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Ezra Pound here recreates for the English-speaking world the great poetry of ancient China. The 305 odes of the Classic Anthology are the living tradition of Chinese poetry. Since the fifth century before Christ, they have been as familiar to literate Chinese as the Homeric poems were to the ancient Greeks. Indeed, Confucius held that no man was truly educated until he had studied the odes.

Adam Kuper reframes debates about human origin and reconsiders the fundamental questions of anthropology. Balancing biological and cultural perspectives, Kuper reviews our various beliefs, the history of human culture, genes and intelligence, the nature of the gender differences, and the foundations of human politics.

Muriel Gillick, a noted physician who specializes in the care of the elderly and in medical ethics, presents a panoply of stories drawn from her clinical experience and develops broad guidelines for medical decision making for the elderly.

The complex cultural status of Chopin-he was a native Pole and adopted Frenchman, a male composer writing in "feminine" genres-is the subject of Kallberg's absorbing book. Combining social history, literary theory, musicology, and feminist thought, this book situates Chopin's music within the construct of his somewhat marginal sexual identity.

An introductory essay in this book interrelates the writer's diverse concerns, and also analyzes discussions generated by the original papers, focusing on the underlying issues of economic analysis and methods.

This work examines the significance of the local-self-government movement in China between 1898 and 1911. It argues that it was separate from the phenomenon of provincial assemblies and constitutionalism in general.

Suppression and thaw have marked the course of communism in China. Goldman traces that shifting pattern over the last decades of Mao's regime, linking it to the role of the intellectual in government. Her account of relations between intellectuals and governing elites offers insight into more recent events in the history of the People's Republic.

These writings, representing over a generation of work by one of our most acute commentators on Chinese history, are collected here for the first time and introduced with a masterly prologue. Benjamin Schwartz brings all of the complexity surrounding modernity to his analysis of the millennial political, social, and cultural history of China.

The authors in this book, taking full advantage of the new freedom of inquiry, shed light on the Chinese experience, elaborating not only on the vast changes sweeping all sectors of Chinese society, but also on the tradition that has persisted.

"Mind" is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture, enabling them to make sense of the world. Astington provides a valuable overview of current research and of the consequences of this discovery for intellectual and social development.

Octavio Paz launches a far-ranging excursion into the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From the perspective of a Spanish-American and a poet, he explores the opposite meanings that the word "modern" has held for poets and philosophers, artists, and scientists. Tracing the beginnings of the modern poetry movement to the pre-Romantics, Paz outlines its course as a contradictory dialogue between the poetry of the Romance and Germanic languages. He discusses at length the unique character of Anglo-American "modernism" within the avant-garde movement, and especially vis-à-vis French and Spanish-American poetry. Finally he offers a critique of our era's attitude toward the concept of time, affirming that we are at the "twilight of the idea of the future." He proposes that we are living at the end of the avant-garde, the end of that vision of the world and of art born with the first Romantics.

Thornton surveys research from a broad range of perspectives in order to explore why successful problem-solving depends less on how smart we are-or, as the pioneering psychologist Jean Piaget claimed, how advanced is our skill in logical reasoning-and more on the factual knowledge we acquire as we learn and interpret cues from the world around us.

The culmination of 20 years of research, this book is a cross-cultural exploration of how age, gender and culture affect the development of social behaviour in children.

Chernyshevskii (1828-1889), a pivotal figure in the Russian protest movement after the Crimean War, was esteemed by Marx and Lenin. This first thorough treatment of Chernyshevskii in English is a biography and a presentation of his views on philosophy, aesthetics and literary criticism, economics and social relations, politics and revolution.

Described as one of the most influential American literary figures of the mid-20th century and a near-prophet of the Black Mountain School, Olson was highly regarded as both a theorist and a poet. Here is an examination of Olson's understanding of poetry that provides the framework needed for understanding his work.

This unique account of the life of Charles Follen--German nationalist and revolutionary, Harvard professor, Unitarian minister, and abolitionist--opens a window on several worlds during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Here is a book that takes up where Max Weber left off in his study of charisma and extends the theory with insights from other disciplines and new empirical data. Madsen and Snow demonstrate that magnetic personalities must have willing followers, finding support for their argument in the rise of Juan Peron and the Peronistas in Argentina.

Brown explores the scope and substance of the practice called channeling as a window on the persistent New Age movement. He offers a lively firsthand assessment of the hopes, fears, and obsessions of the thousands of Americans who have abandoned mainstream religions in search of direct and improvisational contact with spiritual beings.

Although cerebral dominance was discovered in the 1860s, almost nothing was known for many years about its biological foundations, the study of which has undergone a revolution in the past decade and a half. Geschwind and Galaburda have assembled a distinguished group of investigators, each a pioneer in some aspect of the biology of dominance.

Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.

The Caring Child provides the most current account of our understanding of the motivations behind prosocial behaviors and how these motives develop and are elicited. Eisenberg broadens our concept of the moral potential of children and shifts the focus from censoring antisocial behaviors to the active promotion of kindness and caring in children.

Ritchie demonstrates that even dashing scoundrels were slaves to economics in this lively history of piracy. He focuses on the shadowy figure of William Kidd, whose career in the late 17th century swept him from the Caribbean to New York, to London, to the Indian Ocean before he ended in Newgate prison and on the gallows.