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Mother-Infant Bonding
A Scientific Fiction
Two decades ago two pediatricians published a series of articles and books arguing that mothers and their infants must be physically close immediately after birth in order for their future relationship to develop properly....
The Jews of Germany
A Historical Portrait
This unique book provides a panoramic overview of a now extinct culture: the 1500-year history of the Jews in Germany. Through texts, pictures, and contemporary accounts, it follows the German Jews from their first...
Carausius and Allectus
The British Usurpers
Between A.D. 286 and 296, the Gallo-Roman military commander Carausius and his successor Allectus ruled Roman Britain, forming a renegade government there that threatened the stability of the Roman Empire. Constantius Chlorus...
Dean Acheson
The Cold War Years, 1953-71
Dean Acheson is best remembered as President Harry Truman's powerful secretary of state, the American father of NATO, and a major architect of U.S. foreign policy in the decade following the Second World War. But Acheson...
The Baltic Revolution
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
World attention has focused on the newly independent Baltic states of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, as they struggle to become politically and economically viable. In this timely book, Anatol Lieven presents an intimate and...
Ignatius of Loyola
The Psychology of a Saint
Ignatius of Loyola—knight and saint, mystic and ascetic, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)—was one of the greatest figures in Western Christianity. This book, written by a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who is also a...
The World of the Swahili
An African Mercantile Civilization
The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. In this book a leading Africanist presents the first full-length anthropological account of the Swahili and...
The Land Called Holy
Palestine in Christian History and Thought
From the time of Jesus, Palestine has been an integral part of the Christian experience. Not only have Christians always lived in Palestine, but more important, since the fourth century Christians gradually came to see...
London and the Invention of the Middle East
Money, Power, and War, 1902-1922
In the first quarter of the twentieth century, the British Government, the banks, and leading individuals in London reached historic decisions that determined the name, shape, nature, and future of the region known as the...
Two Chinese Treatises on Calligraphy: Treatise on Calligraphy (Shu pu) Sun Qianl
Sequel to the "Treatise on Calligraphy" (Xu shu pu) Jiang Kui
Shu pu, completed in 687, and Xu shu pu, written in 1208, are outstanding among early treatises on calligraphy. Chang Ch'ung-ho and Hans H. Frankel introduce and provide translations and annotations for these...