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Article: Drago Janear. Mocking Desire. Michael Biggins, tr. Evanston, Il. ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Northwestern University Press made a felicitous choice in publishing Mocking Desire and in introducing ... As such, we are in the protagonist's presence from the first page to the last. The work is based on the author's visit to the United ...

Article: Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral ...
Campaigns & Elections;  May 1, 2004 ;     500 words ... ... Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions, by Todd A. Eisenstadt, Cambridge University Press, 354 pages, November 2003. Profiles Mexico's transition to democracy from the perspective of opposition activism ...

Article: Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular ...
Campaigns & Elections;  May 1, 2004 ;     507 words ... ... Deliberative Democracy in America: A Proposal for a Popular Branch of Government, by Ethan Lieb, Pennsylvania State University Press, 156 pages, April 2004. Proposes a fourth branch of government, in addition to the executive, legislative and judicial ...

Article: The Character Factor: How We Judge America's Presidents, by James ...
Campaigns & Elections;  May 1, 2004 ;     500 words ...The Character Factor: How We Judge America's Presidents, by James P. Pfiffner, Texas A & M University Press, 209 pages, February 2004. Looks at three components of presidential character: Lying, promise-keeping and sexual ...

Article: Colgate University Press Turns a New Page
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 31, 2008 ;     597 words ...Colgate University issued the following news release: The Colgate University Press has dusted itself off and published its first book in 14 years. Released this summer, Crafting Fiction, Poetry, & Memoir ...

Article: The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises. ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... and Icelandic may be daunting for someone who has not mastered at least a few of these tongues. Finally, Princeton University Press once again has managed to expunge a potentially useful bibliography. Nevertheless, those interested in the topics under ...

Article: Missourians find their voice in new book ; "Yale Book of ...
Columbia Daily Tribune;  February 3, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Apparently the Show-Me-State also is the Quote Me State. In the recently released "Yale Book of Quotations," a 1,067-page tome its editor touts as the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind, Missourians are quoted more than people from any other ...