Best of
Academic

1973

Respect for Acting


Uta Hagen - 1973
    It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she teaches, and an explanation of the means to the end. For those unable to avail themselves of her personal tutelage, her book is the best substitute." --Publishers Weekly "Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting is not only pitched on a high artistic level but it is full of homely, practical information by a superb craftswoman. crafts-woman. An illuminating discussion of the standards and techniques of enlightened stage acting." --Brooks Atkinson"Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her 'object exercises' display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation." --Library Journal"Respect for Acting is a simple, lucid and sympathetic statement of actors' problems in the theatre and basic tenets for their training wrought from the personal experience of a fine actress and teacher of acting." --Harold Clurman"Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting...is a relatively small book. But within it Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft." --Los Angeles Times"Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her." --Fritz Weaver"This is a textbook for aspiring actors, but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor. Respect for Acting is certainly a special book, perhaps for a limited readership, but of its "How-To" kind I'd give it four curtain calls, and two hollers of "Author, Author --King Features Syndicate

Notes on the New Society of the Philippines


Ferdinand E. Marcos - 1973
    With a cool objectivity that heightens rather than diminishes the excruciating drama behind his historic decision, Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the Philippines, narrates the events which made the proclamation of martial law—and the building of a new society—a compelling necessity of national survival. This book offers valuable insights into the rationale of martial law and the governing principles of the New Society. President Marcos was making notes for a sequel to his first book. Today's Revolution: Democracy, when he had to take the fateful decision which launched what he calls the "September 21 Movement. "Hence, these notes, indicating not an incompleteness of vision but the pressure on the nation and the Presidency: the race for time. But even as "notes," there is a wholeness in them, a logical consistency proceeding from the chapter on the rebellion of the poor to the final chapter on the theory and practice in the New Society, that justifies their publication for the enlightenment of the concerned citizenry and interested observers of Philippine affairs. The author further announces two other books, Constitution and Martial Law and A Philippine President's Diary.(from the book flaps)

Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus


Harry M. Schey - 1973
    Since the publication of the First Edition over thirty years ago, Div, Grad, Curl, and All That has been widely renowned for its clear and concise coverage of vector calculus, helping science and engineering students gain a thorough understanding of gradient, curl, and Laplacian operators without required knowledge of advanced mathematics.

The Interpretation of Cultures


Clifford Geertz - 1973
    This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

The Country and the City


Raymond Williams - 1973
    As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.

Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860


Richard Slotkin - 1973
    Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries-including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville-Slotkin traces the full development of this myth.

Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amilcar Cabral


Amilcar Cabral - 1973
    Under his leadership, the PAIGC liberated three-quarters of the countryside of Guinea in less than ten years of revolutionary struggle. Cabral distinguished himself among modern revolutionaries by the long and careful preparation, both theoretical and practical, which he undertook before launching the revolutionary struggle, and, in the course of the preparation, became one of the world's outstanding theoreticians of anti-imperialist struggle. This volume contains some of the principal speeches Cabral delivered in his last years during visits to the United States. The first is his speech to the fourth Commission of the United Nations General Assembly on October 16, 1972, on "Questions of Territories Under Portuguese Administration." His brilliant speeches on "National Liberation and Culture" (1970) and "Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National Liberation Struggle" (1972) follow.

Social Justice And The City


David Harvey - 1973
    The result is an analysis of urbanism and social need. This reissue contains a foreword by Ira Katznelson and a new afterword by the author.

Backfire


Undine Giuseppi - 1973
    This collection of seventeen Caribbean short studies is compiled for use in secondary schools, and embraces both the old and the new of West Indian writing from the 1930s to the present day.The stories contained in the collection are: "Backfire" by Shirley Tappin; "Paradise Lost" by Ida Ramesar; "Chung Lee" by Undine Guiseppi; "Give and Take" by Robert Henry; "The Kite" by Barnabus J Ramon-Fortuna; "Horace's Luck" by Neville Guiseppi; "Mama's Theme Song" by Joy Moore; "The Teddy Bear" by C Arnold Thomasos; "De Trip" by Joy Clarke; "The Hustlers" by Flora Spencer; "Journey by Night" by Undine Guiseppi; "The New Teacher" by Ninnie Seereeram; "Up the Wind Laka Notoo-Boy" by Ian Robertson; "After the Game" by Barnabus J Ramon-Fortuna; "Ramgoat Salvation" by Ida Ramesar; "Tantie Gertrude" by Oliver Flax; and "The Cousins" by Joy Moore.

Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering


James L. Christian - 1973
    PHILOSOPHY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF WONDERING explains the central concepts of philosophy in ways you can understand by showing how it's all connected. And best of all, this philosophy textbook helps you develop the analytical skills you need to critically engage the "big picture" of Western philosophy for yourself.

Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-1922


Michael Llewellyn Smith - 1973
    He traces the origins of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos's Ionian Vision to his joint conception with David Lloyd George of an Anglo-Greek entente in the Eastern Mediterranean. This narrative text presents a comprehensive account of the disaster which has shaped the politics and society of modern Greece.

The Economic Way of Thinking


Paul T. Heyne - 1973
    It introduces a method of reasoning to think like an economist through example and application. It presents the errors in much popular reasoning about economic events.

Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years


J. Anthony Lukas - 1973
    Anthony Lukas’s account of the Watergate story to date. Six months later, a second installment ran in another full issue. Later the Times asked him to write a third issue, on the impeachment, which never appeared because of Nixon’s intervening resignation. But all of Lukas’s painstaking reporting on Nixon’s last months in office appears here, along with added information on every aspect of Watergate.Widely acclaimed as a major text of the Watergate saga, J. Anthony Lukas’s Nightmare is a masterwork of investigation, highlighted by in-depth character sketches of the key players. For students of history coming to these events for the first time, this book reveals in depth the particular trauma of a nation in turmoil; for those who remember, the upheaval and what was at stake are once more brought to life.

The New Journalism


Tom Wolfe - 1973
    Thompson.

Functional Analysis


Walter Rudin - 1973
    Used in modern investigations in analysis and applied mathematics, it includes Kakutani's fixed point theorem, Lamonosov's invariant subspace theorem, and an ergodic theorem.

The Restoration of the Self


Heinz Kohut - 1973
    Here Kohut proposes a “psychology of the self” as a theory in its own right—one that can stand beside the teachings of Freud and Jung. Using clinical data, Kohut explores issues such as the role of narcissism in personality, when a patient can be considered cured, and the oversimplifications and social biases that unduly influenced Freudian thought. This volume puts forth some of Kohut’s most influential ideas on achieving emotional health through a balanced, creative, and joyful sense of self. "Kohut speaks clearly from his identity as a psychoanalyst-healer, showing that he is more of a psychoanalyst than most, and yet calling for major theoretical revisions including a redefinition of the essence of psychoanalysis.”

Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel


Frank Moore Cross - 1973
    Frank Moore Cross traces the continuities between early Israelite religion and the Canaanite culture from which it emerged; explores the tension between the mythic and the historical in Israel's religious expression; and examines the reemergence of Canaanite mythic material in the apocalypticism of early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Politics of Nonviolent Action (3 volume set)


Gene Sharp - 1973
    

Public Finance in Theory and Practice


Richard Abel Musgrave - 1973
    It offers a broad view of the functioning of the public sector and its role in a democratic society. Widely adopted in previous editions,the new Fifth Edition has been reworked throughout,including extensive updating to allow for legislative changes,changes in data,and new theoretical developments. It includes in-depth coverage of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and its implications today.

Schaum's Outline of French Grammar


Mary E. Coffman Crocker - 1973
    The examples use the language of real-life situations. This new edition also makes difficult topics, like the difference between mood and tense, even easier to understand. Numerous fill-in-the-blank and other exercises with delayed answers help cut down the time it takes readers to gain proficiency and confidence communicating in French.

The Step Not Beyond


Maurice Blanchot - 1973
    Using the fragmentary form, Blanchot challenges the boundaries between the literary and the philosophical. With the obsessive rigor that has always marked his writing, Blanchot returns to the themes that have haunted his work since the beginning: writing, death, transgression, the neuter, but here the figures around whom his discussion turns are Hegel and Nietzsche rather than Mallarmé and Kafka.The metaphor Blanchot uses for writing in The Step Not Beyond is the game of chance. Fragmentary writing is a play of limits, a play of ever-multiplied terms in which no one term ever takes precedence. Through the randomness of the fragmentary, Blanchot explores ideas as varied as the relation of writing to luck and to the law, the displacement of the self in writing, the temporality of the Eternal Return, the responsibility of the self towards the others.

Marx's Theory of Alienation


István Mészáros - 1973
    To distinguish Marx's original concept from its use by other writers over the years, the topic is approached in three different ways. First, the origin of the idea of alienation is discussed along with an analysis of the way Marx structured it into a theory. Then alienation is explored beyond its political aspect, as it has been used in economics, ontology, moral philosophy, and aesthetics. The contemporary usefulness of the term is covered in the last section of the book, which concludes that current debates about the individual in society and the role of education can be fruitfully discussed in terms of alienation.

Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science


Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar - 1973
    . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."—Sir Hermann Bondi, NatureThe late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently, Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.

Foundations of Behavioral Research


Fred N. Kerlinger - 1973
    This edition includes new information about computer statistical software, multivariate statistics, research ethics, and writing research reports in APA style. This book is ideal for graduate students in that it covers statistics, research methodology, and measurement all in one volume. This is a book that graduate students will keep as a reference throughout their careers.

A History of Russian Thought: From the Enlightenment to Marxism


Andrzej Walicki - 1973
    This book covers virtually all the significant Russian thinkers from the age of Catherine the Great Down to the eve of the 1905 Revolution.

Irish Kings and High Kings


Francis J. Byrne - 1973
    The second edition includes a review of recent research and new

The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization Presented in Selected Texts


Thomas Szasz - 1973
    Packard Expert Testimony in Judicial Proceedings The Boodle Gang by S.V. Clevenger Patient Labour in the British Mental Hospital Faces in the Water by Janet Frame Psychiatric Justice in Canada by Harvey Cur Position Statement on the Medical Treatment The Moral Career of the Mental Patient Adjustment to the Total Institution by Byron The Insanity Bit by Seymour Krim Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School & the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50


Martin Jay - 1973
    The Dialectical Imagination is a major history of this monumental cultural and intellectual enterprise during its early years in Germany and in the United States. Martin Jay has provided a substantial new preface for this edition, in which he reflects on the continuing relevance of the work of the Frankfurt School.

Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History


Alan C. Kors - 1973
    In bringing together a rich collection of contemporary accounts of the period, this volume chronicles the rise and fall of the cult of witchcraft that swept through Europe between the 11th and 18th centuries.

Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study


Steven Lukes - 1973
    To some extent these tow aims are contradictory. On the one hand, one seeks to understand: what did Durkheim really mean, how did he see the world, how did his ideas related to one another and how did they develop, how did they related to their biographical and historical context, how were they received, what influence did they have and to what criticism were they subjected, what was it like not to make certain distinctions, not to see certain errors, of fact or of logic, not to know what has subsequently become known?On the other hand, one seeks to assess: how valuable and how valid are the ideas, to what fruitful insights and explanations do they lead, how do they stand up to analysis and to the evidence, what is their present value? Yet it seems that it is only by inducing oneself not to see and only by seeing them that one can make a critical assessment. The only solution is to pursue both aims—seeing and not seeing—simultaneously. More particularly, this book has the primary object of achieving that sympathetic understanding without which no adequate critical assessment is possible. It is a study in intellectual history which is also intended as a contribution to sociological theory.

Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica)


Edward Conze - 1973
    Its composition extended for over seven hundred years, and here we offer the reader the first two works which were composed in South India between 100 B.C. and A.D. 100. These documents are not only indispensable to those who wish to undersand the mentality of the East, they still carry a potent spiritual message; and those who desire to diminish their personal worries by the disciplined contemplation of spiritual truths could make no better choice.

Pattern Classification


David G. Stork - 1973
    Now with the second edition, readers will find information on key new topics such as neural networks and statistical pattern recognition, the theory of machine learning, and the theory of invariances. Also included are worked examples, comparisons between different methods, extensive graphics, expanded exercises and computer project topics.An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available from the Wiley editorial department.

An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict


Ruth Benedict - 1973
    The product of a long collaboration between two distinguished anthropologists, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, who was Benedict's pupil, colleague, and finally, literary executor and biographer.

Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community


David L. Hull - 1973
    

Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality (Social Problems & Social Issues)


John H. Gagnon - 1973
    It went on to profoundly shape the ideas of several generations of scholars and has become the foundation text of what is now known as the social constructionist approach to sexuality. The present edition, revised, updated, and containing new introductory and concluding materials, introduces a classic text to a new generation of students and professionals.Traditional views of human sexuality posit models of man and woman in which biological arrangements are translated into sociocultural imperatives. This is best summarized in the phrase anatomy is destiny. Consequently, the almost exclusive concern has been with the power of biology and nature in sexual conduct as opposed to understanding the significance and impact of social life. In Sexual Conduct, Gagnon and Simon lucidly argue that sexual activities, of all kinds, may be understood as the outcome of a complex psychosocial process of development. Using the social script theory, the authors trace the ways in which sexuality is learned and fitted into particular moments in the lifecycle and in different modes of behavior.Sexual Conduct is a major attempt to consider sexuality within a non-biological, social psychological framework. It is a valuable addition to the study of human sexuality, and will be of interest to students of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, social work, and medicine.

