SUBJECT INDEX:
REFERENCE
- REFERENCE: Atlases
- REFERENCE: Bibliographies & Indexes
- REFERENCE: Catalogs
- REFERENCE: Dictionaries
- REFERENCE: Encyclopedias
- REFERENCE: Genealogy
- REFERENCE: General
- REFERENCE: Personal & Practical Guides
- REFERENCE: Quotations
- REFERENCE: Research
- REFERENCE: Writing Skills
- African-American Newspapers and Periodicals
- With a Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography contains over 6,000 entries.
- Hardcover 1999
- The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1, 1828-1854
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 2, 1854-1876
- The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- The Ants
- This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and painting, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing view of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology.
- Hardcover 1990
- The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
- Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect.
- Mixed 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Atlas of the Year 1000
- Atlas of the Year 1000 takes readers on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity, when peoples reached out to create links and put isolated cultures unwittingly in touch. John Man vividly captures the epochal events, and depicts the colorful peoples that defined the world's mix of stability and change, of isolation and contact. In an immensely learned portrayal, he traces enduring cultural strands that became part of the world as we know it today.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- The Bible As It Was
- This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories--from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land--James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Bibliography of the Harvard Chiapas Project
- This volume publishes the complete annotated bibliography of the publications that resulted from the first 20 years of ethnological and archaeological work by faculty and graduate students in the Mexican state of Chiapas, sponsored by Harvard's Peabody Museum and Department of Anthropology.
- Paperback
- Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965
- The Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, first published in 1970, provides biographies of 433 influential figures of the Chinese Communist Party in the years from 1921 to 1965. Each biography contains all information then available on the person's family, education, socio-economic status, early revolutionary activity, and career after the Communists came to power in 1949, as well as the dates and purposes of all foreign trips, information about important writings, and involvement in all kinds of Party activities.
- Hardcover 1971
- Catalog of the Bernice and Henry Tumen Collection of Jewish Ceremonial Objects in the Harvard College Library and the Harvard Semitic Museum
- This volume features photographic reproductions of 166 Jewish ceremonial objects including wine cups; beakers; Sabbath lamps; candlesticks; spice boxes; Hanukkah lamps; Torah pointers; crowns, shields, and finials; plates for the Passover Seder and other occasions; charity boxes; Esther scrolls; containers for the etrog fruit used on Sukkot; marriage rings; amulets; and others.
- Paperback 2005
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 1, Italy, North of the Balkans, North of the Black Seas
- The sections begin with a short essay on the region's location and history. Each seal is illustrated and is accompanied-where appropriate-by full commentary regarding the specimen's date, biographical information on its owner, peculiarities of orthography, and special features of iconography. These small seals are a large contribution to historical geography, the evolution of the Byzantine provincial administration, prosopography, development in the Greek language,and decorative vogues.
- Hardcover 1991
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 2, South of the Balkans, the Islands, South of Asia Minor
- Hardcover 1994
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 3, West, Northwest, and Central Asia Minor and the Orient
- Hardcover 1996
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 4, The East
- Hardcover 2001
- Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum of Art, 5, The East (continued)
- Hardcover 2005
- Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection: From Arcadius and Honorius to the Accession of Anastasius
- This is the first fully illustrated catalogue of a major collection of late Roman and early Byzantine imperial coins. It follows the general layout of the Byzantine volumes in the Dumbarton Oaks series, with a substantial introduction dealing with the history of the coinage, including iconography, mints, and the monetary system.
- Hardcover 1992
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whitemore Collection, 5, Michael VIII to Constantine XI, 1258-1453
- Part I includes the introduction, appendices and bibliography while Part II continues with the catalogue, concordances and indexes.
- Hardcover
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, 1, Anastasius I to Maurice, 491-602
- Hardcover 1996
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, 2, Phocas to Theodosius III, 602-717
- In volume 2 of this series, Part I examines Phocas and Heraclius (602-641) and Part II covers the period between Heraclius Constantine to Theodosius III (602-717).
