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Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1987
ISBN 10: 0801494583ISBN 13: 9780801494581
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Softcover. Condition: Good. F Second Printing. There are writing marks (mostly pencil markings) in the book. Binding is tight.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0801491304ISBN 13: 9780801491306
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Later prt. Verses predominantly from The Black Rider and War is Kind demonstrate the American realist poet's use of irony. Bibliogs.
Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1978
ISBN 10: 0801411750ISBN 13: 9780801411755
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Well-known and influential writings of Sartre are examined to establish their influence on modern philosophy, literature, and historical theory.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 0801495881ISBN 13: 9780801495885
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. Book by Poster, Mark.
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Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1980
ISBN 10: 0801491800ISBN 13: 9780801491801
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Softcover. Condition: Good. European and American scholars consider the problems of modern criticism and the impact of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and semiology on the analysis of literature.
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Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0801494761ISBN 13: 9780801494765
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. Gilman, Sander L.
Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1990
ISBN 10: 0801497698ISBN 13: 9780801497698
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 'Private Terror/ Public Life' looks at the narratives--harrowing, beautiful, depressing, inspiring--of people whom society considers to be psychically disabled, people whose inner worlds force them outside the community.<br /><br />David, a mental patient, believes himself to be a particle zooming through the skies to war; Ruth's present reality on the ward is Auschwitz, 1943; Julia uses razor blades as tools of self-mutilation, also as teddy bears. The first-person narratives of these severely disturbed people--all patients at Sheppard-Pratt hospital in Towson, Md.--distill terror, anguish, loneliness. But even as delusions erode their human connections, these individuals, according to Glass, reveal an irrepressible drive for community and relations built on trust. In a remarkable, hope-giving study, Glass ( Delusion ), professor at the University of Maryland, examines the "political self" that survives in patients classified as beyond help as he visits a Vermont residential treatment center, Israeli kibbutzim and Geel, a Belgian town which attempts to integrate the chronically mentally ill into the community.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0801407249ISBN 13: 9780801407246
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Examination of the two versions of Arcadia.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0875463126ISBN 13: 9780875463124
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised, Subsequent. "Points the way to widened worker participation, greater employment security, and improved competitiveness for workers and employers alike." William Batt, U.S. Department of Labor.
Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 0801493838ISBN 13: 9780801493836
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Book by.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 0801481023ISBN 13: 9780801481024
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This powerful book documents--in images and words--the unsettling experience of a dozen men and women workers who lost their jobs in the steel mills of Buffalo, New York, and had to fashion new lives for themselves. A stunning collection of revealing narratives that bears witness to wrenching changes in the American economy. Photographs.
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Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 080149317XISBN 13: 9780801493171
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Traces the life of the German-born composer from his birth in 1864 to the composition of Elektra in 1909, and assesses the development of his music.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0801491398ISBN 13: 9780801491399
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. For students of political philosophy, the history of religion, and medieval civilization, this book provides a rich storehouse of medieval thought drawn from Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources. Twenty-five important works, many never before translated into English, are included in their entirety or in substantial and coherent selections.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 0801441188ISBN 13: 9780801441189
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. Why do we die? Do all living creatures share this fate? Is the body's slow degradation with the passage of time unavoidable, or can the secrets of longevity be unlocked? Over the past two decades, scientists studying the workings of genes and cells have uncovered some of the clues necessary to solve these mysteries. In this fascinating and accessible book, two neurobiologists share the often-surprising findings from that research, including the possibility that aging and natural death may not be forever a certainty for most living beings. André Klarsfeld and Frédéric Revah discuss in detail the latest scientific findings and views on death and longevity. They challenge many popular assumptions, such as the idea that the death of individual organisms serves to rejuvenate species or that death and sexual reproduction are necessarily linked. Finally, they describe current experimental approaches to postpone natural death in lower organisms as well as in mammals. Are all organisms that survive until late in life condemned to a "natural" death, as a consequence of aging, even if they live in a well-protected, supportive environment? The variability of the adult life span-from a few hours for some insects to more than a millennium for the sequoia and thirteen times that for certain wild berry bushes-challenges the notion that death is unavoidable. Evolutionary theory helps explain why and how some species have achieved biological mechanisms that seemingly allow them to resist time. Death cannot be understood without looking into cells-the essential building blocks of life. Intriguingly, at the level of cells, death is not always an accident; it is often programmed as an indispensable aspect of life, which benefits the organism as a whole.
