Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre’s writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable intellect relentlessly to bear on his own country’s conduct in Algeria, and by extension, the West’s conduct in the Third World in general. Whether one agrees with his every conclusion or not, Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism shows a philosopher passionately engaged in using philosophy as a force for change in the world. An important influence on postcolonial thought ever since, this book takes on added resonance in the light of the West’s most recent bout of interference in the non-Western world.

Both low- and high-level aerial photographs document places around the world and form the starting point for discussions of ecology, sustainable development, and the current state of the world, in a new edition of the acclaimed visual odyssey that incorporates nearly sixty stunning new photographs.

Opgenort's (linguistics, Leiden U.) is the first-ever published detailed analysis of the phonology, morphology and syntax of Jero, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by a branch of the Kiranti ethnic group living in the hill tracts of eastern Nepal. The book is a sequel to the author's 2004 text A Grammar of Wambule the Himalayan language most closely related to Jero and is based on data collected during six trips made to Nepal between November 1996 and December 2004. Also featuring a comparative analysis of the Jero and other subgroups in the Kiranti language family, the text serves as a reference work for Tibeto-Burman linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A barren region in France is brought back to life by the efforts of Elzeard Bouffier who, with great determiniation, plants 100 acorns everyday over thirty years.

Wambule is the language of the people of the same name residing primarily in the hills of eastern Nepal. It is a Kiranti language, and thereby a member of the Tibeto-Burman or Sino-Tibetan language family. Working from his extensive field experience, Opgenort provides ethnographic information, including social customs and a history of the Wambule people. He follows with a comprehensive description of Wambule grammar and phonology, and Wambule-English/English-Wambule lexicons. He includes a collection of 16 texts, including personal experiences, a recitation from oral tradition, historical and mythological tales, and even a recipe, rendered in Wambule with direct translations in English. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Trambouze and Euzen, both affiliated with the Institut Francias du Pétrole, summarize current knowledge on chemical reactors. The book is designed for engineers in industries involved with the problem of chemical transformations, and for professors and students of process engineering. B&w photos are included. In addition to updated material, this edition contains a new chapter on multifunctional reactors and future developments, and a new chapter of case studies. The present work is a revision of the French edition of Chemical Reactors: Design, Engineering, Operation , published by Éditions Technip in 1984. The book was also revised when it was translated into English in 1988 and published jointly by Éditions Technip and Gulf Publishing Company. The book is distributed by Enfield. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The essays in this book, first published in 1860, were developed from a series of lectures on 'The Conduct of Life' delivered by Emerson during the early 1850s. Some of the original lectures were dropped and the rest were considerably revised, with new topics introduced. The published essays, on 'Fate,' 'Power,' 'Wealth,' 'Culture,' 'Behavior,' 'Worship,' 'Considerations by the Way,' 'Beauty,' and 'Illusions,' show Emerson's interest in many practical aspects of human life, and reflect his increasing involvement in politics--chiefly in the antislavery movement--during the decade before the Civil War.

This edition is based on Emerson's holograph manuscripts and published sources. The text incorporates Emerson's later corrections and revisions, and shows us what he actually wrote (or, perhaps in some cases, intended to write).

Barbara Packer's historical introduction traces the book's development and its relation to Emerson's own personal growth and political awareness. Joseph Slater's explanatory notes help the modern reader to understand many of Emerson's references and allusions that may not be readily apparent.

Now I shall sing the second kingdom,

there where the soul of man is cleansed,

made worthy to ascend to heaven.

In the second book of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. As he witnesses the penance required on each successive terrace, Dante often feels the smart of his own sins. His reward will be a walk through the garden of Eden, perhaps the most remarkable invention in the history of literature.

Now Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander's own decades of teaching and reasearch.

In questo volume, l'autore mette a fuoco le diverse immagini che la figura dell'Anticristo ha assunto nelle alterne vicende storiche, ideologiche e religiose che hanno ruotato attorno all'interpretazione del libro biblico dell'Apocalisse. L'Anticristo ha questo di inquietante, che non è soltanto una forza delle tenebre, ma si presenta come un uomo vero e proprio dotato di poteri eccezionali. E se la salvezza degli uomini è assicurata dall'Incarnazione di Dio nell'umanità, come non temere il peggio da questo Figlio dell'Ingannatore che si è stabilito nella nostra carne?

Elliott (director, Center for the Study of Experiential Psychotherapy, University of Toledo) collects work by originators of process- experiential therapy, describing the various tasks and techniques of this humanistic therapy and emphasizing the therapeutic relationship. Contributors discuss theory, case formulation, treatment, and research in a way that makes this complex form of therapy accessible to all readers. Extended case examples show how the use of these techniques can bring about change. The book will be of interest to students and teachers of process-experiential therapy. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ultima Thule is the terrible yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the Polar regions. Thirteen extraordinary men and expeditions preceded author Jean Malaurie to the North Pole. Based on excerpts from these explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, this book brings to life both sides of the clash between indigenous people and the white men who arrived in the Far North dreaming of Polar conquest, and believing they brought with them a superior civilization. Over the intervening 170 years, tensions have continually risen and fallen as new waves of Europeans encounter the native Inuit. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and for the Polar environment is bleak: both the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing forever. But according to Malaurie, the situation is not without hope.
Using original travel accounts and a stunning array of period photographs, engravings, artifacts, maps, and drawings, Malaurie paints a richly detailed portrait of an intersection of cultures and fantasies. This beautifully produced book, an international success now available for the first time in an English translation, puts an entire museum of North Pole history in the reader's hands, illuminating a little-known world.

