A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; t..
The centuries-long complexity of China's political experience, the richness of its culture, and the drama of its economic unfolding are the hallmarks of this short but sweeping history. China's own history is entwined with its response to the West in a rich tapestry depicting its peoples, rulers, an..
Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in 2005 of Benjamin Elman's masterwork, On Their Own Terms. Now Elman has retold the story of the Jesuit..
As America fought to defend democracy in Europe and Asia during World War II, its own democratic politics both aided and impeded the war effort at home and the military campaigns abroad. Now, in a broad-ranging social, political, military, and diplomatic history, William O’Neill reveals how the Unit..
In a compelling history of the Jewish community in New York during four decades of mass immigration, Tony Michels examines the defining role of the Yiddish socialist movement in the American Jewish experience.The movement, founded in the 1880s, was dominated by Russian-speaking intellectuals, includ..
For many years, Roger Brown and his colleagues have studied the developing language of pre-school children--the language that ultimately will permit them to understand themselves and the world around them. This longitudinal research project records the conversational performances of three children, ..
The leading Polish poet still residing in his native land, Zbigniew Herbert as not been the subject of a book-length study in English until now. Stanislaw Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and translator, emigrated from Poland only in 1981, and is therefore eminently qualified to supply a politico-..
ReviewA brilliant and insightful analysis and action plan to make our government work. Bravo!--Donna Shalala, Former Secretary of Health and Human Services and President of the University of MiamiEver since Hurricane Katrina, we have bemoaned the costs of incompetent government. But Paul Light has d..
Love Canal. We hear these words and quickly recoil, remembering a community poisoned by toxic waste. Twenty years after the incident, Allan Mazur reexamines the circumstances that made this upstate New York neighborhood synonymous with ecological catastrophe and triggered federal "Superfund" legisla..
This important book on economic development in the modern Middle East examines, for the first time, the separate national economies of the Arab states, including the Gulf, Israel, and Turkey, from 1918 to the present. It describes the main trends within each economy based on the best available stati..
Russia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Twentieth-Century Russia through 2002, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world..
Every day it seems the media focus on yet another new development in biology--gene therapy, the human genome project, the creation of new varieties of animals and plants through genetic engineering. These possibilities have all emanated from molecular biology.A History of Molecular Biology is a comp..
Book by Bullock, Henry Allen Author: Bullock, Henry Allen Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674399501 ISBN-13: 9780674399501..
EX - Library book with all the usual stamps and markings. Some shelf wear. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Author: Haim H. Ben-Sasson Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674397304 ISBN-13: 9780674397309..
The conflict in Afghanistan looms large in the collective consciousness of Americans. What has the United States achieved, and how will it withdraw without sacrificing those gains The Soviet Union confronted these same questions in the 1980s, and Artemy Kalinovsky’s history of the USSR’s nine-year ..
This is a book about the interplay of urgent political issues and hotly debated questions of moral philosophy. The controversies it joins are old; but history has given them fresh shape. For example, whether judges should and do make law is now of more practical importance than ever before, as recen..
Essays examine the political basis of law, legal interpretation, economic factors in law, reverse discrimination, and censorship Author: Dworkin, Ronald Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674554604 ISBN-13: 9780674554603..
This splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D. to the present decade is the most imaginative single-volume guide to the French literary tradition available in English.Conceived for the general reader, this volume presents French literature not as a simple inventory of authors or title..
Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several decades, expounding a defense of the art t..
What is the pitch of philosophy Something thrown, for us to catch A lurch, meant to unsettle us The relative position of a tone on a scale A speech designed to persuade This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now ..
When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T.E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it, John Mack humanely and objectively explores the relationship between Lawrence’s inner life and his historically significant actions.Extensive inte..
Annette Baier’s aim is to make sense of David Hume’s Treatise as a whole. Hume’s family motto, which appears on his bookplate, was “True to the End.” Baier argues that it is not until the end of the Treatise that we get his full story about “truth and falsehood, reason and folly.” By the end, we can..
This is a travel story of trees and shrubs as rousing as the adventures of Marco Polo. Stephen Spongberg’s vividly written and lavishly illustrated account tells of intrepid and extraordinary explorers who journeyed to the far corners of the globe and brought back to Europe and North America a wealt..
The picturesque town of Dreux, 60 miles west of Paris, quietly entered history in 1821, when Victor Hugo won the hand of his beloved there. Another century and a half would pass before the town made history again, but this time there was nothing quiet about it. In 1983, Jean-François Le Pen’s Nation..
Traces the life of the seventeenth century Hispanic poet, shares a selection of her poetry, and discusses her place in the history of Latin American literature Author: Sor Juana Publisher: Harvard University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0674821203 ISBN-13: 9780674821200..