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The real Hans Spemann, German embryologist (1869-1941), developed a concept of embryonic induction through his experiments on early amphibian embryos which demonstrated neural induction by the primary organizer and evocation of the lens by the optic vesicle.

Discusses a wide range of story motifs and retells their basic patterns. In this book, the author discusses the background to his own study of the folktale. It includes an index to tale types classified according to the main story motifs which can be used for reference.

The fifty-year career of John Ford (1895-1973) included six Academy Awards, four New York Film Critics' Awards, and some of our most memorable films, among them The Informer (1934), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Quiet Man (1952), The Long Gray Line (1955), and The Wings of Eagles (1957). This book includes interviews with John Ford.

A classic of social and political theory. This book contains the physiological theory underlying Montesquieu's theory of climate.

Includes a collection of 168 documents in the form of official letters from military personnel, Indian Agents, and articles in California newspapers dating from 1847 to 1865 dealing with the treatment of California Indians.

Los Angeles, City of Angels. A city with a remarkable history, over 200 years old. This title includes over 100 essays on Los Angeles.

South American mythology belongs to the spiritual inheritance of mankind on par with the great masterpieces of Greek and Roman antiquity and of the Near and Far East. This book contains source material for those who wish to study South American indigenous narratives.

Both American Indians and the pioneers knew and used many different plant species - for food, fibers, medicine, tools, and other purposes. This book offers guidance to identify more than 220 such plants. It also tells the reader how to prepare, cook, and otherwise use them.

Intends to make Weber's sociological work more accessible and more thematically coherent than it is either in the original or in translation. This volume is used as an introduction to the study of original Weber texts and gives the reader a systematic presentation of Weber's sociological studies.

Offers a generous sampling from Mark Twain's most imaginative journalism, a few set speeches, a few poems, and hundreds of tales and sketches recovered from more than fifty newspapers and journals, as well as two dozen unpublished items of various description-the main body of what can now be found of his early literary and more.

Introduces the reader to the study of Greek history. This book assumes that the Greek cities of the archaic and classical periods did not inherit any political institutions from the Bronze Age; that the extensive invasions that brought Mycenaean civilization to an end destroyed political habits as effectively as stone palaces.

A classic of American Indian ethnography. It reports what the author heard and portrays what he saw among the native survivors of Gold Rush days. It is suitable for those who deal with native cultures.

A study of major national efforts in the past 15 years to reduce the impact of money, and the lack of it, in determining whether a criminal defendant obtains freedom prior to trial. It offers the results of a national study on bail reform since its beginning with the Manhattan Bail Project of 1961.

A collection of novellas such as - "Love and Friendship Tested", "Michael Kohlhaas", "Peter Schlemihl", "Mademoiselle de Scudery", "Clothes Make the Man", "Sufferings of a Boy", "The Bajazzo", "Stine", "Heretic of Soana", "Hunger Artist", "Fraulein Else", and "Ordeal by Fire".

Examines the relevancy of the opposing theoretical views I will develop hypotheses concerning a particular culture, the Cahuilla Indians of Southern California, which will be used as a test case. This title presents two sets of hypotheses which logically follow from each of the assumptions.

In fleeing from a war which principle and temperament prevented him from supporting, Clemens entered into the first stages of his literary career by serving as a reporter for newspapers in Virginia City and San Francisco. This title deals with his life.

More political than cultural in its emphasis, this scholarly book about modern Spain under Franco presents a clear and meaningful portrait of Spain today as it is rapidly being transformed from an agrarian society to one now predominantly industrial.

Products of the "imagination," such as novels, can be especially useful tools for understanding how things work in societies far removed from our own experience. Through the telling of a story, a sound ethnographic novel conveys more than information. This book is a result of authors field experience.

Presents a configuration of the important elements to be found in contemporary Japanese social life, and attempts to shed new light on Japanese society. The author deals with his own society as a social anthropologist using some of the methods which he was accustomed to applying in examining any other society.

This volume contains Dryden's 1688 translation of Dominiques Bouhours "The Life of St. Francis Xavier," a sixteenth century Jesuit and missionary to the Far East.

This volume in the Works of John Dryden covers his last three years of published works. They begin with "Alexander's Feast" and end with "Fables", his largest miscellany of poetical translations. Included are extensive and detailed notes.

Contains the poems of Dryden extending from 1681 to 1684. Along with the poems of Dryden and associated extensive commentaries and textual notes from the editors, this title also contains the dramatic prologues and epilogues Dryden wrote for the plays of other writers from this period of time.

Presenting the feats of the hero Mwindo, this title covers an epic which was sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of eastern Zaire. It provides insights into the social structure, value system, linguistics, and cosmology of this African people.