- Hardcover 1968
- Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, 4, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261
- This volume is in two parts. Part I covers the reigns of Alexius I to Alexius V (1081-1204), and Part II covers the emperors of Nicea and their contemporaries (1204-1261).
- Hardcover 1999
- Catalogue of the Byzantine and Early Mediaeval Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, 3, Ivories and Steatites
- Hardcover 1972
- Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection
- This catalogue focuses on the Greek and Roman antiquities of the collections at Dumbarton Oaks. The catalogue also includes other objects, such as a bronze horse, and four floor mosaics from Antioch.
- Hardcover 1956
- Catalogue of the Sculpture in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection from the Ptolemaic Period to the Renaissance
- These sculptures are not representative of any one culture or period, but rather are characteristic of the Blisses' wide-ranging tastes and extraordinary connoisseurship. About a quarter of the objects are Greco-Roman in date, and nearly two-thirds of the remainder are Late Antique, predominantly limestone carvings from Early Byzantine Egypt. Sculpture from the Middle Byzantine period is very rare, making the four pieces in this collection especially significant.
- Hardcover 1999
- China
- The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. His book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman has brought the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period and a new preface and epilogue.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998
- Chinese History
- A comprehensive and up-to-date guide on the basic problems encountered in researching traditional Chinese civilization and history, this manual includes discussions of over 1,000 primary sources as well as 1,000 reference works.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000
- Chinese-English Dictionary (A Chinese-English Dictionary Compiled for the China Inland Mission)
- Published in 1931 and revised in 1943, this small, but comprehensive dictionary contains 7,773 Chinese characters and 104,000 compounds taken from the classics, general literature, magazines, and newspapers. Necessary corrections in regard to pronunciation have been made; the tones of the characters have been checked; and a large number of terms have been added in order to facilitate the reading of periodicals and newspapers--whether political, economic, chemical, or military.
- Hardcover 1943
- The Clockwork Muse
- The Clockwork Muse is designed to help prospective authors develop a workable timetable for completing long and often formidable projects.Eviatar Zerubavel, a prolific and successful author, describes how to set up a writing schedule and regular work habits that will take most of the anxiety and procrastination out of long-term writing, and even make it enjoyable. The Clockwork Muse rethinks the writing process in terms of time and organization.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999
- Complete Poems
- Here is the first reliable edition of Keats's complete poems designed expressly for general readers and students. Jack Stillinger provides helpful explanatory notes to the poems which give dates of composition, identify quotations and allusions, gloss names and words not included in the ordinary desk dictionary, and refer the reader to the best critical interpretations of the poems. The new introduction provides central facts about Keats's life and career, describes the themes of his best work, and speculates on the causes of his greatness.
- Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1991
- Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese
- Hardcover 1947
- A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
- Two centuries later, the French Revolution--that extraordinary event that founded modern democracy--continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. The ambition of this volume is not only to present the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also to bring one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate.
- Hardcover 1989
- The De Peyster Genealogy
- Hardcover
- A Diary from Dixie
- 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
- Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I, A-C
- This series captures the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, DARE preserves the language with all its idioms and peculiarities.
- Hardcover
- Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II, D-H
Like its popular predecessor, Volume II of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a treasury of vernacular Americanisms. Initiated under the leadership of Frederic G. Cassidy, DARE represents an unprecedented attempt to document the living language of the entire country. The result is a monument to the richness of American folk speech. Computer-generated maps accompanying many of the entries illustrate the regional distribution of words and phrases.
The more than 11,000 entries contained in Volume II--from the poetic and humorous to the witty and downright bawdy--will delight and inform readers.
- Hardcover 1991
- Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume III, I-O
- Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, the Dictionary of American Regional English preserves a language that lives and dies as we breathe. It will amuse and inform, delight and instruct, and keep alive the speech that we have made our own, and that has made us who we are.
