Author: Steve Weinberg
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: journalism, first, school, world, history, humanity, candid
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-04-07
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0826217966
ISBN-13: 9780826217967

Now celebrating its centennial, the world’s first journalism school was founded by a newsman who lacked a college education. Weinberg draws on internal documents and correspondence to uncover the politics of the School from its founding to the present--the struggles over resources as well as the constant battle to balance scholarly ambitions with professional mission. This account embraces faculty and staff members, students and alumni, supporters and detractors, as it covers all professional sequences taught at the School. It captures the freewheeling debate that has been a hallmark of

Author: Loren Humphrey
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: missouri, readers, series, heritage, medicine, quarantine, quinine, years
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-02
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0826212697
ISBN-13: 9780826212696

Presenting an overview of medicine in Missouri from the early days of the epidemics to present-day technological advances, this work approaches the history of medicine as an integral part of the state’s development. The text is organized chronologically in 50-year segments.

Author: Alison Easton
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: subject, hawthorne, making
Number of Pages: 311
Published: 1996-02
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0826210406
ISBN-13: 9780826210401

This study of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s early writings analyses the development of Hawthorne’s work over the first 25 years of his career. It focuses on that process in relation to current critical debates on subjectivity.

Authors:Eric Voegelin, Jürgen Gebhardt, Thomas A. Hollweck,
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: volume, works, collected, eric, voegelin, orientation, order, political, ideas, new, history, last
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1999-04
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 082621214X
ISBN-13: 9780826212146

In this text, Eric Voegelin explores two aspects of modernity. He offers an account of the political situation in 17th-century Europe after the decline of the church and the empire, and also explains his theory of "phenomenalism".

Authors:Jay Winter, Jay Winter,
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: years, ninety, war, legacy
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-11-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0826218717
ISBN-13: 9780826218711

In late 2007 and early 2008, world-renowned historians gathered in Kansas City for a series of public forums on World War I. Each of the five events focused on a particular topic and featured spirited dialogue between its prominent participants. In spontaneous exchanges, the eminent scholars probed each other’s arguments, learned from each other, and provided insights not just into history but also into the way scholars think about their subject alongside and at times in conflict with their colleagues. Representing a fourth generation of writers on the Great War and a transnational rathe

Author: Garnett Kilberg Cohen
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: stories, souls, banished, women, lost
Number of Pages: 155
Published: 1996-09
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826210732
ISBN-13: 9780826210739

These stories feature women who share one main characteristic: the sense of loss. They show how women who appear ordinary on the surface often live extraordinary private lives. The stories also explore such social issues as domestic violence, teenage pregnancy and child-rearing after divorce.

Author: Eric Voegelin
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Keywords: voegelin, eric, works, collected, anamnesis
Number of Pages: 217
Published: 1990-03
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0826207375
ISBN-13: 9780826207371

This is the first English paperback version of this text originally published in German in 1966, and first made available in English in 1978. The translated version includes Voegelin’s "Reason: the Classic Experience", as well as a new first chapter written by Voegelin especially for this translation. "Anamnesis" pulls together those materials that focus most sharply upon the development of Eric Voegelin’s philosophy of consciousness. One of the most influential and profound philosophers of our time, Voegelin has had an enormous impact on contemporary intellectual life where he was