Author: Jon Latimer
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: america, war
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2010-03-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0674034775
ISBN-13: 9780674034778

Listen to a short interview with Jon Latimer Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In the first complete history of the War of 1812 written from a British perspective, Jon Latimer offers an authoritative and compelling account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. The British viewed the War of 1812 as an ill-fated attempt by the young American republic to annex Canada. For British Canada, populated by many loyalists who had fled the American Revolution, this was a war for survival. The Americans aimed both to assert their nationhood on

Author: Susanne Freidberg
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: press, belknap, history, perishable, fresh
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-04-27
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0674032918
ISBN-13: 9780674032910

That rosy tomato perched on your plate in December is at the end of a great journey—not just over land and sea, but across a vast and varied cultural history. This is the territory charted in Fresh. Opening the door of an ordinary refrigerator, it tells the curious story of the quality stored inside: freshness. We want fresh foods to keep us healthy, and to connect us to nature and community. We also want them convenient, pretty, and cheap. Fresh traces our paradoxical hunger to its roots in the rise of mass consumption, when freshness seemed both proof of and an antidote to progress.

Author: Owen Gingerich
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: universe, god
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0674023706
ISBN-13: 9780674023703

We live in a universe with a very long history, a vast cosmos where things are being worked out over unimaginably long ages. Stars and galaxies have formed, and elements come forth from great stellar cauldrons. The necessary elements are present, the environment is fit for life, and slowly life forms have populated the earth. Are the creative forces purposeful, and in fact divine? Owen Gingerich believes in a universe of intention and purpose. We can at least conjecture that we are part of that purpose and have just enough freedom that conscience and responsibility may be part of the mix

Author: Jean-Pierre Changeux
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: brain, behaviour, initiative, mind, knowledge, truth, neuroscience, human, physiology
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-04-15
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0674012836
ISBN-13: 9780674012837

In this wide-ranging book, one of the boldest thinkers in modern neuroscience confronts an ancient philosophical problem: can we know the world as it really is? Drawing on provocative new findings about the psychophysiology of perception and judgment in both human and nonhuman primates, and also on the cultural history of science, Jean-Pierre Changeux makes a powerful case for the reality of scientific progress and argues that it forms the basis for a coherent and universal theory of human rights. On this view, belief in objective knowledge is not a mere ideological slogan or a naïve con

Authors:Henry Adams, J. C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: volumes, adams, henry, letters
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $301.50
ISBN-10: 0674526864
ISBN-13: 9780674526860

Henry Adams’ letters are among the best in the language. They are, in Alfred Kazin’s words, "magnificent, his most spontaneous arid freest literary works." With the completion of this edition, they may well be judged his most significant achievement. "The letters are not a gloss on a life’s work; in a real sense they are his life’s work’ the reviewer for American Literature stated. We encounter Adams in 1892 at a turning point in his career, at the beginning of the period in which his leading ideas would he crystallized and his major literary works take shape

Authors:W. S. Gilbert, James Ellis,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: paperbacks, harvard, ballads, bab
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-04-30
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0674058011
ISBN-13: 9780674058019

W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted pallid and inoffensive drawings for the originals, which he had come to believe "erred gravely in the direction of unnecessary extravagance." Since then the

Author: Robert Goldwater
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: art, history, paperbacks, primitivism, modern
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1986-12-23
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0674704908
ISBN-13: 9780674704909

This now classic study maps the profound effect of primitive art on modern, as well as the primitivizing strain in modern art itself. Robert Goldwater describes how and why works by primitive artists attracted modern painters and sculptors, and he delineates the differences between what is truly primitive or archaic and what intentionally embodies such elements. His analysis distinguishes the romanticism of Gauguin; an emotional primitivism exemplified by the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups in Germany; the intellectual primitivism of Picasso and Modigliani; and a “primitivism of the subcon