Craven tells of her research to learn about Canada's Kwakiutl Indians and the steps by which she came to write her highly successful first novel, I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Puts forward suggestions on marketing, production, finance, purchasing, taxes, accounting, insurance, and other aspects of operating a small business

It is now well over a hundred years since the birth of Lenin. If his writings are to have the relevance for contemporary political action, it is necessary that they be understood within the specific historical context in which they arose. It is such an understanding that David Lane provides in this book. Dr Lane addresses four distinct, though related, topics: Lenin's analysis of revolution; Leninism as an ideology legitimating the Russian Revolution; a detached analysis of the revolutionary process; and the relevance of Lenin and the Russian Revolution for social and political change. He begins by showing that, studied thematically, the various parts of Lenin's thinking are complementary in providing an analysis of capitalism and the justification for socialist revolution. The book is a short, concise, detached, yet sympathetic account of Lenin's thinking on revolution, its implications for the rise of Stalinism and its significance for the model of socialism as developed in the USSR. It will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and historians interested in Leninism, Stalinism and revolutionary theory, as well as to others concerned with the theories and processes of social change.

Chronicles the life of the colonial American practical joker, passionate Virginia lawyer-politician, and patriotic orator whose words and principles helped fire the American Revolution

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Product Description: This 1983 book is a lively and clearly written introduction to the philosophy of natural science, organized around the central theme of scientific realism. It has two parts. 'Representing' deals with the different philosophical accounts of scientific objectivity and the reality of scientific entities...read more

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Product Description: This volume introduces the works of an important but neglected dramatist, one of the most prolific and popular of the mid-Victorian period. H. J. Byron wrote an enormous number of comedies, burlesques and pantomimes. He invented the characters of Widow Twankay and Buttons, still beloved by modern pantomime audiences...read more

Left penniless after an earthquake that kills her mother and leaves her father with amnesia, beautiful Isabella Frost leaves finishing school and marries an ambitious schoolteacher only to have her father return with the brilliant doctor who saved his life

Full-color illustrations highlight an anthology of favorite nonsense rhymes for small children

Introduces the concept of opposites through labeled pictures of a boy interacting with a thin pig and a fat pig, a hot dragon and a cold snowman, and other creatures and situations.