Puzzle Reading – The Reverse Reading Method That Turns Stories into Puzzles introduces a completely new way of reading: a structural method that reverses the order of sentences while keeping every word intact.
Much of what was central to Tolstoy seems embarrassing to Western and Soviet critics, points out Richard Gustafson in his absorbing argument for the predominance of Tolstoy's religious viewpoint in all his writings.
In less than a decade Frank Murphy rose from Mayor of depression-torn Detroit to Governor General and High Commissioner of the Philippines, Governor of Michigan, Attorney General of the United States, and one of the most libertarian Supreme Court Justices in American history.
Through the Lens, Joseph Naso, the Camera, and a Fifty-Year Campaign of Serial Murder In April 2010, a routine probation check at a modest Reno, Nevada, residence uncovered a room sealed with a heavy industrial padlock.
These essays by the poet and critic Theodore Weiss explore a problem already powerful in Lucretius, conspicuous with Shakespeare, and more than ever a concern for modern writers--the place; and price of poetry in a prose-minded world.
The name John Lennon immediately conjures up thoughts and images of the iconic sixties band 'The Beatles', the 'Let It Be' roof top concert, a pedestrian crossing at Abbey Road Studios, a white room, the song 'Imagine' and Yoko Ono.
Ignaz Seipel (1876-1932) was Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Austria's first, postwar republic and leader of its conservative party, the Christian Socialists.
This book makes available the entire range of Ezra Pounds studies and translations of the technically complex philosophical poems of the thirteenth-century Florentine Guido Cavalcanti, Dante's first friend"e; and artistic rival.
A biography of the distinguished novelist, poet, preacher and social reformer, who typifies the Victorian man as closely as the Good Queen herself typifies the Victorian woman.
Events from the beginning of the presidential campaign of 1916 to the entry of the United States into the First World War are covered in this fifth volume of Professor Link's authoritative biography of Woodrow Wilson.
These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer.
This book is a study in depth of the rise to power of Macedonia under the astute leadership of Philip II, whose diplomatic adroitness and military skill paved the way for the career of his son and heir, Alexander the Great.
Bringing together more than a thousand unpublished letters as well as all the widely scattered published ones, these four volumes represent the first attempt at a complete edition of the letters of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883).
The Trident of Life – Thirukkural Porutpaal in Tamil is an insightful commentary that interprets the Porutpaal section of Thirukkural through the light of Vedathiri Maharishi's World Peace philosophy.
Professor Ellison demonstrates that the characteristic difficulties of Emerson's prose--its repetitiveness, discontinuity, and tonal peculiarities--are motivated by his use of interpretation to free himself from recurringly intimidating aspects of tradition.
Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls.
The life of William Morris (1834-1896) is revealed in significant new detail by his complete surviving correspondence, brought together here for the first time and including many previously unpublished letters.
Known to his contemporaries for his sharpness of mind, strength of purpose, fortitude, and good humor, John de Witt was a brilliant leader whose career ended in a death of horror rarely paralleled in history.
This study shows how Lenin's life was permanently altered at the age of seventeen by the execution of his brother Alexander, his transformation from a model student in secondary school into a revolutionary at the university, his fascination with Chernyshevsky, and his long involvement with the Jacobin wing of the revolutionary movement.
James McCosh played a leading role in the effort to reconcile two powerful intellectual and social forces of the nineteenth century: evolution and evangelicalism.
Annotated by Professors Jansen and Eto, the book illuminates the experiences of Miyazaki's generation with Western culture and the development of an Asian consciousness.
Presented here in English translation are letters selected for publication by the poet himself, shortly before his death, from his wide correspondence with famous writers and public figures such as W.
"e;The Period of Consolidation, 1871-1880, Volume II"e; opens at a time when Bismarck had become the dominant figure in German and European politics and the new German Reich the most formidable power on the continent.
These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and designer.
Outstanding literary critic, editor, lecturer and teacher, master of classical and oriental thought, widely respected interpreter of Christian belief, Paul Elmer More lived a full and productive life.
A physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture--Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine, and the formation and adaptation of liberal social ideals in the French Revolution.
Throughout this narrative the author combines the historical material with an expert understanding of Wilson's ailments to point out ways in which the state of his health changed the course of national and international events.
