The most up-to-date reference of its kind, "Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Revised Edition" is the definitive guide to the role of the president from the American Revolution through the present day. Offering a complete account of every presidential election in U.S. history, this fully revised A-to-Z encyclopedia will make a great first stop for students and general readers looking for information on the executive branch of the American government.
This translation provides an accurate text of the Iliad in a modern English poetic form. It has been designed, first and foremost for people who are reading Homer’s Iliad for the first time. The book is accompanied by a glossary, maps and other study aids intended to help ensure that one’s initial venture into the world of the Iliad is a fruitful one. Composed between 800 and 700 BC and telling the story of a war which took place over 3000 years ago, the Iliad is a true classic, its beauty rivaled only by its longevity.
The first Lacanian handbook for American psychotherapists. Subjective Experience and the Logic of the Other is the first handbook on Lacanian clinical practice specifically designed for American psychotherapists. Dispensing with jargon and elliptic formulations, Lander accomplishes the tour de force of making Lacan "user friendly."
The novel revolves around the Idiran-Culture War, and Banks plays on that theme by presenting various microcosms of that conflict. Perhaps surprisingly, especially since this is the first (published) Culture novel, its protagonist Bora Horza Gobuchul is actually an enemy of the Culture.
