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1979

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination


Sandra M. Gilbert - 1979
    An analysis of Victorian women writers, this pathbreaking book of feminist literary criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual."Contents:The Queen's looking glass: female creativity, male images of women, and the metaphor of literary paternity --Infection in the sentence: the women writer and the anxiety of authorship --The parables of the cave --Shut up in prose: gender and genre in Austen's Juvenilia --Jane Austen's cover story (and its secret agents) --Milton's bogey: patriarchal poetry and women readers --Horror's twin: Mary Shelley's monstrous Eve --Looking oppositely: Emily Brontë's bible of hell --A secret, inward wound: The professor's pupil --A dialogue of self and soul: plain Jane's progress --The genesis of hunger, according to Shirley --The buried life of Lucy Snowe --Made keen by loss: George Eliot's veiled vision --George Eliot as the angel of destruction --The aesthetics of renunciation --A woman, white: Emily Dickinson's yarn of pearl.

Love, Acceptance & Forgiveness


Jerry Cook - 1979
    Your church can with hearts of servants reach thousands -- real people seeking real love and real acceptance.

Cognitive Therapy of Depression


Aaron T. Beck - 1979
    Aaron T. Beck and his associates set forth their seminal argument that depression arises from a "cognitive triad" of errors and from the idiosyncratic way that one infers, recollects, and generalizes. From the initial interview to termination, many helpful case examples demonstrate how cognitive-behavioral interventions can loosen the grip of "depressogenic" thoughts and assumptions. Guidance is provided for working with individuals and groups to address the full range of problems that patients face, including suicidal ideation and possible relapse.

Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: A Treasury of Goddess and Heroine Lore from Around the World


Merlin Stone - 1979
    This collection of ancient images of women as goddesses and heroines brings together legends, rituals, and prayers from China, Celtic Europe, South America, Africa, India, North America, Scandinavia, Japan, and elsewhere.

Hollywood: The Pioneers


Kevin Brownlow - 1979
    A history of the beginning days of movie making in Hollywood, focusing on the great actors like Keaton, Chaplin & Fairbanks & the great directors like Griffith & Raoul Walsh. Alive with the excitement of the old Hollywood, peppered with vivid cinematic and social recollections never before on record, illustrated with 300 rare photos - stills, on-the-set shots, portraits, most of them published here for the first time and reproduced from the original negatives or prints - this is a unique film history, the result of a unique collaboration.

The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age


Frances A. Yates - 1979
    To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization itself. The Occult Philosophy of the Elizabethan Age was her last book, and in it she condensed many aspects of her wide learning to present a clear, penetrating, and, above all, accessible survey of the occult movements of the Renaissance, highlighting the work of John Dee, Giordano Bruno, and other key esoteric figures. The book is invaluable in illuminating the relationship between occultism and Renaissance thought, which in turn had a profound impact on the rise of science in the seventeenth century. Stunningly written and highly engaging, Yates' masterpiece is a must-read for anyone interested in the occult tradition.

Love and Living


Thomas Merton - 1979
    “Love is the revelation of our deepest personal meaning, value, and identity.” Edited by Naomi Burton Stone and Brother Patrick Hart.

The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume


Ephraim Katz - 1979
    With up-to-date additions, this fifth edition features more than 7,000 A-Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including:- Directors, producers, stars, screenwriters, and cinematographers- Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking- Motion picture studios and film centers- Film-related organizations and events- Industry jargon and technical terms- Inventions, inventors, and equipment- Plus, an index of Academy Award winning films and artists, top grossing films, and much more.

From Memory to Written Record: England 1066 - 1307


M.T. Clanchy - 1979
    The text of the original has been revised throughout to take account of the enormous amount of new research following publication of the first edition. The introduction discusses the history of literacy up to the present day; the guide to further reading brings together over 300 new titles up to 1992. In this second edition there are substantially new sections on bureaucracy, sacred books, writing materials, the art of memory, ways of reading (particularly for women), the writing of French, and the relationship of script, imagery and seals.

Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies


Katharine M. Briggs - 1979
    A "Who's Who" of fairyland, with entries by fairy name and additional legends, songs, and anecdotes within each entry.

