Best of
College

1993

Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground (Critical Studies in Russian Literature)


Richard Arthur Peace - 1993
    A full bibliography is included.

We Are the Young Magicians (Barnard New Women Poets Series)


Ruth Forman - 1993
    Winner of the 1992 Barnard New Women Poets Prize

Race in North America: Origins and Evolution of a Worldview


Audrey Smedley - 1993
    In its origin, race was not a product of science but a folk ideology reflecting a new form of social stratification and a rationalization for inequality among the peoples of North America.This third edition incorporates recently published new source materials on the history of race ideology. Because “race” now has global manifestations, it also introduces the work of scholars who are examining the spread of race ideology cross-culturally.The new edition of Race in North America also looks more closely at the positions and arguments of contemporary race scientists. Although objective scientists have shown that any two humans are 99.9% alike genetically, race scientists maintain that the remaining difference of one-tenth of one percent is highly significant, accounting for many biological and behavioral differences that they assume to be hereditary. Race scientists contend, for example, that there are race differences in diseases and responses to medications, along with differences in intellect and in talent and ability in such fields as sports. Thus, they claim, race is a valid biological concept.Smedley argues that no amount of research into biological or genetic differences can help us understand the phenomenon of race in American society. Race can only be understood as a component of the sociocultural domain, not the domain of biology.

Drug Information Handbook: A Comprehensive Resource for All Clinicians and Healthcare Professionals


Charles F. Lacy - 1993
    Book by Lacy, Charles F., Armstrong, Lora L., Goldman, Morton P., Lance, Leonard L.

College Match: A Blueprint for Choosing the Best School for You!


Steven R. Antonoff - 1993
    With thousands of schools to choose from, how can students be sure they are applying to the "right" ones? College Match combines easy-to-use worksheets and loads of practical advice to guide students through the complicated process, and make sure they find the best school for them! About the Author: Steven Antonoff is the former Dean of Admission at the University of Denver, and past-President of the Independent Educational Consultants Association.

May It Please the Court


Peter Irons - 1993
    Rubenstein places reported cases and other legal readings in a historical framework, and complements the legal texts with selections ranging from fiction and poetry to psychology, sociology, theology, oral history, and journalism. An essential sourcebook for anyone interested in gay and lesbian issues.

Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: An Evidence-Based Guide to Planning Care


Betty J. Ackley - 1993
    Its step-by-step approach guides you through the process, helping you formulate a nursing diagnosis based on known information and assessment findings; identify the appropriate nursing diagnosis; and create a care plan that includes desired outcomes, interventions, and evidence-based rationales. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook is an essential care planning resource you will turn to again and again throughout your nursing education and career.Provides care plans for every NANDA-I approved nursing diagnosis.Includes examples of and suggested NIC and NOC interventions and outcomes for each care plan.A convenient A-to-Z organization in Sections I and II helps you quickly locate key information.Evidence-based practice information is incorporated throughout.Includes complete coverage of pediatric, geriatric, and multicultural considerations, as well as home care and client/family teaching guidelines for each condition.A Care Plan Constructor on the Evolve website helps you create customized plans of care.Features the most up-to-date 2007-2008 NANDA-I approved nursing diagnoses, including approximately 15 new, 20 revised, and 5 replacement diagnoses.Provides a more detailed explanation of NIC and NOC taxonomies and their use in care planning.Explanations of assessment versus action interventions help guide you to the correct choice of intervention.Covers important information on concept mapping.Patient/Family Teaching sections offer expanded wellness and health promotion information.Clustered wellness nursing diagnoses are quick and easy to locate.Includes the latest evidence-based nursing rationales.

Textiles


Sara J. Kadolph - 1993
    It approaches textiles from a product analysis approach, using professional terminology, and provides examples to illustrate key concepts. Flow charts on identifying fabric structure and naming fancy woven fabrics; other fabrication methods; and knits have been added. Also included are tables summarizing components such as fibers, yarns, fabric structure, and finishes. An expanded glossary makes it easier for readers to find pertinent information. For designers, technical designers, apparel engineers, and others in the fashion/apparel business.

