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William Robertson Smith
William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was successively the embattled champion of the emergent higher criticism as applied to the Old Testament, chief editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Today he is acknowledged to have been a pioneering figure in both social anthropology and the study of comparative religion, deeply influencing the thinking of J. G. Frazer, Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. The first full-length biography of Robertson Smith to be published for almost a hundred years, this text makes use of hitherto unknown material preserved by the Smith family and draws upon the extensive range of correspondence between Smith and such schol...
Birds and Beasts
A collection of poems about animals, illustrated with woodcuts.
Strata
"The story starts with William Smith's early years, from apprentice to surveyor for hire, and from publication of his groundbreaking 1815 geological strata map to imprisonment for debt. Smith's 1799 geological map of Bath and table of strata, his first strata map of England and Wales, published in 1801, and photographs of some of Smith's collection of 2,000 fossils illustrate the tale. The remainder of the book is organized into four parts, each beginning with four sheets from Smith's hand-colored, 1815 strata map, accompanied by related geological cross sections and county maps (1819-24), and followed by sections of Sowerby's fossil illustrations (1816-19), organized by strata. Interleaved ...
The Global Testing Culture
The past thirty years have seen a rapid expansion of testing, exposing students worldwide to tests that are now, more than ever, standardized and linked to high-stakes outcomes. The use of testing as a policy tool has been legitimized within international educational development to measure education quality in the vast majority of countries worldwide. The embedded nature and normative power of high-stakes standardized testing across national contexts can be understood as a global testing culture. The global testing culture permeates all aspects of education, from financing, to parental involvement, to teacher and student beliefs and practices. The reinforcing nature of the global testing cul...
Money and the Rule of Law
A novel argument that shows how rules work better than discretion when implementing monetary policy.
The Cherokee Lottery
A sequence of poems inspired by the forced removal of the Southern Indians, written by contemporary American author William Jay Smith.
The Creolization of American Culture
The Creolization of American Culture examines the artworks, letters, sketchbooks, music collection, and biography of the painter William Sidney Mount (1807–1868) as a lens through which to see the multiethnic antebellum world that gave birth to blackface minstrelsy. As a young man living in the multiethnic working-class community of New York's Lower East Side, Mount took part in the black-white musical interchange his paintings depict. An avid musician and tune collector as well as an artist, he was the among the first to depict vernacular fiddlers, banjo players, and dancers precisely and sympathetically. His close observations and meticulous renderings provide rich evidence of performanc...
The Wicked Witch of South Fallston
Billy Smith is a typical teenage boy.He has many friends who he would rather hang out with than babysit his two kid sisters;Molly and Carol Anne.One night, Billy's parents go out to dinner and leave him in charge of his baby sister; Carol Anne.At first, he thinks that this'll be another boring Saturday night of babysitting, but tonight will be anything but.Just as Billy puts his baby sister;Carol Anne to bed in her crib, a port-hole into another dimension opens up in the baby's nursery-closet and an ugly hag of a witch snatches Carol Anne out of her crib and darts off into the port-hole.William dutifully follows in hot pursuit and now he must band together with a young knight and eventually a wizard to get Carol Anne back before the wicked witch, named Bedelia, uses her in a wicked plot to get her youth and beauty back by sucking Carol Anne's life-force out of the tyke.Billy must race against time or lose his baby sister for