- Hardcover 1996
- Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume IV, P-Sk
- Like the popular first three volumes of DARE, the fourth is a treasure-trove of linguistic gems, a book that invites exclamation, delight, and wonder. More than six hundred maps pinpoint where you might live if your favorite card games are sheepshead and skat; if you eat pan dulce rather than pain perdu. The language of our everyday lives is captured in DARE, along with expressions our grandparents used but our children will never know.
- Hardcover 2002
- A Dictionary of Ethology
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and Other Animals of the Mesozoic Era
- In this first comprehensive account of Mesozoic vertebrates from New Zealand and Australia, John Long shows that, while the fossil record from the region can be sparse and fragmentary, finds from such sites as Dinosaur Cove, Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge, and the fossil trackways at Broome offer new and occasionally startling evidence that has the potential to challenge current views and reshape the debates around some of paleontology's most hotly contested questions.
- Hardcover 1998
- Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
- Hardcover 1978
- The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas
- The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas offers a panoramic view of past and present overseas Chinese communities worldwide. From their arrival as laborers in the British colonies to their emergence as a force in Indonesia, Chinese emigrants have carried the experiences of China to other continents and civilizations, in the process modifying and enriching them. This book reflects the diverse histories and traditions that produced this diaspora.
- Hardcover 1999
- Eyewitness to History
- Civilization's most momentous events come vibrantly alive in this magnificent collection of over three hundred eyewitness accounts spanning twenty-four turbulent centuries--remarkable recollections of battles, atrocities, disasters, coronations, assassinations, and discoveries that shaped the course of history, all related in vivid detail by ovservers on the scene.
- Hardcover
- Eyewitness to Science
- Science's most momentous discoveries come alive in 100 brilliant firsthand accounts.
- Paperback 1997
- First Supplement to James E. Walsh's Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the Harvard University Library
- The late James E. Walsh's pioneering catalogue of the Harvard collection of fifteenth-century printed books was published in five volumes. The First Supplement describes 202 new incunabula at Harvard: 67 complete or nearly complete copies and 135 single leaves or fragments, representing a total of 173 editions, including 110 not in Walsh's original five volumes. The apparatus follows the Walsh model, and the book is designed to be used both on its own and in conjunction with the five original volumes.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge
- Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this volume drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.
- Paperback 2003
- Greek Thought
- Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In more than sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought--investigating what the Greeks knew as well as what they thought about what they knew, and what they believed, invented, and understood about the conditions and possibilities of knowing.
- Hardcover 2000
- A Guide to Greek Thought
- The philosophers, historians, and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, gives fresh insight into the originality of major figures and the legacy of important currents of thought.
- Paperback 2003
- Guide to the Study of United States Imprints
- This book provides a basic guide to the study of the printed matter which has been produced in the United States. The great bulk of research in this field has occurred during the last half century, yet no comprehensive attempt has been made to record it. Recognizing the need for an up-to-date guide to such investigations, Tanselle has compiled a listing of the principal material dealing with printing and publishing in this country.
- Hardcover 1971
- The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
- 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 Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- 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
- Harvard Dictionary of Music
- A classic and invaluable reference work for over thirty years. Soon after its initial publication, the Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel was firmly established as a standard and essential resource for everyone concerned with music. The product of exceptional scholarship, it was praised as being comprehensive, concise, authoritative, scholarly, and enjoyable. Leopold Stokowski wrote, "I so often consult your dictionary of music, and with such never failing enlightenment, that I must offer you my thanks for your unique book, so profound and so broad in scope ... The vast scholarship ... is of immeasurable value to the whole world of music." The Christian Science Monitor called it "a highly satisfying book of musical knowledge, in which basic definitions are given with fine intellectual integrity, and musical facts are carefully separated from plausible deductions or theories."
- Hardcover
- The Harvard Dictionary of Music
- This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music.
- Hardcover 2003
- Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
- The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is a guide to the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of the more than 100 ethnic groups who live in the United States. The origins, history and present situation of the familiar as well as the virtually unknown are presented succinctly and objectively.
