by Helen Muir (1990)
"Helen Muir's account of Miami first appeared in 1953 and has grown through several revisions into the definitive popular history of a remarkable city. Marjory Stoneman Douglas, writing for the Chicago Tribune, called the first edition "vigorous, colorful, dramatic, variously detailed, jam-packed with people, fast-moving, a seething document... Helen Muir threads her way vividly and surely through the tangles of modern crime, pretensions, and scandals, but also shows Miami growing enormously as an intellectual and cultural focus."". "Updating this new edition through the 1990s, Muir brings the story of the frontier post transformed by Flagler, Tuttle, and a host of near-legendary figures and events to a new century of readers. To those who reflect on Muir's colorful epilogue, the city's primitive origins a hundred years ago will seem improbable - the characters and events of its boom, crash, and war years, astonishing - and the pace of its growth and transformation since that time, barely believable."--BOOK JACKET.
Christopher Kremmer
A new and updated edition of "Stalking the Elephant Kings", the award-winning book on Laos by the author of "The Carpet Wars". Twenty years after the Indochina wars, Christopher Kremmer visited Laos - at the crossroads of change in Southeast Asia.
Noel Carroll
For decades, the horror genre has been a major popular entertainment and has dominated the publishing and film industries. Yet there exists no philosophical examination of the genre - the time for its aesthetic analysis is ripe. Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear his comprehensive knowledge of obscure and forgotten works, as well as of the horror masterpieces. Working from a philosophical perspective, he tries to account for how people can find pleasure in having their wits scared out of them. What, after all, are those "paradoxes of the heart" that make us want to be horrified?
Philip L. Fradkin
A journey through one of America's largest and least-known wilderness areas, the Uinta Mountains in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado. A journ through its past and through its trails today which reveals the problems and opportunities now facing the federal land system.
Saul Rosenzweig
"This volume describes the one and only visit of Sigmund Freud to America and places it in historical perspective. It describes the background of this crucial event and its consequences for psychoanalysis as a theory and a cultural movement. It utilizes, and publishes here for the first time, the newly recovered correspondence between Sigmund Freud and G. Stanley Hall, who extended the invitiation."-- Introduction.