Books from Yale University Press
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Drawing & the Blind: Pictures to Touch
By John Miller KennedyIn R. Campbell , ed . , Mental lives . Oxford : Blackwell . Pring , L. , and J. Rusted . 1985. Pictures for the blind : An investigation of the influence of pictures on recall of text by blind children . British Journal of Developmental ...
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Nottinghamshire
By Nikolaus Pevsner, Elizabeth WilliamsonIt was remodelled in 1685–7 from one built in Charles I's reign by a team of the most excellent craftsmen , several of whom were first employed at Court and are later found at Chatsworth : Benjamin Jackson , master mason ; Edward Goudge ...
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Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940
By Nicholas R. Parrillo361 Though Sparks was referring to illegal fees, he believed that the system of lawful fees provided cover for such illegal payments, and he was connecting officer-citizen exchange with unwarranted official indulgence.
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John Keats
By Nicholas RoeFrom the moment of Lamia's feverish metamorphosis - Her eyes in torture fix'd, and anguish drear, Hot, glaz'd, and wide, with lid-lashes all sear, Flash'd phosphor and sharp sparks, without one cooling tear. The colours all inflam'd ...
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Durer to Veronese: Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery
By Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Nicholas PennyCranach condenses much of the action: the shattering of the wheel seems only just to have taken place as the executioner draws his sword to kill the saint, while decapitated heads roll around and the sky still showers flame and sparks ...
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A Writing Guide for Learners of Chinese
By Qin Herzberg, Larry Herzberg, Pennylyn Dykstra-PruimKobe Bryant tŁ F 35 . Kobe Bryant bị wỏ gāo duõle . Kobe Bryant is much taller than I am .今天比昨天热多了。. Jintiān bị zuýtiān rè duöle . Today is much hotter than yesterday . til a ) Example Sentences 虽然小王看起来瘦瘦的, ...
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Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole's Trans-Atlantic Inheritance
By Tim Barringer, T. J. Barringer, Gillian ForresterHe was so thoroughly associated with the landscape of his new country that his friend the poet William Cullen Bryant filled his eulogy with geographical references and geological metaphors: “It is as if the voyager on the Hudson were to ...
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Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana
By Richard RathboneEight close kinsmen were to be found guilty of taking the life of Akyea Mensah , the Odikro of Apedwa . 114 Thinking about how this worked I was drawn to a simile of Lewis Mumford's . Writing about Dante and echoing Henry Adams ...
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Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero
By Lucy RiallOn Roberts and White, see E. Daniels, Iessie White Mario. Risorgimento revolutionary, Athens, 1972, esp. pp. 5410, 33; Della Torre's letter, 4 Aug. 1856, in MRM, Garibaldi Curatulo, f. 364; Schwartz's letter, 24 Ian. 1858, ibid., b.
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A Republic of Statutes: The New American Constitution
By William N. Eskridge, John A. Ferejohn... 16 U.S.C. § 1532(19), defining “take” (first quotation in text); Federal Register 40 (1975): 4416 (second quotation), currently codified at 50 C.F.R. § 17.3 (2006); William Bruce Wheeler and Michael McDonald, TVA and the Tellico Dam ...
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In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History
By Michael FellmanAs Private Seiward J. Norton put it, burning barrios was used, ''I think, to intimidate the natives. ... At one point Senator Beveridge asked Captain Fred McDonald, who admitted that his company often burned villages, how long it took ...
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Sargent's Venice
By William H. Gerdts, Warren Adelson, John Singer Sargent1 1 Beckwith, J. Carroll, 32 Beit, Sir Otto, 95 Benson, Eugene, 187-88 Blum, Robert Frederick, 173-78, 185, 188, ... 77, 108, 109 Cooper, James Fenimore, 12, 155 Corot, Camillc, 34 Courbet, Gustave, 34, 163 Cox, Kenyon, 162-63 Cross, ...
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Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws
By William N. Eskridge, Christopher R. Riano, Jr.but Judge Timothy Frawley ruled that the California Supreme Court's Marriage Cases ruling justified the new title.10 Yes on 8 had submitted to the secretary of state the following arguments to be included in the state's official voter ...
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The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
By Margaret WillesMarshall never seems to have had a home of his own, but at one stage lived in South Lambeth with John Tradescant the Younger. He is recorded as preparing a book of flowers for Tradescant, which is now lost, and he began to compile his ...
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Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-siècle Europe
By John M. Efron, Professor John M EfronBolt , Christine . Victorian Attitudes to Race . ... Boyer , John W. Political Radicalism in Late Imperial Vienna : Origins of the Christian Social Movement , 1848–1897 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1981 .
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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
By Jonathan BateCommemorating both the bicentenary of Keats’ death and the centenary of the Roaring Twenties, this is a moving exploration of literary influence.
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Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World
By Jonathan BateOn the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth’s birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth, this is ...
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Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald
By Jonathan BateThe Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald Jonathan Bate. Folio, now in Keats House, Hampstead. His underlinings and emendation are repr. in Caroline Spurgeon, Keats's Shakespeare (1929), p. 164.
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No Freedom without Regulation: The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis
By Joseph William SingerSinger uses the recent subprime crisis to demonstrate: Regulation’s essential importance for freedom and democracy Why consumer protection laws are a basic pillar of economic freedom How private property rests on a regulatory ...
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Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property
By Joseph William SingerIn this important work of legal, political, and moral theory, Joseph William Singer offers a controversial new view of property and the entitlements and obligations of its owners.