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A discussion of the history of the discovery that language is controlled by the brain, and thus somehow located in it, and the subsequent efforts of scientists in many areas to understand what language is, how the brain "contains" it, and how both language and the brain could have evolved.

"With consummate skill and an impressive command of sources . . . Peterson reconstructs this colorful aspect of America's sporting past accurately and with great immediacy" ("Kirkus Reviews"). "For lovers of football there are a number of volumes worth gift wrapping. (This one) might well top the list".--"Sports Illustrated". 22 illustrations.

Roswell Lamson was one of the boldest and most skilful young officers in the Union navy, commanding more ships and flotillas than any other officer of his age or rank and climaxed by his captaincy of the navy's fastest ship in 1864, "USS Gettysburg". This volume presents his war-time letters.

Reports on the results of interviews with over 2000 university undergraduates, law and medical students about their sexual behaviour, and of an additional 200 personal interviews with adults aged 25-60. Concludes that the sexes are still swayed by evolutionary constraints and emotional alarms that remind them of how to make mating choices.

This study approaches the Puritan experience in church government from the perspective of both the pew and the pulpit. The author has immersed himself in local manuscript church records and these previously untapped documents provide a glimpse of lay-clerical relations in colonial Massachusetts.

In 'Forced Justice', David J. Armor explores the entire range of controversial issues in school desegregation policy, including evolving Supreme Court doctrines, the educational and social impacts of desegregation, and the effectiveness of mandatory versus voluntary desegregation methods, including magnet schools.

In the 1740s and 50s Eliza Haywood, novelist, edited several serial newspapers, including "The Female Spectator", which was written with a markedly female audience in mind. This text contains selections of this modern periodical both written by a woman and addressed to a female audience.

Shelley's second novel, focuses on the intricate details of 13th-century Tuscan politics, with a resolute filtering of the bloody heroics of the age through the sensibilities of two women who are destroyed by them. A feminist perspective so conspicuously missing from "Frankenstein" is revealed.

A study of the complaints of medical patients in rural Bangladesh, and how they are connected to and reveal the patient's social world, social relations, sense of self, ideology of language and his/her relation to power. It also focuses on the troubles besetting genres of complaint in Bangladesh.

Understanding consciousness is perhaps the most difficult puzzle facing the sciences. Combining psychology with brain science, this book offers an introduction to the field, weaving together the various theories that have emerged as scientists continue their quest to uncover the mysteries of the mind - and of human nature.

Nineteenth-century American writers frequently cast the Mormon as a stock villain in various genres of popular fiction. The Mormons were depicted as a violent and perverse people. Applying the methods of literary criticism, Givens shows how the image of the Mormon as a religious and social `Other' was constructed.

The repeated efforts by French slaves in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth century to legally seek their freedom left a rich tale of how the demand for freedom paradoxically leads to both the broadening of civil rights and the fostering of racial prejudice. Peabody tells this tale in a lively, informative, and anecdotal narrative.

This text is intended for sociologists and anthropologists interested in ethnicity, community and integration amongst Asian Indian immigrants.

This study looks at the music and history of progressive rock, a genre criticized for its privileged, upper-middle class roots. By using an interdisciplinary approach it shows how progressive rock served as a vital cultural expression of the counterculture of the late 1960s and 1970s in England.

How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism? How can an artistic individual function professionally in so threatening a climate? This text provides a detailed study of the often interrelated careers of eight outstanding German composers who lived and worked amid the Third Reich.

In this text, the author recounts modern visions of Jesus, as described to him by 30 contemporary visionaries, reviewing recent biblical scholarship on the subject and examining the current literature on the psychology and neurology of visual hallucinations.

Between 1391 and the end of the 15th century, many Spanish Jews were forced to convert to Christianity, though many maintained clandestine ties to Judaism. This study demonstrates the role played by the crypto-Jewish women of Castile in the perpetuation of crypto-Jewish traditions and culture.

David Hume is generally credited with the classic statement of the "compatibilist" position in the free will dispute. In this study it is argued that Hume's views on this subject, although largely influential, have nevertheless been seriously misrepresented.

This collection of essays reflects on the piano teacher's art and the many challenges involved in piano teaching and performance. The topics range from the role of the piano teacher in contemporary society to basic skills such as inner hearing, improvization and sight-reading.

This book is a collection of letters from James B. Griffin, a wealthy planter from Edgfield, South Carolina. With a strong introduction from the editors, this book recounts an officer's Civil War and provides a social and military history.

This volume explores homosexuality in eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century France. Examining the evolution of behaviour, identities, and representation in the period when homosexuality, in the modern sense of the term, emerged, the essays outline the development of homosexual subcultures and patterns of sexual repression and liberation.

Tannen collects five of her published essays on gender and language, which provide a background as well as a response to her bestselling You Just Don't Understand (1990). She adds an introduction that discusses the surprising reactions to that book and explains how these essays deal with the questions raised by the book's critics.

This work examines judicial power as an integral part of America's increasingly anxious and intolerant society. Nagel argues that judicial decisions are often an effort to stifle disagreement and to censor important beliefs and important traditions. Covering controversial topics, the analysis crosses conventional political and philosophic lines.

The 17th century saw a dramatic development in mathematical theory and practice. This is an account of the foundational issues raised in the relationship between mathematical advances of the period and the philosophy of mathematics.

This work applies the modern debate between realism and anti-realism to the question of the nature of law. Starting from the question "What is legal knowledge?" it examines the answers provided by theories of jurisprudence, concluding that they are all bound up with the nature of justification.

By exploring Warren County's history, Morris traces the evolution of Old South society from its pioneer origins to its end at the onset of the Civil War. This is a study of a society's development, a snapshot of a people and community in crisis, which challenges many accepted notions of what we have come to understand as Southern culture.

This treatise refutes the assumption that early Christians were opposed in principle to visual images and thus did not produce art. It shows that once Christians acquired legal status and were able to own property and places of worship, they started to produce art as decoration.

Floyd has written a path-breaking book on the development of African-American music and its influence in America. He shows how African myths and ritual - especially the "ring-shout" dances that were ubiquitous in West Africa - have underlain the development of all black music in America. It puts black music - and American music in general - into a new and exciting perspective.

Investigates what motivated Wittgenstein's philosophical writing, throwing light on the "Tractatus" and "Philosophical Investigations". This book is an exposition of Wittgenstein's early conception of the nature of representation and how his later revision and criticism of that work led to a radically different way of looking at mind and language.

As a novelist, essayist, dramatist and poet, Judith Sargent Murray candidly and often humorously asserted her opinions about the social and political conditions of women in late 18th-century America. This volume includes selections from "The Gleaner", her major work, and other publications.