Steam's Indian Summer

Heiron, George

Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated

This book provides a comprehensive and balanced examination of one of the most divisive yet least understood conflicts of this decade: the Nicaraguan revolution.  The contributors include not only leading Western experts and government officials, but also active participants in the civil war itself: present and former FSLN officials, as well as leaders of competing resistance groups.  In addition to analyzing the roots of the conflict, the authors examine three different dimension - internal, regional, and international - of the present situation and their implications for the future.  The book also contains several key documents, including the little-known FSLN Platform of 1977, the Nicaraguan Constitution of 1986, and the Contadora Act of Peace of 1986, all of which are central to an understanding of recent events.  This timely and even-handed account will be of interest to anyone concerned with contemporary events in Nicaragua, with North-South and East-West issues, and with the future of Central America.

Conflict in Nicaragua: A multidimensional perspective

Engineering & Transportation

Valenta, Jiri

Engineering

The British Isles through geological time: A northward drift

Education & Teaching

Lovell, J P B

Schools & Teaching

In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his pioneering and definitive work analyzes the remarkable and persistent influence of Ancient Egyptian culture on the West. The author deftly develops his argument that the civilization of Ancient Egypt is central, rather than peripheral, to the development of much of Western architecture, art, design, and religion. Curl examines:  the persistence of Egyptian motifs in design from Graeco-Roman Antiquity, through the Medieval, Baroque, and Neo-Classical periods rise of Egyptology in the nineteenth and twentieth-century manifestations of Egyptianisms prompted by the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb various aspects of Egyptianizing tendencies in the Art Deco style and afterwards. For students of art, architectural and ancient history, and those interested in western European culture generally, this book will be an inspiring and invaluable addition to the available literature.

The Egyptian revival: An introductory study of a recurring theme in the history of taste

History

CURL, James Stevens

Middle East

Copyright Barbara Morris, 1978. Barrie and Jenkins Limited Publishers. Previous price sticker is also stuck to the front flap. First Edition. 256 pp, with 8 color and 165 b/w plates, appendices listing registry, trade and factory marks, bibliography, and index. (RRm)

Victorian table glass & ornaments

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Morris, Barbara

Crafts & Hobbies

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus first appeared in 1921 and was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme compression and brilliance, it immediately convinced many of its readers and captivated the imagination of all. Its chief influence, at first, was on the Logical Positivists of the 1920s and 30s, but many other philosophers were stimulated by its philosophy of language, finding attractive, if ultimately unsatisfactory, its view that propositions were pictures of reality. Perhaps most of all, Wittgenstein himself, after his return to philosophy in the late 1920s, was fascinated by its vision of an inexpressible, crystalline world of logical relationships. The posthumous publication of other writings has, therefore, only served to reawaken interest in the Tractatus and to illuminate its more neglected aspects.David Pears and Brian McGuinness revised their translation in the light of Wittgenstein's own suggestions and comments in his correspondence with C.K. Ogden about the first translation. In addition, this edition contains the introduction by Bertrand Russell which appeared in the original English translation.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The Psychology of Reading

Health, Fitness & Dieting

KENNEDY, ALAN

Psychology & Counseling

Gladstone, Vol. 1: 1809-1865

Richard, Shannon

Burlesque (The Critical idiom, 22)

First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful introduction to burlesque literature, a term used by critics from the seventh-century onwards to describe work in which an incongruity between serious subject-matter and style is used to provoke laughter. It examines the four main types of burlesque writing: Travesty, Hudibrastic, Parody and the Mock-Poem, as well as dramatic burlesques.

Burlesque (Critical Idiom)

Jump, John D.

Literature & Fiction

<p>Professor Wilson Knight's contribution to Shakespearian investigation must be regarded as one of the most important and original of our time. The greater part of this volume is devoted to an exhaustive study of the Roman Tragedies - Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. It also contains the author's most complete interpretation of Macbeth. In his foreword, Professor Wilson Knight surveys the advances of Shakespearian studies during the past two or three decades, relating his own investigations to their context, tracing their ancestry and indicating the nature of their challenge to the academic tradition.</p>

The Imperial Theme: Further Interpretations of Shakespeare's Tragedies, Including the Roman Plays

G. Wilson Knight

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