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Late 19th century Protestant churches in America contained extraordinary new auxiliary spaces, including kitchens, dining rooms, and lounges. Many contained proscenium arches, marquee lighting, and theatre seats. Jeanne Halgren Kilde focuses on how the buildings helped to negotiate supernatural, social, and personal power.

In an age when democracy is often pursued, yet rarely accomplished, Japan's transformation, post-1945, from defeated military power into thriving constitutional democracy commands attention. The authors show that the country's affirmation of democracy was neither cynical nor merely tactical.

This is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period, that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It analyzes the responses of the world's economic powers, and explains how new monetary policies set the stage for the monetary systems presently in place.

This biography traces the formative years of one of America's most celebrated and influential authors. The first of a projected three-volume life, it examines Hemingway's midwestern childhood, his journalistic apprenticeship, and his experiences as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during World War I.

Describes the notion of warrant as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. This volume examines warrant's role in theistic belief, tackling the questions of whether it is rational, reasonable, justifiable, and warranted to accept Christian belief and whether there is something epistemically unacceptable in doing so.

An analysis of the problems of communication between the Japanese and American people in the twentieth century. Yamada contrasts the American directness with the subtle nuances of meaning in Japanese business and social language to show how misinterpretation can lead to difficulties in interaction between the two races.

The essays in this volume challenge prevailing views on the way in which apocalyptic concerns contributed to larger processes of social change at the first millennium. They should provoke new interest in and debate on the nature and causes of social change in early medieval Europe.

This work brings together diverse fields of study, offering a practical as well as multifaceted theoretical approach to how children cope with death. Using children's own experiences supported by data from a research study, the author explains the wide range of effects of loss upon children.

This title is a treatment of the politics and the impact of the "get tough" criminal sentencing legislation in the US. It includes a major empirical study of the celebrated California "three strikes" law, the law that imposed a 25-years to life imprisonment the moment of a third felony conviction.

James Polk was US president from 1845-49, when slavery began to dominate its politics. He also owned a substantial plantation in Mississippi and 54 slaves. This book reconstructs the world of his estate and lives of his slaves, analysing how this affected his stance on slavery issues.

Covers a range of end-of-life topics, including suicide prevention, AIDS, suicide bombing, serpent-handling and other religious practices. This book states that they pose a risk of death, genetic prognostication, global justice and the "duty to die", physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia, places these in American and international contexts.

This title explores the connections between art and life in the works of three giants of musical romanticism. He considers topics including Schubert and Schumann's ability to evoke memory in music, the supposed cryptographic practices of Schumann and Brahms, and the allure of the Hungarian Gypsy style for Brahms and others in the Schumann circle.

Evans offers a colorful history of the expedition of Major Stephen H. Long--the first scientific exploration of the Louisiana Territory to be accompanied by trained naturalists and artists. This exciting chronicle includes beautiful illustrations by artists Titian Peale and Samuel Seymour, along with firsthand accounts from naturalists Edwin James and Thomas Say. 45 halftones.

Nasr argues that the current ecological crisis has been exacerbated by the reductionist view of nature that has been advanced by modern secular science. What is needed, he believes, if the recovery of the truth to which the great enduring religions all attest: that nature is sacred.

This book tells the story of Judge Waring of South Carolina, who in the 1940s and 1950s made some brave and significant rulings in support of civil rights and against segregation.

In Drawn With the Sword, James W. McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on some of the most enduring questions of the Civil War. Each essay in Draw With the Sword reveals McPherson's own profound knowledge of the Civil War and of the controversies among historians, presenting all sides in clear and lucid prose.

This study celebrates the Hebrew language by bringing together a generous selection of the best-known words and sayings, in English transcription, and illustrating them with excerpts from the Bible, Talmud, folklore and other Jewish literature.

Reopening an investigation into the death of a plantation overseer - Duncan Skinner - almost a century and a half ago, this work is is part murder mystery, part essay on the art of historical detection, and part seminar on the history of the slavery and the "Old South".

This work argues that studying the arts is an important and valuable component of general education and of society and American culture. It confronts complicated matters of curriculum and discusses the varying philosophies amongst arts advocates and educators themselves.

Historical studies of white racial thought have focused on white ideas about the "Negroes". Bay's study examines the reverse - black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories.

In the wake of political evil on a large scale, what does justice consist of? Daniel Philpott takes up this question in Just and Unjust Peace. While scholars have written about many aspects of dealing with past injustice, no general ethic has emerged. Philpott seeks to provide a holistic model that delivers concrete ethical guidelines for societies striving to build peace.

In Benny Goodman's famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert, Catherine Tackley provides the first in depth, scholarly study of this seminal concert and recording. Through discussions of the cultural context, the performance itself, and its reception and response, Tackley shows why Goodman's 1938 concert remains one of the most significant events in American music history.

This book is the fourth in a series Kevin Starr in writing about Californian life and culture under the general title Americans and the California Dream. This book focuses on California during the Great Depression of the 1930s, specifically on its politics, labour disputes, and major building projects.

An account of the symbiotic relationship between pine trees and jays. A cycle of dependency has progressed for several million years as birds have effectively planted the trees that sustain them by dispersing the seeds.

James Reese Europe is one of the most important transitional figures in American music. As a composer and band leader at the height of ragtime, he had a strong influence on the first generation of jazz musicians who were to follow. Europe's life reveals much about the role of black musicians in American culture in a period when it was presumed they had little place.

In America's God, Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology, the legacies of which remain with us to this day.

Saving Cinema investigates the emergence of the film preservation movement, from Hollywood to the developing world, and examines the field's influence on what has been defined as global 'film heritage.'