This book of poetry explores common themes such as love, loss, and family with an uncommon sensibility. It is filled with metaphors, unconventional and unpredictable juxtapositions, turns and angles of perception and free verse rhythms.
Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. This work covers a range of... Læs mere
In 1996, an older woman in Lima, Peru - part of a group of women street sweepers protesting the privatization of the city's cleaning... Læs mere
This study explores music's place in the cultural, artistic and literary life of medieval Italian courts, paying particular attention to the influence of French culture on Italian artistic and musical traditions in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.
Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law.
Spanning Gagnon's work from the 1970s and extending through to the 1990s, these essays constitute an essential work on the study of sexuality in the twentieth century.
A study of parenting and child out-comes in disadvantaged communities. Based on more than 500 interviews and case studies, the book reveals how... Læs mere
This work explores the political, social and economic forces that shape US policies affecting human... Læs mere
Shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in residential neighborhoods after World War II - away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship.
This biography of Miriam Van Waters moves beyond the controversy of her life to reveal a woman whose success rested upon the power of... Læs mere
This work offers an account of how changing theological, philosophical and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing of autobiography, and of how autobiography in its turn has helped to shape various understandings of the will.