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Robert Noyce was a brilliant inventor, a leading entrepreneur and a daring risk taker, who piloted his own jets and skied mountains accessible only by helicopter. This book captures not only this colorful individual, but also the vibrant interplay of technology, business, money, politics and culture that defines the Silicon Valley.

The Creole Band, which existed from 1914-1918, was the first important jazz band, bringing jazz to the wider American public, from California to Massachusetts. This is the first history of the important group, written by a renowned scholar of early jazz.

Addressing whether Socrates was a hedonist, the author examines the passages in Plato's early dialogues that are the most disputed on the topic. He maintains that Socrates identifies pleasant activity with virtuous activity, describing Socrates' hedonism as one of activity, not sensation.

This is a fascinating examination of the explosion of black television programming in the 1980s and 1990s. Locating a persistent black nationalist desire - yearning for home and community - in the shows produced by and for African Americans in this period, Zook shows how the Fox hip-hop sitcom both reinforced and rebelled against earlier black sitcoms from the sixties and seventies.

'Hindu God, Christian God' offers an in-depth study of key themes common to the Hindu and Christian religious traditions. It redefines how we think about Hinduism, comparative study, and Christian theology. It invites not only Hindus and Christians, but also theologians from all religious traditions, to enter into conversation with one another.

This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a 'total' or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that Tamil religion is primarily concerned with transformations of identity and subjectivity, both in this world and in the hereafter.

In its nuanced examination of a wide variety of Victorian theories of mind, including physiognomy, physiology, associationism, and cognitive philosophies, 'Amnesiac Selves' draws a portrait of the interaction between psychology and the novel in the years 1810-1870.

Draws on a rich variety of previously untapped archival sources to reconstruct the religious world of the lay people. Focusing on various "centres" of their religious life - the temple, chapels, feasts, icons, and the Virgin Mary - the author follows the religious processes and communal dynamics that lent these centres meaning.

The Politics of Language surveys and analyses the historical background of recent controversies over language in the United States, and compares the US to two official multilingual societies: Canada and Switzerland. This accessible book will be suitable for courses in linguistics, political science, and sociology.

Resisting Hitler is the dramatic and tragic story of an American woman who gave her life as a member of the German resistance.

Soren Kierkegaard's "Works of Love", a series of deliberations on the commandment to love one's neighbour, has often been condemned by critics. This book seeks to rehabilitate "Works of Love" as one of Kierkegaard's important works. It shows that Soren's deliberations on love are highly relevant to some important themes in contemporary ethics.

The Beatles as Musicians is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered study of every aspect of the group's musical life-composition, performance, recording and reception histories-in its transcendent late period, from 1966 to 1970. Richly authoritative interpretations are interwoven through a documentary study of many thousands of audio and other sources.

The first modern, full-length commentary of Hecuba suitable for classroom use, this edition also contains material directed to more advanced students and to scholars. It includes an introduction, appendix on lyric meters, bibliography, and index.

Amateur, no make that professional logophile and word origins website editor Wilton corrects the mistakes many of us make in what we believe are the origins of words and phrases. He begins by examining the origins of these fallacies, and why we persist in perpetuating them. Fully armed, he then goe

A comprehensive volume on all facets of vocal performance, which considers in detail established vocal techniques, the specifics of interpretation and communication, the factors contributing to career preparation and maintenance, and the application of functional information to the art of singing.

This book has two major emphases: it is an analysis of the methods employed by social scientists, historians, and literary critics in the study of African American religion; and it is a constructive theological statement regarding African American religion. The Negro Spiritual serves as the source material for both purposes.

Explores the changing, hidden face of the Afro-Brazilian indigenous religion of Candomble. This book offers a look at the development, beliefs, and practices of Candomble, and explores its transformation from a secret society of slaves - hidden, persecuted, and marginalized - to a public religion that is very much part of Brazilian culture.

Muslims are the second largest religious group in much of Europe and northern America. The essays in this collection look both at the impact of the growing Muslim population on Western societies, and how Muslims are adpating to life in the west.

Third revised edition, previously published in 1973 by Harper Collins, of a collection of texts stressing the universal themes of mythology. They range from the Bible to English literature, to C Jung and others, to illustrate the archetypal aspects of the universal hero. This edition includes heroine myths and an updated bibliography.

The philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question "What is art?" to the question "What is art for?"; to describe the social and historical situation of art; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. This book offers an argument that music exemplifies the condition of art.

G.R. Evans provides a concise introduction to St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), a major figure on the 12th-century monastic and theological scene. After an overview of his life, Evans focuses on his theologies, such as his theology of the political life of the Church and of spirituality.

In this fifth volume of Starr's history of California life and culture, the focus is on the positive aspects of California life during the 1930s - especially how the state developed a style of life that would greatly influence American society as a whole.

Passion and Reason draws on four decades of research to bring readers the first book to move beyond both clinical jargon and 'feel-good' popular psychology to explain how emotions are aroused, how they are managed, and how they critically shape views of ourselves and the world around us.

The theme of McLuhan's book is the distinction between two quite different traditions of reasoning which have grown up in Western and Eastern countries, and how global communications have brought these two traditions into contact.

This work argues that slave resistance was much more prevalent and widespread than has usually been attributed, and, specifically, that slaves attempted to run away from their masters whenever they could. It examines contemporary documents to how slaves resisted and the punishments they were meted.

Kurt Goedel was the greatest logician of this century. This third volume of his collected works consists of previously unpublished material, both essays and lectures.

This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.