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control


John D. Marks - 1979
    In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that 'accomplished what two Senate committees could not' (Senator Edward Kennedy).

The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts


Umberto Eco - 1979
    not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." --The Review of Metaphysics... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." --Library JournalIn this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between 'open' and 'closed' texts.

Topoi: The Categorial Analysis of Logic


Robert Goldblatt - 1979
    Its approach moves always from the particular to the general, following through the steps of the abstraction process until the abstract concept emerges naturally.Beginning with a survey of set theory and its role in mathematics, the text proceeds to definitions and examples of categories and explains the use of arrows in place of set-membership. The introduction to topos structure covers topos logic, algebra of subobjects, and intuitionism and its logic, advancing to the concept of functors, set concepts and validity, and elementary truth. Explorations of categorial set theory, local truth, and adjointness and quantifiers conclude with a study of logical geometry.

Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to Cabalistic Magic


David Godwin - 1979
    Featuring a new and more usable format, this book is a complete guide to cabalistic magick and gematria in which every demon, angel, power and name of God ... every Sephirah, Path, and Plane of the Tree of Life ... and each attribute and association is fully described and cross-indexed by the Hebrew, English, and numerical forms.All entries are now incorporated into one comprehensive dictionary. There are hundreds of new entries and illustrations, making this book even more beneficial for Cabalistic pathworking and meditation. It now has many new Hebrew words and names, as well as the terms of Freemasonry, the entities of the Cthulhu mythos, and the Aurum Solis spellings for the names of the demons of the Goetia. It contains authentic Hebrew spellings, and a new introduction that explains the uses of the book for meditation on God names.The Cabalistic schema is native to the human psyche, and Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia will be an invaluable reference tool for all Cabalists, magicians, scholars and scientists of all disciplines.

The Metaphysics of Modern Existence


Vine Deloria Jr. - 1979
    Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of tribal wisdom, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence delivers a revolutionary view of our future and our world.David E. Wilkins holds the McKnight Presidential Professorship in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota.Daniel R. Wildcat is the director of the American Indian studies program and the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center at Haskell Indian Nations University.

Lost Country Life


Dorothy Hartley - 1979
    She shares that land, now lost forever, where man was the measure of all things.Using as a framework a 16th-century calendar of advice for farmers, she takes us month by month through the country-dweller's year, and opens up the customs and traditions of a vanished rural life.

The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction


Peter Nicholls - 1979
    Nearly two thousand illustrated entries covering science-fiction authors, editors, critics, magazines, anthologies, comics, illustrators, films, filmmakers, and major themes are thoroughly cross-referenced.

The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work


Germaine Greer - 1979
    She explains the obstacles as both external and surmountable and internal and insurmountable in the race for achievement.

Multivariate Data Analysis


Joseph F. Hair Jr. - 1979
    This book provides an applications-oriented introduction to multivariate data analysis for the non-statistician, by focusing on the fundamental concepts that affect the use of specific techniques.

Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage


Mary Soames - 1979
    As a young woman, her character, intelligence, and good looks won the attention of the impetuous Winston Churchill. Their courtship was swift, but their marriage proved immensely strong, spanning many of the major events of the twentieth century. Written with affection and candor by the Churchills’ daughter Mary Soames, this revised and updated biography of a lionhearted couple’s life together is not only of historic interest but deeply moving.

John Wesley


John Wesley - 1979
    He began one of the most dynamic movements in the history of modern Protestantism, a movement which eventually produced the Methodist churches. This volume offers a representative selection of theological writings by Wesley and includes historically oriented introductions and footnotes which indicate Wesley's Anglican, patristic, and biblical sources.

An Atlas Of Fantasy


J.B. Post - 1979
    It purposefully omits "one-to-one" maps such as Thomas Hardy's Wessex (which merely renames places in southwest England), but includes Barsetshire and Yoknapatawpha County, which are evidently considered to be sufficiently fictionalized. The emphasis is on science fiction and fantasy, though Post suggests there exist enough mystery fiction maps to someday create The Detectives' Handy Pocket Atlas. Other maps were omitted due to permission costs or reproduction quality.

