Authors:John Peterson, Richard Sindelar,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: gulf, crosscurrents
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1988-08-04
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0415000327
ISBN-13: 9780415000321

The discovery of oil in the Gulf revolutionised its social and economic relationship with the West. This book provides a broad overview of foreign policy imperatives, an examination of three of the most important issues - the Iran-Iraq war, OPEC, socio-political extremism - and finally a closer inspection of three of the key players in that area: Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Author: James R. Babb
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Keywords: progress, fisher, crosscurrents
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1585744948
ISBN-13: 9781585744947

One of the most eccentric and riveting voices to be heard in the world of fly fishing has his say on just about every aspect of angling.

Author: Massimo Ammaniti
Publisher: NYU Press
Keywords: psychoanalytic, crosscurrents, narratives, representations, development, psychoanalysis
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1994-10-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0814706169
ISBN-13: 9780814706169

A remarkable achievement. Ammaniti and Stern have brought together an outstanding group of thinkers who address the problem of representation and psychoanalysis with depth and originality. Individually, each chapter is a joy to read. Collectively, the book is an essential addition to our thinking about the parameters of subjectivity and their role in the therapeutic process."—Alicia F. Lieberman, Professor of Psychology, Univeristy of California San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital and author of The Emotional Life of the Toddler Representations and Narratives provides an innova

Author: J. B. Bullen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: european, art, criticism, british, crosscurrents, continental
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-10-20
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0198186916
ISBN-13: 9780198186915

Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in their search for origins or their pursuit of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms; it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offered new ways of interpreting Venetian painting; it opened up new readings of architectural history and the "discovery" of the Romanesque; it generated a debate about the value of re

Author: ALBERT J. SBRAGIA
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: crosscurrents, gainesville, fla, macaronic, modern, emilio, gadda, carlo
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1996-09-04
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0813014638
ISBN-13: 9780813014630

This is an historical and thematic appreciation of the Italian novelist Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973). It emphasizes his involvment in World War I and Italian Fascism, and situates him in an expressionistic tradition that has its roots in the modernist crises of realist and linguistic minesis.

Authors:Jane Nelson, Kathy Evertz,
Publisher: Boynton/Cook
Keywords: portsmouth, crosscurrents, centers, writing, politics
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2001-08-24
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0867095695
ISBN-13: 9780867095692

This book explores the terrain of power in which writing centers are located

Authors:John Corner, Sylvia Harvey,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: culture, national, crosscurrents, heritage, enterprise
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1991-07-15
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0415047021
ISBN-13: 9780415047029

In Britain, the rise of the radical Right has been expressed in the creation of a market society. "Enterprise" is the term most often used for the official encouragement of the values of this society, where competitive private ownership provides the model for both industrial and domestic life. For the individual, identity emerges with the exercise of choice in the marketplace, and the "right to buy" is celebrated as the guarantee of individual freedom. At the same time, the popularity of the idea of "heritage" signals the invocation of the values and achievements of a mythical and nostalgia-ti