Del Norte Public Library

Artists and works in the exhibition: Ellen Amanda Andrus, Charles Dudley Arnold, Alice Austen, George Barker, George Barnard, William Bell, Henry Hamilton Bennett, James Wallace Black, Mathew Brady, John C. Browne, John G. Bullock, Solomon D. Butcher, Joseph Byron, George Cox, Franics D'Avignon, F. Holland Day, John William Draper, Thomas Eakins, Thomas M. Easterly, Sarah J. Eddy, Jay Dearborn Edwards, Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., Frank Eugene, George...

Overview: Moving beyond traditional "liberal versus conservative" arguments for and against abortion, Abortion: Three Perspectives is an up-to-date, accessible, and engaging exploration of this highly contentious issue. Featuring a triangular debate between four prominent moral and political philosophers, it presents three different political perspectives: Michael Tooley argues the "liberal" pro-choice approach; Philip E. Devine and Celia Wolf-Devine...

"Explores the status of lesbians and lesbian studies in the high school and university classroom and in the academy."

Why is homosexuality socially marginal yet symbolically central? Why is it so strangely integral to the very societies which obsessively denounce it, and why is it history--rather than human nature--that has produced this paradoxical position? These are just some of the questions explored in Sexual Dissidence. Written by a leading critic in gender studies, this wide-ranging study returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and...

The new edition of this definitive text reflects the continuing reintegration of psychiatry into the mainstream of biomedical science.

In recent years, lesbians and gay men have developed a new, aggressive style of politics. At the same time, innovative intellectual energies have made queer theory an explosive field of study. In "Fear of a Queer Planet", Michael Warner draws on emerging new queer politics, and shows how queer activists have come to challenge basic assumptions about the social and political world. Existing traditions of theory - Marxism, cultural studies, psychoanalysis,...

"Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach toward contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting"--Jacket....

In addition to the texts of 'Walden' and 'Civil Disobedience', this revised and expanded 'Norton Critical Edition' reprints the increasingly important works 'Slavery in Massachusetts', 'Walking' and 'Wild Apples'. All texts are accompanied by annotations