This volume, which completes Father Torrell's biography of Aquinas, focuses on a relatively overlooked aspect of the Dominican's theology, his spirituality. This is a highly-specialised and in-depth analysis of that side of Aquinas which not only qualified him to be one of the great intellects of the Middle Ages but also a saint. The narrative is heavily annotated and supported by extracts, in English translation, from Summa theologiae and other works by Aquinas.

Il volume si apre con l'entrata in guerra della Francia nel 1914 e si chiude con l'avvio della presidenza Chirac; gli autori, per attraversare un secolo che annovera due guerre mondiali, quattro regimi politici successivi, la decolonizzazione, individuano come linea guida la storia politica, ma con un'attenzione marcata anche alle trasformazioni socio-economiche del paese particolarmente dell'epoca seguente la seconda guerra mondiale, periodo a cui è dedicata oltre la metà del libro.

Published in French in 1991; Gladding's translation makes this enjoyable volume available to English readers. Pitte (geography, Sorbonne) explores various current and historical trends in French gastronomy, relating the importance to a cuisine's success of its non-edible aspects, including geographic setting, seasonal traditions, and regional associations. In the process, we learn of French food laws and traditions, the critical contribution of Louis XIV, the development of French restaurants, and the methods of famous chefs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The epic grandeur of Dante's masterpiece has inspired readers for 700 years, and has entered the human imagination. But the further we move from the late medieval world of Dante, the more a rich understanding and enjoyment of the poem depends on knowledgeable guidance. Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante, and Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, have written a beautifully accurate and clear verse translation of the first volume of Dante's epic poem, the Divine Comedy. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, this edition also offers an extensive and accessible introduction and generous commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship as well as Robert Hollander's own decades of teaching and research. The Hollander translation is the new standard in English of this essential work of world literature.

Sky, an aging Cherokee chief, chooses his successor by asking three candidates to climb a mountain, thus testing their character and strength, in an authentic and instructive Eastern Cherokee Nation 'lesson story.'

Drawing on laboratory and farm studies, the book reviews in detail the current state-of-the-art scientific research knowledge of fish and crustacean nutrition, from larvae to juvenile fish, through to the final stages of harvesting. Topics covered include issues surrounding the formulation, manufacture and delivery of feedstuffs to fish farms and the text provides a dual focus on fish and shrimp feeding requirements addressing practical applications as appropriate for the European aqualculture industry.

In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it 'remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have.'

Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white images.

This book is the eagerly awaited successor to Robert Gilpin's 1987 The Political Economy of International Relations, the classic statement of the field of international political economy that continues to command the attention of students, researchers, and policymakers. The world economy and political system have changed dramatically since the 1987 book was published. The end of the Cold War has unleashed new economic and political forces, and new regionalisms have emerged. Computing power is increasingly an impetus to the world economy, and technological developments have changed and are changing almost every aspect of contemporary economic affairs. Gilpin's Global Political Economy considers each of these developments. Reflecting a lifetime of scholarship, it offers a masterful survey of the approaches that have been used to understand international economic relations and the problems faced in the new economy.Gilpin focuses on the powerful economic, political, and technological forces that have transformed the world. He gives particular attention to economic globalization, its real and alleged implications for economic affairs, and the degree to which its nature, extent, and significance have been exaggerated and misunderstood. Moreover, he demonstrates that national policies and domestic economies remain the most critical determinants of economic affairs. The book also stresses the importance of economic regionalism, multinational corporations, and financial upheavals.Gilpin integrates economic and political analysis in his discussion of 'global political economy.' He employs the conventional theory of international trade, insights from the theory of industrial organization, and endogenous growth theory. In addition, ideas from political science, history, and other disciplines are employed to enrich understanding of the new international economic order. This wide-ranging book is destined to become a landmark in the field.

One of the most important books written on the effects of LSD on the human psyche.

. Its authoritative research has great relevance to the current debate on drug legalization.

. Prolific authors Robert Masters and Jean Houston are pioneer figures in the field of transpersonal psychology and founders of the Human Potentials Movement.

The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience was published in 1966, just as the first legal restrictions on the use of psychedelic substances were being enacted. Unfortunately, the authors' pioneering work on the effects of LSD on the human psyche, which was viewed by its participants as possibly heralding a revolution in the study of the mind, was among the casualties of this interdiction. As a result, the promising results to which their studies attested were never fully explored. Nevertheless, their 15 years of research represents a  sober and authoritative appraisal of what remains one of the most controversial developments in the study of the human psyche. Avoiding the wild excesses taken by both sides on this issue, this book is unique for the light it sheds on the possibilities and the limitations of psychedelic drugs, as well as on the techniques for working with them. With drug legalization an increasingly important issue, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience provides a welcome and much needed contrast to the current hysteria that surrounds this topic.

Designed to address the issues of how to paint and what to paint, PAINTING AS A LANGUAGE covers a wide range of information of central importance to beginning and intermediate painting instruction. The authors emphasize the value of the student's cognitive understanding of the process and potential of painting in the student's overall progress in the studio. Blending journal writing with painting and drawing exercises, they guide the student through selecting meaningful subject matter as well as becoming adept at shaping and interpreting that material through the language of painting.