The original, groundbreaking survey of woman warrior myths, legends, and traditions in Western literature, drama, and history, including popular culture?now with a comprehensive index. Features a uniq
The history of American education is a vital and productive field of study. This reference book provides factual information about eminent people and important topics related to the development of Am
This extensively revised and updated edition continues to present an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world’s landforms from a broad systems perspective. It reflec
Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national id
Drawing on Western and Asian scholarship, Smith (humanities and history, Rice U.) has written the first full-length study in any Western language of the history of the development of the Yijing (I-Chi
Richard Trudeau confronts the fundamental question of truth and its representation through mathematical models in The Non-Euclidean Revolution. First, the author analyzes geometry in its historical a
The letters First and Second Thessalonians are traditionally associated with the Pauline foundation of the Macedonian Church at Thessalonica. The first is seen as representing Paul's earliest epistola
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