Written by leading historians and philosophers of science, these essays examine the range of subjects, people and goals involved in changing the character of scientific analysis over the last several decades and highlights the alternatives that new fields offer to the re-orderin…
Written by leading historians and philosophers of science, these essays examine the range of subjects, people and goals involved in changing the character of scientific analysis over the last several decades and highlights the alternatives that new fields offer to the re-orderin…
The nationalist revolutionaries -- A failed chance for Arab-Israeli relations -- The inevitable confrontation with the west -- National interests take precedence over Arab unity -- The Soviet Union and the Arab world: a difficult path to closer ties -- The lost cause of Communis…
"Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow-era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accou…
Vendler "examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis o…
"Matthew Israel recounts the major moments in the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement and describes artists' individual and collective responses to them. He discusses major artists such as Leon Golub, Edward Kienholz, Martha Rosler, Peter Saul, Nancy Spero, and Robert Morris; a…
