Dr. Thomas Szasz on the shortcomings of commitment procedures, and the inadequacies of protections afforded patients in psychiatric institutions. He alerts us to the existing and potential abuses of human rights in mental health programs and procedures.

Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry

Thomas Szasz

Syracuse University Press

Howard Bond traveled ten countries in search of subjects. Between 1974 and 2005, he released twenty-two portfolios of about ten photographs each, and he created some thirty sets of each portfolio. These portfolios reach across time, pulling images from different journeys together around unifying themes. His works are rich with precise detail. The world we see through his lens is a peaceful one, changed only by light and time. In "Luminous Construction", the complement to the Syracuse University Library exhibit of the same name, readers can experience Bond's photographs in a context intended to foreground his achievement as a formalist, a craftsman, and an artist. Since committing himself fully to photography in 1979, Bond has been regarded as a master of large-format film photography. His signature black-and-white photography has been featured in more than sixty single-artist and forty group shows all over the world. He is the author of two books, "Light Motifs" and "White Motif: The Cyclades Islands of Greece", and of more than a hundred articles for "Photo Techniques" magazine. In addition to Adams, Bond studied fine art photography with twentieth-century masters Imogen Cunningham and Brett Weston. The Michigan-based artist has taught workshops on photographic techniques for more than three decodes.

Luminous Construction: The Photography of Howard Bond (an exhibition catlogue)

Arts & Photography

Howard Bond

Individual Artists

Intimidation and the Control of Conflict Northern Ireland (Irish Studies)

History

Darby, John

Europe

Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions

Ellis Davidson

Religion & Spirituality

International Claims: Their Adjudications by National Commissions

Lillich, Richard B.

In 1912, Siao-yu and Mao Tse-tung were students in the same school in the city of Changsha in Hunan, a province famed for its bandits and heroes. Having discovered a deep mutual concern for the fate of China, the two students met frequently for lengthy discussions on many subjects: teachings of the classics, ways of self-cultivation, reform of China, politics and government, and the latest news.A featured episode in the narrative is the begging trip through central China made by the two close friends during the summer of 1917. Mao frequently referred to this experience in interviews with journalists.The author's own drawings throughout the text and in a special section after the narrative supplement these personal recollections of the formative years of Mao Tse-tung.

Mao Tse-Tung and I Were Beggars: Limited Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Yu, Siao

Community & Culture

The story of the Progressive Party and Henry Wallace's 1948 presidential bid through the final disintegration of the party in 1950.

Henry A. Wallace: Quixotic Crusade 1948

Schmidt, Karl

Historical

Fessenden of Maine: Civil War Senator

Charles A. Jellison

For over thirty years, the man chiefly responsible for the selection of men to rule the British colonies was R. D. Furse. He found the qualities needed―courage, firmness, dignity, sympathy, and physical and moral stamina―in members of the British ruling classes, prepared by tradition and by education at Public Schools and at Oxford and Cambridge. In this lively study of recruitment for the administrative branch of the British colonial service under Furse, the author writes: “Colonial officials of the interwar years were a mixed lot. . . . But in the judgment of those who selected them they had in common that passion for ruling which Santayana and other acute observers of the English scene have identified as a distinctively British national trait.” It is Heussler’s thesis that the men in the colonies, rather than official policy, made British colonialism what it was; and Furse’s selection of those men was governed by moral rather than scientific requirements. The book traces the colonial administrative service from the time when Africa was “the white man’s grave” to the years after World War II when the need for special, formal training had become urgent and recommendations for reform were put into effect. By the time cadets trained in the “new spirit” arrived in their posts, however, Kwame Nkrumah had already raised the banner of independence, and the effect of the old spirit―elitist, paternalistic, authoritarian―was put to the test in a disturbed sociopolitical atmosphere.

Yesterday's Rulers: The Making of the British Colonial Service

Heussler, Robert

This book follows the evolution of the public perception of Sherlock Holmes from the detective rendered in the portrait by William Gillette to the portrait by Basil Rathbone. Specifically, it follows the evolution of Holmesian portraiture in England and the United States over a period of 60 years--from the very first portrait by D.H. Friston in 1887 to an advertisement for Basil Rathbone's movie, Hound of the Baskervilles, in 1939.

Sherlock Holmes in Portrait & Profile

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Walter Klinefelter

Mystery

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