SUBJECT INDEX:

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Above and Beyond: Kostiantyn P. Morozov; Sherman W. Garnett; Morozov provides behind-the-scenes insights on Yeltsin, Kuchma, Dudaev, and other important players still active today. His book will firmly alter our perception of the USSR and its demise, the Soviet military machine, and the rise of a modern, independent Ukraine.; Hardcover 2001

Acheson: James Chace; Acheson is the first comprehensive biography of the most important and controversial secretary of state of the twentieth century. Chace has given us an important and dramatic work of history chronicling the momentous decisions, events, and fascinating personalities of the most critical decades of the American Century.; Paperback 1999

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 1 and 2, December 1761 - March 1778: Adams Family; L. H. Butterfield, Editor; Wendell D. Garrett, Associate Editor; Marjorie Sprague, Assistant Editor; The Adams Family Correspondence, Mr. Butterfield writes, "is an unbroken record of the changing modes of domestic life, religious views and habits, travel, dress, servants, food, schooling, reading, health and medical care, diversions, and every other conceivable aspect of manners and taste among the members of a substantial New England family who lived on both sides of the Atlantic and wrote industriously to each other over a period of more than a century." These volumes are the first in the estimated twenty or more in Series 2 of The Adams Papers.; Hardcover

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 3 and 4, April 1778 - September 1782: Adams Family; Edited by L. H. Butterfield; Edited by Marc Friedlaender; Hardcover

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6, October 1782 - December 1785: Adams Family; Richard Alan Ryerson, Editor; Joanna Revelas, Editor; Celeste Walker, Editor; Gregg L. Lint, Editor; Humphrey Costello, Editor; With the summer of 1784, most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. Their correspondence expanded to include an ever larger and more fascinating range of Cultural topics and international figures. The record of this remarkable expansion, these volumes document John Adams' diplomatic triumphs, his wife and daughter's participation in the cosmopolitan scenes of Paris and London, and his son John Quincy's travels in Europe and America.; Hardcover 1992

The Adams Women: Paul C. Nagel; From his vast storehouse of knowledge about the Adams family, Nagel pulls out the feminine threads of that tapestry to write all about the Adams women, from Abigail to daughter Nabby, from Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy, to Clover Adams, wife of Henry, with others making more than cameo appearances.; Paperback 1999

Advertisements for Myself: Norman Mailer; Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews. It is Mailer at his brilliant, provocative, outrageous best.; Paperback

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America: Matthew Avery Sutton; Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.; Hardcover 2007

Alchemy of Race and Rights: Patricia J. Williams; Patricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class.; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1992

Alexander Pope: John Paul Russo; Hardcover 1972

Alice Hamilton: Barbara Sicherman; Alice Hamilton was first considered "subversive" during World War I, yet she lived to protest our involvement in Vietnam. She was America's foremost industrial toxicologist, a pioneer in medicine and in social reform, long-time resident of Hull House, pacifist and civil libertarian. She was Edith Hamilton's sister, and the first woman on the faculty of Harvard, though she retired--an assistant professor in the school of public health--ten years before women medical students were admitted. This legendary figure now comes to life in an integrated work of biography and letters; Hardcover 1984 / Paperback

Alice James: Jean Strouse; Alice James was the sister of William and Henry, the only daughter in a family of brilliant and not a little eccentric men, and representative of the intellectually repressed nineteenth-century woman whose grief finds an outlet in neurotic illness. Her life is a singular portrait embedded in a family history that dazzled her age and still interests ours.; Paperback 1999

Alternative America: John Thomas; George's Progress and Poverty, Bellamy's Looking Backward, and Lloyd's Wealth against Commonwealth each in its turn became an international best-seller, championing a course of national policy that owed allegiance neither to the large-scale capitalist model then emerging, nor to the bureaucratic socialism espoused on the left. Through vivid and searching portraits of these three redoubtable journalists, prizewinning historian Thomas traces for the first time the evolving ideologies of the most significant reformers of their age.; Hardcover

André Gide: Alan Sheridan; In this literary biography of Gide, an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man emerges. Following Gide from his first forays among the Symbolists through his sexual and political awakenings to his worldwide fame as a writer, sage, and commentator on his age, Sheridan richly conveys the drama of a remarkable life; the depth, breadth, and vitality of an incomparable oeuvre; and the spirit of a time that both so aptly expressed.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

Antonio Machado: Alan S. Trueblood, Translator; Antonio Machado; Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Apollonius of Tyana, I: Philostratus; Edited and translated by Christopher P. Jones; This biography of a first-century C.E. holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to the Ganges. His miracles, which include extraordinary cures and mysterious disappearances, together with his apparent triumph over death, caused pagans to make Apollonius a rival to Jesus of Nazareth.; Hardcover 2005

Apollonius of Tyana, II: Philostratus; Edited and translated by Christopher P. Jones; This biography of a first-century C.E. holy man has become one of the most widely discussed literary works of later antiquity. With an engaging style, Philostratus portrays a charismatic teacher and religious reformer from Tyana in Cappadocia (modern central Turkey) who travels across the known world, from the Atlantic to the Ganges. His miracles, which include extraordinary cures and mysterious disappearances, together with his apparent triumph over death, caused pagans to make Apollonius a rival to Jesus of Nazareth.; Hardcover

Arnold Schoenberg's Journey: Allen Shawn; Proposing that Arnold Schoenberg has been more discussed than heard, more tolerated than loved, Allen Shawn puts aside ultimate judgments about Schoenberg's place in music history to explore the composer's fascinating world in a series of linked essays--"soundings"--that are both searching and wonderfully suggestive. Approaching Schoenberg primarily from the listener's point of view, Shawn plunges into the details of some of Schoenberg's works while at the same time providing a broad overview of his involvements in music, painting, and the history through which he lived.; Paperback 2003

Arthur Hugh Clough: Evelyn Greenberger; In this fresh examination of Clough, Greenberger traces the intellectual development of a poet who was considered a brilliant failure in his own day, a reputation that still persists despite the fact that Clough is now attracting considerable critical attention. Her study contradicts this traditional view of him as ineffectual and uncommitted and reveals instead a complex figure whose varied interests enriched his prose and poetry.; Hardcover 1970

Autobiography: Joseph Jefferson; Hardcover 1964

Bach: Christoph Wolff; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Bach's Continuo Group: Laurence Dreyfus; Paperback 1990

Beethoven: Lewis Lockwood; Hardcover 1992

Beethoven Essays: Maynard Solomon; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990

Beethoven Essays: Lewis Lockwood, Editor; Phyllis Benjamin, Editor; Hardcover 1984

