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Complete Poems
Discovered in an Egyptian papyrus in 1896, the lyrics of Bacchylides are one of the great treasures of Greek poetry. These exquisite choral odes celebrate victories in the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic games and...
Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm
China in Tigers` Jaws
This fascinating book presents eyewitness accounts of a turbulent period in Chinese history: the fall of the Ming dynasty and the conquest of China by the Manchus in the mid-seventeenth century. Lynn A. Struve has translated,...
Faces of History
Historical Inquiry from Herodotus to Herder
In this book, one of the world’s leading intellectual historians offers a critical survey of Western historical thought and writing from the pre-classical era to the late eighteenth century. Donald R. Kelley focuses on...
Literature Lost
Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities
In the span of less than a generation, university humanities departments have experienced an almost unbelievable reversal of attitudes, now attacking and undermining what had previously been considered best and most worthy in...
From Soul to Mind
The Emergence of Psychology, from Erasmus Darwin to William James
Early in the nineteenth century, psychology was considered a science of the soul; by the end of the century, it had abandoned the soul to become a science of the mind, says Edward Reed. In this lively and original account of...
American Chronicle
Year by Year Through the Twentieth Century
This mesmerizing book is the ultimate American almanac, a unique record of life in the United States since 1900. For the first time, all the news, entertainment, art, literature, science and technology, sports, and fashion...
The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece
In this provocative book, Edward Schiappa argues that rhetorical theory did not originate with the Sophists in the fifth century B.C.E, as is commonly believed, but came into being a century later. Schiappa examines closely...
What a Blessing She Had Chloroform
The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present
This book describes in fascinating detail the history of the use of anesthesia in childbirth and in so doing offers a unique perspective on the interaction between medical science and social values. Dr. Donald Caton traces...
German Jews
A Dual Identity
When the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig entitled his 1926 collection of essays on Jewish and universal cultural topics Zweistromland—a land of two rivers—he meant to underscore, indeed celebrate, the fact...
Environmental Cancer—A Political Disease?
Media reports on environmental cancer are frequent and frightening. Public policy—and public spending—reflect widespread concern over the presence of carcinogens in our air and water and food. Yet how reliable is mass media...