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How to Wreck a Building

How to Wreck a Building

Elinor Lander Horwitz

Elinor Lander Horwitz has been a freelance writer since 1963. She has written articles for newspapers and national magazines, three U.S. government publications on water quality, and over a dozen books for young readers. Ms. Horwitz ...
A child's garden of sculpture: photographed at the Hirshhorn ...

A child's garden of sculpture: photographed at the Hirshhorn ...

Elinor Lander Horwitz

By Elinor Lander Horwitz Photographs by Joshua Horwitz Photographed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution Are you puzzled by contemporary sculpture? Do you sometimes wonder what it's all about?
Sometimes it Happens

Sometimes it Happens

Elinor Lander Horwitz

A young boy discovers that sometimes even ordinary deeds can make one a hero.
Madness, Magic, and Medicine: The Treatment and Mistreatment ...

Madness, Magic, and Medicine: The Treatment and Mistreatment ...

Elinor Lander Horwitz

Discusses the treatment of the mentally ill through the ages.
When the Sky Is Like Lace

When the Sky Is Like Lace

Elinor Lander Horwitz

Describes the strange and splendid things that can happen on a bimulous night when the sky is like lace.
Contemporary American folk artists

Contemporary American folk artists

Elinor Lander Horwitz

Briefly discusses the lives and works of twenty-two American folk painters, carvers, and environmentalists.
Mountain People, Mountain Crafts

Mountain People, Mountain Crafts

Elinor Lander Horwitz

Gives a brief history of the folk culture and crafts in the Appalachian region and discusses their present-day revival by introducing contemporary craftsmen and their work.
THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN LAW, 1780-1860

THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN LAW, 1780-1860

Morton J. HORWITZ

In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents.
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished ...

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished ...

Tony Horwitz

In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of 'hardcore' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who ...
Devolution and Electoral Politics

Devolution and Electoral Politics

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Amir Abedi and Alan Siaroff Introduction Elections in each of the Austrian Lander have traditionally been paid little attention,1 and Lander party politics in Austria was generally seen as warranting little examination. This was not because each  ...
Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an ...

Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Performance of an ...

Elinor Ostrom

The authors of this work, Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan and Ganesh P. Shivakoti provide detailed analysis of these interventions and support the conclusion that farmers can build on an innovative intervention that not only ...
Choice, Rules and Collective Action: The Ostrom's on the ...

Choice, Rules and Collective Action: The Ostrom's on the ...

Elinor Ostrom

This volume brings a set of key works by Elinor Ostrom, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, together with those of Vincent Ostrom, one of the originators of Public Choice political economy.
Understanding Institutional Diversity

Understanding Institutional Diversity

Elinor Ostrom

A leader in applying game theory to the understanding of institutional analysis, Elinor Ostrom provides in this book a coherent method for undertaking the analysis of diverse economic, political, and social institutions.
Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire

Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire

Thomas R. Hietala

And in a recent incisive look at Calhoun and the war, Ernest M. Lander suggested that Calhoun, "for the sake of unity within ... 1846-1818 (Madison, 1973); Ernest McPherson Lander, Jr., Reluctant Imperialists: Calhoun, the South Carolinians, ...
The Early Music Yearbook

The Early Music Yearbook

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... Astrid Nielsch, Lynda Sayce, Jan Louise Walters 400 WOODWIND p = Nicholas Lander, Michael Sargeant с = Pat Hanchet, Andrew Kay, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi , Andrew Smith, Ryan J Thomson t = Nicholas Lander, Michael Sargeant 402 Flutes ...
A history of South Carolina, 1865-1960

A history of South Carolina, 1865-1960

Ernest McPherson Lander

Ernest McPherson Lander. from meager financial support, although South Carolina A & M, which is dependent on state support, has fared rather favorably in the past decade. In Chapter IX, "Summary," I have little to add except some statistics.
Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture

Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture

Bonnie Lander Johnson

In this book, Bonnie Lander Johnson explores early modern ideas of chastity, demonstrating how crucial early Stuart thinking on chastity was to political, medical, theological and moral debates, and that it was also a virtue that governed ...
A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina ...

A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina ...

Bryant Simon

Lander, Ernest McPherson, Jr. A History of South Carolina, 18651960. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1960. Lander, Ernest McPherson, Jr. South Carolina: An Illustrated History of the Palmetto State. Northridge, Calif.: Windsor ...
Nationalsozialistische Gaue

Nationalsozialistische Gaue

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Gaue und Länder als Akteure der nationalsozialistischen Schulpolitik 159 Jürgen Finger Gaue und Länder als Akteure der nationalsozialistischen Schulpolitik. Württemberg als Sonderfall und Musterbeispiel im Altreich I. Die Schul- und ...

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