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.

Authors:Adams Family, Richard Alan Ryerson, Joanna Revelas, C
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: adams, amp, december, correspondence, family, series, vols, papers
Number of Pages: 621
Published: 1992-12-01
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 067400406X
ISBN-13: 9780674004061

"I cannot O! I cannot be reconciled to living as I have done for 3 years past… Will you let me try to soften, if I cannot wholy) releave you, from your Burden of Cares and perplexities?’’ So begins Abigail Adams’ correspondence to her husband in these volumes: a plea to end their long separation, as John Adams represented the United States in Europe while Abigail tended to family and farm in Massachusetts, and passed on to John Crucial political information from Congress. In October 1782, the Adams family was as widely scattered as it would ever be, with young Joh

Author: James Coleman
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: theory, social, foundations
Number of Pages: 1014
Published: 1998-08-19
List price: $45.50
ISBN-10: 0674312260
ISBN-13: 9780674312265

Combining principles of individual rational choice with a sociological conception of collective action, James Coleman recasts social theory in a bold new way. The result is a landmark in sociological theory, capable of describing both stability and change in social systems. This book provides for the first time a sound theoretical foundation for linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior and then to society as a whole. The power of the theory is especially apparent when Coleman analyzes corporate actors, such as large corporations and trade unions. He examines the crea

Author: David Kaiser
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: kennedy, john, assassination, dallas, road
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2008-03-31
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0674027663
ISBN-13: 9780674027664

Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. This is the unvarnished story. With deft investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the U.S. government’s campaign against organized crime, which began in the late 1950s and accelerated dramatically under Robert Kennedy; and the furtive quest of two administrations—along with a cadre of private interest groups—to elim

Authors:William Lloyd Garrison, Walter M. Merrill, Louis Ruc
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: rouse, slumbering, land, volume, garrison, william, lloyd, letters
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 1981-06-29
List price: $108.50
ISBN-10: 067452666X
ISBN-13: 9780674526662

This is the sixth and final volume collecting the letters of an outstanding figure in American history. During the years when these letters were written, Garrison was secure, both financially and in his reputation as distinguished abolitionist. Although officially retired, he remained vigorously concerned with issues crucial to him--the relationship of the races, woman suffrage, temperance, national and international affairs, and, above all, his family. He writes about the Alabama Claims and the proposed annexation of Santo Domingo, aligning himself with the Radical Republicans. His lette

Author: Jay Taylor
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: china, belknap, press, modern, struggle, chiang, kai, shek, generalissimo
Number of Pages: 736
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0674033388
ISBN-13: 9780674033382

One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, civil conflict, and wars of resistance against Japanese aggression. In 1949, when he was defeated by Mao Zedong—his archrival for leadership of