and spin it into 50 craveable recipes for every occasion. From 10-minute truffles to party-ready cakes, this book contains everything you need to create...

New york jews and the civil war

The Civil War, a watershed event in American history, marked a climactic moment in the history of New York’s Jewish community. Jews served and died on the battlefield, attended to wounded soldiers, sewed uniforms for soldiers and mourned the death of their President with as much depth as the Chri...

Absolutely not new york

From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, the newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy. But what would it look like, and where would it be? At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only o...

Studies in the short fiction of mahfouz and idris

In this comparative approach to the works of two major contemporary Egyptian writers, Mona Mikhail identifies existentialism as a major force in their work. Her close examination of the images and metaphors that recur in the short fiction of those two writers shows strong affinities with the work...

Toward anthropology of women

This anthology is considered one of the groundbreaking collections of feminist essays published in the 1970’s, and includes works by authors such as Sally Slocum. The ideas expressed in this collection are heavily focused towards the development of universal explanations and helpful dichotomies.

Bronx tales

In these vignettes of life along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, the New York Times’s Constance Rosenblum examines the place of art in this community— its installation, its reception by local residents, and the debates that often surround it. From the growing popularity of European-style Art De...

Walter pater

Religion morality & the law

In this thirtieth annual volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy's NOMOS series, entitled Religion, Morality and the Law , twelve distinguished contributers consider a diverse selection of topics. Included are essays on "Natural Law and Creation Stories," "Divine Sancti...

Peer victimization among children and youth

The bigfoot book

The definitive guide to Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti, and other man-primates from an established author and respected expert on the unexplained and paranormal. Does a hulking, hairy, 800-pound, nine-foot-tall, elusive primate roam the woods and forests throughout North America—and the world? What sh...

The ufo dossier

Trained intelligence officer and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel looks at the evidence, unravels government accounts, and exposes misleading UFO research! Does the U.S. government know more about UFO and alien life than it admits? Are eyewitnesses telling the truth? What does the historical...

The handy english grammar answer book

The first, best place to turn for an overview of English grammar! Researching, writing, and citing. Hiring, firing, and selling. Texting, blogging, and posting. Whether you are writing a term paper, a scientific article, a résumé, a business email, a text message, or on social media, The Handy En...

The handy technology answer book

Exploring technology and how it made—and continues to change—the modern world! Technology pervades our daily lives and modern society, and not just when it comes to computers and smart phones. Before there was the computer, there was the abacus. Before the smart phone, there was the telegraph an...

The handy technology answer book

Exploring technology and how it made—and continues to change—the modern world! Technology pervades our daily lives and modern society, and not just when it comes to computers and smart phones. Before there was the computer, there was the abacus. Before the smart phone, there was the telegraph an...

Punk

The last word on the movement that shook the world.“A gloriously vociferous encyclopaedia for the Blank Generation. It's all here in staggering chapter and verse: how Punk came and changed the world forever.” Jake Arnott, author of The Long Firm and He Kills CoppersPunk: The Last Word is a powerf...

Glorious technicolor

This is a full account of the dazzling Technicolor years that turned the screen from silver to every color of the rainbow. Here in one volume are the films, the stars, the showmen and all the elements behind the phenomenon that changed movies forever. Beautiful film stills and rare behind-the-sce...

Critique and conviction

Criticism and Conviction offers a rare opportunity to share personally in the intellectual life and journey of the eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Internationally known for his influential works in hermeneutics, theology, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, until now, Ricoeur has been conspicuously...

Nietzsche and philosophy

Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche's philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation. Yet this is more than a major work on Nietzsche: the book opened a whole new avenue in post-war...

Mastering wartime

Mastering Wartime is the first comprehensive study of a Northern city during the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman argues that, although the war posed numerous challenges to Philadelphia's citizens, the city's institutions and traditions proved to be sufficiently resilient to adjust to the crisis wit...

Imagining philadelphia

In travel narratives, in correspondence, in diaries, and even in fiction, travelers to Philadelphia have bequeathed to us a bounty of "as many Philadelphias as there are observers." Philip Stevick's collection of outsiders' observations captures what the visitors thought they saw and how it felt ...

Intimate bicycle tours of philadelphia

In a series of ten short, easy routes, Intimate Bicycle Tours of Philadelphia takes readers through vibrant Philadelphia neighborhoods, revealing a treasure trove of cultural riches normally missed when traveling by car. On tiny streets, elegant boulevards, and bicycle paths, readers are guided p...

Making houses, crafting capitalism

In the decades after the American Revolution, as Philadelphia became a center of political and economic power, the city experienced extraordinary population growth, increasing from 60,000 to 400,000 inhabitants between 1790 and 1850. By tracing the business strategies of several hundred housebuil...

Printers and men of capital

An important phase in the American book trade's shift from colonial craft work to nineteenth-century big business took place in the early national period, as printers began to take on the risks of book publishing by creating and serving new markets. The focus of Printers and Men of Capital is a g...

