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A biography of a leading loyalist named Thomas Bradbury Chandler (1726?1790), exploring his advocacy of monarchy and his criticisms of the American revolutionary movement.

Examines the historiography of art and architecture in the German-speaking context in the first half of the twentieth century, with a focus on the tensions between individualism and collectivism. Centers on key art-historical figures, including Erwin Panofsky, Ernst Gombrich, and Hans Sedlmayr.

An eminent philosopher of the 20th century, W.V. Quine made contributions to the philosophy of science, mathematical logic, and the philosophy of language. This work examines Quine's views, particularly his holism and naturalism, for their value to feminist theorizing.

Daniel J Flood was among the last of the oldtime movers and shakers on Capitol Hill. Based on declassified FBI documents, court records, public papers, and contemporary newspaper accounts, as well as more than thirty interviews of Flood's widow, this title explodes the myths surrounding Pennsylvania's controversial - and colorful - congressman.

Musicians engage in many practices that may be viewed as modes of interpretation. This book aims at making the case for understanding these activities of transcribing, varying, and realizing music as various forms of interpretation.

During the 1990s, governments, employers, and international agencies pressed for greater flexibility in labor regulations throughout much of Latin America. This comparative study of six Latin American countries shows why these common pressures for flexibility led to varied labor reform outcomes.

Over the years, Pennsylvania has been graced with an abundance of writers whose work draws imaginatively on the state's history and culture. Common Wealth sings the essence of Pennsylvania through contemporary poetry. Whether Pennsylvania is their point of origin or their destination, the featured poets ultimately find what matters: heritage, pride, work, inventiveness, struggle, faith, beauty, hope. Keystone poets Marjorie Maddox and Jerry Wemple celebrate Pennsylvania with this wide range of new and veteran poets, including former state poet Samuel Hazo, National Book Award winner Gerald Stern, Pulitzer Prize winners Maxine Kumin, W.S. Merwin, and W.D. Snodgrass, and Reading-born master John Updike. The book's 103 poets also include such noted authors as Diane Ackerman, Maggie Anderson, Jan, Beatty, Robin Becker, Jim Daniels, Toi Derricotte, Gary Fincke, Harry Humes, Julia Kasdorf, Ed Ochester, Jay Parini, Len Roberts, Sonia Sanchez, Betsy Sholl, and Judith Vollmer. In these pages, poems sketch the landscapes and cultural terrain of the state, delving into the history, traditions, and people of Philadelphia, "Dutch" country, the coal-mining region, the Poconos, and the Lehigh Valley; the Three Rivers region; the Laurel Highlands; and Erie and the Allegheny National Forest. Theirs is a complex narrative cultivated for centuries in coal mines, kitchens, elevated trains, and hometowns, a tale that illuminates the sanctity of the commonplace--the daily chores of a Mennonite housewife, a polka dance in Coaldale, the late shift at a steel factory, the macadam of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. With its panoramic vision of Pennsylvania, its culture, and its thriving literary heritage, CommonWealth is a collection of remembrance for a state that continues to inspire countless contributions to American literature.

A study of Edmund Husserl's philosophy as a non-foundational approach to understanding the self as an embodied presence. It demonstrates how Husserl, anticipating the investigations of Merleau-Ponty, explored how the body functions to determine our self-presence, freedom, and sense of time.

This volume describes some of the most outstanding overlooks in Pennsylvania, providing a general description of the area, the site's distinguishing features, its height, the compass direction of the view, and nearby and distant features visible from the outlook.

Here, Marcus advances the provocative claim that the tradition in democratic theory of treating emotion and reason as hostile opposites is misguided. He argues that sentimental citizens are the only citizens really capable of exercising political judgement.

This text, originally published in Germany in 1990, proposes an extended and original interpretation of Kant, social morality, and philosophy of law. The author articulates his reading of Kant in the context of an account of modernity as a "polyphonous project".

Villanova is one of America's oldest and largest Catholic universities. Founded in 1842, it has seen great change in its 150-year history. Here, David Contosta presents a combination of text and photographs to recount the history of the school and the forces that have shaped its growth.

A collection of essays that explore the collapse of economic growth in Venezuela since the 1970s. Essays discuss the relevance of public investment, labor markets, fiscal policy, institutions, politics, and values.

A collection of essays examining Immanuel Kant's lectures and minor writings as well as his political essays. Offers a comprehensive introduction to Kant's political thought from a position of engagement with modern political and philosophical questions.

Khrushchev recounts how he became politically active as a young worker in Ukraine, how he climbed the ladder of power under Stalin to occupy leading positions in Ukraine and Moscow, and how as a military commissar he experienced the war against the Nazi invaders. His sincere reflections add to the value of this personal and historical document.

An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Iphigenia. Includes critical notes and commentary.

This text discusses observations and discoveries in the art and architecture of Rome.

This text demonstrates how crucial a role dialectics has played in the work of many great philosophers. Following a survey of dialectics from the Ancient Greeks to the Austrian school of economics, it investigates in detail the work of Murray Rothbard as a leading modern libertarian.

This text examines the lives of notaries and their families in the French city of Nantes during the 16th and 17th centuries, and the daily experience of middling urban families - from work to family to neighbourhood to involvment in local politics.

Examines the Old English riddles found in the tenth-century Exeter Book manuscript, with particular attention to their relationship to larger traditions of literary and traditional riddling.

Before the former Yugoslavia was divided by wars, its inhabitants lived side by side in peace. These essays seek to explain how former neighbours became enemies, with the hope that understanding what drove these peoples apart will help us discover ways for them to coexist in peace again.

Argues against the accepted idea that Thomas Hobbes turned away from humanism to pursue the scientific study of politics. Reconceptualizes Hobbes's thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and the court culture of the Stuart regimes.

Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, the author examines the political, structural, ideological and personal factors that allowed many Latin American women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities.

Argues that the search for sincerity in the public arena actually constitutes a dangerous distraction from more important concerns, including factual truth and the ethical import of political statements. This title shows Plato to have an appreciation for rhetoric rather than a desire to purge it from public life.

This work offers a comprehensive history of the so-called Spiritual Franciscans, a protest movement within the Franciscan order. Burr shows that the movement existed as a loyal opposition in the late 13th century, but by 1318 Pope John XXII had forced it beyond the boundaries of legitimacy.