Product Description: During a twelve-month period in 1930 and 1931, Edmund Wilson wrote a series of lengthy articles which he then collected in a book called American Jitters: A Year of the Slump . The resulting chronicle was hailed by the New York Times as "the best reporting that the period of depression has brought forth in the United States," and forms the heart of the present volume...read more

Product Description: This is an account of an Indian people's struggle to maintain an identity in American society. Also included is a study of The Mohawks in High Steel by Joseph Mitchell.

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A survey of such writers as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Marcel Proust who belonged to the modern symbolic movement

Traces the development of the French Symbolist movement and its influence on W.B. Yeats, Paul Valery, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein

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Product Description: The truth is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear of the income tax. These two terrors have been adjusted so as to complement one another and thus to keep the citizen of our free society under the strain of a double pressure from which he finds himself unable to escape -- like the man in the old Western story, who, chased into a narrow ravine by a buffalo, is confronted with a grizzly bear...read more

An account of the discovery of the scrolls in 1947 and the subsequent discovery of additional manuscripts, all of which serve in the study of ancient Judaism and Christianity

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Product Description: Edmund Wilson has written a new introduction to his classic study of the modern conception of history in the West, and has restored the appendices which appeared in the first edition of 1940 but were dropped from subsequent editions...read more

Product Description: The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an intergral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction.

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This book challenges the view that using SSCI journal citations (especially its impact factor score) and peer review/evaluation are the best ways (in that they are the most objective ways) to evaluate economic research. First extensive ranking of heterodox economics journals First ranking of mainstream and heterodox journals Ranking of mainstream and heterodox graduate programs in the US Impact of national research assessment exercises on heterodox economics in Italy and Australia Use of social network analysis to examine the diffusion of heterodox economicsCritique of the use of citation metrics and heterodox economics; Social Science Citation Index with respect to economics is deliberately biased in favour of mainstream journals

Product Description: This book was first published in 1947 with the subtitle "Sketches Among the Ruins of Italy, Greece, and England," and had been out of print for many years. It provides an informative and vivid account if these countries of postwar Europe.

Product Description: This collection includes The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, The Little Blue Light, and Cyprian's Prayer.

The journals of the eminent critic of 'The New Yorker' focus on his life during the 1940s, with observations on his mid-life crisis, philosophical evolution, travels, and personal relationships with family and friends.