Purdue University Press: 164 books
The Charmed Circle
Joseph II and the 'Five Princesses,' 1765-1790
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In late eighteenth-century Vienna a remarkable coterie of five aristocratic women, popularly known as the "five princesses," achieved social preeminence and acclaim as close associates of the reforming Habsburg Emperor Joseph II. They were Princess Maria Josepha Clary (1728-1801); Princess...
Crisis y reemergencia
El Siglo Xix En la Ficción Contemporánea de Argentina, Chile Y Uruguay (1980–2001)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 30, 2015
En las últimas décadas-especialmente a partir de los noventa-ha habido una visible reemergencia del siglo XIX en la cultura del Cono Sur. Figuras decimonónicas típicas (indios, gauchos, letrados y cautivas) han reaparecido en la escena literaria de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. Héroes como San...
El intelectual y la cultura de masas
Argumentos Latinoamericanos En Torno a Ángel Rama Y José María Arguedas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2016
El intelectual y la cultura de masas, de Javier García Liendo, estudia las respuestas intelectuales de Ángel Rama (Uruguay) y José María Arguedas (Perú) a los efectos de la cultura de masas en la cultura de la imprenta latinoamericana y en las culturas indígenas de los Andes. Explora la participación...
Unleashed Fury
The Political Struggle for Dog-friendly Parks
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
The question of whether dogs should be allowed off the leash in public places has become a major political issue in cities and suburbs across the United States. In the last two decades, “leash-law disputes” have burst upon the political scene and have been debated with an intensity usually reserved...
Miradas transatlánticas
El periodismo literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Voces de mujeres han sido sistemáticamente silenciado o se omite por completo cuando una nación se reúne su narrativa histórica. En Miradas Transatlánticas: El periodismo literario de Elena Poniatowska y Rosa Montero, Alicia Rita Rueda-Acedo examina la relación entre la obra periodística y...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understanding and cultural representation from an interdisciplinary perspective. Contributors to the volume analyze representations of science and scientific...
Confronting Evil
The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature holds that the concept of evil is central to the psychology of secularism. Drawing on notions of secularization as a phenomenon of ambivalence or dualism in which religion continues to exist alongside secularity in exerting...
Re-Visioning Terrorism
A Humanistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Re-Visioning Terrorism: A Humanistic Perspective is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that aims to offer a plurality of visions on terrorism, expanding its meaning across time and space and raising new questions that explore its multifaceted occurrences. The different ideological, philosophical,...
Anatomía del desencanto
Humor, Ficción Y Melancolía En España (1976-1998)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Tras la derrota de los soixante-huitards, el colapso del comunismo europeo y la caída también en torno a 1989 de varias dictaduras y revoluciones en América Latina, el acercamiento sentimental a la historia vuelve a cosechar éxitos entre las humanidades y las ciencias sociales y políticas. En...
Successfully Implementing Problem-Based Learning in Classrooms
Research in K-12 and Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Problem-based learning (PBL) represents a widely recommended best practice that facilitates both student engagement with challenging content and students' ability to utilize that content in a more flexible manner to support problem-solving. This edited volume includes research that focuses on examples...
Veterinary Medical School Admission Requirements (VMSAR)
2018 Edition for 2019 Matriculation
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Fully up-to-date and packed with useful tips and helpful insights, this publication provides a comprehensive overview of the admission process for the national and international veterinary schools that are members of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). As the official...
A Return Journey
Hope and Strength in the Aftermath of Alzhiemer's
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
What choices were right, what choices were wrong, and how can she now help those whose journey is just beginning. She clearly and wisely explains that in Alzheimer's there are no "right" ways, no "best" decisions, no "perfect" answers. The Return Journey is the result...
by Yi Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
This volume presents a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime-the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress-from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct...
On Dogs and Dying
Stories of Hospice Hounds
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Dogs know when we are feeling down. They love it when we are happy and seeking friendship and fun, and they understand when we are feeling sad and desperate. This book presents a series of real-life tales of the positive effects dogs have had on people at the end of their lives, chronicling the visits...