- Hardcover 1980
- The Harvard Guide to African-American History
- 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
- Harvard Judaica
- Harvard's Judaica Collection is one of the world's great Judaica collections, and is the largest collection of Israeli and Israel-related publications outside of Israel. This book traces the history of the collection from Harvard's founding, with special emphasis on the accelerated growth in the past four decades.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography
- With references to some 50,000 articles, 17,000 books, 4,000 chapters in books, 7,000 dissertations, and 4,000 reviews, The Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography is the largest listing of Western-language publications on Korea available in CD format. The coverage spans works in all subject areas published from the eighteenth century to the present in English and other European languages using the Roman alphabet. The EndNote® software included with the CD allows searches by author, title, subject, or date of publication.
- CD-ROM 2000
- The Harvard List of Books in Psychology
- (Compiled and annotated by the psychologists in Harvard University)
- Paperback 1971
- A History of Chemistry
- The authors of this history of chemistry--respected, prolific scholars in history and philosophy of science--have distilled their knowledge into an accessible work, free of jargon. They have written a book deeply enthusiastic about the conceptual, experimental, and technological complexities and challenges with which chemists have grappled over many centuries.
- Hardcover 1996
- A History of Private Life, Volume I, From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
- First of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1992
- A History of Private Life, Volume II, Revelations of the Medieval World
- The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries.
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback
- A History of Private Life, Volume III, Passions of the Renaissance
- Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. This third in the popular five-volume series celebrates the emergence of individualism and the manifestations of a burgeoning self-consciousness over three centuries.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback
- A History of Private Life, Volume IV, From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War
- The nineteenth century was the golden age of private life, a time when the tentative self-consciousness of the Renaissance and earlier eras took recognizable form, and the supreme individual, with a political, scientific, and above all existential value, emerged. Volume IV of this award-winning series chronicles this development from the tumult of the French Revolution to the outbreak of World War I--a century and a quarter of rapid, ungovernable change culminating in a conflict that, at a stroke, altered life in the Western world.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback
- A History of Private Life, Volume V, Riddles of Identity in Modern Times
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1998
- A History of Twentieth-Century Russia
- Russia has had an extraordinary history in the twentieth century. As the first Communist society, the USSR was both an admired model and an object of fear and hatred to the rest of the world. How are we to make sense of this past? A History of Twentieth-Century Russia treats the years from 1917 to 1991 as a single period and analyzes the peculiar mixture of political, economic, and social ingredients that made up the Soviet formula.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- A History of Women in the West, Volume I, From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
- Informed by the work of seventy-five distinguished historians, this five-volume series sets before us an engaging, panoramic chronicle that extends from antiquity to the present day
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1994
- A History of Women in the West, Volume II, Silences of the Middle Ages
- Drawing on myriad sources--from the faint traces left by the rocking cradle at the site of an early medieval home to an antique illustration of Eve's fall from grace--this second volume in the celebrated series offers new perspectives on women of the past. Twelve renowned historians from many countries examine the image of women in the masculine mind, their social condition, and their daily experience from the demise of the Roman Empire to the genesis of the Italian Renaissance.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1998
- A History of Women in the West, Volume III, Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes
- This book draws a richly detailed picture of women in early modern Europe, considering them in the contexts of work, marriage, and family.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- A History of Women in the West, Volume IV, Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War
- The fourth volume in this world-acclaimed series covers the distance between the French Revolution and World War I. It gives us a vibrant picture of a bourgeois century, dynamic and expansive, in which the role of woman in the home was stressed more and more, even as the economic pressures and opportunities of the industrial revolution drew her out of the house.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- A History of Young People in the West, Volume I, Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage
- However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycèes of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- A History of Young People in the West, Volume II, Stormy Evolution to Modern Times
- However swiftly it passes, youth is always with us, a perpetual passing phase, an apprenticeship to the myriad ways of the world, subject of panegyrics and diatribes, romances and cautionary tales from antiquity to our day. This two-volume history is the first to present a comprehensive account of what youth has been in the West and what it has meant through the ages. Brought together by Giovanni Levi and Jean-Claude Schmitt, a company of gifted historians and social scientists traces the changing character and status of young people from the gymnasia of ancient Greece to the lycèes of modern France, from the sweatshops of the industrial revolution to the crucibles of Nazi youth.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- A History of the Jewish People
- A History of the Jewish People presents a total vision of Jewish experiences and achievements--religious, political, social, and economic--in both the land of Israel and the diaspora throughout the ages. It has been acclaimed as the most comprehensive and penetrating work yet to have appeared in its field.
