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The French New Wave directors of the 1950s rejected the idea that film was a mere extension of literature and exploded traditional methods of film narrative, embracing fragmentation and alienation. The author argues that this rebellious stance is far more complex than critics have acknowledged.

Coubertin's main contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.

This excellent introductory study follows the development of indicating and recording thermometers until recent times, emphasizing meteorological applications.

The contributions of Richard Cox to logic and inductive reasoning may eventually be seen to be the most significant since Aristotle.

In "Inventing the Nonprofit Sectorand Other Essays on Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofit Organizations cultural historian Peter Dobkin Hall describes and analyzes the development of America's fastest growing institutional sector.

Marso's scholarship makes us aware of how early in the history of modern political thought the potential of an unmanly vision of citizenship as a radical critique of politics was already being discussed and formulated.

The book concludes with an examination of the need for reform, the challenges that have shaped that need, and the lessons from the past that should guide the reforms of the future.

Drawing examples and making recommendations based on their own experience as academic administrators and faculty members, distinguished scholars address the drastically changed climate in which research universities and other institutions of higher education now function.

The book will be of interest not only to experts on coffee economies but to students and scholars of Latin America, labor history, the economics ofdevelopment, and political economy.

Robert Kanigel takes us into the heady world of a remarkable group of scientists working at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University: a dynasty of American researchers who for over forty years have made Nobel Prize- and Lasker Award-winning breakthroughs in biomedical science.

How do health insurance regulations affect the care of persons with mental illness, and how do such persons, in turn, affect the economy through lost productivity, reduced labour supply and deviant behaviour at the workplace? This book addresses these and other questions.

Concluding that the fiscal health of America's cities has worsened since 1972, the authors call for new state and federal urban policies that direct assistance to the neediest cities.

The USSR's foreign policy response to the "Prague Spring,he contends, was the result of a complex political process conditioned by bureaucratic inertia, coalition politics, and East European pressures.

Explanations for nonverbal sex differences surely have much to do with cultural expectations and social learning processes, she argues, but to unravel the exact causal influences is a complex task, one that has hardly begun.

Agassiz affirmed the magnificence of God's plan to all who would "study nature, not books."

Steven Marcus analyzes the breakdown of the city as signifying system in the novels of Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, writers who question whether the indecipherable contemporary city has any meaning left at all.

Stress, Coping, and Development in Children is a work of signal importance to psychologists and to every mental health professional involved with infants and children.

His purgatorial mock-journal--dwelling on loss and gain, on difference and effacement, on places and the place of writing--leads into a sequence of captivating prose poems, where imagination centers on the word and language celebrates its own creation.

In an extensive new preface, he discusses developments through the 1980s, paying special attention to the expansion of government-university partnership in the warek of Sputnik.

In addition to defining terms and identifying laws and decisions, Kelly frequently includes succinct descriptions and analyses of their historical significance and evolution.

A new concluding chapter, written especially for the Johns Hopkins edition, presents a coherent and systematically developed survey of those poststructuralist positions most relevant to the placement of "Structure and Society in Literary Historywithin the critical context of the mid 1980s.