Double thunder

Li Tai-tai, known as Bittersweet, returns to her hometown of Guilin, China in the 1970s after having lived 15 years in the United States. Her quiet routine is disrupted when a mysterious blue-eyed Chinese man appears on her doorstep and, without explanation, gives her a seemingly ordinary quilt. ...

The handy hockey answer book

Hockey's history, its origins, rules, players, and more! Stick handlers without helmets rushing goaltenders without masks on rinks lacking sideboards gives way to a faster game with bigger players and overtime shootouts. The National Hockey League goes from a Canadian and regional sport to one t...

The handy english grammar answer book

The first, best place to turn for an overview of English grammar! Researching, writing, and citing. Hiring, firing, and selling. Texting, blogging, and posting. Whether you are writing a term paper, a scientific article, a résumé, a business email, a text message, or on social media, The Handy En...

Thomas jefferson’s garden book, 1766-1824

This “Garden Book” contains the most varied entries of all Thomas Jefferson’s memorandum books. The book that began as a diary of the garden became a written repository for numerous interests of Jefferson. The entries range from contracts with overseers, plans for building roads and fish ponds, a...

Ordinary economies in japan

Tetsuo Najita explores a powerful theme in the economic thought and practice of ordinary citizens in late Tokugawa and early modern Japan. He examines commoners’ writings on the virtues of commerce, the reconstruction of villages, and groups offering credit and loans, particularly the traditional...

Rising people

Catalogue of a joint exhibition to celebrate the American Bicentennial, held in Philadelphia from April 28 through Nov. 1976, with materials from the collections of the American Philosophical Soc. (APS), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and The Library Company of Philadelphia. The catalogu...

2003

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Register zu band 226 (1978) bis 245 (1987)

Healing communities in conflict

From Rwanda to Bosnia-Herzegovina to Kosovo and beyond, devastating human tragedies have torn apart communities—and too often, the international response has been ineffective. Here now is a wealth of pragmatic information on how the international community can help these regions rebuild their com...

You're way too cheeky, chigaya-kun!: e-book

Ever since her cheeky junior, Chigaya, made her the sole target of his teasing, Natsune has tried to keep her composure. But when he suddenly falls ill and she finds herself tending to him, the distance she worked so hard to maintain begins to blur. With him close enough for her to hear every sof...

“red” banks

How China’s banking sector powered the world’s most dramatic economic transformation. “Red” Banks: The Contribution of Chinese Banks to the Economic Rise of China (1980-2020) opens the vault, revealing how policy banks, state-owned giants, and daring joint-stock institutions fueled China’s rise ...

Fanny

Set in Boston, Fanny is a fictionalized autobiography recounting a relationship between a white defrocked Canadian priest and an Afro-American woman.

Post-soviet power

ENGPost-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural ref...

Socio-poiesis: a theory on liberation and suffering

An exploration of the theory of Socio-Poiesis and how it converges with the ideas of a wide range of thinkers, from anthropologists to philosophers and psychoanalysts. Socio-Poiesis is a neologism coined to integrate and intersect theory and practice across several branches of the humanities, i...

Buraku, capitalism and the state in japan

An illuminating analysis of how Buraku discrimination shaped nation-building in Japan and how resistance movements have challenged the ongoing domination of Buraku people. Applying universal themes, this book analyzes the discrimination faced by and the (re)construction of the Buraku people duri...

The girl who danced with giants

Iviit doesn’t want to stay at her camp and clean skins. It’s so boring! She would much rather go exploring and sing and dance. One day, Iviit sneaks away from her camp and meets a new friend named Kaaktuq. But Kaaktuq is no ordinary friend—he is a giant! Iviit and Kaaktuq spend a fun summer tog...

Mia and the monsters: the monsters learn to share

Mia is hoping to spend time with her monster friends, but they are being difficult and don’t want to share! Follow along with Mia as she tries to bring her monster friends together to teach them about the importance of sharing.

2026

The IJBF is the only regularly published, truly international, Festschrift bibliography. Since 1983, more than 960,000 articles from more than 44,000 Festschriften, published between 1977 and 2025, have been catalogued. 

2027

Das Bayerische Jahrbuch verzeichnet Behörden, Ministerien, Körperschaften und mit ihnen verbundene Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Lebens im Freistaat Bayern:  Behörden und Dienststellen der staatlichen und kommunalen Verwaltung die GerichtsbarkeitInteressenverbände und andere Organisationen aus ...

Restored lives dvd

A course for anyone trying to recover relationship breakdown, separation or divorce. Seven full DVD presentations.

Prayers on the move travel card wallet

An attractive and useful 'Prayers on the Move' travel card holder

Praise him: songs of praise in the new testament

Praise Him is part of the highly popular series of open-minded York Courses for discussion groups and individual reflection, crammed with questions to stimulate thought and lively debate.

Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is part of the highly popular series of open-minded York Courses for discussion groups and individual reflection, crammed with questions to stimulate thought and lively debate

You can be serious! meeting jesus afresh in john's gospel

This inspiring York Course on John’s Gospel, the most mysterious of all the gospel accounts of the life of Christ, invites us to meet Jesus afresh . . . an ideal study for Lent or any time of the year