Ben Jonson: David Riggs; Hardcover 1989 / Paperback

Benjamin Franklin: Esmond Wright, Editor; Ever the chronicler and teacher, Franklin wrote an autobiography, ostensibly for his illegitimate son William. Apart from hurried additions when he was in his eighties, his story halts at 1757. Tracing his footsteps centuries later, Franklin's most celebrated biographer completes the last twenty-five years of the autobiography by drawing on Franklin's most personal and insightful letters and writings--even making additions within the interrupted Autobiography to give us the expository memoir that Franklin intended. Indeed, as he wrote it.; Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1996

Berlin Childhood around 1900: Walter Benjamin; Translated by Howard Eiland; Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900 is a recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century. In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child. This book is one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis.; Paperback 2006

Berlioz: D. Kern Holoman; For three decades, beginning with the Symphonie fantastique composed in 1830, Berlioz and his music embodied the élan and exuberance of the Romantic era. This captivating and sumptuously illustrated biography is not only a complete account of Berlioz's life, but an acute analysis of his compositions and description of his work as conductor and critic, as well as a vivid picture of his musical world. D. Kern Holoman paints a full-length portrait of Berlioz: his personal and family life, his intellectual development and pursuits, his methods of composing (Berlioz at his work table, so to speak), the aim and style of his music criticism and travel writing, his innovations in staging and conducting performances, and his interaction with other composers.; Hardcover 1989

Bernard Berenson: Ernest Samuels; Who was Bernard Berenson, this supreme connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting? The answers are to be found in the day-to-day record of his life as he lived it.Samuels, having spent twenty years studying the thousands of letters and other manuscripts, presents his story in absorbing detail.; Hardcover

Bernard Berenson: Ernest Samuels; Critic, arbiter of taste, renowned authority on Renaissance painting and oracle to millionaire art collectors, Bernard Berenson was the most formidable presence in the art world for more than thirty years. Four decades of his life are unfolded in this compelling book.; Hardcover 1979 / Paperback

Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: George M. Fredrickson; This book focuses on the most controversial aspect of Lincoln’s thought and politics—his attitudes and actions regarding slavery and race. Drawing attention to the limitations of Lincoln’s judgment and policies without denying his magnitude, the book provides the most comprehensive and even-handed account available of Lincoln’s contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North.; Hardcover 2008

Biographical Writings: Giannozzo Manetti; Edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri; Edited and translated by Rolf Bagemihl; The Renaissance recovery of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance authors from Petrarch to Machiavelli. The orator, diplomat, and statesman Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459), an expert in Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin, was among the leading humanist biographers of the Renaissance. This collection brings together his famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socratesand Seneca, which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period.; Hardcover 2003

Biography: Nigel Hamilton; For what purpose and for whom has biographical pursuit endured, and how does it play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Western culture, from biopics to blogs, memoirs to docudramas? Award-winning biographer Hamilton addresses these questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will appeal to students of human nature and self-representation across the arts and sciences.; Hardcover 2007

Black, French, and African: Janet Vaillant; Hardcover 1990

Blackett: Mary Jo Nye; This is a lively and compact biography of P. M. S. Blackett, one of the most brilliant and controversial physicists of the twentieth century. Nobel laureate, leader of operational research during the Second World War, scientific advisor to the British government, President of the Royal Society, member of the House of Lords, Blackett was also denounced as a Stalinist apologist for opposing American and British development of atomic weapons, subjected to FBI surveillance, and named as a fellow traveler on George Orwell's infamous list.; Hardcover 2004

Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Maria Helena P.T. Machado; From 1865-1866, William James accompanied the director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology on a research expedition to Brazil. This volume is a critical, bilingual (English-Portuguese) edition of his diaries and letters and also includes reproductions of his drawings. This original material belongs to the Houghton Archives at Harvard University and is of great interest to both William James scholars and Brazilian studies experts.; Hardcover 2006

Brook Farm: Sterling F. Delano; In the first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Delano reveals a surprisingly grim side to paradise as the Brook Farmers faced relentless financial pressures, a declining faith in their leaders, and smoldering class antagonisms. This wonderfully evocative account vividly chronicles the spirit of the Transcendental age.; Hardcover 2004

Browning's Youth: John Maynard; Hardcover 1977

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume I, 'In my hot youth', 1798-1810: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; The first volume of Byron's letters and journals covers his early years and includes his first pilgrimage to Greece and to the East, ending with his last letter from Constantinople on July 4, 1810, before his departure for Athens. Here is the direct record of his rapid development from the serious schoolboy to the facetious youth with ambivalent reactions to his perplexed mother, and the maturing man of extraordinary perceptions and sympathies and friendships.; Hardcover 1973

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume II, 'Famous in my time', 1810-1812: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Hardcover 1973

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume III, 'Alas! the love of women', 1813-1814: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; The third volume starts with Byron at the first crest of his fame following the publication of Childe Harold. It includes his literary letters to Tom Moore, frank and intimate ones to Hobhouse, pungent ones to Hanson and Murray, and his lively and amusing missives to Lady Melbourne, his confidante through all his love affairs.; Hardcover 1974

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IV, 'Wedlock's the devil', 1814-1815: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; In this volume Byron corresponds with writers such as Thomas Moore, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, and "Monk" Lewis, with John Murray about the publication of The Corsair, Lara, and the Hebrew Melodies, and with many personal friends. A new interest is his association with the Drury Lane Theater. The crucial events of his private life at this time are his engagement to Anabella Milbanke and their marriage early in 1815--a marriage that was to last little more than a year. Especially revelatory are his letters to his fiancée and those to his long-time confidante, Lady Melbourne.; Hardcover 1975

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume IX, 'In the wind's eye', 1821-1822: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Hardcover

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume V, 'So late into the night', 1816-1817: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; In the fifth installment of this marvelous serial story, we read about Byron's separation from his wife. Besides his pleading letters to Annabella asking her to reconsider, there are level-headed letters to Murray and Hobhouse and Hunt and Rogers--all written during the tempestuous time before his final departure from England. The very best letters here are the ones from Italy; freed from the inhibitions of English society, Byron's spirit seems to expand and his letters reflect the joie de vivre that, despite his melancholy, was an inherent part of his character.; Hardcover 1976

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VI, 'The flesh is frail', 1818-1819: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death).; Hardcover 1976

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VII, 'Between two worlds', 1820: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Hardcover 1978

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume VIII, 'Born for opposition', 1821: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Born for Opposition opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics." His Journal, written while the insurrection grew, is a remarkable record of his reading and reflections while awaiting the sounds of gunfire.; Hardcover 1978

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume X, 'A heart for every fate', 1822-1823: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Hardcover 1980

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XI, 'For freedom's battle', 1823-1824: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Hardcover 1981

Byron's Letters and Journals, Volume XII, 'The trouble of an index', index: George Gordon Byron; Edited by Leslie A. Marchand; Hardcover 1982