The Novels of Muriel Spark, Volume 1


Muriel Spark - 1993
    Available singly and as a boxed set, The Novels of Muriel Spark is both a collector's item for Spark's loyal following and an ideal introduction for new readers. Volume 1 begins with Spark's best-selling The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), whose Scottish schoolmistress remains one of the most memorable characters in modern fiction, and follows it with The Comforters, her first novel (1957), The Only Problem (1984), The Driver's Seat (1970), and Memento Mori (1959), a comic and macabre study of old age. Volume 2 continues with Loitering with Intent (1981), a fascinating story of how art and life imitate each other; The Girls of Slender Means (1963), whose resourceful young heroines of war-ravaged London are of Spark's own generation; The Abbess of Crewe (1973), the tale of a Watergate-style power struggle ingeniously set in a conven

The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s


Jane Davidson Reid - 1993
    In more than three hundred major entries, alphabetically arranged by subject, artworks are listed in chronological order, delineating the history of artistic interest in the subject, including painting, sculpture, music, dance, opera, drama, and literature over the last seven centuries. By bringing together information heretofore segregated by discipline, time period, or other constraint, Jane Davidson Reid has created an invaluable tool for the study of the history of the arts in the Western world. Ranging from Achilles to Zeus, entries cover all the important mythic beings of the classical world, from gods, goddesses, and heroes to nymphs, shepherds, and satyrs. A headnote to each entry identifies the subject, briefly describes relevant events and episodes recounted in Greek and Roman myths, and explains thematic cross-currents represented in the list of artworks that follows. A list of classical literary sources follows the headnote. Each listing of an artwork includes the artist's name, the title of the work, and the date of its creation, publication, or first performance, as appropriate. Also noted are the medium or genre of the work, the present location of works in the fine arts, and other pertinent information. Sources of data on each artwork appear in each listing. Enhanced by a comprehensive system of cross-references, a complete list of the sources of data cited in the listings, and an extensive artist index, which will enable readers to locate works by a given artist across numerous entries, this work presents its vast body of data in a way that is easily accessible to specialist and nonspecialist alike. No other work equals its interdisciplinary scope; no other work matches its usefulness to historians of the arts; and no other work possesses its appeal to scholars, students, and general readers interested in classical mythology and its enduring popularity in Western traditions of artistic expression.

On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems


Edith Södergran - 1993
    Translated from the Swedish by Malena Morling and Jonas Ellerstrom. If there is, in this world, a possibility for an entirely free and pure poetics, a state of writing from an unbounded spontaneity carried as if entwined with the present moment, then that might have been the poetics of Edith Sodergran. She once wrote: "There are words I have never heard, but I need those words. Perhaps your own heart could give you or tell you those words. But have you ever believed your own heart?"

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct


D.A. Andrews - 1993
    An overview is provided by way of introduction, and the final chapter weighs the current state of the discipline. Andrews teaches at Carleton University. Bonta is the Canadian Solicitor General. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR

Die Deutschen


Wulf Koepke - 1993
    The reader consists of three parts: the geography, the history, and the culture of Germany.

After Eden: Facing the Challenge of Gender Reconciliation


Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen - 1993
    No other book treats the systemic embedding of gender issues in all areas of life.

An Ark for the Next Millennium


José Emilio Pacheco - 1993
    In this illustrated, bilingual volume of poetry, two of Mexico's most prominent artists, poet and painter, join their words and images of animals to create a work of startling insight and beauty. Jose Emilio Pacheco, the most talented poet of his generation, often writes poems in which animals act as his alter ego, conveying his perceptions of the human condition. His Album de zoologia, of which this is the English version, gives voice to myriad creatures who inhabit land, sea, air, and even (mythically) fire. Through their perceptions, the poet challenges much of what is dark in the human psyche--cruelty toward ourselves and other life forms, destruction of the fragile world that all living creatures share. Francisco Toledo, acknowledged as Mexico's foremost painter, also creates ceramics, tapestries, graphics, frescoes, and sculpture. His art is erotic, exuberant, and vital--rich with figures from nature, no few of which are drawn from the millenary Zapotec culture of his forebears. In An Ark for the Next Millennium, Toledo's arresting black-and-white drawings are the visual expression of Pacheco's wise, foolish, besieged, threatening, and threatened animals--our brothers and sisters on this imperiled planet.

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit


Leslie Marmon Silko - 1993
    Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable—there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths—a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.

Taps for a Jim Crow Army: Letters from Black Soldiers in World War II


Phillip McGuire - 1993
    Army during World War II hoped that they might make permanent gains as a result of their military service and their willingness to defend their country. They were soon disabused of such illusions. Taps for a Jim Crow Army is a powerful collection of letters written by black soldiers in the 1940s to various government and nongovernment officials. The soldiers expressed their disillusionment, rage, and anguish over the discrimination and segregation they experienced in the Army. Most black troops were denied entry into army specialist schools; black officers were not allowed to command white officers; black soldiers were served poorer food and were forced to ride Jim Crow military buses into town and to sit in Jim Crow base movie theaters. In the South, German POWs could use the same latrines as white American soldiers, but blacks could not. The original foreword by Benjamin Quarles, professor emeritus of history at Morgan State University, and a new foreword by Bernard C. Nalty, the chief historian in the Office of Air Force History, offer rich insights into the world of these soldiers.

