The Emergence of the Modern Middle East (St Antony's)

HOURANI, Albert

Univ. of California Press

This book, after a discussion of ideology in its first part, attempts to answer the question of how Chinese Communist organization functions and why it is so successful. The second part analyzes the organization of the Party and government, emphasizing methods of command and administration. The third part looks at industrial organization and the problems of management and control, especially the continuing struggle between professionals and the politicians. The fourth part investigates the Chinese Communist methods of organizing their cities and villages.

Ideology and Organization in Communist China

Schurmann, Franz

Introduction to the Natural History of the San Francisco Bay Region (California Natural History Guides)

Science & Math

Smith, Arthur Clayton

Nature & Ecology

Six, years after Mark Twain's death, Albert Bigelow Paine, the author's literary executor, brought out a bowdlerized edition of The Mysterious Stranger, silently cut and cobbled from three unfinished manuscripts. This volume presents those manuscripts for the first time, exactly as mark Twain wrote them.Paine's disingenuous account of the history of his edition has, until recently, misled critics into believing that Mark Twain's creative abilities deserted him for a time, only to be recovered in the composition of The Mysterious Stranger. By writing this tale, said Bernard DeVoto, Mark Twain "saved himself in the end, and came back from the edge of insanity, and found as much peace as any man may find in his last years, and brought his talent into fruition and made it whole again." Although most critics have praised the work as the finest fiction of Mark Twain's later years, Paine and his collaborator, Frederick A. Duneka, so changed many of the book's essentials that it does not fully or accurately reflect the author's mood and thought.Paine's edition of the book was based, for the most part, on the earliest of the three versions, written during the time of Mark Twain's supposed creative paralysis. He and Duneka suppressed a quarter of the text of this manuscript and grafted onto it the last chapter of the latest version. Mark Twain began the first manuscript, "The Chronicle of Young Satan," in 1897; late in 1898, he tried to recast the story in a Hannibal setting, then returned to his first version, only to abandon it permanently in 1900. Between 1902 and 1908, he worked on the third and longest version, the only one the author called "The Mysterious Stranger."The publication of these texts therefore offers an opportunity to observe Mark Twain's sustained literary struggle with a central theme and to reevaluate the tantalizing question of the author's late work.

Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

Literature & Fiction

Mark, Twain

History & Criticism

Cohen, Abner, Custom And Politics In Urban Africa: A Study Of Hausa Migrants In

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns

Politics & Social Sciences

Cohen, Abner

Social Sciences

New Documentary in Action: Casebook in Film Making [Oct 28, 1971] Rosenthal, Alan ...

The new documentary in action;: A casebook in film making

Arts & Photography

Rosenthal, Alan

Performing Arts

Muybridge (1830-1904) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. This book examines Muybridge's skill as a photographer and demonstrates his experimental work.

Muybridge: Man in Motion

Biographies & Memoirs

Haas, Robert Bartlett

Arts & Literature

This text presents a study of the earliest poems (written between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD) in the Tamil language, and also contains translations of many classic Tamil poems. It is intended for students of Tamil and Sanskrit, and those interested in Indian literature and South Asian culture.

The Poems of Ancient Tamil: Their Milieu and Their Sanskrit Counterparts

Hart, George L.

Poetry

The Autobiography of an Unknown South African [Jun 01, 1971] Naboth Mokgatle

The Autobiography of an Unknown South African

Naboth Mokgatle

It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner published this fully-illustrated practical manual for their construction. Now, some twenty-five years later, Geodesic Math and How to Use It again presents a systematic method of design and provides a step-by-step method for producing mathematical specifications for orthodox geodesic domes, as well as for a variety of elliptical, super-elliptical, and other nonspherical contours. Out of print since 1990, Geodesic Math and How To Use It is California's most requested backlist title. This edition is fully illustrated with complete original appendices.

Geodesic Math and How to Use It

Kenner, Hugh

Architecture

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