- Paperback 1985
- The Houghton Library, 1942-1967
- This large and sumptuous volume highlights the diversity and value of the Houghton's collections. It contains reproductions ranging from ancient and medieval manuscripts to the earliest printed books to the works of some of the twentieth-century's most important and interesting authors, artists, and designers.
- Hardcover 1967
- How To Do Biography
- 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
- Hungarian Authors
- This exceptional bibliography, a pioneer work in its field, surveys Hungarian literature from its beginnings to 1965. Tezla begins his coverage of each author with a brief biographical account offering pertinent data on family background, education, and literary activities. The sketch provides observations on the writings of the author and his place in Hungarian literature, and a record of the languages into which his works have been translated. Further material on the author is divided into annotated sections noting bibliographical, biographical, and critical studies.
- Hardcover 1970
- Hyder Edward Rollins
- Hardcover
- Identification Guide to the Ant Genera of the World
- This book, by the world's leading ant taxonomist, offers a definitive guide for identifying these ubiquitous insects. Barry Bolton provides identification keys to all the living ant subfamilies and genera, presented in alphabetical order and separated by zoogeographical region. Designed for professional and amateur myrmecologists alike, this guide is a accessible as it is comprehensive, including information on the function and use of identification keys, instructions for preparing specimens for examination, and an illustrated glossary of morphological terms. Over 500 scanning electron microscope photographs illustrate the taxonomic keys.
- Hardcover
- Japanese Studies of Modern China
- Paperback 1971
- Japanese Studies of Modern China since 1953
- Hardcover 1975
- The Journal of John Winthrop, 1630-1649, Abridged Edition
- 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
- Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology is the first comprehensive reference work for this expanding field. Covering more than fifty central terms and concepts in entries written by leading experts, it offers an overview of all that is embraced by this new subdiscipline of biology, providing the core insights and ideas that show how embryonic development relates to life-history evolution, adaptation, and responses to and integration with environmental factors.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- The Letters of Sigmund Freud to Eduard Silberstein, 1871-1881
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Letters to Kennedy
- A unique document in the history of the Kennedy years, these letters give us a firsthand look at the working relationship between a president and one of his close advisers, John Kenneth Galbraith. Ranging from a pithy commentary on Kennedy's speech accepting the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination to reflections on critical matters of state Letters to Kennedy presents a rare, intimate picture of the lives and minds of a political intellectual and an intellectual politician during a particularly rich moment in American history.
- Hardcover 1998
- The Literary Guide to the Bible
- Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments as well as general essays on the Bible as a whole, providing an enticing reintroduction to a work that has shaped our language and thought for thousands of years.
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1990
- London
- This is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban center, and a modern colossus. Not since ancient times has there been such a city--not eternal, but vibrant, living, full of a free people ever evolving. In this transcendent book, Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with brio and wit.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1998
- Many Thousands Gone
- Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life traces the evolution of black society in America from its creation in the early seventeenth century through the American Revolution. Berlin presents a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, revealing the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- The Melody of Theology
- The Melody of Theology is really two books in one: a dictionary in which a reader can browse through piquant explorations of some of the most interesting topics in Christian theology, and an intellectual autobiography in which Jaroslav Pelikan has used those topics to give an account of the traditions to which he owes the formation of his own mind and spirit. As he says, "An intellectual autobiography in the format of a 'philosophical dictionary' permits the self-indulgence of employing the seeming objectivity of some eighty-two entries, arranged in the impersonal sequence of alphabetical order, to express a completely personal set of prejudices."