What My Heart Wants to Tell


Verna Mae Slone - 1979
    So He sent us His very strongest men and women." So begins the heartwarming story of Verna Mae and her father, Isom B. "Kitteneye" Slone, an extraordinary personal family history set in the hills around Caney Creek in Knott County, Kentucky.

The Ethnographic Interview


James P. Spradley - 1979
    The text also teaches students how to analyze the data they collect, and how to write an ethnography. The appendices include research questions and writing tasks.

The Rolling Stone Record Guide (Reviews And Ratings Of Almost 10,000 Currently Available Rock, Pop, Soul, Country, Blues, Jazz, And Gospel Albums)


Dave Marsh - 1979
    

Success with House Plants


Reader's Digest Association - 1979
    More than 1500 illustrations combine with concise, expert advice to ensure success with nearly every type of house plants.

Cultural Materialism


Marvin Harris - 1979
    While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of culture to students. Now available again after a hiatus, this edition of Cultural Materialism contains the complete text of the original book plus a new introduction by Orna and Allen Johnson that updates his ideas and examines the impact that the book and theory have had on anthropological theorizing.

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change


Elizabeth L. Eisenstein - 1979
    The work is a full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change. Professor Eisenstein begins by examining the general implications of the shift from script to print, and goes on to examine its part in three of the major movements of early modern times - the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.

Indian Jewelry Making


Oscar T. Branson - 1979
    Complete with detailed instructions that includes designs, tools and techniques. Spiral-bound for ease in bench work.

Wilderness Medicine: Beyond First Aid


William W. Forgey - 1979
    This fifth edition includes the latest information on cryptospryosis and immunization changes. Although much material is useful to the layperson, there are many techniques, including field surgery and suturing, that can be effectively used only by professionals, such as wilderness educators, search and rescue groups, EMTs, and paramedics.

Men Who Rape: The Psychology of the Offender


A. Nicholas Groth - 1979
    The standard reference on the psychology of rape, Men Who Rape presents a comprehensive clinical profile of sexual offenders with extensive information on counseling, prevention, and psychiatric treatment.

Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices


Mary Boyce - 1979
    First taught among nomads on the Asian steppes, Zoroastrianism became the state religion of the three great Iranian empires and had a remarkable influence on other world faiths: to the east on northern Buddhism, to the west on Judaism, Christianity and Islam. With the conquest of Iran by the Muslim Arabs, Zoroastrianism lost its secular power, but continued to survive as a minority faith. Despite its antiquity, it remains a living religion.

Invisibility Is An Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman


Mitsuye Yamada - 1979
    Because I separated such opinions from the persons who were making them, I accepted them the way I accepted natural disasters; and I endured them as inevitable."-Mitsuye Yamada in “Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman”

Possible Worlds: An Introduction to Logic and Its Philosophy


Raymond Bradley - 1979
    

Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States, 1900-1930


Leslie Woodcock Tentler - 1979
    Writing with a keen eye for detail as well as a real empathy with the first generation of wage-earning women, Tentler reconstructs the day-to-day realities of life on the job, in the home, and in the industrial neighborhoods of major cities.

Man of Sorrow: The Life, Letters and Times of the Rev. Patrick Bronte, 1777-1861


John Lock - 1979
    

A Nurse's War


Brenda McBryde - 1979
    Everyone had a different war. This was mine." Thus ends Branda BcBryde's remarkable account of her experiences as a nurse in the Second World War. Her uniquely moving story began on the eve of World War II when Branda McBryde enrolled as a trainee nurse at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. The next six years saw Sister McBryde nursing civlians through the Blitz, volunteering for service in the Maxillo-Facial ("Max-Factor") plastic surgery unit, joining the troops in the early days following the D-Day landings, and serving in the Field Hospitals in the front line of fighting. Then, as the drew to a close, she faced the greatest challenge of her career, the restoration to health and sanity of Germany's concentration camp victims.

