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.

Authors:Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: revolution, last, mao
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0674027485
ISBN-13: 9780674027480

The Cultural Revolution was a watershed event in the history of the People’s Republic of China, the defining decade of half a century of communist rule. Before 1966, China was a typical communist state, with a command economy and a powerful party able to keep the population under control. But during the Cultural Revolution, in a move unprecedented in any communist country, Mao unleashed the Red Guards against the party. Tens of thousands of officials were humiliated, tortured, and even killed. Order had to be restored by the military, whose methods were often equally brutal. In a maste

Authors:Bruno Halioua, Bernard Ziskind,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: pharaohs, days, medicine
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-04-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0674017021
ISBN-13: 9780674017023

At the temple of Kom Ombo near Aswan, an enigmatic frieze depicts the deified pharaoh Imhotep receiving a set of elaborate implements, some of which strikingly resemble modern surgical instruments: side by side with eye-of-Horus amulets one finds what surely must be forceps. Evidence of the medical practice of ancient Egypt has come down to us not only in pictorial art but also in papyrus scrolls, in funerary inscriptions, and in the mummified bodies of ancient Egyptians themselves. Bruno Halioua and Bernard Ziskind provide a comprehensive account of pharaonic medicine that is illuminated

Author: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: beauty, athletic, praise
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-04-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 067402172X
ISBN-13: 9780674021723

By the hundreds of millions we show up, stand in line, turn on, and tune in to watch, mesmerized, as athletes perform. And yet this experience, so widely craved and intensely felt, we commonly dismiss as "only a game." A book that looks beyond the usual explanations of why sports fascinates, In Praise of Athletic Beauty also strives for a language that can frame--even enhance --the pleasure we take in watching athletic events. The vicarious thrill, anxiety release, competitive spirit: in place of these traditional answers to the mystery of sports’ allure, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht prop

Author: Pierre Hadot
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: idea, nature, history, essay, isis, veil
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674023161
ISBN-13: 9780674023161

Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus’ words. Over time, Hadot finds, "Nature loves to hide" has mean

Author: Roger Chartier
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: passions, renaissance, iii, volume, private, life, history
Number of Pages: 655
Published: 1993-10-15
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 067440002X
ISBN-13: 9780674400023

All the mystery, earthiness and romance of the Middle Ages are captured in this panorama of everyday life. The evolving concepts of intimacy are explored--from the semi-obscure eleventh century through the first stirrings of the Renaissance world in the fifteenth century. Color and black-and-white illustrations.