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This book addresses the increasingly plural nature of American cultural identity thrugh a study of the thriving contemporary music culture of Chinese America, ranging from traditional opera to Cantonese pop and from storytelling songs about the immigrant experience to the work of academically trained composers.

By linking the institutions that support musical research, including professional associations and universities, to historical changes such as globalization and the commodification of knowledge, Korsyn undertakes a critique of musical scolarship as an institutional discourse, while contributing to a general theory of disciplinary structures.

This is a POD only reprint of a 2002 philosophy monograph, which discusses themes related to motivation and human action.

The authors offer an account of the search for life beyond Earth. They survey the work of biologists, cosmologists, computer theorists, NASA engineers, SETI researchers, roboticists, and UFO enthusiasts and debunkers as they attempt to answer the question facing humankind: Are we alone?

Combining David Lewin's articles on song and opera with chapters on songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Milton Babbitt, this collection constitutes a statement concerning the methodological problems associated with interpretation of texted music.

In the early 19th century, most of New York's farmland was controlled by a few families. In 1839, some tenants created a movement to destroy the estates and to redistribute the land. This work brings to life the voices of antebellum northern farmers as they debated social and political issues.

Examines the origins of the controversial practice of plea bargaining, a procedure that appears to reward the guilty. Contrary to popular perception of plea bargaining as an innovation or corruption of the post-World War II years, this study aims to show that the practice emerged early in the American Republic.

Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. There are separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts.

Provides an accessible introduction to early Christian monastic literature from Egypt and beyond. This book serves as a text for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses on early Christianity, the Desert Fathers, and Christian asceticism. It includes chronologies, maps, outlines, illustrations, and bibliographies.

In this study, Patricial Bonomi argues that religion was as instrumental as either politics or the economy in shaping early American life and values. This updated edition includes a new preface on research in the field on African Americans, Indians, women, and the Great Awakening, and Atlantic history and how these impact her interpretations.

Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals need to examine their own assumptions about race, culture, and politics, and makes his case through the example of literature.

The manger or Macy's? Americans might well wonder which is the real shrine of Christmas, as they take part each year in a mix of churchgoing, shopping, and family togetherness. In Christmas in America, Restad brilliantly captures the rise and transformation of our most universal national holiday.

In this book, Stich unravels - or deconstructs - the doctrine called "eliminativism". Eliminativism claims that beliefs, desires, and many other mental states we use to describe the mind do not exist, but are fiction posits of a badly mistaken theory of "folk psychology". Stich makes a u-turn in his book, opening up new and controversial positions.

This book examines the interplay between recorded music and social, political, and economic forces in the United States in the era of the phonograph's rise and decline as the dominant medium of popular recorded sound, from the appearance of the first commercial recordings to the postwar years when the industry yielded its primacy to newer forms of mass media.

Explores musical meaning, music's critical function in human lives, and the relationship between listening and musical material. This work outlines an "ecological approach" to understand the perception of music, arguing that the way we hear and understand music is not a function of our brain structure or of the musical codes given to us.

Explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. This book draws on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporates insights from feminist theory and queer studies. It argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon and that it does not exist in all cultures.

Starting from the botanical craze inspired by Linnaeus in the18th century, and exploring the variations it spawned - natural history, landscape architecture, polemical battles over botany's prurience - this study offers a fresh, detailed reading of the courtship novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot and Henry James.

Omar Bartov argues that war, genocide and modern identity have been intimately linked. By comparing German, French and Jewish sources, this book demonstrates the need to view the Holocaust within the context of our era's predilection to resolve its conflicts over identity by massive application of destructive technologies.

This book refurbishes the traditional account of freedom of will as guided 'agent' causation, situating its account within a general metaphysics. O'Connor's discussion of the general concept of causation and of ontological reductionism v. emergence should specially interest metaphysicians and philosophers of mind.

Charles Townes is one of the leading figures in 20th-century physics, inventor of the maser and the laser, and one of the pioneers in the use of spectroscopic techniques to determine the atomic composition of stars. This book is the memoir of a life devoted to scientific research, and also to the application of this research in the public sphere.

John Horty effectively develops deontic logic (the logic of ethical concepts like obligation and permission) against the background of a formal theory of agency. He incorporates certain elements of decision theory to set out a new deontic account of what agents ought to do under various conditions over extended periods of time.

The inhabitants of the former kingdom of Garhwal, located in north India are deeply devoted to the great Indian national epic, the "Mahabharata". This book opens a window on a fascinating (and threatened) aspect of rural Indian life and Hinduism as a living religion, and provides an accessible introduction to the "Mahabharata" itself.

Most biologists use nonlinear regression more than any other statistical technique, but there are very few places to learn about curve-fitting. This book, by the author of the very successful Intuitive Biostatistics, addresses this relavtively focused need of an extraordinarily broad range of scientists.

Philipp W. Rosemann begins by demonstrating how the Book of Sentences grew out of a long tradition of Christian reflection rooted in Scripture, which by the 12th century had become ready to transform itself into a theological system. Turning to the Sentences , Rosemann then offers a brief exposition of the Lombard's life and work.

This layman's guide to the workings of the immune system uses stories and examples to emphasize exactly what occurs in such immunological disorders as hypersensitivity and allergy, autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiency, AIDS, transplantation and cancer.

Explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas on the basis of common structures and functions of human thought. This book describes the evolutionary forces that molded the modern human mind. It details many adapted features of the brain, illustrating their operation with examples of everyday human behavior.

Addressing the issues surrounding essentialism from the perspective of developmental psychology, this book examines children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. Synthesizing 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, it is aimed at developmental, cognitive and social psychologists, and others.

In 680 CE, the prophet Muhammad's grandson, Husain, led a small band of followers in rebellion against the caliph, Yazid. Husain and his followers were slain at Karbala leading to the split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. This book traces the development of the story from the earliest historical sources to the beginning of the 21st century.

The floodplain forests of the Amazon are among the most threatened habitats in South America. This habitat contains a marvellous variety of plant and animal resources that inhabitants have long reaped. This book explores the natural history knowledge of the floodplain inhabitants and how we might better use their knowledge to promote conservation.