André Gide and the Second World War Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

André Gide and the Second World War Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneThe first complete study of Gide's neglected wartime writings. Arguably the most influential French writer of the early twentieth century, Andr Gide is a paradigmatic figure whose World War II writings offer an exemplary reflection of the challenges facing a leading writer in a time of national collapse. Tracing Gide's circuitous "intellectual itinerary" from the fall of France through the postwar purge, this book examines the ambiguous role of

A guide to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens

The adoption of improved technology is essential for increasing productivity in the production of maize in Africa

to the revival of the monument in the wake of the Second World War

A cultural history of the relationship between music and trance in America

food and energy crops to ensure human populations are food

and pressure ulcers all known to be associated with immobility

nightsoil use was abandoned

and entertainment

dualistic faith that one can become Buddha

The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms "urban" and "city" has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed

Anisya seduces her farmhand Nikita

including Walter Benjamin