America Views China: American Images of China Then and Now

Johathan Goldstein

Lehigh University Press

Lehigh University: A History of Education in Engineering, Business, and the Human Condition

Education & Teaching

W. Ross Yates

Schools & Teaching

Economics and Politics of Turkish Liberalization

<p>This book provides an in-depth analysis of Turkey's 1980-90 stabilization and liberalization experience by tracing the complexities and dynamics of Turkey's unique economic and policy environments.</p>

Tevfik F. Nas

Mehmel Odekon

This collection of original historical essays examines aspects of the relationship between science and the nation's oldest academic institution. This is history as viewed from the varying perspectives of a group of scholars for whom science at Harvard University is a significant component of their ongoing research. Thus, the essays are of specialist interest, while collectively the volume is a case study of science in an institutional setting. In conducting their research, the authors have used a wealth of primary sources from the Harvard Archives and other repositories.The volume opens with a thematic introduction by Margaret Rossiter reflecting the picture of Harvard science drawn in the several papers in the volume, while suggesting ways in which a study of Harvard relates to and illuminates the history of science in America.The subsequent papers follow a generally chronological sequence, beginning with Sara Schechner Genuth's study of attitudes toward comets in relation to early Harvard University programs and functions. Mary Ann James examines the beginnings of applied science at Harvard, and Bruce Sinclair continues that theme with a comparative study of MIT and Harvard.Toby Appel's paper on zoologist Jeffries Wyman identifies the special part that personal character plays in institutional history. Curtis Hinsley concentrates on facilities and shows how the Peabody Museum gave rise to teaching in anthropology. David Livingstone's biographical treatment of Nathaniel S. Shaler reveals a number of intellectual strands running through the University in the late nineteenth century, and John Parascandola's paper on L. J. Henderson likewise deals with a figure of wide influence and many interests, ranging from biochemistry to sociology. The latter topic leads to Lawrence Nichols's account of the rise of sociology at Harvard. A view of the internal tensions within psychology are seen in Rodney Triplet's study of Henry A. Murray.I. Bernard Cohen examines the relations among Howard Aiken, IBM, and Harvard in the development of the Mark I computer, while Peggy Kidwell studies the Observatory community during World War II and its response to national defense and a developing federal support system.Finally, Clark Elliott considers the history of Harvard science as a field for study through a review of published literature and archival sources and makes suggestions for further investigation.

Science At Harvard University: Historical Perspectives

Biographies & Memoirs

Elliott, Clark A.

Professionals & Academics

<p>The humorous target of History of the Abderites is thc ignorance, backwardness, provinciality, bigotry, pedantry, lack of taste, and the sodden contentment with things as they are that Wieland found all around him.</p>

History of the Abderites

Wieland, Christoph Martin

Reference

This study discloses the intellectual context and the personal pretext of Thomas Paine's assault on religion in The Age of Reason. Illustrated.

Paine, Scripture, and Authority: The Age of Reason As Religious and Political Ideal

History

Scheick, William J.

Davidson, Edward H.

World

Sentenced to Remember is a memoir by William Kornbluth, a Polish Jew who grew up in the city of Tarnow, survived four concentration camps, and emigrated to America, where he lives today in retirement, lecturing and writing. He and his two brothers, Simon and Natan, are one of the few cases of three brothers surviving together in four successive death camps.This book is not just the story of the Holocaust as told through the eyes of a survivor. It is a literary reflection which captures the vanished world of Eastern European Jewry through the everyday events of the 1930s in a Jewish quarter. As Hitler's hate propaganda inflamed the traditional anti-Semitism of the Polish and Ukrainian population, Kornbluth's family grew up, sharing family problems, finding careers, getting married, and surviving in a provincial and dangerous world.The description of the Nazi "selection" days contains some of the most terrifying events in the memoir.Also included is the story of Bill Kornbluth's wife, Edith, another Holocaust survivor, whom he met and married in the United States. Edith's father, Pinia, was respected by the Polish peasants, and they helped him and his family to survive; they lived like animals in the large forests by the estate that Pinia had previously administered. Edith was sent out of the woods to impersonate a Christian servant. Edith's parents were betrayed and shot just weeks before the war's end.Kornbluth's story of the daily life in the death camps is a chilling reminder of the Nazi horrors. This account shows how man was able to keep his dignity in surroundings where torture and death were common occurrences.Finally, Sentenced to Remember is the story of the war's aftermath. Kornbluth and his brothers wandered about Europe, often in danger, until they settled on America as their future home. His sister Bronka's last request, to write of the past, haunted him. This book is the final result.

Sentenced To Remember: My Legacy of Life in Pre-1939 Poland and Sixty-Eight Months of Nazi Occupation

Kornbluth, William

Kornbluth, Edith

Historical

John Wesley and Marriage

This book examines the sources of Wesley's ideas about marriage and shows how these beliefs found expression in his revision of the Anglican wedding service. It also describes the differences between a typical eighteenth-century wedding and a modern church wedding. Finally, it shows how his relationships with Sophia Hopkey and Grace Murray, as well as his unhappy marriage, were affected by his beliefs about matrimony.

John Wesley And Marriage

Coe, Bufford

Machiavelli Redeemed : Retrieving His Humanist Perspectives on Equality, Power, and Glory

Literature & Fiction

Kocis, Robert

History & Criticism

Three related themes weave through the experience of the American YMCA missionaries and Japanese Christians between 1890-1930: the connection between national identity and Christianity, resulting conflicts between these Christians, and an alternating sense of crisis and progress. In the 1920s, tensions between Americans and Japanese leaders led the American YMCA missionary movement to reevaluate its purpose and forced it away from nationalism.

A World of Crisis and Progress: The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930

Jon Thares Davidann

Americas

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