Author: Roger G. Newton
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: physics, history, crapshoot, clockwork
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-01-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674023374
ISBN-13: 9780674023376

Science is about 6000 years old while physics emerged as a distinct branch some 2500 years ago. As scientists discovered virtually countless facts about the world during this great span of time, the manner in which they explained the underlying structure of that world underwent a philosophical evolution. From Clockwork to Crapshoot provides the perspective needed to understand contemporary developments in physics in relation to philosophical traditions as far back as ancient Greece. Roger Newton, whose previous works have been widely praised for erudition and accessibility, presents a his

Author: Frank M. Snowden
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: experience, belknap, press, roman, greco, antiquity, ethiopians, blacks
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 1971-01-07
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0674076265
ISBN-13: 9780674076266

The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alien dark- and black-skinned people were of varied tribal and geographic origins, the Greeks and Romans classified many of them as Ethiopians. In an effort to determine the role of black people in ancient civilization, Mr. Snowden examines a broad span of Greco-Roman experience--from the Homeric era to the age of Justinian--focusing his attention on the Ethiopians as they were known to the Greeks and Romans. The author dispels unwarranted generali

Authors:Joan Houston Hall, Frederic G. Cassidy,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: volume, iii, english, regional, american, dictionary
Number of Pages: 960
Published: 1996-12-01
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0674205197
ISBN-13: 9780674205192

The third volume in a popular series, based upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America as well as extensive historical research, records the unique vocabulary of different regions of the country, shown in more than five hundred maps. UP.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: library, harvard, john, law, common
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0674034023
ISBN-13: 9780674034020

Much more than an historical examination of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, and contracts, The Common Law articulates the ideas and judicial theory of one of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court. G. Edward White reminds us why the book remains essential reading not only for law students but also for anyone interested in American history. The text published is, with occasional corrections of typographical errors, identical with that found in the first and all subsequent printings by Little, Brown.

Author: Professor Gilles Kepel
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: east, middle, future, martyrdom, terror
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-11-20
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0674031385
ISBN-13: 9780674031388

Since 2001, two dominant worldviews have clashed in the global arena: a neoconservative nightmare of an insidious Islamic terrorist threat to civilized life, and a jihadist myth of martyrdom through the slaughter of infidels. Across the airwaves and on the ground, an ill-defined and uncontrollable war has raged between these two opposing scenarios. Deadly images and threats—from the televised beheading of Western hostages to graphic pictures of torture at Abu Ghraib, from the destruction wrought by suicide bombers in London and Madrid to civilian deaths at the hands of American occupation

Author: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: capitalism, industrial, dynamics, scope, scale
Number of Pages: 780
Published: 1994-03-15
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0674789954
ISBN-13: 9780674789951

"Scale and Scope" is Alfred Chandler’s first major work since his Pulitzer prize-winning "The Visible Hand". Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the US, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late 20th century’s most important developments.

Authors:Susan Ware, Stacy Braukman,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: completing, twentieth, century, volume, dictionary, american, women, biographical, notable
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2005-02-09
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 067401488X
ISBN-13: 9780674014886

"The publication of the first volumes of Notable American Women in 1971 was a watershed event in women’s history. By uncovering and documenting the enormous contributions that women had made--previously overlooked or underappreciated--this important reference work changed the way historians thought and wrote about American history.This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between January 1, 1976, and December 31, 1999. The era they shared coincides with the great expansion of opportunities for women in the twentieth century.