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings
- Hardcover
- Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton
- On the slopes of the Nariokotome sand river in Kenya, sifting through sediments more than a million years old, Kamoya Kimeu uncovered a small piece of a skull. Piece followed piece--facial bones, teeth, vertebrae--and little by little paleontologists put together the most complete early hominid ever discovered, a Homo erectus skeleton christened the Nariokotome boy. This phenomenal find, a milestone in the history of paleoanthropology, is fully documented in this remarkable book. Beautifully illustrated and richly descriptive, The Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton takes us into the field and the laboratory, and into the far reaches of prehistory, to show us what the fossilized remains of a young boy can tell us about our beginnings.
- Hardcover
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass was born into bondage and sold repeatedly in the slave markets of the South. Because he secretly taught himself to read and write, we possess one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Written over 100 years ago, this classic goes far to explain why American still suffers from the great injustices of the past.
- Paperback 1991
- The Natural History of Alcoholism Revisited
- In this updated version of his landmark study on alcoholism, George Vaillant returns to the same subjects, but with the perspective gained from fifteen years of further follow-up.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995
- A New History of French Literature
- 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.
- Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1998
- A New History of German Literature
- From the earliest magical charms and mythical sagas to the brilliance and desolation of 20th-century fiction, poetry, and film, this illuminating reference book invites readers to experience the full range of German literary culture and to investigate for themselves its disparate and unifying themes.
- Hardcover 2005
- No Author Better Served
- Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which document the thirty-year working relationship between the playwright and his principal producer in the United States, Alan Schneider. The 500 letters capture the world of theater as well as the personalities of their authors.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- On the History of Film Style
- David Bordwell shows how film scholars have attempted to explain stylistic continuity and change in film, and in the process celebrates a century of cinema. Examining the contributions of both noted and neglected directors, he considers the earliest filmmaking, the accomplishments of the silent era, the development of Hollywood, and the strides taken by European and Asian cinema in recent years.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover 1998
- The Other Insect Societies
- With a Foreword by Bert Hölldobler and a Commentary by Edward O. Wilson
- In his exploration of insect societies that don't fit the eusocial schema, James T. Costa gives these interesting phenomena their due. He synthesizes the scattered literature about social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs, caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and spiders. This wide-ranging tour takes a rich narrative approach that interweaves theory and data analysis with the behavior and ecology of these remarkable groups. This book is likely to inspire a new generation of naturalists to take a closer look.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia (ca. 1681)
- Ottoman survey registers are recognized as unparalleled sources on the demographic, economic, and linguistic characteristics of the regions for which they were made. The register for Kamaniçe is the only surviving survey register of Ukrainian lands. The full text of the defter is given in transcription in the first part, with a facsimile edition given in the second part.
- Hardcover 2004
- Perceptual Neuroscience
- This monumental work by one of the world's greatest living neuroscientists does nothing short of creating a new subdiscipline in the field: perceptual neuroscience. Vernon Mountcastle has gathered information from a vast number of sources reaching back through two centuries, from phylogenetic, comparative, and neuroanatomical studies of the neocortex to rhythmicity and synchronization in neocortical networks and inquiries into the binding problem.
- Hardcover 1998
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Edited by R. W. Franklin
- In 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. After many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive edition is available. This three-volume work contains the largest number of her poems ever assembled, arranged chronologically and drawn from a range of archives. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
- Hardcover 1998
- Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from English Writings Mainly before 1500
- This book is a collection of English proverbs, sentences, and proverbial phrases from the Middle Ages. The material is drawn from an exhaustive examination of the surviving texts, mainly printed ones but some still in manuscript.
