Best of
College

1978

Printmaking: History and Process


Donald Saff - 1978
    Proceeds from the beginning steps to the most advanced procedures. Over 600 illustrations. Provides a history of printmaking.

Jesus Christ Liberator: A Critical Christology for Our Time


Leonardo Boff - 1978
    Jesus Christ Liberator is Boff's distinctive contribution to contemporary Christology. Boff writes, Christology thought out and vitally tested in Latin America must have characteristics of its own. The attentive reader will perceive them throughout this book. The predominantly foreign literature that we cite ought not to delude anyone. It is with preoccupations that are our alone, taken from our Latin American context, that we will re-read no only the old texts of the New Testament but also the most recent commentaries written in Europe."

Chocolate Mouse and Sugar Pig, and How They Ran Away to Escape Being Eaten


Irina Hale - 1978
    

Faith is Not a Feeling


Ney Bailey - 1978
    Deeply grieved by the loss, survivor Ney Bailey embraced a journey of faith that led her to a life-changing truth: No matter how things look and no matter how we feel, God is in control.In Faith Is Not a Feeling, Ney reveals how life's tragedies and challenges lead us to an important decision about how we will relate to God. Now with a new twelve-week Bible study, this well-loved book helps readers discover how to experience true peace and confidently take God at his word as never before.

How to Know the Insects


Roger G. Bland - 1978
    How to Know the Insects has helped generations of readers learn to do just that. The key to insect orders—the largest section of the book—uses both written text and myriad illustrations to provide identification details down to the family level as well as for common species of each family. In addition, Bland and Jaques provide accounts of insect natural history, the basic biology of each order and of most families, and extensive material in finding, collecting, and preserving insects. The handbook serves as a valuable learning tool or reference for undergraduate and graduate students of entomology, science educators, insect collectors, and anyone interested in the diversity of insects.

Flowering Plants of the World


V.H. Heywood - 1978
    Entries on each family consist of concise and readable accounts of the distribution, diagnostic features, classification, andeconomic uses of its members. More than 200 family entries are illustrated in full color, as are the comprehensive glossary and the informative introduction to the forms, structure, ecology, uses, and classification of flowering plants. Originally published in 1978, this new edition has beenupdated and corrected by Professor Heywood--one of the world's top authorities-- and is arranged taxonomically. The book serves as a classic reference that will be valued by naturalists, horticulturists, botanists, and everyone who enjoys the colorful elegance of plants.

Anatomy of LISP


John Allen - 1978
    McGraw-Hill Computer Science Series.McGraw-Hill Series in Artificial Intelligence.

The Wholeness of Life


Jiddu Krishnamurti - 1978
    This series of discussions held by Krishnamurti with physicist David Bohm and with psychiatrist David Shainbert explores how fragmentation of the mind has resulted in division, fear, and conflict.

Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy, 1800-1900


James C. Mohr - 1978
    'The history of how abortion came to be banned and how women lost--for the century between approximately 1870 and 1970--rights previously thought to be natural and inherent over their own bodies is a fascinating and infuriating one.

The Stones of Athens


R.E. Wycherly - 1978
    E. Wycherley brings before us the city the ancients knew. Philosophers, statesmen, travelers, dramatists, poets, private citizens--the words of all these suggest how the city looked at various periods, how its monuments came to be built, and how they served the people in daily life. Professor Wycherley concentrates on the classical period, illustrating his work with plans, reconstructions, and photographs.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Making of a Christian Leader


Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom - 1978
    In The Making of a Christian Leader, Ted W. Engstrom explains that good leadership begins with a clear understanding of tested principles of management and human relations. Then, building on practice and experience in developing skills, the leader cultivates the qualities and personal traits that make good managers. "When we decry the scarcity of leadership talent in our society," Engstrom says, "we are not talking about a lack of people, but rather a scarcity of people willing to assume significant roles and get the job done effectively. This book has been written to help the Christian leader get a clearer picture of what he wants to do and be in a church or organization -- and how to get there."

Biddy Early: The Wise Woman of Clare


Meda Ryan - 1978
    Arguments still persist as to whether Biddy was a witch or a person of God, because she possessed powers and natural gifts beyond the comprehension of those who knew her personally. To this day, the very mention of her name in any part of Ireland, especially County Clare, releases an astonishing flood of stories, cures, prophecies, warnings and broken spells.

Theology in a New Key: Responding to Liberation Themes


Robert McAfee Brown - 1978
    In this book Brown explores how we can respond to liberation theology without condescension, arrogance, or co-optation. He surveys in detail the kind of challenges to North American Christians issued by South American theologians. He then calls upon the church to work to make itself what it ought to be and to take sides politically in support of human rights.

Structured Reading [with MyReadingLab]


Lynn Quitman Troyka - 1978
    Ths text approaches students with detailed instruction in the separate skills areas that assure movement to college-level reading abilities, followed by extensive, repeated practice found in a variety of essays from books, magazines, and texts.

The Concerto


Ralph Hill - 1978
    This book deals with all the well-know piano, violin, and cello concertos and is illustrated with a wealth of musical examples.