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"Fox offers a clear and important, if brief, consideration of the fiction of Baraka, Reed, and Delany. He renders an especially important service by establishing the relationship among three fictionists whose work has been substantially neglected. . . . Readers will find this volume useful as a starting point for the investigation of recent Afro-American fiction and as an example of the application of poststructuralist criticism to Afro-American fiction." Choice ... Read more

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This book evaluates the relationship between Samuel and Chronicles in a single synoptic story: David's transfer of Israel's sacred ark to Jerusalem in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13, 15-16. Chapter 1 establishes the framework of the investigation. In this chapter Rezetko surveys three areas of research related to Samuel and Chronicles, including views on the composition of these books on the whole, the story of David's ark transfer in particular, and the characteristics of the textual witnesses to these books. Chapter 2 introduces the methodology of the study. In this chapter Rezetko surveys issues related to synchronic and diachronic approaches to Samuel and Chronicles. Specifically, he suggests that the standoff between alternative approaches to these books may be bridged by taking a textual-exegetical approach, that is, by combining textual and literary criticism in an analysis of their stories. Chapters 3-6 are a close examination of textual, linguistic, and literary facets of 2 Samuel 6 and the synoptic portions of 1 Chronicles 13, 15-16. On the basis of parallel aligned Hebrew and Greek texts of these passages, Rezetko studies in varying degrees of detail the ancient texts of David's ark transfer story in order to understand better its different formulation and shape in the received Hebrew texts of Samuel and Chronicles in their Masoretic dress (MT) in particular. ... Read more

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Chronology and selective bibliography preface the index that includes information useful in the identification of the repertory and gives sources in which the material is preserved. ... Read more

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Samuel Hollander provides the first in-depth study of Malthus's achievement as an economist. Malthus's message has been largely misrepresented by decades of careless and biased interpretation. In this volume, Samuel Hollander re-examines these interpretations and presents a full and coherent picture of Malthus's economics. He evaluates John Maynard Keynes's famous dichotomy between the Ricardian and Malthusian methods, proving that the two were far closer to each other than is generally supposed.The relation of Malthus's ideas to those of his predecessors is thoroughly examined, for example, his roots in the Wealth of Nations are demonstrated and the physiocratic and Sraffian dimensions of his work are brought to light. Hollander extends his analysis to biographical factors; he discounts the textbook perspective on Malthus as a social-welfare pessimist and dispels the common notion of Malthus as spokesman of the land-owning classes. The standard charges against Malthus of inconsistency and intellectual dishonesty are also challenged.

Samuel Hollander has produced the definitive study of Thomas Robert Malthus. A major contribution to the history of economic theory, the study has much broader appeal as a portrait of a central figure in early nineteenth-century debates over social policy -particularly those having to do with the role of government in relation to social welfare, economic growth, and trade protection. ... Read more

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When Samuel Johnson is discussed as an essayist, his Rambler and Idler are generally the works that are considered. This is the first study to take account of the effect of Johnson's essayistic talents on the entirety of his writing. Setting forth the particular characteristics of the genre that are present in Johnson's contributions to the political controversies of his time, this analysis examines those qualities of Johnson's thought and methods that naturally led to his dependence on the essay form in polemical engagements throughout his career. In detail, Spector's study then goes on to explore the manner in which Johnson employed the essay not only in forms normally related to the genre, but in literary types ordinarily considered remote from it. The Rambler and Idler, along with Johnson's periodical essays in the Adventurer, are themselves looked at from a fresh point of view--the ways in which Johnson the professional writer, without regard for posterity, addressed the interests of the common reader of his century. ... Read more

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Samuel R. Delany has been my favorite author for years, but only recently have I realized the brilliance of the ending of STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND. The book weaves an entangling matrix of love and desire amidst geopolitical and interplanetary intrigue. In the end the love interest is removed by the mysterious enemy, leaving the protagonist to ache. Indeed, it leaves the reader to ache for the promised sequel, THE SPLENDOR AND MISERY OF BODIES, OF CITIES, which has not come. Twelve years later this tactic by Delany has continued to haunt me in the same halls of my heart where my lost loves lie. Brilliant! Bravo to Delany for not writing the second book, for indeed, who is ever promised another day of love? If we live in the forever tomorrow, where is today? Bravo! --- D.F. Huettner ... Read more

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Chorley and Giles Shipping Law was originally published for students of commerce and employees in shipping offices and is now in its eighth edition. ... Read more

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Infant-Parent Research & Intervention A. Scott Dowling: Introduction Beatrice Beebe: Mother-Infant Research Informs Mother-Infant Treatment Tessa Baradon: "What Is Genuine Maternal Love?" Arietta Slade, Lois Sadler, Cheryl de Dios-Kenn, Denise Webb, Janice Ezepchick & Linda Mayes: Minding the Baby Judith Arons: "In a Black Hole" Alexandra Murray Harrison: Herding the Animals into the Barn Psychoanalytic Research Nick Midgley & Mary Target: Recollections of Being in Child Psychoanalysis Rona Knight: The Process of Attachment and Autonomy in Latency Clinical Studies Karen Gilmore: Play in the Psychoanalytic Setting Lissa Weinstein & Laurence Saul: Psychoanalysis as Cognitive Remediation Silvia Visscher Bell: A Girl's Experience of Disfiguring Trauma Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Future and the Past Harold P. Blum: Psychoanalytic Reconstruction and Reintegration Cornelis Heijn: On Foresight ... Read more