In the English-speaking world at least, there has been something of a deficit of explicit methodological reflection on history. However, there now exists a widespread sense that this must change.

There is no question that the a ~postmoderna (TM) debate has done a great deal to put serious reflection on historiography on the agenda of researchers, teachers, and students of history, but it has also been used indiscriminately to cover substantially differing approaches to the area. This collection will enable the reader to disentangle some of the ambiguities and confusions that have characterized the use of this term.

Organized thematically, this important five-volume set brings together key essays from the field of historical studies. Including an extensive general introduction by the editor in the first volume, as well as shorter individual introductions in each of the following volumes, this set is essential reading for scholars and students alike.

Practical guidance on how to empower people to do their best.

Filled with stories by and fascinating interviews with human capital innovators, Making a Difference Through People provides practical guidance on how to empower people to deliver their best performance by employing their guiding principles. Offering relevant strategies and tactics, each interview is preceded by an introduction that provides a biographical recap and a brief discussion of each innovator.

Mercer is the global leader for trusted HR and related financial advice, products and services. They work with clients at enhancing the financial and retirement security, health, productivity and employment relationships of the global workforce. M. Michele Burns is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Mercer Prior to being named Chairman and CEO of Mercer, Ms. Burns held the position of Chief Financial Officer for MMC.

Originally published in a very limited printing in England in 1951, this enchanting rediscovery is set in a small villa among the dunes of Le Toquet. It is the story of two energetic, mischievous and sensitive children and their encounters with a privileged set of adult visitors who are in Normandy for the season and who could well have stepped out of a novel by P.G. Wodehouse. This magical novel, which takes place between two world wars, will remind readers of Dodie Smith's "I Capture the Castle" and Gerald Durrell's "My Family and Other Animals."

Michael Burn will be 95 when "Childhood at Oriol" is released. As a reporter for "The Times," he covered both the abdication of Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor, and the faked Hungarian trial of Cardinal Mindszenty.

Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds" of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair. Broadening our understanding of the early Third Republic, he investigates its intricate village life and shows how the deindustrialization of the countryside both upset and solidified rural cultures. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds" of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair. Broadening our understanding of the early Third Republic, he investigates its intricate village life and shows how the deindustrialization of the countryside both upset and solidified rural cultures.

Originally published in 1984.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Whether looking for change, making a wish, chasing a dream, or searching for a truth, there's an exceptional little bookshop that has just what you need. Librorum Taberna is no ordinary bookstore, and Ezra Finfrock is no ordinary proprietor. Immune to the laws of time and space, this bookstore appears to people who are seeking something different, wherever and whenever it's needed. Though the shop is amazing, the books within Librorum Taberna are truly extraordinary. From mundane to magical, horrifying to humorous, these books have the power to change lives. Be warned, Ezra never guarantees the results, and he never gives a refund. Since 1996, the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group has been helping local writers improve their craft. The fifteen authors featured in An Uncommon Collection explore the dusty aisles of Librorum Taberna and meet the quirky proprietor, Ezra Finfrock. What they uncover may even change your life.

The Bill Fisher Story relates the life of an average working man and how, at the age of 72, he started investing in a three pronged strategy, and was able to accumulate a net worth of 1 million dollars in 18 years. The book is an inspirational guide for Baby Boomers, who experienced the great recession of 2008-1010, and lost as much as 50 percent of their net worth in the real estate and financial crash. The book has an easy to follow plan for Baby Boomers to control their own retirement destiny by following Bill Fisher's philosophy.

Travis Michael Burns, is a photographer from Denver, Colorado. Born in 1976, growing up as an artist doing graffiti street art, painting murals & painting canvases. Now living in Seattle, Washington doing art, working in theater arts, concert production & photo production. Starting out as a photographer in the 90's & working as a military photographer in 2001 gave way to the access to cameras and the drive to photographing everything in the world, including other people's artwork, gallery showings, and creative murals in all cities that one could possibly travel too. This self made publication is a small representation of the art which Travis has made through out his entire life. Illustration art from sketch book designs to computer illustrations, and poster art for underground electronic bands has been the main production focus for most of these viable illustration artworks. The idea is to show the broad range of creative works which Travis has accomplished over the past few years. To highlight these mild achievements is to recognize the hard work which has been produced so far.

Set in rural Vermont during the 1968-69 academic year, Gemini is the story of one man's effort to salvage his life. Jack Scanlon returns to his hometown after an 18 year absence, taking a position as a high school science teacher, and moving in with his uncle and his wife after losing, due to his excessive drinking, his wife and young daughter, and his job. Scanlon's ambivalence extends to his views on the war in Vietnam, the hippie culture, and his own identity. After an incestuous dream, he is driven to seek counseling. His counselor, with the unlikely name of Robert Kennedy, whose somewhat unorthodox therapeutic method includes whiskey drinking during sessions, becomes not only Scanlon's counselor, but his alter ego. Their relationship becomes fundamental to Scanlon's continuing struggle for a better life.

Jack Scanlon, at the threshold of his sixtieth year, finds himself in an uncomfortable recliner in the corridor of Day Surgery at a local hospital, hooked up to an IV tube. He is receiving three units of blood, a process that will take the better part of eight hours. He has all but convinced himself that he is a terminal case, a victim of colon cancer. If a drowning man is capable of witnessing the sum of his entire life before his eyes at the instant before he goes under for the last time, Jack Scanlon has the luxury of witnessing his at his leisure, and in chronological order. His meditations focus largely on his early childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, which covers roughly the years 1944 through 1961, with a few brief detours into more recent history, a history that involves the deaths of his younger half-brother Keith, and his mother, as well as a short description of his own recent medical struggles.