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Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 0801447631ISBN 13: 9780801447631
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. " "Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers." "Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers." "Faking the Grade." Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagiarism and cheating in American colleges: more than 75 percent of students admit to having cheated; 68 percent admit to cutting and pasting material from the Internet without citation. Professors are reminded almost daily that many of today's college students operate under an entirely new set of assumptions about originality and ethics. Practices that even a decade ago would have been regarded almost universally as academically dishonest are now commonplace. Is this development an indication of dramatic shifts in education and the larger culture? In a book that dismisses hand-wringing in favor of a rich account of how students actually think and act, Susan D. Blum discovers two cultures that exist, often uneasily, side by side in the classroom. Relying extensively on interviews conducted by students with students, My Word! presents the voices of today's young adults as they muse about their daily activities, their challenges, and the meanings of their college lives. Outcomes-based secondary education, the steeply rising cost of college tuition, and an economic climate in which higher education is valued for its effect on future earnings above all else: These factors each have a role to play in explaining why students might pursue good grades by any means necessary. These incentives have arisen in the same era as easily accessible ways to cheat electronically and with almost intolerable pressures that result in many students being diagnosed as clinically depressed during their transition from childhood to adulthood." -- Book jacket.
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Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0801481007ISBN 13: 9780801481000
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Third. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1994"Burke's study is unique in that it distills many of the previous efforts to address the interface between history and social theory into a concentrated, elegantly written, and thought-provoking analysis of key problems. . . . Excellent, comprehensive index and bibliography. Highly recommended."--ChoiceBurke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence in recent decades as he reappraises the current relations between them.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0801495385ISBN 13: 9780801495380
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Short stories exlore the experiences of women and their place in the society of Latin America.
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Published by Brand: Zona Tropical / Comstock / Cornell University Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 080147373XISBN 13: 9780801473739
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Dean, Robert (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. "Graced with bounteous natural beauty, a stable democratic government, and friendly citizens, Costa Rica has become a popular destination for travelers from all over the world. Birds play a prominent role in attracting visitors, too. The shimmering quetzals, gaudy macaws, and comical toucans only begin to hint at the impressive avian diversity to be found throughout this small country."from the IntroductionThis is the one field guide the novice or experienced birder needs to identify birds in the field in the diverse habitats found in Costa Rica. It features descriptions and illustrations of more than 820 resident and neotropical migrant species found in Costa Rica, all in a compact, portable, user-friendly design. The detailed full-color illustrations show identifying featuresincluding plumage differences among males, females, and juvenilesand views of birds in flight wherever pertinent. Additional features of this all-new guide include:* 166 original color plates depicting more than 820 species.* Concise text that describes key field marks for positive identification, as well as habitat, behavior, and vocalizations. * Range maps and texts arranged on opposing pages from illustrations for quick, easy reference.* The most up-to-date bird list for Costa Rica. * A visual guide to the anatomical features of birds with accompanying explanatory text. * Quick reference to vultures and raptors in flight.
Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1981
ISBN 10: 0801492211ISBN 13: 9780801492211
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Norman MacKenzie accurately described the writings of the poet Hopkins in topographic terms as "Hopkins Country." This concept has profound implications for anyone who is trying to understand the poems which present every reader with challenges of reference to local and international events, autobiography, religious belief, trades, agriculture, philosophy, theology, aesthetics, culture-the actual list is much longer. Add to this the matter of how the poems sound: meter, rhythm, Anglo-Saxon alliteration and primordial diction, tempo, dynamics. This Hopkins Country is rich and varied. To make one's way through it one needs a guide. MacKenzie is that guide, almost as Vergil was Dante's guide through three levels of another country (and Dante made it up!).<br />The best guide in any country is a well-worn footsoldier who has weathered and worked the terrain, not a temp like the rest of us who parachute in, or hover above a lovely spot or bird in flight and pontificate on this or that view or inscape, and then like a hummingbird or bee, fly off to another country. Reading Hopkins is work, as MacKenzie reported of his encounter in 1945 with the poet: "Hopkins was invitingly difficult, obviously worth exploring." At that point MacKenzie started an apprenticeship on the ground, in the field, that imperceptibly changed to lifetime mastery. For 57 years Norman MacKenzie was the senior tenant of that country. Paradoxically, he lived longer with Hopkins than Hopkins lived with himself. Hopkins died before he was 45. And when in 2004, just short of reaching the age of 89, MacKenzie died, he was bringing his precious Reader's Guide into the new century. His daughter, Catherine Phillips, as worthy a Hopkins scholar and editor as she is a daughter, with filial discretion has completed the revision, leaving most of the text as it was-most of us felt it could have been reprinted as it was-but taking note of scholarship and editing that have happened since 1981. The voice is still unmistakably that of Norman MacKenzie.<br /><br />What makes MacKenzie's book different? Precisely that lifetime of familiarity with the Country that the rest of us really just plan on visiting. For the armchair traveler, a map and descriptions of anywhere are likely to be enough. But not for an explorer. To try to read Hopkins the way one reads a map is to distort the Hopkins Country, like the world, to flatness. The true world is configured in infinitely varied ways. So too the Hopkins Country. Norman MacKenzie put it this way in the Preface to the 1981 edition: to the reader "on foot, healthily determined to follow the poet's trail, [existing specialized studies] seldom supply the mile-by-mile direction he needs. It is for him that A Reader's Guide to Gerard Manley Hopkins is intended, designed . . . to accompany the author through the poems in more or less chronological sequence. The territory, too rugged for the taste of his own contemporaries, is on that account all the more inviting to us today."<br />Generations of students and instructors have treasured their rare copies of the 1981 edition, as they were unable to share the compendium of that Country as a gift to friends. Small as the book seems (277 pages), it is an encyclopedia of knowledge. There is a brief chronology of the life and interests of Hopkins, followed by 230 pages of guidance through the poems in the form of facts about the composition, manuscript variations, interpretations, paraphrases, and critical disagreements. A recently discovered playful poem is printed with commentary.
