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Recent Developments Constitutional Law 2008 Case Supplement
Randy Barnett
$23.00

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To ensure that you have the most up-to-date and complete materials for your Constitutional Law class, be sure to use Recent Developments in Constitutional Law, 2008 Case Supplement.

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Images of the Recent Past: Readings in Historical Archaeology
Jr., Charles E. Orser
$31.90

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Historical archaeology has been without a definitive, up-to-date collection that reflects the breadth of the field until now. Orser's book brings together classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the development of the field over the last twenty years, both in North America and throughout the world. Orser's selections represent a wide variety of locales and perspectives and include works by many of the leading figures in the field. Engaging articles make it accessible to any interested reader, and superb for historical archaeology classes.

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Recent Themes in Historical Thinking: Historians in Conversation
$15.16

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This book offers a detailed look at new trends in methods of historical inquiry.Through articles and interviews, the prominent historians featured in this collection comment on such wide-ranging topics of historical inquiry as the impact of postmodernism on the field, the relationship between professional and popular history, the importance of historical consciousness, and the limitations of the field in its current state. A special feature of this volume is a lively forum on counterfactuals - the might-have-beens of history. The volume in general and the forum in particular illustrates the value of ongoing conversation between historians in advancing historical investigation and enriching debate and discussion within and beyond the academic setting.The contributors are Jeremy Black, David Cannadine, Robert Cowley, Richard J. Evans, Edward Ingram, Richard Ned Lebow, Joseph S. Lucas, John Lukacs, C. Behan McCullagh, William H. McNeill, Allan Megill, Gavriel Rosenfeld, Peter Seixas, Beverley Southgate, Willie Thompson, and Sam Wineburg.

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Black Theatre, USA: Plays by African Americans: The Recent Period, 1935-Today
Ted Shine
$15.49

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I OWN BOTH VOLUMES OF THIS BOOK. I LOVE A.A. PLAYS AND LIT. THIS BOOK WAS A JOY TO READ IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE ALSO. I USED THIS VOLUME TO DO A PAPER IN MY BLACK WOMEN WRITERS CLASS. I WROTE ON FEMALE PLAYWRITES OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AND THEY ARE ALL IN THIS VOLUME.

A MUST FOR ANY LOVER OF A.A. THEATRE

RONDY

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History in Crisis? Recent Directions in Historiography (2nd Edition)
Norman J. Wilson
$25.22

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History in Crisis? provides students with an in-depth look at the practices, methods, and theoretical assumptions Western historians employ in their quest to decipher and interpret events of the past. Students are exposed to the inner workings of the historical world, allowing them to discover and understand the approaches historians utilize to conduct research, and to fully comprehend what the pursuit of historical truth actually entails. By offering an introduction to historical research, a brief survey of the formal philosophy of history, and investigations of the concerns and questions facing today's historians, Norman J. Wilson provides students with the skills and tools necessary to understand the study of history, analyze historical problems, and most importantly, become active participants in the currently expanding historical conversation.

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Recent Theories of Narrative
Wallace Martin
$10.77

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Recent Theories of Narrative, By Wallace Martin, reviewed by Allan Maurer

Wallace Martin summarizes the entire spectrum of narrative theory up to 1986 in his Recent Theories of Narrrative. His survey of the field covers narrative theories as they apply to history and biography as well as literature. While he admits that some of his summaries of various narratology theories are far from thorough in the limited space such a work can give them, he does a fine job of outlining their essential points and noting how they relate to other theories. Martin covers the Russian formalists (Propp, et al), the French and American structuralists (Barthes, Scholes, Culler) and semioticians, providing extremely useful charts showing how each analyzes narrative. He connects modern narrative theory to traditional criticism, Northrup Frye's archetypal approach, and Joseph Campbell's monomyth outline, again showing how they all compare in a chart comprehensible at a glance. His chapters cover previous theories of the novel (James and others) and then proceeds to look at various specific areas of narrative theory, such as point of view, time, characters, and setting. The section on the peculiar grammatical forms we all unquestioningly accept while reading or listening to stories (an apparently universal feature of narrative is the unusual way storytellers use tense) is particularly interesting. Martin considers the reader/narrator questions of Wolfgang Iser, Frank Kermode, and others in his concluding chapters. Throughout, Martin shows not just what has been done in narrative studies up to 1986, he also points out areas needing further clarification, a particularly useful feature to academics who might wish to work in the field. As Martin suggests, the best way to test narrative theories is to attempt to apply them to a narrative and note the results. He does this himself within the book by referring constantly to Katheryn Mansfield's "Bliss," which is included in an appendix. The annotated Bibliography is absolutely first rate. Here you'll find an excellent guide to further research or reading in every field of narratology. Personally, I suspect readers would benefit from perusing Roland Barthes' seminal essay on "The Structural Analysis of Narrative," Wayne Booth's excellent book, The Rhetoric of Fiction, and Seymor Chatman's 1978 book, Story and Discoure in Fiction and Film, in conjunction with this work. Modern narrative study is taking a distinctly scientific turn, and this is the only aspect missing from Martin's otherwise wide-ranging survey. Jerome Bruner's essay collections deal with the cultural importance of narrative in creating individual and cultural meaning and lead the reader to the work of psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists in narrative study. Philosopher Paul Ricoeur wrote an exhaustive three volume analysis of time in narrative. One time Yale Artificial Intelligence researcher Roger Schrank wrote in his book, Tell Me A Story, "We think in stories." More and more, this interdisciplinary realization is leading to more scientific approaches to narrative study.In 1997, Mark Turner published The Literary Mind, which takes narrative study to a new level and suggests we think in stories because narrative thought is wired right into our brain hardware. Martin's book is nevertheless probably the best place for any narratology neophyte to begin exploring this fascinating and important area of study.

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Thailand's Political History: From the Fall of Ayutthaya to Recent Times
B.J. Terwiel
$19.60

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Fresh insight into Thailand's history over the 250 years, from the fall of the old capital Ayutthaya in 1767 in the opening scene, to today, with the country's massive economic expansion.

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Recent Trends in Conservation of Art Heritage
$145.78

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Contributed articles dedicated to Om Prakash Agrawal, b. 1931, art conservationist.

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Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Recent Developments (Manufacturing Research and Technology)
$151.93

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Hardbound. Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) involve substituting machines capable of performing a wide and redefinable variety of tasks for machines dedicated to the performance of specific tasks. FMS can also be programmed to handle new products, thus extending the machines' life cycles. Thus they represent a change from "standardized goods produced by customized machines" to "customized goods produced by standardized machines". This volume contains new and updated material in this field, and will be of great interest to researchers, managers and students concerned with problems related to flexible manufacturing systems.

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Recent America: The United States Since 1945
Dewey W. Grantham
$27.95

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The very latest postwar American history to appear, the second edition of Recent America: The United States Since 1945 has been extensively revised and expanded, making it the most informative and completely up-to-date recent U.S. history available. Based on a large body of historical writing as well as the work of social scientists, journalists, and other authorities on the contemporary scene, this lavishly illustrated and thoughtfully organized book brings new perspectives to bear on our recent past, engaging in the process historian Felix Gilbert describes as "reconstructing a historical consciousness that integrates the present with the past."