Books from Penn State Press
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Nature's Covenant: Figures of Landscape in Ruskin
By C. Stephen FinleyLeonard Nathanson , The Strategy of Truth : A Study of Sir Thomas Browne ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1967 ) , 12–13 , makes helpful comments on Browne's eclecticism , which are germane to the study of Ruskin .
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Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent
By Karen TracyFarkas, Foley, and Duffet have found that school board members report a high degree of skepticism about citizens' motives for participating in meetings, seeing their main purpose as "to gripe." At the same time, "a majority of board ...
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Do the Poor Count?: Democratic Institutions and Accountability in a Context of Poverty
By Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson... employee of municipal government), secretary, housewife, and one case where no occupation was given. major industrial city is located), and those who were elected from periphery departments tend to be longtime residents of the major ...
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Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities
By Karen OlsonFrisch , Michael , and Milton Rogovin . Portraits in Steel . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1993 . Fuchs , Victor R. How We Live . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1983 . Gabaccia , Donna . From the Other Side : Women ...
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The Book of Peace
By Karen Green, ChristineSarah Lawson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) Le Livre du duc des vrais amans, ed.Thelma S. Fenster, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 124 (Binghamton: State University of New York Press, 1995); The Book of the Duke of True ...
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The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing
By Rachel PoliquinKarl Schulze-Hagen, Frank Steinheimer, Ragnar Kinzelbach, and Christoph Gasser, “Avian Taxidermy in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance,” Journal für Ornithologie 144 (2003): 466–67. Quoted in ibid., 471. 38. Ibid. Sarah Lee ...
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Peru and the United States, 1960-1975: How Their Ambassadors Managed Foreign Relations in a Turbulent Era
By Richard J. WalterPantell, R. H., R. Reilly, and M. H. Liang. 1980. ''Analysis of the Reasons for the High Turnover of Clinicians in Neighborhood Health Centers.'' Public Health Reports 95 (4): 344–50. Parrott, S., L. Schott, and E. Sweeney. 2006.
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Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity
By Jefferson J. A. Gatrall, Douglas M. GreenfieldWithin Russian Orthodoxy, Polenov, it should be noted in passing, belonged to a separate group of painters, led by Viktor Vasnetsov, who worked to build and decorate churches in neo-Byzantine style.
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Moral Relativism, Moral Diversity, and Human Relationships
By James KellenbergerLet me comment on Huntington's advice that in our multicultural , “ multicivilized ” world “ the constructive course is to renounce universalism , accept diversity , and seek commonalities ” in the light of what we have seen about ...
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From Apartheid to Democracy: Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
By Katherine Elizabeth MackAlexander, Neville. An Ordinary Country: Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: U of Natal P, 2002. Print. Andrews, Robert. The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations. New York: Columbia UP, ...
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The Myths of Love: Classical Lovers in Medieval Literature
By Katherine Heinrichs... 210 Col, Pierre, 106, 139, 140, 233 Coghill, Neville, 234 Cornelia, 73, 158 Coronis, 13, 14, 171, 172 Courcelle, Pierre, 28 Crampton, Georgia, 232 Creusa, 79, 99, 122, 149, 193 Criseyde, 21, 22, 142, 216, 235 Croesus, 39 Cupid, 15, ...
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New Perspectives on Historical Writing
By Peter BurkeThe earliest use of the term known to me dates from 1912 . when the American scholar James Harvey Robinson published a book with this title . The contents matched the label . ' History ' , wrote Robinson , ' includes every trace and ...
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Transcending Textuality: Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print
By Ariadna García-BryceQuevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print Ariadna García-Bryce ... In his introductory remarks to Juan de Palafox y Mendoza's Historia real sagrada, Father Andres de Valencia notes a hermeneutical linkage between physical ...
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: The Political Roots of American Economic Decline
By William S. Dietrich11. See Lawrence G. Franko , The Threat of Japanese Multinationals : How the West Can Respond ( New York : John Wiley and Sons , 1983 ) , pp . 35-36 . 12. Ibid . , p . viii . 13. Ibid . , p . 35 ; Franko cites La Documentation Française ...
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The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia
By William Francis RyanThis is found in some versions of the apocryphal Tale of Afroditian , known in Russia from the thirteenth century and included in lectionaries under 25 December : Franko , Apokrifi , II , pp . 2–18 ; on this text see Slovar " knizhnikov ...
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Deconstructing Legitimacy: Viceroys, Merchants, and the Military in Late Colonial Peru
By Patricia H. Marks21d, Expediente sobre el conducto, agi-Lima, leg. 1620; Parrón Salas, Reformas borbónicas, 65–68. Campbell, Military and Society, 195, dates the militia's privilege of fuero militar to 1799, when the real orden of 9 Feb.
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Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America
By Sarah H. BeckjordSaint-Lu, André. "Fray Bartolomé de las Casas." In Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana. Vol 1. Epoca colonial, edited by Luis Iñigo Madrigal, 117—25. Madrid: Cátedra, 1982. . "Prólogo." In Historia de las ludias, by Bartolomé de ...
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Real Choices: Feminism, Freedom, and the Limits of Law
By Beth Kiyoko JamiesonIn Casey, O'Connor wrote: 6. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) at 974. 7. Casey at 898. 8. Eisenstadt v Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972) at 453, emphasis in the original. Surrogates, Sperm Providers ...
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A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820
By Roger Eliot Stoddard, David Rhodes WhitesellJ., 982 Randolph, William B., 885 Reed, Darius L., 650 Reed, John, 1194 Reed, S. A., 1194 Reel, Michael, 176 Renshall, Mary Erwin, 650 Renshall, Rich., 650 Reynolds, Jno., 470 Rhoades, Lawrence, 588 Rhode Island Historical Society, 300, ...
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Seditious Allegories: John Thelwall and Jacobin Writing
By Michael ScrivenerJacobinism and other anti-Jacobins, Thompson's Godwin is an unsympathetic figure who "cannily" avoids going to prison and who crafts an intellectually elitist position hostile to popular culture and actual politics (TR 96-106, 120).