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Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1991
ISBN 10: 0801495202ISBN 13: 9780801495205
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Autobiography raises a vital issue in feminist critical theory the imperative need to situate the female subject. Life/Lines, a collection of essays on women's autobiography - many of them published here for the first time - attempts to meet this need. The editors, Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck, have shaped the book so as to maintain that productive tension between life and literature, selfhood and textuality, politcs and theory, which all autobiography invites its readers to enjoy.
Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1983
ISBN 10: 0801492440ISBN 13: 9780801492440
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Sorabji, Richard.
Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1985
ISBN 10: 0801418011ISBN 13: 9780801418013
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. In Greek and Roman Maps, O. A. W. Dilke follows the development of map-making skills, beginning in Babylonia and Egypt, through the contribution of Greek scientists and Roman administrators and surveyors, to the Age of Discovery. He provides examples of the full range of Greek and Roman maps, including town and building plans, itineraries and road maps, sea itineraries, and maps in art form.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 080143713XISBN 13: 9780801437137
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1. In a provocative book about American hegemony, Christopher Layne outlines his belief that U.S. foreign policy has been consistent in its aims for more than sixty years and that the current Bush administration clings to mid-twentieth-century tacticsto no good effect. What should the nation's grand strategy look like for the next several decades? The end of the cold war profoundly and permanently altered the international landscape, yet we have seen no parallel change in the aims and shape of U.S. foreign policy. The Peace of Illusions intervenes in the ongoing debate about American grand strategy and the costs and benefits of "American empire." Layne urges the desirability of a strategy he calls "offshore balancing": rather than wield power to dominate other states, the U.S. government should engage in diplomacy to balance large states against one another. The United States should intervene, Layne asserts, only when another state threatens, regionally or locally, to destroy the established balance. Drawing on extensive archival research, Layne traces the form and aims of U.S. foreign policy since 1940, examining alternatives foregone and identifying the strategic aims of different administrations. His offshore-balancing notion, if put into practice with the goal of extending the "American Century," would be a sea change in current strategy. Layne has much to say about present-day governmental decision making, which he examines from the perspectives of both international relations theory and American diplomatic history.
Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1985
ISBN 10: 0801493080ISBN 13: 9780801493089
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Why did people suddenly begin drawing animals, human figures, and abstract signs on the walls of caves during the upper Paleolithic period? And how is the appearance of cave paintings and engravings related to changes in social organization and community life among the Cro-Magnon? These are among the questions John E. Pfeiffer asks in 'The Creative Explosion', a book based on years of research and a close analysis of the work of many distinguished scientists. Profusely illustrated, this book provides a fascinating , provocative, and accessible account and interpretation of the earliest recorded human art.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0801482755ISBN 13: 9780801482755
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. brand new copy, with dust-jacket; ships immediately.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1972
ISBN 10: 0801406811ISBN 13: 9780801406812
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Brown, Herbert C.
Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1987
ISBN 10: 0801494141ISBN 13: 9780801494147
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England.
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Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1982
ISBN 10: 0801498813ISBN 13: 9780801498817
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Lacapra, Dominick, Kaplan, Steven L.
Published by Brand: Cornell University Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0801481406ISBN 13: 9780801481406
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In this book Fred Dallmayr delineates the contours of an alternative political perspective in Martin Heidegger's thought. Dallmayr offers a different assessment of Heidegger the philosopher while trying neither to excuse not condemn the man.
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Published by Brand: Cornell Univ Pr, 1986
ISBN 10: 0801417848ISBN 13: 9780801417849
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 0. Book by Falk, W. D., Baier, Kurt.