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ruth weiss: Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art offers critical analyses on the so-called "Goddess of the Beat Generation". In keeping with weiss's multifaceted artistic drive, this volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to bring together studies on a
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The readers of the first two editions of Stone: Properties, Durabi lity in Man's Environment, were mostly architects, restoration architects of buildings and monuments in natural stone, profes sionals who sought basic technical information for non-geologists. The increasing awareness of rapidly decaying monuments and their rescue from loss to future generations have urged this writer to update the 1973 and 1975 editions, now unavailable and out of print. Due to the 20-year-Iong interval, extensive updating was necessary to produce this new book. The present edition concentrates on the natural material stone, as building stone, dimension stone, architectural stone, and decorative field stones...
In 2007 Habermas conducted a debate, entitled 'An Awareness of What Is Missing', with philosophers from the Jesuit School for Philosophy. This volume includes Habermas's essay and is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand one of the most intractable issues of our time.
Examines infamous assassins and assassinations such as, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, preying on presidents, and more.
Offering a fascinating survey of Elias's life and writings, Dennis Smith traces the growth of his reputation. He is the first author to confront Elias's work with the contrasting theories of Talcott Parsons, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Zygmunt Bauman. He also illustrates how Elias's insights can be applied to understand Western modernity and social and political change. Smith shows why Elias is important for sociology, but he is also clear sighted about the limitations of Elias's approach.