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Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45 Joseph Stilwell, military attache to china from 1935 to 1939 and commander of U.S. forces and Allied Chief of Staff to Chiang Kai-shek from 1942 to 1944, was a man who loved China deeply, spoke its language, and knew its people as few Americans ever have. Using the life of Stilwell, Barbara W. Tuchman explores the history of China from the Revolution of 1911 to the turmoil of World War II, when China's Nationalist government faced attack form both Japanese invaders and Communist insurgents. He classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the cantankerous but level-headed "Vinegar Joe" is both an account of American relations with China and the experiences of one of our men on the ground.
German Essays on Science in the 19th Century A shared belief among German scientists in the 19th century, as Alexander von Humboldt phrased it, was that science in all its forms has to serve the betterment of the human condition. This volume in The German Library, a companion to volume 82 (German Essays on Science in the 20th Century, also edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher), represents the sciences in a comprehensive way: Natural History, Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Economy, and Technology. Writers and scientists represented include: Jacob Burckhardt, Carl von Clausewitz, Paul Ehrlich, Karl Friedrich Gauss, Alexander von Humboldt, Lorenz Oken, Carl Ritter, Werner von Siemens, and many others.
Flashman and the Tiger When the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, the notorious Victorian soldier and scoundrel, first came to light thirty years ago, it was finally revealed what had become of the infamous bully who had darkened Tom Brown's school days. Now, three new episodes in the career of this eminently disreputable adventurer place us at the center of pivotal historical events; the attempted assassination of Emperor Franz Josef in the 1880s, the Prince of Wales's involvement in the Tranby Croft gambling scandal, and the military disaster at Rorke's Drift in South Africa; as the aging but agile Flashy is pitted against one of the greatest villains of his day. Thrown into contact with assorted grand royalty and even grander tarts, he must test his wits against political heavyweights, including Bismarck, as he becomes eyewitness to the uncensored truth about two of the greatest heroes of his time.
Vignettes from the Late Ming This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays by fourteen well-known sixteenth and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. These essays or Hsiao-p'in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p'in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life's sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details of everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.
History & Belief: The Foundations of Historical Understanding "This important new work provides a penetrating guide to historical knowledge and its structure and limits. The treatment given to the origins of historical understanding, its epistemology, and its character in various world civilizations is impressive. Most importantly, this book gives us one of the best introductions that we have to the relationship between knowledge, belief, and faith in historical study, helping to elucidate the historical grounding of belief and the search for meaning." Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison
New Maps for Old: Explorations in Science and Religion Mary Gerhart and Allan Russell have been writing together on science and religion for twenty-five years. Their collaboration developed out of the conviction that both science and religion are today such highly developed and complicated fields that their interaction is best studied by two persons, one form each field, working together. In their efforts to map science and religion, these are some of the questions they address: Do a theologian and a scientist see the same thing when they look at the world? Does myth play a role in science as it does in religion? How do metaphors function in science and religion? Why don't religious understandings change in a rational way, the way understandings in science do? Can the "weirdness" found in quantum physics provide an insight into the way God acts in the world? |
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Roman Literary Culture: From Cicero to Apuleius In Roman Literary Cutlure, Elaine Fantham examines the changing social and historical context of literary production in ancient Rome and its empire. Fantham discusses the habits of roman readers and developments in their means of access to literature. She shows how the constraints of the physical object itself, the ancient "book", influenced the practice of both reading and writing. And she explores the ways in which ancient criticism and critical attitudes reflected cultural assumptions of the time.
Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics Why Nietzsche still? These essays by a distinguished group of contributors suggest a number of answers. They show that Nietzsche still has a great deal to say to those who read him with an eye toward developing critical responses to pressing issues that confront both our present and future. Alan d. Schrift's goals in assembling these stimulating essays, all but one written for this volume, are to display the multifaceted nature of Nietzsche's reflections, to demonstrate Nietzsche's relevance for contemporary reflections on the dramas of culture at the start of the third millennium, and to exhibit the range of innovative and exciting Nietzsche scholarship that is being carried out across the humanities and social sciences in the English speaking world.
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle More than a hundred years have passed since the creation of Sherlock Holmes, perhaps the most famous fictional character of all time. But while the legendary detective lives on in the popular imagination, the man who created him is often overlooked or misunderstood. This fresh and compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age.
The Hebrew Prophets: Visionaries of the Ancient World The prophets of the ancient world were mystics whose words have transcended the ages. In this collection for the general reader, Biblical scholars look at passages from the writings of the period, from Isaiah's portrayal of the suffering Messiah to Daniel's dream of the Ancient of Days pronouncing judgement on the earth, to show their importance for us today.
Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the "world-knot," has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. Among realists, those who accept the reality of the physical world, the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consensus that, if we are ever to understand how mind and body are related, a radically new approach is required. David Ray Griffin develops a third form of realism, one that resolves the basic problem (common to dualism and materialism) of the continued acceptance of the Cartesian view of matter. In dialogue with various philosophers, including Dennett, Kim, McGinn, Nagel, Seager, Searle, and Strawson, Griffin shows that materialist physicalism is even more problematic than dualism.
Feeding the Eye "Over the past two decades, the art historian Anne Hollander has made a unique contribution to American letters with her bold studies of the evolution of costume and of its relationship to the other arts… Most of the pieces in Feeding the Eye range far beyond the immediate scope of the works they originally chronicled, and the author's erudition and style give the collection a luminous unity." Francine du Plessix Gray, New York Times Book Review |
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