Author: Sergei N. Khrushchev
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: superpower, creation, khrushchev, nikita
Number of Pages: 838
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0271021705
ISBN-13: 9780271021706

More is known about Nikita Khrushchev than about many former Soviet leaders, partly because of his own efforts to communicate through speeches, interviews, and memoirs. (A partial version of his memoirs was published in three volumes in 1970, 1974, and 1990, and a complete version was published in Russia in 1999 and will appear in an English translation to be published by Penn State Press.) But even with the opening of party and state archives in 1991, as William Taubman points out in his Foreword, many questions remain unanswered. "How did Khrushchev manage not only to survive Stalin but to s

Author: Elizabeth M. Butler
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: magic, series, history, ritual
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0271018461
ISBN-13: 9780271018461

Occult knowledge and practice can be divided into three main branches: Astrology, which aims to guide human fortune by means of foreknowledge; Alchemy, which tries to secure power through the agency of the philosopher’s stone; and Ritual Magic, which seeks to control the spirit world. In this classic book (first published in 1949), Butler explores ritual magic using a wide range of texts from the pre-Christian rites of the Akkadians and Chaldeans to the Solomonic Clavicles of medieval Europe. Throughout, there is extensive quotation from the documents themselves, providing the reader wit

Author: Judy Wajcman
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: technology, confronts, feminism
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1991-09-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0271008024
ISBN-13: 9780271008028

This book provides an exploration of the impact of technology on women’s lives. The technology considered includes word processors, food processors, genetic engineering and buildings. The book surveys sociological and feminist literature on technology, and argues that there is an in-built male bias in the way technology is designed and defined.

Author: James Kellenberger
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
Keywords: moral, relationships, human, diversity, relativism
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2003-07-18
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0271022876
ISBN-13: 9780271022871

This work aims to clarify the debate between moral relativists and moral absolutists by showing what is right and what is wrong about each of these positions, by revealing how the phenomenon of moral diversity is connected with moral relativism, and by arguing for the importance of relationships between persons as key to reaching a satisfactory understanding of the issues involved in the debate.

Author: Herwig Wolfram
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ
Keywords: kingdoms, three, emperor, conrad
Number of Pages: 475
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $71.95
ISBN-10: 027102738X
ISBN-13: 9780271027388

In this biography of the German emperor Conrad II (990–1039), internationally renowned medievalist Herwig Wolfram paints a fascinating portrait of a consummate politician set against the background of a Europe entering a new millennium. Conrad was the founder of the Salian Dynasty, under whose almost century-long dominion Germany became the most powerful state in Western Europe. He was also the first emperor of the High Middle Ages to rule the three kingdoms of Germany, Italy, and Burgundy. Conrad’s reign marked the triumph of the concept of "kingdom" and the zenith of what has been te

Author: Robert Stecker
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ
Keywords: value, meaning, definition, artworks
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0271015969
ISBN-13: 9780271015965

What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticising, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current interpretive practices and to motivate an investigation of artistic value. Stecker defines art (roughly) as an item that is an artwork at time "t" if an only if it is one of the central art forms at "t

Authors:Randall M. Miller, Randall M. Miller, William A. Pen
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Keywords: books, keystone, pennsylvania
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2002-10-22
List price: $43.95
ISBN-10: 0271022140
ISBN-13: 9780271022147

The Keystone State, so nicknamed because it was geographically situated in the middle of the thirteen original colonies and played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, has remained at the heart of American history. Created partly as a safe haven for people from all walks of life, Pennsylvania is today the home of diverse cultures, religions, ethnic groups, social classes, and occupations. Many ideas, institutions, and interests that were first formed or tested in Pennsylvania spread across America and beyond, and continue to inform American culture, society, and politics. This