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1) The criminal
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1903
Edition
3rd ed., rev., enlarged
Language
English
Description
The contemporary science series. With 30 illustrations.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
c1948
Edition
1st. ed.
Physical Desc
xx, 311 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A major work about man's relation to society, Chase discusses whether the scientific method can be applied to human relations. He summarizes knowledge accumulated by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, economists, political scientists, and other social scientists in this volume.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1961, c1918
Physical Desc
xxiv, 517 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1901
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
2 v. in 1 : front., illus. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, the English novelist Frances Trollope released Domestic Manners of the Americans, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic. Expecting a utopia of "justice and liberty for all," she is shocked to discover the contradictions at the heart of the American character. Funny and fearless, Trollope's biting critique became an international sensation. Yet, as...