Investigates the family backgrounds and medical history of serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, and concludes that serial killers may be a product of a genetic predisposition to violence and an abusive environment.

Another first in this edition is the panel of critical readers: 120-plus commentators who have helped Garner reassess and update the text, so that every page has been improved.

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"Sartor Resartus is the 'sunniest and most philosophical' of Carlyle's works."—Henry David Thoreau "The way to test how much [Carlyle] has left us all were to consider, or try to consider, for the moment the array of British thought, the ...

A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.

Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred different documents giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabella and Ferdinand. These texts are examined for authenticity and authority, and Columbus's views on the Indians.

Some structural features of languages predict others, some remain unchanged in daughter languages, others have an areal consistency; in establishing typologically, historically and geographically stable features in the worlds languages, ...

The linking of psychosomatic to literary and literary to a larger political horizon raises the question of conservative premises to linguistic, pyschoanalystic, philisophical, and literary theories and criticisms of such.

"There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." Yet even from the time of its first publication in 1885, Mark Twain's masterpiece has been one of the most celebrated and controversial books ever published in America.

This new edition of Permanence and Change reprints Hugh Dalziel Duncan's long sociological introduction and includes a substantial new afterward in which Burke reexamines his early ideas in light of subsequent developments in his own ...