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Bipolar Disorder is exhaustive and detailed, discussing every aspect of the illness: diagnosis, treatments, causes, special considerations for children and youth, women with the diagnosis, and the challenge of co-occurring addiction.

The final section features current trends in theory that illuminate new aspects of eighteenth-century studies. What does a postcritical eighteenth century look like? How does a study of multiple genres remake Irish studies? What is the role of eighteenth-century studies in today's Humanities?

Readers concerned with the quality of the environment in which we live and work, as well as architects, landscape architects, urban planners, historians, and preservationists, will find stimulating insights in Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates.

Only by confronting such uncanny and difficult figures, de Vries claims, can one begin to think and act upon the ethical and political imperatives of our day.

From 1916 to his death in 1955 he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, of which he became vice-president in 1934.

"-Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College

, China, and communist parties throughout the world.

This reading of Herbert recognizes the historical dimension of his poems, but the author does not make that dimension the only significant one in the determination of poetic meaning or value.

In The Dome and the Rock, James Baird exposes the capacity of Wallace Stevens to design his poetry in a manner similar to an architect, and he "reveals the craftsmanship of [Wallace's] acts as builder."

This volume underscores the particularities of each case and underscores the differences between cases.

This book examines whether Weber's approach has a greater humanizing value than has been conceded by his opponents and will attempt to demonstrate the humanistic mission of the University and its usefulness for youth and democracy.

This volume gathers work by Harold Cherniss, George Boas, Ludwig Edelstein, Leo Spitzer, and others.

Louis, the struggles between French kings and vassals, and the rivalry of the Capetian and Plantagenet monarchies.

Lane, who specialized in medieval Venetian history.

Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities-historicism and culture-and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised.

Richly illustrated with more than 130 maps and photographs (many original and many from FSA photographers), The Cotton Plantation South is a vivid and colorful account of landscape, geography, race, politics, and civil rights as they relate to one of America's most enduring and familiar institutions.

The essays have been revised for inclusion in this volume.

His attempts to adjust a political system to cope with this threat and at the same time to assert the hegemony of the monarchy over its chief rivals-the barons and the church-made his reign one of particular importance and significance in English history.

His empathy with the scholars of the Renaissance keeps his discussion lively-a witty study of interpreters of mythography from the past.

-Puerto Rican understanding, and recounting the mythic adventures of McLuhanaima, "the world's first Brazilianist,as he travels through the exotic land he has chosen for definitive research.

For purposes of comparison, the governing perspective of the final chapter is modern.

To test further the implications of his hypothesis, Cope turns to two unsettled points in Miltonic exegesis: Milton's muse and the dialogue in Heaven.

With a series of helpful maps, Konvitz's book is an important source for urban historians of early modern Europe.

This book documents the history of this political crisis, culminating with the abdication of King Leopold and the assumption of the crown by Baudouin, Leopold's son.

With its accession to NATO, the West German government under Adenauer continued its policy of rehabilitating the German people in the eyes of the Western political community by playing a willing and sometimes leading role in joint ventures whose purpose was said to transcend the nation-state.

The first chapter provides readers unfamiliar with medieval history the background required for understanding the chapters on chivalry.

Finally in 1216 he was chosen regent of England for the young king, Henry III, and his biography becomes for three years the history of England.

His book challenges the traditional view of the Hundred Years' War as pivotal to the transition from twelfth-century lords and vassals to the nobility of the fifteenth century; from Painter's perspective, the feudal structure of the military had dissipated by the thirteenth century.

This book should make clear the full meaning of this expression.

Finally, Duckworth underscores Austen's awareness of the importance of a society of individuals whose behavior is socially informed.