Clear and accessible, this little book is an intelligible and stimulating guide to those problems of philosophy which often mistakenly make the subject seem too lofty and abstruse for the lay mind.

Fresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.

The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick. Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story.

The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick. Thomas Kinsella presents a complete and living version of the story.

"First published in the Home University Library, 1912; First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1959"--Title page verso.

"The Modern American Novel is an indispensable handbook for all those interested in the novel and American culture.

Combining a scholar's command of fact with a narrator's ease of style, the noted scholar H.A.R. Gibb presents an historic survey of Islam, from the days of the prophet, through the religion's spread in Asia and Africa, to its confrontation ...

In this book, Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context.

This volume offers the first full-length study to examine the tradition in American letters since the 1830s of great imaginative writers beginning their careers in journalism.

All of this is now common knowledge, but it was not so a hundred years ago.