The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black communities. Her study--which examines the relationship among race, culture, and community--focuses on four women: the poet Phillis Wheatley and poet and essayist Ann Plato, both Congregationalists; and the itinerant preacher Jarena Lee, and Shaker eldress Rebecca Cox Jackson, who, with Lee, had connections with African Methodism. Together, these women drew on what Bassard calls a "spirituals matrix," which transformed existing literary genres to accommodate the spiritual music and sacred rituals tied to the African diaspora. Bassard's important illumination of these writers resurrects their path-breaking work. They were cocreators, with all black women who followed, of African American intellectual life.

Examines representations of political, psychological, and sexual violence in seven novels by American women.

"Reviled by the critics but loved by the readers, the bestseller has until recently provoked little serious critcal interest. In The Myth of Superwoman Resa Dudovitze looks at this international phenomenon, particularly at the origins of the bestseller system in the United States and France. Her cross-cultural study including interviews with publishers, literatry agents, and bestselling authors, gives a lively picture of the contrasting ways in which the bestseller is produced, marketed, and received in two countries. It pays special attention to the international bestsellers of the 1980s to writers like Judith Krantz, Colleen McCullough, and Barbara Taylor Bradford ... Dudovitz shows how women's best selling fiction has, over the last two hundred years, kept pace with the social evolution of contemporary women, culminating in the myth of superwoman in women's bestsellers of the 1980s."--Back cover.

Reference book with essential information for the expatriate on living and working in The Netherlands with more than 250 full colour ill.

Tent.cat. bij de gelijknamige tent. (Le Botanique, Centre Culturel de la Communauté Française Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussel). Met bijdragen van meerdere auteurs, rijk geill. in z-w en kleur.

French edition of the exhibition catalogue (Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles) with 253 catalogue numbers, most of them ill. in b/w and colour.

Nederlandse vertaling van oorspronkelijk Duits handboek, verschenen in 1969.

Zeldzame tent.cat. verschenen t.g.v. de gelijknamige tent. (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris) met bijdragen in het Frans van meerdere auteurs; DE publicatie over leven en werk van deze Frans surrealistische schrijver en theoreticus.

Countless fossilized remains of dinosaurs are buried throughout the U.S. and Canada--and plenty of places invite you to act like an archaeologist and search for them. Sift through the pages of "Dinosaur Digs" for information on joining a dinosaur dig and touring fossil sites, background information and expert insight on paleontological science and speculation, excavation techniques, and more. More than 250 full-color images, including specially commissioned maps and evocative illustrations are included.

Zijn sociale zekerheidsinstellingen, en meer bepaald ziekenfondsen, ondernemingen in de zin van het EG-verdrag? Op deze vraag, die onschuldiger en minder belangwekkend klinkt dan ze in werkelijkheid is, hebben de auteurs getracht een antwoord te formuleren. Zij hebben een korte schets gegeven van de Europese mededingingsregels om vervolgens de notie 'onderneming', die zoals zal blijken, een cruciale rol speelt in de toepasselijkheid van deze regels, wat van naderbij te bekijken.

Informatie, interviews en adviezen aan ouders en leerkrachten over het begeleiden van kinderen en jongeren in hun omgang met moderne communicatiemiddelen.

Tent.cat. van de gelijknamige tent. (Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussel) met bijdragen van meerdere auteurs en 176 in kleur afgebeelde cat.nrs.

Zeldzame tent.cat. van gelijknamige tent. (Grand Palais, Paris; National Gallery of Art, Washington) met 117 cat.nrs. waarvan vele geill. in kleur.

Tent.cat. van gelijknamige tent. (Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel) met 500 cat.nrs. waarvan het merendeel in kleur is afgebeeld.

Tweede deel van de tent.cat. bij gelijknamige tent. (Brussel, Kon. Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis) met 226 cat.nrs. waarvan vele in kleur zijn afgebeeld.