Military Small Arms of the 20th Century


Ian V. Hogg - 1973
    It has been fully updated and expanded (by 64 pages) to cover all small arms in military service during the 20th century and now includes many arms listings and photographs that did not appear in earlier editions.Recognized internationally as the leading authority on military small arms, author Ian Hogg was given free rein on this edition; he has delivered the ultimate reference edition for all interested in the history of these arms.Arms coverage includes:PistolsSubmachine GunsBolt-Action RiflesAutomatic RiflesMachine GunsAnti-Tank/Materiel RiflesAmmunition

Sociolinguistic Patterns


William Labov - 1973
    This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its social setting.

Geometrical And Physical Optics


Richard Samuel Longhurst - 1973
    

Social Psychology


Elliot Aronson - 1973
    This third edition has been fully revised and uses a story-telling approach to illustrate how research is done and the results of such research. Each chapter begins with a real-life vignette that epitomizes the social psychological concepts that follow, and experiences and historical events are used to illustrate theories within social psychology.

Salvation Is Forever


Robert Glenn Gromacki - 1973
    

On Art And The Mind


Richard Wollheim - 1973
    

Prancing Novelist: A Defence of Fiction in the Form of a Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firbank


Brigid Brophy - 1973
    In these pages–by turns instructive, mischievous, and even gossipy–Brigid Brophy seeks nothing less than a vindication of the eternal liveliness of fiction itself against the persistent rumors that it is dying or dead. Though serious in intent, Prancing Novelist is not only a monument to Firbank, but is also a delightful showcase for Brophy’s own uproarious prose, not to mention her genius for telling good stories.“Atheist, vegetarian, socialist; novelist and short-story writer; humanist; biographer; playwright . . . most loyal of friends; reverer of Jane Austen; lover of Italy; Mozart adorer … smoker of cigarettes in a chic holder and painter of her fingernails purple; mother, grandmother, wife; feminist; lover of men and women; Brigid Brophy was above all an intellectual, which British (although she was Irish) authors aren’t supposed to be.” —Giles Gorden, The IndependentNovelist, biographer, and critic Brigid Brophy wrote nine works of fiction, including The King of a Rainy Country and In Transit. She also wrote a number of works of nonfiction, which included books on Aubrey Beardsley and Mozart, as well as the infamous Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without.

The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief


E.R. Dodds - 1973
    These essays represent the full range of Dodds' literary and philosophical interests, and his ability to combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher convinced of the value of Greek studies to the modern world.

The Best Circles; Society, Etiquette And The Season


Leonore Davidoff - 1973
    

The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian People


Harold Courlander - 1973
    

Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism


Samir Amin - 1973
    

New Weather


Paul Muldoon - 1973
    Muldoon has won the G. Faber Memorial Award twice.

Communes: Creating and Managing the Collective Life


Rosabeth Moss Kanter - 1973
    

The King's Arcadia: Inigo Jones and the Stuart Court


John Harris - 1973
    Catalogue to the Quatercentenary Exhibition held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, from July 12th to September 2nd, 1973.

Dianying/Electric Shadows: An Account of Films and Film Audience in China


Jay Leyda - 1973
    In "Dianying" he describes both historic and current film production, using the films themselves as primary source material. He covers the film industry (the rise and fall of film studios, the influence of foreign filmmakers, the problems of film distributors), gives synopses of important and representative films, and introduces us to the notable filmmakers, actors, and actresses of China. "Dianying" also throws light on the larger social and political scene in twentieth-century China. It reveals a dramatic and astonishing period of Chinese film history during which an underground group of revolutionaries made films that continued to reach large audiences despite Kuomintang and Japanese oppression. What is significant, Leyda points out, is that the most expressive and lasting Chinese films resulted from these bitter and often bloody circumstances--films that were superior to what came before and in many respects superior to films made well after the triumph of the Chinese revolution.Almost all periods of film development have yielded something of value: "Seeing a steady quantity of Chinese films," Leyda remarks, "I found myself imagining, too easily, that if there had been films in the Middle Ages, this is what they would have looked like. Here are the conformity, the self-satisfied and defensive insularity, the almost scientific reduction of personal interpretation to its minimum, the rigid stratification of social groups..., the fixed place for each individual, and the molding of people to types that we find in medieval arts, with rare exceptions. There are the same rare exceptions in Chinese cinema, I'm glad to see, for it's only from such brave exceptions, recognizing the value of humanity and art, that we can expect any progress to grow--or a socialist cinema to tear itself away from feudalism. These exceptions make me hopeful for China's future and film future; without this hope there would be little point in this book."

A History of Jewish Costume


Alfred Rubens - 1973
    A Scholarly and thorough history of Jewish Costume throughout the centuries.