The Sound Shape of Language


Linda R. Waugh - 1979
    The Sound Shape of Language, his collaboration with Linda R. Waugh, a scholar who has devoted considerable attention to an exposition and elaboration of Jakobsonian views, fortunately has preserved in print the authoritative lectorial voice. Michael Silverstein in Journal of Communication

Unmentionable Cuisine


Calvin W. Schwabe - 1979
    It will not, of course, appeal to all palates . . . but neither do snails and sweetbreads, brains and other oddments of animals." --Craig Claiborne "I read from cover to cover with huge enjoyment. . . I can recall no other book that has covered the subject of strange foods with quite his flair and authority, and I consider the book required reading for anyone interested in the lore of food." --James Beard

Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind


Paul M. Churchland - 1979
    A study in the philosophy of science, proposing a strong form of the doctrine of scientific realism' and developing its implications for issues in the philosophy of mind.

Ideology and Curriculum


Michael W. Apple - 1979
    Apple has thoroughly updated his influential text, and written a new preface. The new edition also includes an extended interview circa 2001, in which Apple relates the critical agenda outlined in Ideology and Curriculum to the more contemporary conservative climate. Finally, a new chapter titled "Pedagogy, Patriotism and Democracy: Ideology and Education After 9/11" is also included.

Nazi Prisoners of War in America


Arnold Krammer - 1979
    government, between 1942 and 1945, detained nearly half a million Nazi prisoners of war in 511 camps across the country. With a new introduction and illustrated with more than 70 rare photos, Krammer describes how, with no precedents upon which to form policy, America's handling of these foreign prisoners led to the hasty conversation of CCC camps, high school gyms, local fairgrounds, and race tracks to serve as holding areas. The Seattle Times calls Nazi Prisoners of War in America "the definitive history of one of the least known segments of America's involvement in World War II. Fascinating. A notable addition to the history of that war."

The A To Z Of Elizabethan London


Adrian Prockter - 1979
    

The Education of Carey McWilliams


Carey McWilliams - 1979
    

Reasoning With Statistics: How To Read Quantitative Research


Frederick Williams - 1979
    It provides a clear inviting view of quantitative research strategies for those students who may or may not have a mathematical background. The authors impart a conceptual understanding rather than teach calculational methods. The text can be used as a supplement for a basic statistics course or for any course requiring students to read and digest quantitative research literature. Examples are cross-curriculum and generic. Its strength is that it is very brief and doesn't overwhelm with too much detail.

The Divining Hand: The 500 Year-old Mystery of Dowsing


Christopher Bird - 1979
    It provides a complete history of the art of dowsing around the world and discusses in detail the various existing theories attempting to explain this extraordinary phenomenon.

The Common Experience


J.M. Cohen - 1979
    Anthology of the spiritual experiences of ordinary men and women and those of philosophers.

Nancy Cunard: A Biography


Anne Chisholm - 1979
    She had an insatiable lust for life and lovers; her private affairs became public scandals. She knew TS Eliot, James Joyce, and Louis Aragon; she sat for Cecil Beaton, and Max Beerbohm sketched her; she was an Aldous Huxley heroine in Antic Hay. A poet and a writer, she was the avant-garde publisher who "discovered" Samuel Beckett. She was a passionate advocate of racial equality and a journalist in the Spanish Civil War. By the time of her tragic death in 1965 Nancy Cunard had become the dazzling symbol of her age.

Dress in 18th Century England


Anne Buck - 1979
    

Continuity and Change in Roman Religion


J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz - 1979
    Liebeschuetz focuses on the development of the Roman public religion, particularly the relation between Roman religion and morality.

Mind at Large: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposia on the Nature of Extrasensory Perception (Studies in Consciousness)


Charles T. Tart - 1979
    Mind at Large features fascinating first-hand research accounts from luminaries such as Edwin May, Costa de Beauregard, Helmut Schmidt, and many more including the insights of the editors themselves.Also of special note, Mind at Large offers the philosophical musings of the seventies' foremost paranormal advocates including Edgar Mitchell's stirring call to locate and train the most exceptional members of our society in the use of the psychic arts, and Ingo Swann's "View from the Inside" as subject in various vital psi research projects, an essay touching upon the ever-controversial topic of scientific ethics.

Ambush: The Real Story Of Bonnie And Clyde


Ted Hinton - 1979
    

Messages from Michael


Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - 1979
    Recounts the first contact made by a group of friends with a mass of spirits known as Michael, sharing the voices' messages on life and beyond.

Recreational Drugs


Lawrence A. Young - 1979