Human Embryology


William J. Larsen - 1993
    It offers in-depth, thorough coverage of the latest information, including separate sections in each chapter on clinical relevance and experimental studies. HUMAN EMBRYOLOGY also features a first-rate, four-color art program with superb photographs and electronmicrographs.Examines the latest advances in the understanding of regulatory genes and their specific impact on embryologic development.Relates development to clinical problems with separate sections on clinical applications and experimental principles - fully revised to accommodate many new developmentsFeatures a modular design that allows readers to choose the way they approach the material.Depicts the development of all major structures and organ systems from conception to birth with brilliantly illustrated timelines in each chapter.Makes study easier with detailed chapter summaries as well as sentence-style headings that highlight important content.Facilitates further research with current references.Offers readers a wealth of animations and interactive exercises--as well as access to up-to-the-minute advances--on the Human Embryology web site, www.med.uc.edu/embryology.Spanish version also available, ISBN: 84-8174-655-X

Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers


May R. Berenbaum - 1993
    In this sequel to Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers, National Medal of Science winner May Berenbaum offers another classic compendium of creepy-crawly cameos. Read up on our myriad arthropodan indignities and allies as Berenbaum reveals: Why the rove beetle gives mind-altering drugs to ants How the snail-killing fly enjoys its escargot Why Piophila casei doesn’t care when you eat its larvae What strange fate awaits a honey ant worker engorged with nectar   As lively as a fly in the buttermilk, Ninety-nine More Maggots, Mites, and Munchers is a who’s who and what’s THAT? guide to Lilliputian life-forms both familiar and obscure.

A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From Ancient Civilizations to the Modern World


Robert A. Mechikoff - 1993
    From Mesoamerica and Ancient Greece to the 2008 Olympic Games, the book touches on religion, politics, social movements, and individuals as they contributed to the development of sport and physical education. An extensive array of pedagogical tools--including timelines, comprehensive lists of chapter objectives, suggested websites, and discussion questions--aids the learning experience.

How to Study: And Other Skills for Success in College


James Deese - 1993
    It recognizes that how to study efficiently does not come naturally, and offers common sense advice that takes into account all the variables of student life.

Perspectives on Marriage: A Reader


Kieran Scott - 1993
    This edition features thirteen new articles and incorporates the best of contemporary perspectiveson marriage and sexuality. The selections represent a wide range of approaches, from the historical and canonical to the sociological, psychological, and ministerial. Striking a balance between solid theological material and stimulating readings on today's issues, the volume explores marriage in itshistorical context; current views on the theology of marriage; the meanings and transitions of marriage; attitudes toward sexuality; communication, conflict, and change; commitment, divorce, and annulment; the spirituality of marriage; and various religious perspectives on marriage. The thirdedition includes a new section on issues that affect marriage--such as the commercialization of marriage and the financial stresses accompanying marriage--as well as new selections on such topics as same-sex marriage, cohabitation, the theology of dating, and counseling. Each essay is enhanced by adetailed editors' introduction and by helpful discussion questions. Rich, provocative, and challenging, Perspectives on Marriage, Third Edition, is the most extensive and up-to-date reader of its kind.

Computers Communication and Information Introductory with PowerWeb


Sarah E. Hutchinson - 1993
    

To Redeem a Nation: A History and Anthology of the Civil Rights Movement


Thomas West - 1993
    This title features 64 selections. The materials are grouped and presented so as to explain the logic, the strategies, and the conflicts within a movement that has recast much of the nation's mind and culture.

The Little, Brown Compact Handbook


Jane E. Aaron - 1993
    Widely used by both experienced and inexperienced writers, "The Little, Brown Compact Handbook "works as both a comprehensive classroom text and an accessible reference guide.

The Coast Miwok Indians of the Point Reyes Area


Sylvia Barker Thalman - 1993
    

American Voices: Multicultural Literacy and Critical Thinking


Dolores Laguardia - 1993
    A thematically organized multicultural anthology of essays, fiction, interviews, reviews, & poems by Americans of diverse backgrounds. Focuses on issues that define our multicultural society. Substantial Writing Workshops in every section help students move from personal forms of writing to more academic forms including the research paper. The book is built around selections by committed writers who demonstrate the power of the written word to record, interpret, & change the social & cultural reality in which we live.

Five Great English Romantic Poets


Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1993
    Charming set of English poetry from the Romantic period includes: Byron's Selected Poems, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Ode to the West Wind and Other Poems by Shelley, Wordsworth's Favorite Poems, and Lyric Poems by Keats.

