This book carefully examines the historical roots of contemporary Western prejudices against both Muslims and Turks, and presents an original theory of collective identity as dramatic reenactment as a means of understanding the remarkable persistence of medieval stereotypes.[...]
This detailed analysis of slavery in the antebellum South was written in 1975 in response to the prior year's publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's controversial "Time on the Cross", which argued that slavery was an efficient and dynamic engine for the southern economy and that its succ[...]
At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture--an entirely new social reality based on science an[...]
Experimental research has shown that people miss apparently obvious visual discontinuities -- a phenomenon known as "change blindness." For example, in one experiment, subjects watching a brief film of a conversation between two actors did not notice that in some shots one actor appeared wearing a l[...]
Provides brief biographies of seventy extraordinary women of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ranging from Akka Mahadevi, an Indian saint and poet, to Katharina Zell, a German Protestant humanitarian.[...]
'Made me consciously think about different aspects of presentations and furthermore gave me some very good ideas and 'little tricks' to keep the audience focussed' - MSc Management student. 'Will it be useful? Oh yeah! This gave me a lot of tools to do a good presentation and also to analyse other p[...]
'I was getting badly behind with my work - missing deadlines and not covering essential ground. Peter's practical suggestions have helped me prioritize my tasks, make much better use of my time, and get back on track' - BSc Economics student. Are you, like many other students, faced with complex and[...]
"I honestly found this better than my dissertation supervisor. It was never off my desk and I scanned it thoroughly and followed it religiously. Highly recommended with a proven technique to help you gain a good mark!" ("Amazon reviewer"). "This book is, well...excellent! Simply and succinctly it ta[...]
Hopper is generally considered the major twentieth-century realist. Such paintings as House by the Railroad, Early Sunday Morning, and Nighthawks seem to embody the very character of our time. Yet few people have penetrated the mask of Hopper's public image. Here, Gail Levin has gone beyond the stan[...]
The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent cri[...]
Over the decades, the lines separating young- middle-aged-, and older adults have blurred, as indicated by a broadening of the appropriate years for making life decisions. Not only are many people marrying later, but some are marrying earlier than ever. Overall, women giving birth later, but some [...]
She is a housewife--young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor--charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home--a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. . . . Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin--where terror is as n[...]
For more than two centuries, our political life has been divided between a party of progress and a party of conservation. In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the origins of the left/right divide by examining the views of the men who best represented each side of that debate at its outset: Edmu[...]
"This book is to be recommended as a standard shelf reference . . . and as a âmustâ to be read by all who wish to better use and understand data involving dichotomous or dichotomizable measurements."
â American Journal of Psychiatry In the two decades since the second[...]