This biography recounts the life and career of Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853-1933), the radical leader of the Populist Party who participated in the women's suffrage and feminist movements and told Midwe
Author Peter Usher is emeritus professor of astronomy and astrophysics at The Pennsylvania State University; he has written several books and papers on science in Shakespeare. In this work, he focuses
Traditionally, migration has been studied at either the beginning or the end of the journey. Surprisingly little research has been devoted to what actually happens to people in between. The contributo
Neal (sociology, Bowling Green State U.) discusses sociological perspectives on modernity through a variety of conceptual models. He considers the dynamic forces that created the modern world, with a
Chiu presents readers with an interest in Catholicism, the Chinese Catholic Church, and contemporary Chinese political and religious issues with an argument regarding the reunification of the Chinese
The Concept of Logical Consequence is a critical evaluation of the model-theoretic and proof-theoretic characterizations of logical consequence that proceeds from Alfred Tarski's characterization of t
The outcome of more than a decade of collaboration with colleagues and students in the US and Europe, this volume focuses on the gendered production, reception, and textual transmission of mystical te
Wilkins, currently at the University of Sydney, studies the interrelationship of philosophy, religion and biology. Here he traces the concept of species from Aristotle to the present. Each philosopher
Chiu presents Chinese Catholic seminary students, academics, and administrators with a text focused on the design of a renewed formation program, toward the transformation of the Chinese Catholic Chur
Wading into the long debate over whether people's actions can be sufficiently explained neurologically without recourse to mind, Moore introduces two non-reductive approaches. The joint causation solu
Influenced by participation in the Civil Rights and ecumenical movements, and a health crisis that shaped his views on the sovereignty of the body, Hughes (religion, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pe
Examines education policy in Switzerland from a comparative perspective, analyzing the variations of Swiss state and local educational systems and the attempts to coordinate disparate policies at the
Exploring the flawed, unfinished, and circumscribed qualities of fiction by five modernist writers, Quick (English, U. of Massachusetts-Amherst) examines their struggles with artistic self-subversion.