Caesar: Mattias Gelzer; Peter Needham, Translator; The political career of one of the great statesmen of Antiquity--indeed of all times--is here captured in a full, authoritative, and lively biography that has long been a classic.; Hardcover / Paperback

Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates: Robert Ritchie; It is disconcerting to think of dashing scoundrels as slaves to economic forces, but so they were--as Ritchie demonstrates in this lively history of piracy. He focuses on the shadowy figure of William Kidd, whose career in the late seventeenth century swept him from the Caribbean to New York, to London, to the Indian Ocean before he ended in Newgate prison and on the gallows.; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback

Cardano's Cosmos: Anthony Grafton; Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in sixteenth-century Europe. In Cardano's Cosmos, Anthony Grafton invites readers to follow this astrologer's extraordinary career and explore the art and discipline of astrology in the hands of a brilliant practitioner.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Cardozo: Andrew L. Kaufman; This first complete biography of the longtime member and chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States during the turbulent years of the New Deal is a monumental achievement by a distinguished interpreter of constitutional law.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

The Caring Physician: Oglesby Paul; Gifted in many spheres and possessed of great courage, his especial compassion and wisdom in patient care have made Francis Peabody's short life an inspiring legend for all time, an essential message for anyone who practices medicine, and an uplifting experience for any patient.; Hardcover 1991

Carlo Rosselli: Stanislao G. Pugliese; Carlo Rosselli (1899-1937) was one of the most charismatic and influential of European antifascist intellectuals. Born into a wealthy Jewish family, and abandoning a promising career as a professor of political economics, he devoted his considerable fortune and ultimately his life to the struggle against fascism. In this work, the first biography of Rosselli in English, Stanislao Pugliese skillfully interweaves the strands of heresy, exile, and tragedy in Rosselli's life.; Hardcover 1999

Chain of Friendship: John Fothergill; Fothergill's letters provide a fascinating perspective of his time--a totally different view from that given by his contemporaries Horace Walpole and Dr. Johnson. The "Quaker internationalist" (as his editors aptly call him) was during the middle decades of the eighteenth century one of the half dozen leading physicians of London, a horticulturist of great distinction, an educational reformer, a patron of many philanthropic causes, and a tireless friend of Americans and the cause of American rights.; Hardcover 1971

Charles A. Janeway: Robert J. Haggerty; Frederick H. Lovejoy; This biography of the most visible U.S. pediatrician of the twentieth century describes his illustrious medical family and his remarkable tenure of nearly three decades as professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and as head of the department of medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston. During this period Janeway built the first department of pediatrics in the nation with subspecialties based on new developments in basic sciences, and ultimately redefined the world of pediatric medicine.; Hardcover 2007

Charles Follen's Search for Nationality and Freedom: Edmund Spevack; This unique account of the life of Charles Follen--German nationalist and revolutionary, Harvard professor, Unitarian minister, and abolitionist--opens a window on several worlds during the first half of the nineteenth century.; Hardcover 1997

Charles Olson: Robert Von Hallberg; Hardcover 1978

Chester Bowles: Howard B. Schaffer; Hardcover

Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao: Benjamin I. Schwartz; Paperback

Chopin at the Boundaries: Jeffrey Kallberg; The complex status of Chopin in our culture--he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, and a male composer writing in "feminine" genres--is the subject of Jeffrey Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this is the first book to situate Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

City Between Worlds: Leo Ou-fan Lee; Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors.; Hardcover 2008

The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi: Sándor Ferenczi; Judith Dupont, Editor; Michael Balint, Translator; Nicola Zarday Jackson, Translator; In the half-century since his death, the Hungarian analyst Sándor Ferenczi has amassed an influential following within the psychoanalytic community. In a sequence of short, condensed entries, Ferenczi's diary records self-critical reflections on conventional theory--as well as criticisms of his own experiments with technique--and his obstinate struggle to divest himself and psychoanalysis of professional hypocrisy.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback

Coming to Writing" and Other Essays: Helene Cixous; Deborah Jenson, Ed. and Trans.; Sarah Cornell, Translator; Ann Liddle, Translator; Susan Sellers, Translator; Susan Rubin Suleiman; This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. A notoriously playful stylist, Cixous here explores how the problematics of the sexes--viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning--manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts.; Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: John F. Marszalek; In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. When Lincoln summoned him to the nation's capital, Halleck boasted outstanding qualifications as a military theorist, a legal scholar, a brave soldier, and a California entrepreneur. Yet in the thick of battle, he couldn't make essential decisions. Unable to produce victory for the Union forces, he saw his power become subsumed by Grant's emergent leadership, a loss that paved the way for Halleck's path to obscurity.; Hardcover 2004

Commentaries, Volume 1, Books I-II: Pius II; Edited by Margaret Meserve; Edited by Marcello Simonetta; Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini in a small town near Siena, and became a famous Latin poet and diplomat. Originally an opponent of the papacy, he eventually reconciled himself with the Roman church and became a priest, then a cardinal. Finally he was elected Pope Pius II (1458) and dedicated his pontificate to organizing a pan-European crusade against the Ottoman Empire. Pius's Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated and corrected version of the 1937 translation.; Hardcover 2004

Commentaries, Volume 2, Books III-IV: Pius II; Edited by Margaret Meserve; Edited by Marcello Simonetta; The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Commentaries, the only autobiography ever written by a pope, was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. This edition contains a fresh Latin text based on the last manuscript written in Pius's lifetime and an updated translation.; Hardcover 2007

The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940: Theodor W. Adorno; Walter Benjamin; Edited by Henri Lonitz; Translated by Nicholas Walker; The correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, which appears here for the first time in its entirety in English translation, must rank among the most significant to have come down to us from that notable age of barbarism, the twentieth century. Benjamin, riddle-like in his personality and given to tactical evasion, and Adorno, full of his own importance, alternately support and compete with each other throughout the correspondence, until its imminent tragic end becomes apparent to both writers. Each had met his match, and happily, in the other. This book, in more than one hundred letters, is the story of an elective affinity.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays: W. V. Quine; Edited by Dagfinn Follesdal; Edited by Douglas Boynton Quine; In the twenty years between his last collection of essays and his death in 2000, Quine continued his work and occasionally modified his position on central philosophical issues. This volume collects the main essays from this last, productive period of Quine’s prodigious career.; Hardcover 2008

The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi, Volume 2, 1914-1919: Sigmund Freud; Sándor Ferenczi; Ernst Falzeder, Editor; Eva Brabant, Editor; Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, With; Peter Hoffer, Translator; Introduction by Axel Hoffer; The nation-shattering events of World War I form a somber canvas for the exchanges of the two correspondents in Volume 2 (July 1914 through December 1919). Uncertainty pervades these letters: Will Ferenczi be called up? Will food and fuel-and cigar-shortages continue? Will Freud's three enlisted sons and son-in-law come through the war intact? And will Freud's "problem-child," psychoanalysis, survive?; Hardcover 1996

