Authors:Rainer Maria Rilke,  Walter Arndt, Cyrus Hamli
Publisher: Dartmouth
Keywords: compact, commentary, biography, english, german, originals, facing, form, true, verse, translations, rilke
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 1989-05-15
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0874514614
ISBN-13: 9780874514612

A distinguished poet-translator presents faithful verse translations of 72 poems in a bilingual edition with commentary and biographical material.

Authors:James Cross Giblin,  Ursula Arndt,
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: july, symbols, fourth, story, picnics, flags, fireworks
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2001-04-23
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 061809654X
ISBN-13: 9780618096541

James Cross Giblin does an excellent job of bringing the history of America’s Independence Day to life. Woven into his vivid descriptions of events surrounding the Declaration of Independence (down to the annoying flies and mosquitoes in Philadelphia’s State House) are amusing anecdotes--how the 1890s "Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise" tried to outlaw Fourth of July firecrackers; what a Yankee Doodle really is; that Uncle Sam was a real person; and how Benjamin Franklin wanted America’s national bird to be ... a turkey. Fireworks, Picnics, and Flags concludes

Authors:Walter Reich,  Walter Laqueur,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Pre
Keywords: states, mind, theologies, ideologies, terrorism, psychologies, origins
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1998-09-18
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0943875897
ISBN-13: 9780943875897

Terrorists and terrorism have become a major force internationally. Hostage-taking and other acts of violence for political ends are common all over the globe. This groundbreaking study sheds new light on the phenomenon of terrorism. This book examines and explains the nature and sources of terrorists’ beliefs, actions, goals, worldviews, and states of mind. Origins of Terrorism addresses, with scholarly responsibility as well as necessary urgency, one of the most vexing intellectual and political challenges of our time. The contributors to this book bring deep learning and experience in

Authors:M.D. Walter C. Willett,  P.J. Skerrett,
Publisher: Free Pre
Keywords: healthy, guide, eating, school, medical, harvard, drink
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2005-06-28
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0743266420
ISBN-13: 9780743266420

Aimed at nothing less than totally restructuring the diets of Americans, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy may well accomplish its goal. Dr. Walter C. Willett gets off to a roaring start by totally dismantling one of the largest icons in health today: the USDA Food Pyramid that we all learn in elementary school. He blames many of the pyramid’s recommendations--6 to 11 servings of carbohydrates, all fats used sparingly--for much of the current wave of obesity. At first this may read differently than any diet book, but Willett also makes a crucial, rarely mentioned point about this icon: "The thi

Authors:George A. De Vos,  Walter H. Slote,
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: philosophy, culture, chinese, series, family, suny, confucianism
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 1998-07-01
List price: $58.50
ISBN-10: 0791437353
ISBN-13: 9780791437353

The family is central to societies that have been profoundly influenced by the Confucian, and later Neo-Confucian, mandate. This book examines the nature of family continuities and the internal family social and psychological dynamics in societies that comprise the Confucian core of Asia, namely China (including Taiwan), Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Singapore. Confucian ideas are discussed from diverse perspectives: religion, philosophy, and history; anthropology and sociology; psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry. Both abiding psychological and social similarities as well as cultural diff

Authors:Sir Walter Scott,  Ian Dunca,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, ivanhoe
Number of Pages: 622
Published: 1998-08-20
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0192834991
ISBN-13: 9780192834997

In Ivanhoe Scott fashioned an imperial myth of national cultural identity that has shaped the popular imagination ever since its first appearance at the end of 1819. With the secret return of King Richard and the disinherited Saxon knight Ivanhoe, Scott confronts his splendid and tumultuous romance, featuring the tournament at Ashby-de- la-Zouche, the siege of Torquilstone, and the clash of wills between the wicked Templar Bois-Guilbert and the sublime Rebecca. Based on the 1830 text of Ivanhoe, this is the first edition to make corrections against Scott’s working materials and incorpora

Authors:Amy Rauen,  Lorin Walter,
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Keywords: math, started, getting, outdoors, using
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0836889843
ISBN-13: 9780836889840