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A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome
Originally published in 1864 as La Cité Antique, this remarkable work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of Pericles and in Rome at the time of Cicero. Working with only a fraction of the materials available to todays classical scholar, Fustel de Coulanges fashioned a complete picture of life in the ancient city, resulting ......
'Since the earliest days,' writes Richard Chase in this classic study, 'the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance.' In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark ......
Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.
Exploring the function of money as a medium of exchange and a store of value, this major work provides a comprehensive introduction to the pure theory of money and monetary policy. Jurg Niehans considers his subject in both its microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects. The analysis thus extends from the individual demand for money to monetary ......
Energy needs...oil supplies...inflation rates...the demand for new homes...in concerns like these, forecasting plays a crucial role. Forecasts not only determine how billions of dollars will be spent but also commit national policies far into the future; yet, no one really knows how to judge the reliability of forecasts. In this innovative study, ......
John Hollander's 'Blue Wine and Other Poems,' his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, 'Spectral Emanations,' shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career.Poems on painting and sculpture, in which Hollander examines the static/dynamic interaction of ......
