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1) Augustus
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xx, 305 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 1973 National Book Award. In Augustus, the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a[n] historical novel set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire, whose greatness was matched by his brutality. To tell the story, Williams also turned to a genre, the epistolary novel, that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing...
Author
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
©1994
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 204 pages).
Language
English
Description
"This book transcends recent debates about political correctness to address the underlying problems of teaching controversial subjects in the college and university history classroom. The author criticizes both sides of the debate, rejecting, on the one hand, calls for a uniform, chronological history curriculum and, on the other hand, claims that only ethnic or racial "insiders" are qualified to teach about their communities." "In chapters on colonial,...
Author
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Pub
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"This book reports the findings from extensive cross-cultural studies of the relative importance of different psychological traits in 20 countries and the relative favorability of these traits in a subset of 10 countries. While the work is devoted primarily to professionals and advanced students in the social sciences, the relatively nontechnical style employed should make the book comprehensible to anyone with a general grasp of the concepts and...
Author
Publisher
Liverlight Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explores anagrams, palindromes, the highest-scoring Scrabble plays of all time, [and] the birth of the World Scrabble Championship, as well as many of the more colorful figures that inhabit this subculture. Die-hard word fans will find ... tips on how top players see their boards and racks to come up with the best play, how they prepare, and the psychology of tournament competition. Those uninitiated in the mysteries of Scrabble mania will find a...
Author
Publisher
ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (lxxvi, 250 pages).
Language
English
Description
"The 1960s Cultural Revolution is a highly readable and valuable resource revisiting personalities and events that sparked the cultural revolutions that have become synonymous with the 1960s"--
