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Volume 34 Issue 15

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April 4th, 2002

ARTS and SCIENCES An Ambrose Bierce Companion by Robert L. Gale, English. Greenwood Press. This reference is a guide to the life of Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?). It includes a chronology, entries on major works and characters, historical persons and writers figuring in his life, with end-of-entry and general bibliographies. Aristotle on the Parts of Animals […]

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April 4th, 2002

ARTS and SCIENCES boundary 2 edited by Paul A. Bove, English. Duke University Press. boundary 2 encourages new thinking in all areas of humanistic study in an era of emerging globality. This journal is published in the spring, summer and fall. British Journal of Politics and International Relations edited by B. Guy Peters, political science. […]

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A closer look at some selected Books & Journals: Pat K. Chew/”The Conflict & Culture Reader” >

April 4th, 2002

Although she's a professor of law, Pat Chew believes that the legal system is not always the best way to handle disputes. Sometimes parties in conflict need to look for alternatives that take into account the cultural differences of the disputants. "So this book really came about by making a very simple premise: When we […]

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A closer look at some selected Books & Journals: William Coles/”Compass in the Blood” >

April 4th, 2002

If "The Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger's 1951 tale of teenage angst, had appeared a half-century later, it might well have been marketed as a young-adult novel, says Pitt professor emeritus William E. Coles Jr. By today's standards, "Catcher" bears the genre's earmarks, Coles points out: Unadorned style. Mild profanity and sex. A plot […]

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A closer look at some selected Books & Journals: Paula Kane/”Gender Identities in American Catholicism” >

April 4th, 2002

In 1947, Ed Willock wrote for a leading lay Catholic magazine: "You cannot say that woman is the equal of man anymore than you can say an apple is the equal of man…. The difference between the sexes is not only physical but psychological, and it is because of these differences and not because of […]

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