Cotton Mather: David Levin; Hardcover 1978

The Crucible of Experience: Daniel Burston; One of the great rebels of psychiatry, R. D. Laing challenged prevailing models of madness and the nature and limits of psychiatric authority. In this brief and lucid book, Laing's widely praised biographer distills the essence of Laing's vision, which was religious and philosophical as well as psychological. The Crucible of Experience reveals Laing's philosophical debts to existentialism and phenomenology in his theories of madness and sanity, family theory and family therapy.; Hardcover 2000

Daniel DeLeon: L. Glen Seretan; Hardcover 1979

Defender of the Faith: Lawrence Levine; Paperback

Democracy's Prisoner: Ernest Freeberg; In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role in World War I. In this book, Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. In this story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America's most prized ideals.; Hardcover 2008

Derrida: Christopher Norris; Norris demonstrates that Derrida's texts should be understood as belonging more to philosophy than to literature. He explains the significance of Derrida's writing on texts in the Western philosophical tradition, from Plato to Kant, liegel, and tiusserl, placing him squarely within that tradition. He also discusses some of the reasons for the massive institutional resistance that has so far prevented philosophers from engaging seriously with Derrida's work.; Paperback

Descent from Glory: Paul C. Nagel; There has never been any doubt that the Adams family was America's first family in our politics and memory. This research-based and insightful book is a multigenerational biography of that family from the founder father John through the mordant writer Brooks.; Paperback 1999

Designs on the Heart: Karal Ann Marling; In this book, Karal Ann Marling looks at Grandma Moses as a cultural phenomenon of the postwar period and explores the meaning of her subject matter--and her astonishing fame. Between the cultural ephemera, folklore, song, and history embedded in Moses' paintings and the potent advertising shorthand for Americana that her images rapidly became, this book reveals the widespread longing for the memories, comforts, and small victories of a mythic, intimate American past tapped by the phenomenon of Grandma Moses.; Hardcover 2006

A Diary from Dixie: Mary Boykin Chesnut; Edited by Ben Ames Williams; Foreword by Edmund Wilson; One of the most important documents in southern history, this is a day-by-day diary of the Civil War years. It rings with authenticity while evoking the nostalgia, bitterness, and comedy of the Confederacy.; Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: J. L. Heilbron; In this moving and eloquent portrait, Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German science. With great understanding, he shows how Max Planck suffered morally and intellectually as his lifelong habit of service to his country and to physics was confronted by the realities of World War I and the brutalities of the Third Reich.; Paperback 2000

Dorothea Dix: Thomas J. Brown; An influential lobbyist as well as a paragon of the doctrine of female benevolence, Dorothea Dix vividly illustrated the complexities of the "separate spheres" of politics and femininity. An activist who disdained the women's rights and antislavery movements, Dix, an old-line Whig, sought to promote national harmony and became the only New England social reformer to work successfully in the lower South right up to the eve of secession.; Hardcover 1998

The Education of Laura Bridgman: Ernest Freeberg; In the mid-nineteenth century, Laura Bridgman, a young child from New Hampshire, became one of the most famous women in the world. Philosophers, theologians, and educators hailed her as a miracle because she was the first deaf and blind person to learn language. Her life was transformed when she became the star pupil of the educational crusader Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. Against the backdrop of an antebellum Boston, Freeberg tells this extraordinary tale of mentor and student, scientist and experiment.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Edward Teller: Peter Goodchild; In the story of the man dubbed "the father of the H-bomb," told here in greater depth and detail than ever before, Goodchild unravels the complex web of harsh early experiences, character flaws, and personal and professional frustrations that lay behind the paradox of "the real Dr. Strangelove."; Hardcover 2004

Edwin Arlington Robinson's Letters to Edith Brower: Edwin Arlington Robinson; Edited by Richard Cary; The letters begin when the twenty-seven-year-old poet writes gratefully to the stranger who has expressed appreciation of his first, privately printed, book of poems. Soon he was carrying on an intense correspondence, baring his soul--safely, he believed, because the woman he described as "infernally bright and not at all ugly," with "something of a literary reputation," was "too old to give me a chance to bother myself with any sentimental uneasiness."; Hardcover 1968

Einstein and Oppenheimer: Silvan S. Schweber; Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed—in their worldview, in their work, and in their day—this book provides powerful insights into the lives of two critical figures and into the scientific culture of their times.; Hardcover 2008

Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings: Amy Kelly; Kelly's story of the queen's long life is a modern biography that brings together more authentic information about her than has ever been assembled and reveals in Eleanor a greatness of vision, an intelligence, and a political sagacity that have been missed by those who have dwelt on her caprice and frivolity. It also brings to life the whole period in whose every aspect Eleanor and her four kings were so intimately and influentially involved.; Hardcover 1950 / Paperback 1991

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: Bruce A. Ronda; This is the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, one of the three notable Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts, and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann. In elegant prose it traces the intricate private life and extraordinary career of one of nineteenth-century America's most important Transcendental writers and educational reformers.; Hardcover 1999

Emerson: Lawrence Buell; In this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson's accomplishment--in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, and philosopher.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

Emerson in His Journals: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Joel Porte, Editor; This long-awaited volume offers the general reader the heart of Emerson's journals, that extraordinary series of diaries and notebooks in which he poured out his thoughts for more than fifty years. Drawing from Harvard's sixteen-volume scholarly edition of the journals--but omitting the textual apparatus that makes it hard to read--Porte presents a sympathetic selection that brings us close to Emerson the man.; Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Emily Dickinson: Emily Dickinson; Thomas H. Johnson, Editor; When the complete Letters of Emily Dickinson appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the Los Angeles Times, saying "The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America literature, women's experience in the ninteenth century, and literature in general.; Paperback

Entering China's Service: Edited and with Narratives by Katherine Bruner; Edited and with Narratives by John King Fairbank; Edited and with Narratives by Richard J. Smith; Robert Hart was one of those empire builders of the Victorian age who had a long and nearly uninterrupted experience in China, from 1854, when as a young Irishman from Belfast he landed in Ningpo, until 1908, when he finally retired to England.Entering China's Service presents a complete and annotated transcript of the surviving journals through 1863, alternating with chapters devoted to Hart's North Ireland background, the China he encountered, the Ch'ing officials who trusted him, and the unfolding of his career.; Hardcover 1987

Eugenio Montale: Rebecca J. West; Hardcover 1981

Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale: Florence Nightingale; Martha Vicinus, Editor; Bea Nergaard, Editor; For many, Florence Nightingale is the most famous woman of her day, second only perhaps to Queen Victoria. Celebrated and beloved by the public and her friends, considered an irritant by politicians and bureaucrats, the great reformer remains a figure of considerable controversy. In this full 'life in letters' we see her at first hand. Martha Vicinus and Bea Nergaard weave together a narrative account and a selection of her letters in such a way as to create--in Nightingale's own words--a fascinating portrayal of the woman, her career, and her concerns.; Hardcover 1990