- Hardcover 1968
- Research Guide for China's Response to the West
- Paperback 1954
- The Roman Empire
- This sweeping history of the Roman Empire from 44 B.C. to A.D. 235 has three purposes: to describe what was happening in the central administration and in the entourage of the emperor; to indicate how life went on in Italy and the provinces, in the towns, in the countryside, and in the army camps; and to show how these two different worlds impinged on each other. Colin Wells's vivid account is now available in an up-to-date second edition.
- Paperback 1995
- Russia
- The Soviet Union crumbles and Russia rises from the rubble, once again the great nation--a perfect scenario, but for one point: Russia was never a nation. And this, says the eminent historian Geoffrey Hosking, is at the heart of the Russians' dilemma today, as they grapple with the rudiments of nationhood. His book is about the Russia that never was, a three-hundred-year history of empire building at the expense of national identity.
- Paperback 1998
- Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences
- Hardcover 2008
- A Selected List of Books and Articles on Japan in English, French, and German, Rev. and Enl. edition
- Hardcover
- A Sor Juana Anthology
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1990
- Soviet Legal Bibliography
- Hardcover
- Traditions of the Bible
- James Kugel's The Bible As It Was (1997) has been universally praised. Here now is the full scholarly edition, expanding the author's findings into an incomparable reference work. Focusing on two dozen core stories in the Pentateuch, Kugel shows us how the earliest interpreters of the scriptures radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. For this full-scale reference work Kugel has added a substantial treasury of sources and passages for each of the twenty-four Bible stories.
- Hardcover 1999
- Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 2, 1927-1934
- This volume brings together previously untranslated writings on major figures such as Brecht, Valéry and Gide, and on subjects ranging from film, radio, and the novel to memory, kitsch, and the theory of language. We find the manifoldly inquisitive Benjamin musing on the new modes of perception opened tip by techniques of photographic enlargement and cinematic montage, on the life and work of & Goethe at Weimar, on the fascination of old toys and the mysteries of food, and on the allegorical significance of Mickey Mouse.
- Hardcover 1999
- Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
- A landmark work, this history of medical thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages reconstructs the slow transformations and sudden changes in theory and practice that marked the birth and early development of Western medicine. Editor Mirko Grmek and his contributors adopt a synthetic, cross-disciplinary approach, with attention to cultural, social, and economic forces as they have affected the historical flow of knowledge and the practice of medicine.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002
- The Women's Concise Guide to Emotional Well-Being
- Here, in one volume, is what the experts know about preventing, recognizing, and treating the psychological disturbances and disorders that women experience uniquely. From the complexities of schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder to the delicate practicalities of sexual response, this guide offers all that a woman might want to know about protecting her psychological health.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- The Women's Concise Guide to a Healthier Heart
- This book brings the risks and realities of cardiovascular disease for women into clear focus. It considers questions of cholesterol and diabetes, stress and depression, diet and smoking, as well as diagnostic procedures and surgeries. Helpfully illustrated, this book is clear and comprehensive on every heart problem and related symptom and behavior.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997
- Wordsworth
- As a poet whose art developed in a remarkably coherent chronological pattern and whose overt use of his own life for the subject matter of his verse was unparalleled in extent, Wordsworth presents an especially compelling claim to such systematic treatment. An invaluable tool for students of this major writer and of the Romantic period generally, this book offers a rapid means of access to factual information for any type of study making use of either the dates or relative order of Wordsworth's writings or personal experiences.
- Hardcover 1975
- Writing and Being
- In this deeply resonant book, Nadine Gordimer examines the tension for a writer between life's experiences and narrative creations. She tries to unravel the mysterious process that breathes "real" life into fiction by exploring the writings of revolutionaries in South Africa and the works of Naguib Mahfouz, Chinua Achebe, and Amos Oz. Ending on a personal note, Gordimer reveals her own experience of "writing her way out of" the confines of a dying colonialism.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998
- Your Good Health
- Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1989
