This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph culture since antiquity, with particular...

Joan of Arc

This research is based on taped, personal interviews with each former victim. Their backgrounds v...

There has never been a comprehensive survey in English of all the main forms of traditional Japan...

Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow (1693,1695, 1709)

Attempts to capture the qualities of the fourteenth-century translation of Richard of St. Victor'...

This thoroughly revised and augmented edition of Stevenson's Nimbus of Glory, originally publishe...

The Fleet Prison is noteworthy for being one of the oldest of the English prisons, and one mentio...

Carl Schmitt is one of the most contentious political theorists of the twentieth century. His com...

This study examines Armstrong's cornet and trumpet work during his most innovative period, 1923-2...

Lillian Fuchs has been lauded as one of the first great American violists. Based upon biographica...

The author examines jihad from an historical discursive perspective, taking account of the econom...

The study examines and explains the phenomenon of bullying in the context in which it occurs and ...

This book features an examination of the rise and evolution of the football narrative (1870 to pr...

Each essay (presentations at the International Liszt Symposium in Stockholm, by leading scholars ...

The first of its kind, this book examines the anecdotal evidence and the empirical literature per...

The African Institution was a pivotal abolitionist and antislavery group in Britain during the ea...

Though the wise know that history will inevitably repeat itself, mankind keeps on making the same...

This is the first historical analysis that reveals the depth and scope of the contribution that t...

This study argues that esoteric ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and James Frazer provide answers to ...

This study explores answers to the following questions: 1) how did anti-Catholic rhetors make the...

This work, written by an accomplished anthropologist, provides vivid accounts of the horrific pra...

Light on Jesus's Birth and Boyhood

This unique book is structured by country, from prehistoric to present times. An effort has been ...

This is an oral history based on conversations with David Liebman about his musical career and hi...

This volume traces the band's humble beginnings as penniless boys with a penchant for crime, to s...

This study examines the content and structure of 59 children's realistic animal stories for ideol...

Federico Fellini entered the pantheon of 20th-Century artists for his path-breaking films like, L...

With his extraordinary command over English and his ability to transmit ideas clearly, Meynell ta...

Anne Dick, married to science fiction writer Philip K. Dick from 1959-1965, researched and comple...

After the horrific terrorist attacks of September 11,2001 on New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsy...

An interpretation, based on the assumption that liberation is a central motif in the faith of Afr...

A Documented History of Gullah Jack Pritchard and the Denmark Vesey Slave Insurrection of 1822

Examines the career of Yella Pessl, a Bach specialist, virtuoso harpsichordist and pianist, autho...

The assassination in 1986 of Olof Palme, a distinguished international statesman, remains to this...

Deals with the life of Erik Leidzen, a band arranger and composer for the Salvation Army who was ...

Jerusalem in Medieval Thought, 400-1300

Although blacks have lived in the Rocky Mountain West since the first black slaves accompanied Sp...

Chapters treat the role of administration, faculty association, arbitrators, courts, harassment t...

Arthel 'Doc' Watson, an 82-year-old musician from North Carolina, is one of the two or three most...

A survey of O'Connor's life and works, with a description of her personal library and the texts o...

This study examines the migration of African American jazz musicians to other parts of the world ...

Chapter headings include: Early Spiritual Dimensions; Reflection of Mind and Soul (The Flying Dut...

How Operas Are Created by Composers and Librettists

This comprehensive comparative approach to the folklore, fantasy, and horror literature of New En...

A Comprehensive Dictionary of Gods, Goddesses, Demigods, and Other Subjects in Greek and Roman My...

Western philosophy began with two monumental aspirations: to unravel the mysteries of the univers...

This book examines the manner in which the national media in the United States treated lynching a...