Experience and Artistic Expression in Lope de Vega: Alan S. Trueblood; Trueblood pursues the artistic consequences of a key experience in Lope's life, the four-year love affair with Elena Osorio that terminated violently in 1587. Trueblood provides by far the fullest analysis and elucidation of Lope's masterpiece, La Dorotea, that it has ever received.; Hardcover 1974

Famous Women: Giovanni Boccaccio; Translated by Virginia Brown; The first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women, Famous Women affords a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential.; Paperback 2003

Fanny Kemble's Journals: Fanny Kemble; Catherine Clinton, Editor; Henry James called Fanny Kemble's autobiography "one of the most animated autobiographies in the language." Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to her essays, poetry, plays, and a novel, Kemble published six works of memoir, eleven volumes in all, covering her life, which began in the first decade of the nineteenth century and ended in the last. Her autobiographical writings are compelling evidence of Kemble's wit and talent, and they also offer a dazzling overview of her transatlantic world.; Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000

Fanon's Dialectic of Experience: Ato Sekyi-Otu; A Caribbean psychiatrist trained in France after World War II and an eloquent observer of the effects of French colonialism on its subjects, Frantz Fanon was a controversial figure. By recognizing the centrality of experience to Fanon's work, Sekyi-Otu enables readers to comprehend this much misunderstood figure within the tradition of political philosophy.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

Fernan Mendez Pinto: Antonio Enriquez Gomez; Hardcover 1974

First Lady of the Confederacy: Joan E. Cashin; When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions.Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

The First Professional Revolutionist: Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; This is a relatively brief, interpretive treatment of the man whom Bakunin called "the greatest conspirator of the century" but whom most English-speaking scholars know, if at all, as an obscure, misspelled name. In the introduction, a distinction is drawn between the "amateur" revolutionist and the frequently unemployed professional who attempted to create a situation that would make possible the practice of his craft and who had a vested interest in "revolution" in general but did not necessarily play a part in any particular revolution.; Hardcover 1959

Flaubert: Frederick Brown; Brown brings his subject remarkably and fully to life, illuminating not only the novelist but also his milieu--the Paris and Normandy of the revolution of 1848 and of the Second Empire--with arresting clarity and a deepening sense of Flaubert's time and place. Flaubert is a sophisticated, thorough, and utterly absorbing re-creation of the life and times of the man who is arguably the architect of the modern novel.; Paperback 2007

Francis Parkman: Howard Doughty; Paperback

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs: Edgar B. Nixon, Editor; Hardcover 1969

Franklin of Philadelphia: Esmond Wright; The most original and delightful of the Founding Fathers, Franklin was publisher and printer, essayist and author, businessman and "general," scientist and philologist, politician and diplomat, moralist and sage--and a thoroughly rational patriot. This first comprehensive biography in fifty years has taken advantage of Yale's massive edition-in-progress of Franklin's papers and of the many specialized studies inspired by the correspondence. Designed for the general reader, it is also a work for scholars, for the author appends a thorough analysis of other interpretations of Franklin's career and personality.; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1988

François Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality: Siep Stuurman; This groundbreaking work is the first comprehensive study of Poulain, a dropout from theology studies at the Sorbonne who embraced the philosophy of Descartes, became convinced of the injustice and absurdity of the subjection of women, and assembled an entirely original social philosophy. His writings challenging male supremacy and advocating gender and racial equality are the most radically egalitarian texts to appear in Europe before the French Revolution.; Hardcover 2004

Freda Kirchwey: Sara Alpern; Freda Kirchwey was a salient figure in twentieth-century America, a beacon for liberals and activists of her era. A journalist with The Nation from 1918 to 1955--owner, editor, and publisher after 1937--she was an advocate of advanced ideas about sexual freedom and birth control and a tireless foe of fascism. The quintessential new woman, she combined a private and highly visible public life. In this full-scale biography of Kirchwey, Alpern weaves the strands of gender-related issues with larger social explorations.; Hardcover 1987

Freedom on Fire: John Shattuck; As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. This is the story of what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration's human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice. Shattuck criticizes the Bush Administration's approach, which he says undermines human rights at home and around the world and argues that human rights wars are breeding grounds for terrorism.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Richard J. Smethurst; From his birth into the lowest stratum of the samurai class to his assassination at the hands of right-wing militarists, Takahashi Korekiyo (1854-1936) lived through tumultuous times that shaped the course of modern Japan. This engaging biography underscores the profound influence of the charismatic seven-time finance minister on the political and economic development of Japan by casting new light on his unusual background, unique talents, and singular experiences.; Hardcover 2007

From a Darkened Room: Arthur C. Inman; Daniel Aaron, Editor; Only a few of us seek immortality, and fewer still by writing. But Arthur Inman challenged the odds. He calculated that if he kept a diary and spared no thoughts or actions, was entirely honest and open, and did not care about damage or harm to himself or others, he would succeed in gaining attention beyond the grave that he could not attain in life.; Paperback 1996

The Gardens of Emily Dickinson: Judith Farr; Louise Carter, Contributor; In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience. A chapter by Louise Carter hypothesizes Dickinson's methods of gardening, explaining how one might grow her flowers today.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Gehennical Fire: William Newman; Reputed to have performed miraculous feats in New England--restoring the hair and teeth to an aged lady, bringing a withered peach tree to fruit--Eirenaeus Philalethes was also rumored to be an adept possessor of the alchemical philosophers' stone. That the man was merely a mythical creation didn't diminish his reputation a whit--his writings were spectacularly successful, read by Leibniz, esteemed by Newton and Boyle, voraciously consumed by countless readers. Gehennical Fire is the story of the man behind the myth, George Starkey.; Hardcover 1994

The Generalissimo's Son: Jay Taylor; By reacting to changing economic, social, and political dynamics on Taiwan, Sino-American rapprochement, Deng Xiaoping's sweeping reforms on the mainland, and other international events, Chiang Ching-kuo led Taiwan on a zigzag but ultimately successful transition from dictatorship to democracy. Jay Taylor underscores the interaction of political developments on the mainland and in Taiwan and concludes that if China ever makes a similar transition, it will owe much to the Taiwan example and the Generalissimo's son.; Hardcover 2000

Georg Lukács and His Generation, 1900-1918: Mary Gluck; Here is Lukács among his friends, lovers, and peers in those important years before 1918, when he converted to Communism and Marxism at the age of thirty-nine. Lukács emerges in this generational portrait not only as dramatic and psychologically complex but also as a representative figure whose inner dilemmas were echoed in the lives of many other radical intellectuals who came of age during the fin de siêcle period.; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback 1991

