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Action Research for College Community Health Work
By Joseph Martin Stevenson, Karen C. Wilson, Tracy MimsThis work is designed as a working resource for academicians and practitioners involved with community health work at the higher educational level.
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Jonathan Swift's Allies: The Wood's Halfpence Controversy in Ireland, 1724/25
By Sabine BaltesA major contribution to the study of Swift and Irish politics and life in the early 18th century.
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Eavan Boland and the History of the Ordinary
By Patricia L. Hagen, Thomas William ZelmanA critical study of one of Ireland's most significant and abmitious living poets. Her collected writings seek nothing less than a redefinition of the myths structuring the cureent understanding of Ireland.
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The Origin of Culture
By Amy Louise Marsland, William David MarslandDrawing on the work of Levi-Strauss, Malinowski, Dumezil, Van Gennep, Eliade and many others, Dr. Marsland proposes a dual/triune structure to early religion--a structure which appears to be worldwide.Marslander discusses the ideas of E.B ...
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War and Peace in Africa: Philosophy, Theology and the Politics of Confrontation
By David W. LutzProvides a major investigation of the questions of war and peace in Black Africa (by Africans) with an emphasis on the philosophical, theological and political underpinnings of contemporary African thought and practice.
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Turning Victorian Ladies Into Women: The Life of Bessie Rayner Parkes, 1829-1925
By Emma LowndesShe is described by the American historian Bonnie S. Anderson as one of the key British feminists of her time. Surprisingly, Turning Victorian Ladies into Women is her first biography.
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Antigone Adapted: Sophocles' Antigone in Classic Drama and Modern Adaptation, Translation and Transformation
By Robert CardulloThese translations---of Smole's play and Sanchez's---have never before appeared in English in the West,and the Sophocles translation is also a new one; This book makes these plays available for the first time.