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Drama of a Nation

Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain

By: Walter Cohen

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Drama of a Nation

Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain

By: Walter Cohen

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the midst of an international florescence of drama, the English and Spanish theaters displayed striking and unique similarities. Although these two national theaters developed in relative isolation from each other, in both countries the plays synthesized native popular traditions and neoclassical learned conventions, a synthesis found neither in the more elite Italian and French drama of the time nor in any other European drama before or since. In Drama of a Nation, Walter Cohen illuminates the causes of this significant parallel development. Working from a Marxist perspective, Cohen seeks to establish correlations among individual plays, dramatic genres, theatrical institutions, cultural milieus, and political and economic systems. He argues that the drama owed its distinctiveness to the public theaters, especially of London and Madrid, which opened in the 1570s and closed, under government order, seventy years later. Both drama and theater in turn depended on a relative cultural homogeneity perpetuated by a state that primarily served the aristocracy. Absolutism, he maintains, first fostered and then undermined the public theater.

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Cornell University Press

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1501741667

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9781501741661

Greek Religion

By: Walter Burkert

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Greek Religion

By: Walter Burkert

A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.

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Harvard University Press

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0674362810

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Between Global and Local

Marginality and Marginal Regions in the Context of Globalization and Deregulation

By: Walter Leimgruber

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Between Global and Local

Marginality and Marginal Regions in the Context of Globalization and Deregulation

By: Walter Leimgruber

The definitions for 'marginality' and 'marginal regions' are vague and differ between academic disciplines. Marginal regions could however be characterized as regions lying off mainstream processes (in a sort of vacuum) both in society and economy, but also in relation to the natural environment and geographical remoteness. Illustrated by a wide range of international case studies, this book provides a complete overview of current research into marginality and examines a wide range of possible development options which could offer hope to marginal regions. It explores the background to various kinds of marginality, describes various types of marginal regions and discusses possible solutions for political, economic and socio-cultural actors to fight the ongoing processes of marginalization. Marginality and marginal regions are looked at from a wide perspective and are seen as being in part the outcome of globalization and deregulation. The book not only discusses practical policy options, but also considers marginality in its relation to ethics and spirituality.

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286

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Routledge

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1351162705

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9781351162708

An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

By: Walter W. Skeat

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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

By: Walter W. Skeat

Practical and reliable, this reference traces English words back to their Indo-European roots. Each entry features a brief definition, identifies the language of origin, and employs a few illustrative quotations. An extensive appendix includes lists of prefixes, suffixes, Indo-European roots, homonyms and doublets, and the distribution of English-language sources.

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834

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Courier Corporation

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048631765X

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9780486317656

Nonverbal Perceptual and Cognitive Processes in Children With Language Disorders

Toward A New Framework for Clinical Intervention

By: Walter Bischofberger,F‚licie Affolter

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Nonverbal Perceptual and Cognitive Processes in Children With Language Disorders

Toward A New Framework for Clinical Intervention

By: Walter Bischofberger,F‚licie Affolter

In this pathbreaking bk, the aus draw on more than 40 yrs of research & clinical observations to construct a comprehensive model for the devt. of the interrelated skills involved in lang performance & trace the crucial implications of this model for

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326

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Psychology Press

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113567020X

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The Faith of a Heretic

Updated Edition

By: Walter A. Kaufmann

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The Faith of a Heretic

Updated Edition

By: Walter A. Kaufmann

Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right, Kaufmann here provides the fullest account of his views on religion. Although he considered himself a heretic, he was not immune to the wellsprings and impulses from which religion originates, declaring it among the most vital and radical expressions of the human mind. Beginning with an autobiographical prologue that traces his evolution from religious believer to "heretic," the book touches on theology, organized religion, morality, suffering, and death—all examined from the perspective of a "quest for honesty." Kaufmann also subjects philosophy's faith in truth, reason, and absolute morality to the same heretical treatment. The resulting exploration of the faiths of a nonbeliever in a secular age is as fresh and challenging as when it was first published. In a new foreword, Stanley Corngold vividly describes the intellectual and biographical milieu of Kaufmann’s provocative book.

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Princeton University Press

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0691165483

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9780691165486

Rome and America: The Great Republics

What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States

By: Walter Signorelli

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Rome and America: The Great Republics

What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States

By: Walter Signorelli

In innumerable ways, the United States of America is the political and social descendant of the Roman Republic, and the influences of Rome reverberate throughout our world. Yet while America reflects the heights of Roman structures, ideas, and principles, we also now face a host of problems similar to those that the Romans faced—immigration and citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the growing divide between classes, the conflict between conservatives and progressives, and the challenges of being a superpower. In Rome and America: The Great Republics, author Walter Signorelli chronicles and compares these two greatest and enduring republics of history, explaining how they formed, grew, and prospered. He evaluates their strengths and weaknesses, the environments from which they emerged, and the values and practices they had in common. Signorelli also explores parallels between American and Roman military history, similarities between their constitutional governments, and the legacy of Roman law in America. Last, he questions whether our democratic-republican government will disintegrate as the Roman Republic disintegrated, whether it will grow stronger despite its similarities to the Roman experience, or whether it will transform itself into another form of government akin to Rome’s imperial dictatorship. More than an historical narrative or a collection of biographies, Rome and America: The Great Republics examines the political, social, economic, and moral factors that affected both nations, considering the successes and mistakes of the Romans and their implications for American society today.