George Henry Lewes: Hock Guan Tjoa; Hardcover 1978

George Parker Winship as Librarian, Typophile, and Teacher: Edited by Roger Stoddard; As librarian and curator at Brown and later at Harvard, George Parker Winship championed the primacy of the role of rare books in American higher education. As a connoisseur and printer, he played an active role in promulgating enthusiasm for fine printing among collectors and readers in the early twentieth century. This slim, elegant volume collects three talks given on April 17, 1997, at a symposium held in Winship's memory, and includes an essay by grandson Michael Winship, himself one of America's preeminent bibliographers.; Paperback 2005

The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Loren Graham; Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. Palchinsky tells of Soviet technology and industry, the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime, the corruption and collapse he predicted, the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out. The story of this visionary engineer's life and work, as Graham tells it, is also the story of the Soviet Union's industrial promise and failure.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

Graceland: Karal Ann Marling; He wasn't articulate on the subject of himself, but when he created his dream house Elvis Presley spoke volumes. What the mansion says of Elvis, and what it says to--and of--the millions of fans who make the journey there each year, is what Graceland is about.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997

Hadrian: Thorsten Opper; Even in the panoply of Roman history, Hadrian stands out. This book moves beyond the familiar image of Hadrian to offer a new appraisal of this Emperor’s contradictory personality, his exploits and accomplishments, his rule, and his military role, against the backdrop of his twenty-one-year reign.; Hardcover 2008

Harlem's Glory: Lorraine E. Roses, Editor; Ruth E. Randolph, Editor; In poems, stories, memoirs, and essays, dozens of African-American women writers--some famous, many just discovered--give us a sense of a distinct inner voice and an engagement with their larger double culture. Harlem's Glory unfolds a rich tradition of writing by African-American women, hitherto mostly hidden, in the first half of the twentieth century.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback

Harry Hopkins: George McJimsey; Hardcover 1987

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music: Don Michael Randel, Editor; An incomparable guide to 5500, figures in the history of music, this volume brings together all the pertinent biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists, and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today.; Hardcover 1996

The Harvard Book, rev. ed: William Bentinck-Smith; Hardcover 1969

The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Don Michael Randel, Editor; This compact guide to the history and performance of music is an authoritative reference work, offering definitions of musical terms; succinct characterizations of the various forms of musical composition; entries that identify individual operas, oratorios, symphonic poems, and other works; illustrated descriptions of instruments; and capsule summaries of the lives and careers of composers, performers, and theorists. Like its distinguished parent volumes, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians provides clearly written information on all periods in music history, with particularly comprehensive coverage of the twentieth century.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002

The Harvard Guide to African-American History: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Editor-in-chief; Leon F. Litwack, Volume editor; Darlene Clark Hine, Volume editor; Randall K. Burkett, Editorial board member; This landmark guide covers research into every aspect of African-American life and work, offering a compendium of information and interpretation about almost 400 years of African-Americans's experiences as an ethnic group and as Americans. A companion CD-ROM packaged with the book makes more than 15,000 bibliography entries available for computer searching.; Mixed 2001

Haydn and the Classical Variation: Elaine R. Sisman; Hardcover

Hemingway: Kenneth Lynn; Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created. But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. Lynn explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured Hemingway's work and eroded his life. Masterfully written, Hemingway brings to life the writer whose desperate struggle to exorcise his demons produced some of the greatest American fiction of this century.; Paperback

Henry Adams: Henry Adams; Ernest Samuels, Editor; Ernest Samuels' Pulitzer Prize-winning, multivolume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography.; Hardcover 1992

Henry Adams: Ernest Samuels; Samuels' Pulitzer Prize-winning, multi-volume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography.; Hardcover 1989 / Paperback

Henry Adams: Ernest Samuels; Hardcover 1964

Henry Adams: Ernest Samuels; "Education had ended in 1871, life was complete in 1890." With this paradoxical statement, Adams apparently dismissed from the record twenty of the most interesting and active years of his career. Opening on the highest note of expectation and closing with his desperate flight to the South Seas in 1890, a divided and lonely figure, that season of fulfillment and inner growth is the subject of this book. Through detailed analyses of Adams' writings, Samuels shows how this drama eventually became transformed into works of literary art.; Hardcover 1958

Henry James: Henry James; Leon Edel, Editor; Edel has chosen, from the four-volume epistolarium already published, those letters which especially illuminate James's writing, his life, his thoughts and fancies, his literary theories, and his most meaningful friendships. In addition, there are two dozen letters that have never before been printed. In its unity, its elegance, and its reflection of almost a century of Anglo-American life and letters, this correspondence can well be said to belong to literature as well as to biography.; Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990

Henry Kissinger and the American Century: Jeremi Suri; What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.; Hardcover 2007

Hideyoshi: Mary Elizabeth Berry; Paperback

The Highly Civilized Man: Dane Kennedy; Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

Hispano-Jewish Culture in Transition: Bernard Septimus; This study of the sometimes stormy career of a brilliant and colorful talmudist offers a broad picture of medieval Hispano-Jewish culture. Bernard Septimus portrays Ramah's career as a lawyer, exegete, poet, and theologian in an age of rapid cultural change.; Hardcover 1982

How To Do Biography: Nigel Hamilton; Following his recent Biography: A Brief History (from Harvard), award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton tackles the practicalities of doing biography in the first succinct primer to elucidate the tools of the biographer’s craft.; Hardcover 2008

Hypatia of Alexandria: Maria Dzielska; F. Lyra, Translator; Hypatia--brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty--was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colorful world.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover

The I. G. in Peking: Robert Hart; Hart's forty-five year administration of China's customs service was a unique achievement. In these letters Hart speaks to us directly from a time long past in China, but a time that may seem only yesterday to a Western reader. The result is a primary source for the history of modem China and the era of foreign privilege there.; Hardcover 1976

Identity's Architect: Lawrence J. Friedman; Identity's Architect is the first comprehensive biography of Erik Erikson, postwar America's most influential psychological thinker, who decisively reshaped our views of human development. Drawing on private materials and extensive interviews, Friedman illuminates the relationship between Erikson's personal life and his groundbreaking notion of the life cycle and the identity crisis.; Paperback 2000

The Impulse to Preserve: Robert Gardner; Foreword by Charles Simic; In The Impulse to Preserve, filmmaker Robert Gardner reflects on a life spent observing, recording, and illuminating the human condition in some of the most remote regions of the world. Originally published in 2006, this lavishly illustrated book is now distributed by the Peabody Museum Press.; Hardcover 2008

In Search of Africa: Manthia Diawara; In 1996 Manthia Diawara, a distinguished professor of film and literature in New York City, returned to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Diawara's journey gives us the story of a quest for a childhood friend, for the past and present, and above all for an Africa that is struggling to find its future.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

