Author: Nancy Moore Goslee
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s drafts and notebooks, which have recently been published for the first time, are very revealing about the creative processes behind his poems, and show an unexpectedly vivid visual imagination which contributed in a major way to his poetry. This book analyzes both verbal script and visual sketches in his manuscripts to interpret the lively personifications of concepts such as ‘Liberty’, ‘Anarchy’, or ‘Life’ in his completed poems.

Author: Harry F. Dahms
Since the time when Talcott Parsons pursued the project of one overarching general theory of society, the landscape of social theory has vastly changed, and the pluralism and multidimensionality increased tremendously. This volume presents alternative trajectories for how to take steps toward achieving a theoretically informed understanding of the present analytical and practical challenges facing social theory.

Author: Robert A. Muenchen
R is a powerful and free software system for data analysis and graphics, with over 1,200 add-on packages available. This book introduces R using SAS and SPSS terms, and demonstrates which of the add-on packages are most like SAS and SPSS and compares them to R’s built-in functions.

Author: Misty Anderson
In the eighteenth century, British Methodism was an object of both derision and desire. Many popular eighteenth-century works ridiculed Methodists, yet often the very same plays, novels, and prints that cast Methodists as primitive, irrational, or deluded also betrayed a thinly cloaked fascination with the experiences of divine presence attributed to the new evangelical movement.

Author: Jay Rubenstein
Beginning in 1095 and culminating four bloody years later, the First Crusade represented a new kind of warfare: holy, unrestrained, and apocalyptic. This book tells the story of this cataclysmic event through the eyes of those who witnessed it, emphasizing the fundamental role that apocalyptic thought played in motivating the Crusaders.