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This volume seeks to go far beyond specialized debates about the alleged superiority of Western traditions. The culmination of Sahlins's ethnohistorical research on Hawaii, is a reaffirmation for understanding difference.

In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. This is a biography of Owen.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is famous for his work in physical geography, botanical geography, and climatology, and his role as a popularizer of the sciences. This volume traces Humboldt's biographical identities through Germany's collective past to shed light on the historical instability of our scientists.

One thing the author hardly ever wrote or talked about was his private life, especially the time he shared with his first wife, Carol. She was the love of his life. His public tribute to Carol was a heart-wrenching column written on what would have been her forty-fifth birthday, "November Farewell." This book tells their story.

A collection of early columns from the "Chicago Daily News" that ranges from witty social commentary to politically astute satire.

From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns, this book delivers two dozen essays that revolve around the themes and obsessions that have characterized Rotella's writing from the start: boxing, music, writers, and cities.

Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy, history of art, culture and garden examples to explore the magical lure of gardens. The text plays special attention to the landscape gardens of 18th-century England.

Provides a portrait of the authors' views on history, philosophy, rhetoric, and religion as well as on their writings and professors. This title discusses the differences between Judaism and Christianity and the reasons the authors have chosen their respective faiths.

By analyzing the trial of Charles Guiteau, who assassinated US President Garfield in 1881, this text explores insanity and criminal responsibility in the late-19th century. Although the role of genetics in behaviour had been accepted, the trial debated whether heredity influenced Guiteau's actions.

The exhibition Echoes of the Past draws upon the findings of a multiyear research project headed by Katherine R. Tsiang at the University of Chicago's Center for the Arts of East Asia. This exhibition catalog features entries with full-color illustrations of the works in the exhibition.

Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in unexpected ways. This title offers an idiosyncratic look at innovative forms of cultural production taking place across the region.

Different eras experience art in different ways. This title uses a selection of prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and recorded music to demonstrate how technological developments and changing social settings transformed the French experience of art in the nineteenth century.

This text raises questions about artistic freedom and censorship. Wu Hung uses the Chinese government's cancellation of the exhibition "It's Me", Beijing 1998, to anchor his analysis of the challenges face by contemporary Chinese artisits and curators.

This catalogue documents the projects the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art commissioned Mark Dion, Peter Fend and Dan Peterman to explore the interrelationships between humans and a specific group of sites: a museum building, a river landscape and a university campus.

The essays in this work explore the influence of antiquity on a broad spectrum of artistic production in Europe, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. It includes investigations of proto-scientific imagery, Ovidian myth, allegorical devices, and the growing influence of Ancient Greece.

Chronicles the author's immersion in the fight world, from the brutal classroom of the gym to the spectacle of fight night. An award-winning writer and ringside veteran, he unearths the hidden wisdom in any kind of fight, from barroom brawl to HBO extravaganza. In this book he makes the fight world relevant to us, whether we're fans or not.

In mathematics, 'buildings' are geometric structures that represent groups of Lie type over an arbitrary field. This book presents an introduction to mathematical buildings. It is suitable for those doing research or teaching courses on Lie-type groups, on finite groups, or on discrete groups.

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity. This title examines two texts - Alain de Lille's "De planctu Naturae" and "Guillaume de Lorris" and Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose".

Nuclear astrophysics is, in essence, a science that attempts to understand and explain the physical universe beyond the Earth by studying its smallest particles. This text serves as a basic introduction to these endeavors. It provides students and scientists a survey of the accomplishments, goals, and methods of nuclear astrophysics.