In Search of Nella Larsen: George Hutchinson; Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook, Nella Larsen lived her life in the shadows of America's racial divide. Her writings about that life, briefly celebrated in her time, were lost to later generations--only to be rediscovered and hailed by many. In his search for Nella Larsen, George Hutchinson exposes the truths and half-truths surrounding her, as well as the complex reality they mask and mirror. His book is a cultural biography of the color line as it was lived by one person who truly embodied all of its ambiguities and complexities.; Hardcover 2006

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet A. Jacobs; Jean Fagan Yellin, Editor; John S. Jacobs, Contributor; This enlarged edition of the most significant and celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs's short slave narrative, "A True Tale of Slavery," published in London in 1861, adds a brother's perspective to Harriet Jacobs's own autobiography. It is an exciting addition to this now classic work, as John Jacobs presents additional historical information about family life so well described already by his sister.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2000

Indonesian Destinies: Theodore Friend; "How can such a gentle people as we are be so murderous?" a prominent Indonesian asks. That question--and the mysteries of the archipelago's vast contradictions--haunt Theodore Friend's remarkable work, a narrative of Indonesia during the last half century, from the postwar revolution against Dutch imperialism to the unrest of today. Part history, part meditation on a place and a past observed firsthand, Indonesian Destinies penetrates events that gave birth to the world's fourth largest nation and assesses the continuing dangers that threaten to tear it apart.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

The Inman Diary: Arthur C. Inman; Edited by Daniel Aaron; Hardcover

The Invention of Jane Harrison: Mary Beard; Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) is the most famous female Classicist in history, the author of books that revolutionized our understanding of Greek culture and religion. This lively and innovative portrayal of a fascinating woman raises the question of who wins (and how) in the competition for academic fame. Questioning the common criteria for identifying intellectual "influence" and "movements," Mary Beard exposes the mythology that is embedded in the history of Classics. At the same time she provides a vivid picture of a sparkling intellectual scene.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

The Invention of Li Yu: Patrick Hanan; Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage, did not dampen his versatility, his irreverent wit, or his jocund spirit. Li was an exceptional figure in Chinese culture for two reasons: his disregard of the authority of tradition, and his dedication to the cause of comedy.; Hardcover 1988

Invisible Friends: Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Benjamin Robert Haydon; Edited by Williard Bissell Pope; Hardcover

Ivan Aksakov, 1823-1886: Stephen Lukashevich; Aksakov began his fiery career as a critic of Slavophilism, which sought to divorce Russia from the West and all Western influence. Circumstances, however, turned Aksakov into the fanatical leader of the Slavophiles, making him a passionate nationalist and Pan-Slavist, and a fierce anti-Semite. Although he accepted the reforms of the 1860's, he feared that their results would lead to the further Westernization of Russia; and, toward the end of his life, disillusioned and despairing, he lent a generous hand to reaction.; Hardcover 1965

James Duncan Campbell: Robert Ronald Campbell; Paperback 1970

Jane Austen: Tony Tanner; Tanner guides us through Austen's novels from relatively sunny early works to the darker, more pessimistic Persuasion and fragmentary Sanditon--a journey that takes her from acceptance of a society maintained by landed property, family, money, and strict propriety through an insistence on the need for authentication of these values to a final skepticism and even rejection. In showing her progress from a parochial optimism to an ability to encompass her whole society, Tanner renews our sense of Jane Austen as one of the great novelists, confirming both her local and abiding relevance.; Hardcover 1987 / Paperback

Japanese Marxist: Gail Lee Bernstein; The heir of a samurai family, an acknowledged authority on economics, a professor at one of Japan's leading universities, an early popularizer of Marxism in Japan, a Japanese Communist on his own unique terms, and, finally, the author of an autobiography that is a classic of modern Japanese literature, Kawakami Hajime is an important figure in the history of modern Japan. Bernstein provides a portrait of Kawakami's complex personality as well as a narrative of the context and content of Japanese left-wing politics in the 1920s.; Paperback 1990

Jefferson and the Indians: Anthony F. C. Wallace; Adding a troubled dimension to one of the most enigmatic figures of American history, Anthony Wallace takes us on a tour of discovery to unexplored regions of Jefferson's mind. There, the bookish Enlightenment scholar--chronicler of the eloquence of America's native peoples and mourner of their tragic fate--sits uncomfortably close to Jefferson the imperialist and architect of Indian removal. Impelled by the necessity of expanding his agrarian republic, he became adept at putting a philosophical gloss on his policy of encroachment, threats of war, and forced land cessions--a policy that led, eventually, to cultural genocide.; Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

John Gorham Palfrey and the New England Conscience: Frank Otto Gatell; The New England of his day regarded Palfrey's life as blameless and exemplary. Yet he himself once called it "his personal tragicomedy."In his stormy political career, Palfrey not only was Massachusetts Secretary of State, member of Congress, and Postmaster of Boston, but also played a key role in the formation of the Free Soil Party. Gatell has used papers of Palfrey's contemporaries and of the Palfrey family manuscripts, among them an unpublished autobiography, itself a search for meaning in a long and perplexing life.; Hardcover 1963

John Keats: Walter Jackson Bate; Since most of Keats's early poetry has survived, his artistic development can be observed more closely than is possible with most writers; and there are times during the period of his greatest creativity when his personal as well as his artistic life can be followed week by week. Bate has been concerned to show the organic relationship between the poet's art and his larger, more broadly humane development. This is a book of many dimensions, not a restricted critical or biographical study but a fully integrated whole.; Hardcover 1963 / Paperback 1979

John Leighton Stuart and Twentieth-Century Chinese-American Relations: Shaw Yu-ming; Hardcover 1992

John Quincy Adams: Paul C. Nagel; Adams was raised, educated, and groomed to be President. At fourteen he was secretary to the Minister to Russia and, later, was himself Minister to the Netherlands and Prussia. He was U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and then President for one ill-fated term. His private life showed a parallel descent. He was a poet, writer, critic, and Professor of Oratory at Harvard. He married a talented and engaging Southerner, but two of his three sons were disappointments. This polymath and troubled man, caught up in both a democratic age not to his understanding and the furies of passion, was an American lion in winter.; Paperback 1999

Johnson and His Age: James Engell, Editor; Published in the bicentennial year of Samuel Johnson's death, Johnson and His Age includes contributions by some of the nation's most eminent scholars of eighteenth-century literature. It includes sections on Johnson's life, major figures of the age, and the novel.; Hardcover 1985 / Paperback

Josiah Quincy, 1772-1864: Robert A. McCaughey; Hardcover 1974

The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649: Richard Dunn, Editor; James Savage, Editor; Laetitia Yaendle, Editor; John Winthrop; For 350 years Governor John Winthrop's journal has been recognized as the central source for the history of Massachusetts in the 1630s and 1640s. This full-scale, unabridged edition uses the manuscript volumes of the first and third notebooks, and James Savage's transcription of the middle notebook (accidentally destroyed in 1825).; Hardcover 1996

