books by Northeastern University Press     books:     Northeastern Unive...      The Book of Abigail & John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784 Abigail Smith Adams, John Adams Northeastern University Press, 2002 The First Harvard Collection of Adams Letters--1975 This collection is the first assemblage of the letters between John and Abigail Adams published by Harvard University Press. Subsequently, in 2007, an expanded collection was published by Harvard, under the editorship of different scholars, with the title of "My ...             Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Northeastern University Press, 1984 Magnificent, mandatory reading Edmund Wilson produced this classic look at civil war literature more than forty years ago and it remains essential reading for anyone professing an interest in the great American conflict. Wilson brought much to the table: a beautiful, restrained writing style and a ...             The Politics of Terror: The U.S. Response to 9/11 (The Northeastern Series on Democratization and Political ... William Crotty Northeastern University Press, 2003 Interesting, But Dated The book (in the form of a series of essays) provides an interesting look at the political response to 9/11. Whether tracking the rise and fall in popularity of the president, examining the balance between security and civil liberties in regards to the Patriot Act, or ...             Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1692 David D. Hall Northeastern University Press, 1997 Essential Reading Sometimes it's forgotten that the witchcraft trials in Salem Village in 1692 were more the climax than the beginning of such happenings in 17th c. New England. In this excellent collection of hard-to-find documentary materials, David D. Hall covers the phenomenon from ...             The New Shostakovich Ian MacDonald Northeastern University Press, 1990 A spirited reinterpretation of the Music of Remembrance The Solomon Volkov revision or reinterpretation of Shostakovich's music is followed here by MacDonald. He too sees Shostakovich as one who opposed the Soviet System and Stalin, while seeming to be a part of it. He outlines how Shostakovich's tragic and comic ...             Women's Voices Across Musical Worlds Northeastern University Press, 2003 Written by a distinguished group of musicologists and ethnomusicologists, the essays collected here provide a cross-cultural and cross-historical view of the roles women have played as creators and performers and the representation of women in world, popular, and western art music. Organized in five sections, the readings deal with a broad ...             Out In The Storm: Drug-Addicted Women Living As Shoplifters and Sex Workers (The Northeastern Series on ... Gail A. Caputo Northeastern University Press, 2008 Based on interview material and life histories that create a vivid narrative, this remarkable volume is the culmination of three years of ethnographic research examining thirty-eight women with drug addictions in the Philadelphia area who took up criminal occupations of shoplifting and sex work. It provides in-depth criminological analysis of drug ...             Principled Sentencing Andrew Von Hirsch Northeastern University Press, 1992 This anthology of essays and documents on criminal sentencing in both the American and British legal systems reflects major current ideas about sentencing theory and policy. The book contains seven chapters, each with an introduction by one of the volume editors and a bibliography of suggested further readings. The first four chapters ...             The Art of the Novel: Critical Prefaces Henry James Northeastern University Press, 1984 The master on his mastery Richard Blackmur in his introduction to this volume tells us that most of these prefaces were written for the famed 'New York Edition of his works. According to Lubbock," The labour was atorment, a care, and a delight, as his letters and the Prefaces themselves amply ...             A Game of Golf (The Sportstown Series) Francis Ouimet Northeastern University Press, 2004 Neat Book I found the book very interesting overall. There are some parts that drag on but all in all a neat book. It tells the details of a great golfer Francis Ouimet. It was written in the 1930s and I am sure some of the details have been sugar coated but if a person like ...          products you might be interested in search for books democratization, drug-addicted, northeastern, seventeenth-century, shostakovich, witch-hunting      toavi.com    web we recommend The First Harvard Collection of Adams Letters--1975 randomly chosen book: What Happy Women Know: How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can Change ...