Baum's story of Dorothy, carried by a cyclone from a Kansas farm to the land of the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion, was published in May 1900. By the following January, 100,000 copies had been sold, and the book has ever since been an undisputed favorite. The original illustrations by Den[...]

W. H. Auden called opera the 'last refuge of the High Style', and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his earlier attempts to write public, political drama. Op[...]

From the team that brought you the bestselling Understanding Classical Sociology (SAGE Publications, 1995), we now have a companion volume dealing with the modern period of social theory. An introductory chapter situates the reader in the main changes in society and sociology following the classic p[...]

Focuses on steady-state enzyme kinetics. This book covers kinetic mechanism, relative rates of steps along the reaction pathway, and chemical mechanism - including acid-base chemistry and transition state structure. It is intended for enzymologists and molecular biologists.[...]

Demonstrates the workings of the paranoid process and therapeutic approaches to it for a wide variety of clinical syndromes, particularly the psychoses, borderline states and narcissistic disorders. Meissner also discusses clinical problems concerning adolescence, ageing, suicide and addiction.[...]

In his latest book of interviews, Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change. He reveals his latest thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and lays out a compelling[...]

This 1931 book was written to replace The Elementary Principles of Roman Law, but it is not a second edition of that book. It is more systematic in plan: it aims at giving a central view of the different institutions of the Private Law and of the notions which underlie them. But its purpose is the s[...]