Serving as both a scholarly account of Jerusalem's archaeology and a useful guide for the interested reader, this work illuminates the turbulent past of a city which is both medieval in appearance and a modern city at the center of international and religious interest. This expansive new work examines the history of the city and its unique society as well as presents archaeological evidence for Crusader Jerusalem.
Night and Day (published on 20 October 1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katherine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.
Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Dickens are just a few of the London authors that have come to represent the essences of English literature. Taking you on a tour of the city with strong literary roots, the book examines it as it has appeared as a setting in various works of literature.
For almost a century, writers such as Ralph Ellison, Michael Ondaatje, and Ishmael Reed have expressed an affinity for jazz, hearing the music as a model for writing. Michael Jarrett examines their work and the work of others who have brought jazz into language, pushing "interpretation" into the realm of "invention."
This book, a classic in its field, has been thoroughly revised to include new sections on neurotransmitters, environmentally induced biological components of behavior, impulsiveness and crime, neighborhoods as causes of crime, situational contexts of crime, the decline and resurgence of stain theories, and control-ology. It examines postmodern criminology and feminist criminology, and includes two new chapters, one on developmental criminology, the other on integrated theories.