The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, Abridged Edition: Richard Dunn, Editor; Laetitia Yaendle, Editor; The abridged edition of Winthrop's journal, which incorporates about 40 percent of the governor's text, includes a lively introduction and complete annotation.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist: Samuel Curwen; Edited by Andrew Oliver; Oliver, combining painstaking documentation with an abundance of illustrations, provides a colorful, complete work which ranks as a valuable source of English social history from 1775 to 1784. It was during these years that Curwen, a Salem merchant, after fleeing from the harassment incurred by his loyalist activities, migrated to England and kept this journal.; Hardcover 1972

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I, 1819-1822: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by William H. Gilman; Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson; Edited by George P. Clark; Edited by Merrell R. Davis; Hardcover 1960

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II, 1822-1826: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by William H. Gilman; Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson; Edited by Merrell R. Davis; Hardcover 1961

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III, 1826-1832: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by William H. Gilman; Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson; Hardcover

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IV, 1832-1834: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson; Hardcover 1964

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume IX, 1843-1847: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Ralph H. Orth; Edited by Alfred R. Ferguson; The pages of these five journals covering the years 1843 to 1847 are filled with Emerson's struggle to formulate the true attitude of the scholar to the vexing question of public involvement. Pulled between his belief that a disinterested independence was a requisite for the writer and the public demands heaped upon him as a leading intellectual figure, he notes to himself that he "pounds...tediously" on the "exemption of the writer from all secular works."; Hardcover 1971

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V, 1835-1838: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Merton M. Sealts; Hardcover 1965

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VI, 1824-1838: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Ralph H. Orth; Hardcover 1966

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII, 1838-1842: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by A. W. Plumstead; Edited by Harrison Hayford; Hardcover 1969

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII, 1841-1843: Ralph Waldo Emerson; William H. Gilman, Editor; J. E. Parsons, Editor; Hardcover 1970

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume X, 1847-1848: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Merton M. Sealts, Editor; Emerson's journals of 1847-1848 deal primarily with his second visit to Europe, occasioned by a British lecture tour. The journals of these years, alogn with associated notebooks and letters, recorded the materials for lectures that Emerson composed while abroad, for additional lectures on England and the English that he wrote shortly after his return to Concord, and ultimately, for English Traits, the book growing out of his travels that he was to publish in 1856.; Hardcover 1973

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XI, 1848-1851: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by A. W. Plumstead; Edited by William H. Gilman; Edited by Ruth H. Bennett; Hardcover 1975

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XII, 1835-1862: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Linda Allardt; The twelfth volume makes available nine of Emerson's lecture notebooks, covering a span of twenty-seven years, from 1835 to 1862, from apprenticeship to fame. These notebooks contain materials Emerson collected for the composition of his lectures, articles, and essays during those years, a complex mixture of indexlike surveys of his journals, lists of possible topics and titles, salvaged journals passages and revisions, new drafts ranging from brief paragraphs to several pages in length, notes and translations from his reading, working notes, and partial outlines.; Hardcover 1976

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIII, 1852-1855: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph H. Orth, Editor; Alfred R. Ferguson, Editor; Hardcover 1977

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIV, 1854-1861: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Susan Sutton Smith, Editor; Harrison Hayford, Editor; The journals from 1854 to 1861 show the ripeness of Emerson's thought overshadowed by the gravest problem of his time--slavery. In addition to completing English Traits (1856) and Conduct of Life (1860), Emerson wrote many of the lectures and articles that made up his next book, Society and Solitude. He also contributed often to The Atlantic Monthly after helping to found that magazine in 1857. These notebooks and journals bring the philosopher of "the infinitude of the private man" to January 1861 and the brink of war.; Hardcover 1978

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XV, 1860-1866: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Linda Allardt, Editor; David W. Hill, Editor; Ruth H. Bennett, Editor; The Civil War is a pervasive presence in the journals in this volume. "The war searches character," Emerson wrote. Both his reading and his writing reflected his concern for the endurance of the nation, whose strength lay in the moral strength of the people. He read military biographies and memoirs, while turning again to Persian, Chinese, and Indian literature. The deaths of Clough, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and his aunt Mary Moody Emerson prompted him to reread their letters and journals, remembering and reappraising.; Hardcover 1982

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XVI, 1866-1882: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ronald A. Bosco, Editor; Glen M. Johnson, Editor; The final volume of the Harvard edition presents the journals of Emerson's last years. In them, he reacts to the changing America of the post-Civil War years, commenting on Reconstruction, immigration, protectionism in trade, and the dangers of huge fortunes in few hands--as well as on baseball and the possibilities of air travel. Finally, his late journals show Emerson confronting his loss of creative vigor, husbanding his powers, and maintaining his equanimity in the face of decline.; Hardcover 1982

The Journals of Claire Clairmont: Claire Clairmont; The diaries of Clairmont are, so far as is known, the last of the major documents of the Shelley-Byron circle to be published. Only the writings of the Shelleys themselves surpass hers in importance for those interested in the careers of the poets and their friends. Best known as Byron's mistress and the mother of his daughter Allegra, "Claire," as she preferred to be called, is important to literary history for her role in bringing Byron and Shelley together.; Hardcover 1968

Journey to the Ants: Bert Hölldobler; Edward O. Wilson; Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. The authors interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement.; Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998

Julian the Apostate: G. W. Bowersock; This portrayal of one of antiquity's most enigmatic figures offers a vivid and compact assessment of the Apostate's life and reign. Proceeding directly from an evaluation of the ancient sources--the testimony of friends and enemies of Julian as well as the writings of the emperor himself--the author traces Julian's youth, his years as the commander of the Roman forces in Gaul, and his emergence as sole ruler in the course of a dramatic march to Constantinople. In Bowersock's analysis of Julian's religious revolution, the emperor's ardent espousal of a lost cause is seen to have made intolerable demands upon pagans, Jews, and Christians alike.; Hardcover 1978 / Paperback 1997

Kafka: Klaus Wagenbach; In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man who gave his name to a central facet of modern experience, the Kafkaesque. Klaus Wagenbach, who wrote the first major critical biography of Kafka, draws upon a wealth of new and recent information to produce a concise but finely nuanced portrait of the author, an ideal introduction to this quintessential figure of modernity.; Hardcover 2003

Kenmu: Andrew Goble; The short-lived Kenmu regime (1333-1336) of Japanese Emperor Go-Daigo is often seen as an inevitably doomed, revanchist attempt to shore up the old aristocratic order. But far from resisting change, Andrew Edmund Goble here forcefully argues, the flamboyant Go-Dai

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