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Archway Publishing

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1480863424

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An Animated Son of Liberty

A Life of John Witherspoon

By: J. Walter McGinty

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An Animated Son of Liberty

A Life of John Witherspoon

By: J. Walter McGinty

A biography of a leader of the Scottish Enlightenment.

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Arena books

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1906791937

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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

By: John F. Padgett,Walter W. Powell

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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

By: John F. Padgett,Walter W. Powell

A dynamic framework for studying social emergence The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. They demonstrate that novelty arises from spillovers across intertwined networks in different domains. In the short run actors make relations, but in the long run relations make actors. This theory of novelty emerging from intersecting production and biographical flows is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of original historical case studies. Padgett and Powell build on the biochemical concept of autocatalysis—the chemical definition of life—and then extend this autocatalytic reasoning to social processes of production and communication. Padgett and Powell, along with other colleagues, analyze a very wide range of cases of emergence. They look at the emergence of organizational novelty in early capitalism and state formation; they examine the transformation of communism; and they analyze with detailed network data contemporary science-based capitalism: the biotechnology industry, regional high-tech clusters, and the open source community.

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Princeton University Press

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1400845556

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9781400845552

Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

By: Walter Ullmann

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Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

By: Walter Ullmann

In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government which can be discerned in the Middle Ages – government by the Pope, the King, the People. The author’s enviable knowledge of the sources – clerical, secular, legal, constitutional, liturgical, literary – as well as of modern literature enables him to demonstrate the principles upon which the papal government, the royal government, and the government of the people rested. He shows how the traditional theocratic forms of government came to be supplanted by forms of government based on the will of the people. Although concerned with the Middle Ages, the book also contains much that is of topical interest to the discerning student of modern institutions. Medieval history is made understandable to modern man by modern methods.

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Routledge

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1136999280

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9781136999284

DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice

By: Walter R. Frontera,Joel A. DeLisa,Bruce M. Gans,Lawrence R. Robinson

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DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice

By: Walter R. Frontera,Joel A. DeLisa,Bruce M. Gans,Lawrence R. Robinson

DeLisa’s Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Principles and Practice presents the most comprehensive review of the state of the art, evidence-based clinical recommendations for physiatric management of disorders affecting the brain, spinal cord, nerves, bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, and tendons.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496374983

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A Coat of Many Colors

Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina

By: Walter Conser

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A Coat of Many Colors

Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina

By: Walter Conser

While religious diversity is often considered a recent phenomenon in America, the Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina has been a diverse community since the area was first settled. Early on, the region and the port city of Wilmington were more urban than the rest of the state and thus provided people with opportunities seldom found in other parts of North Carolina. This area drew residents from many ethnic backgrounds, and the men and women who settled there became an integral part of the region’s culture. Set against the backdrop of national and southern religious experience, A Coat of Many Colors examines issues of religious diversity and regional identity in the Cape Fear area. Author Walter H. Conser Jr. draws on a broad range of sources, including congregational records, sermon texts, liturgy, newspaper accounts, family memoirs, and technological developments to explore the evolution of religious life in this area. Beginning with the story of prehistoric Native Americans and continuing through an examination of life at the end of twentieth century, Conser tracks the development of the various religions, denominations, and ethnic groups that call the Cape Fear region home. From early Native American traditions to the establishment of the first churches, cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, and temples, A Coat of Many Colors offers a comprehensive view of the religious and ethnic diversity that have characterized Cape Fear throughout its history. Through the lens of regional history, Conser explores how this area’s rich religious and racial diversity can be seen as a microcosm for the South, and he examines the ways in which religion can affect such diverse aspects of life as architecture and race relations.

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386

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813171466

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9780813171463

Seward

Lincoln's Indispensable Man

By: Walter Stahr

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Seward

Lincoln's Indispensable Man

By: Walter Stahr

From one of our most acclaimed new biographers--the first full life of the leader of Lincoln's "Team of Rivals"--William Henry Seward, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439121184

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9781439121184

A History of European Literature

The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present

By: Walter Cohen

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A History of European Literature

The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present

By: Walter Cohen

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.

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Oxford University Press

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0191078913

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Drama of a Nation

Drama of a Nation

Greek Religion

Greek Religion

Between Global and Local

Between Global and Local

An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

Nonverbal Perceptual and Cognitive Processes in Children With Language Disorders

Nonverbal Perceptual and Cognitive Processes in Children With Language Disorders

The Faith of a Heretic

The Faith of a Heretic

Rome and America: The Great Republics

Rome and America: The Great Republics

An Animated Son of Liberty

An Animated Son of Liberty

The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice

DeLisa's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Principles and Practice

A Coat of Many Colors

A Coat of Many Colors

Seward

Seward

A History of European Literature

A History of European Literature

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