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In a steamy colonial city, an eccentric Frenchman offers for sale an extraordinary collection of primitive art. The two anthropologists called in to appraise the pieces for the national museum quickly find themselves in a world where the boundaries of authenticity and deception blur in the tropical heat.

This collection of essays on women in China captures a pivotal moment in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue, examining gender issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Topics covered include learned women in the 18th century, sexuality, women's consciousness, and literature.

Many debates on ethical issues in medicine have not been resolved. This text claims that the debates are the result of liberal political values. It proposes an alternative ideology, a communitarianism with a federation of political communities to guide the formulation of laws.

In 1832, Emerson made his famous decision to pursue wholeness in his life and in his writing. The Emerson Museum shows how this undertaking transformed American literary practice by turning the legacy of European romanticism into a writing project answerable to American urgencies.

This is the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, one of the three Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts, and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann. It traces the intricate private life and extraordinary career of one of 19th-century America's most important Transcendental writers and educational reformers.

In this finely written companion to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, Bonnie Costello gives a compelling use of Bishop and her ways of seeing and writing.

This modern biography reveals in Eleanor a greatness of vision, an intelligence, and a political sagacity that have been missed by those who have dwelt on her caprice and frivolity. It also brings to life the whole period in whose every aspect the queen and her four kings were so intimately and influentially involved.

Award-winning science writer Goldsmith clearly lays out what we currently know about the universe as a whole. Richly illustrated with photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, this book puts the biggest subject of all-the story of the universe as scientists understand it-within the grasp of English-speaking earthlings.

Generated by the use of fossil energy, respirable-sized particles pose a major threat to our environment and health. In this book the hypothesis that fossil fuels are the primary culprit is examined in detail, including the nature, generation, and transport of particulate air pollution.

The letters begin when the 27-year-old poet writes gratefully to the stranger who has expressed appreciation of his first book of poems. Soon he was carrying on an intense correspondence with the woman he described as "infernally bright and not at all ugly," and "too old to give me a chance to bother myself with any sentimental uneasiness."

This work on the colloquy presents the dialectical complexities of the sixteenth-century theology--a theology that had emerged with binding strands of religious idealism and political interest. Theology was, indeed, the medium of discourse, but it was not an end in itself. Rather, it was a means to a higher goal: religious reconciliation.

This book contains 18 contributions by leaders in the field of ecology, all associates of Robert MacArthur, whose work has stimulated many recent developments in ecology. These papers offer new models for ecological processes, new applications of theoretical and quantitative techniques, and new methods for analyzing and interpreting empirical data.

The doyen of Confucian studies in America here constructs a magisterial overview of 3,000 years of East Asian civilizations, principally in the form of dialogues among the major systems of thought that have dominated the Asian world's historical development.

Presents recent findings of neurobiological research suggesting a link between seemingly minor brain abnormalities and epilepsy, learning disorders and autism. This volume includes suggestions for a more enlightened understanding and effective treatment of dyslexia.

Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge argues that statutory interpretation changes in response to new political alignments, new interpreters, and new ideologies.

The tasks of macroeconomics are to interpret observations and to predict the consequences of alternatives. General equilibrium models form a context for analysis, and Sargent describes some that are built to help interpret time-series of observations of economic aggregates and to predict the consequences of alternative government interventions.

Contemporary Afro-American theatre is an exciting spectacle of an emerging black identity during a period when blacks have come to the forefront of political activity in the United States. Genevieve Fabre brings us the vast and rich production of black drama since 1945, placing it in historical and cultural context as a platform for political statement.

In a subtle and penetrating cultural history, Patterson examines reactions to the disease through a century of American life. Readers interested in the cultural dimensions of science and medicine as well as historians, sociologists, and political scientists will be enlightened and challenged by this book.

An activist who disdained the women's rights and antislavery movements, Dix, an old-line Whig, sought to promote national harmony and became the only New England social reformer to work successfully in the lower South right up to the eve of secession.