Flan


Stephen Tunney - 1993
    Accompanied by his talking fish Ginger Kang Kang, Flan follows destroyed railroad tracks through an ashen world gone completely mad with violence, barbarism, and cruelty where unimaginable suffering becomes laced with absurd comedy and impossibly hallucinogenic imagery. This cinematic mixture of Hieronymous Bosch, Night of the Living Dead and Dr. Seuss is also a tale of naive love, fading memories, and the confused displacement of reality in the face of total destruction. Uncompromising in its descriptions, Flan is the post-apocalyptic novel that invites the reader to visit the Hell on Earth that resides in the dark corners of our own dreams.

A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala


Phyllis Ntantala - 1993
    I come from a family of landed gentry . . . [and] could have chosen the path of comfort and safety, for even in apartheid South Africa, there is still that path for those who will collaborate. But I chose the path of struggle and uncertainty."—from the PrefaceBorn into the small social elite of black South Africa, Phyllis Ntantala did not face the grinding poverty so familiar to other South African blacks. Instead, her struggle was that of a creative, articulate woman seeking fulfillment and justice in a land that tried to deny her both.The widow of Xhosa writer and historian A.C. Jordan and mother of African National Congress leader Z. Pallo Jordan, she and her family experienced a period of tremendous change in South Africa and also in the United States, where they moved during the 1960s. She discovers similarities in the two countries, including the arrogance of power.Anchored in history and culture, A Life's Mosaic sharply reveals the world and the people of South Africa. As the story of a political exile, it represents the dislocations that have caused universal suffering in the second half of the twentieth century. Phyllis Ntantala discusses the cruelty of racism, the cynicism of political solutions, and the hopes of those who live in both a world of exile and a world of dreams.

A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot, 1860-1863


Jean V. Berlin - 1993
    This diary records the daily experiences, hardships and joys of a Southern plantation owner and widow whose patriotism prompted her to care for confederate wounded.

Sexual Assault On Campus: The Problem And The Solution


Carol Bohmer - 1993
    A small percentage are pursued through campus judicial procedures and an even smaller number are reported to the police, but of those only a fraction result in conviction. Further, campus authorities have often mishandled such cases, causing additional trauma to the victim. Sexual Assault on Campus examines what happens in the wake of a sexual assault and probes such issues as why so few women report an assault, why so many cases are mishandled, and, most importantly, what is the best way to deal with such an assault when it does occur.

Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of Sovereignty


Gidon Gottlieb - 1993
    I wish to advise the reader that this book turns in a different direction; it develops instead innovative approaches for contending with brutal conflicts waged in the name of nationhood. The prevailing doctrines of statecraft currently invoked in efforts to check these conflicts evolved in an age when the scourge of war arose between states rather than within them. The basic conflicts that now threaten international peace have little in common with those that arose during the heyday of fascism and communism, when the nation-state reigned supreme. The dominant norms of international law and diplomacy are ill adapted to coping with the kind of strife that has erupted in Yugoslavia and in the Caucasus and that could become common elsewhere in Eurasia.

Dark Legs and Silk Kisses: The Beatitudes of the Spinners


Angela Jackson - 1993
    The recurrent motif of the spider, which she presents as both creator and predator, demonstrates her deliberate reshaping of myth in the context of contemporary human experience. Informed by African-American speech and poetic traditions, yet uniquely her own, these poems display Jackson's stylistic grace, her exuberance and vitality of spirit, and her emotional sensitivity and psychological insight.

Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes Of Memory


Geoffrey H. Hartman - 1993
    For those who have either lived through such injustice or been in some way responsible for it the impositions of memory are painful and inescapable. Memory shapes the future, and the recollections of past suffering haunt and may overwhelm future generations. In 1938 the National Socialist Party in Germany began the final preparations for the systematic genocide of the Jews throughout Europe. For the Jews, whose national loyalties had long exceeded any ties of ethnicity, the programme of extermination was an act not merely of monstrous cruelty but of humiliation and treachery. In this collection scholars, artists and writers consider the ways in which the events of 1938 to 1945 have been, might be, and will be remembered. The records of the Holocaust are vast and various, ranging from the museum at Auschwitz to the cartoons of Art Spiegelman, from the elegiac stories of Levi to the filmed testimonies of the death camp survivors. The perspectives brought to bear here are rich and various - impassioned, objective, personal, poetical, historical and philosophical. They are united by an awareness of the dangers both of respectful silence and of overwhelming information, and the knowledge that only in remembering can an understanding of the past be sought and humankind redeemed from the forces of humiliation and guilt.