books by Harvard University Press     books:       For Love of Insects Thomas Eisner Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005 Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers--and you will have entered an insect world once beyond imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest astonishing detail by Thomas Eisner. The story of a lifetime of such minute ...             The Harvard Dictionary of Music (Harvard University Press Reference Library) Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music. The Harvard Dictionary of Music has long been admired for its wide range as well as its reliability. This ...             AMBIGUOUS LOSS Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief Pauline Boss Harvard University Press, 1999 Frozen grieg; leaving without goodbye; goodbye without leaving; mixed emotions; ups and downs; the family gamble; the turning point; making sense out of ambiguity; the benefit of doubt.             The Smaller Majority Piotr Naskrecki Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005 Smaller, on average, than a human finger, creatures climbing, scampering, and flying out of sight make up 99 percent of all animal life visible to the naked eye. This is the "smaller majority" that we meet eye-to-eye, often for the first time and certainly as never before, in Piotr Naskrecki's spectacular book. A large-format volume of over 400 exquisite, full-color photographs, some depicting animals never before captured with a camera, The ...             The Ants Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990 View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural ...             Biology of Spiders Rainer F. Foelix Harvard University Press, 1982 An updated translation of the definitive text on spider biology by the author of the second German-language edition from Thieme Verlag. The writer places greater emphasis on ecology and systematics in this edition.             A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence John E. Mack Harvard University Press, 1998 When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T. E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it, John Mack humanely and objectively explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Extensive interviews, far-flung correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters provide the basis for Mack's sensitive investigation ...             Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998 View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a ...             The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China Jay Taylor Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China’s rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure, dominates this story. A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the world through a quarter century of bloody revolutions, ...             Everyone here spoke sign language: Hereditary deafness on Martha's Vineyard Harvard University Press, 1985 From the seventeenth century to the early years of the twentieth, the population of Martha's Vineyard manifested an extremely high rate of profound hereditary deafness. In stark contrast to the experience of most deaf people in our own society, the Vineyarders who were born deaf were so thoroughly integrated into the daily life of the community that they were not seen--and did not see themselves--as handicapped or as a group apart. Deaf people ...             The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System David Baker, Todd Ratcliff Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 The extreme events that we hear about daily—hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions—are extreme in purely human terms, in the devastation they do. But this book moves our understanding of the extreme into extraterrestrial dimensions and gives us an awe-inspiring sense of what our solar system at its utmost can do. Martian dust devils taller than Mount Everest. A hurricane that lasts over 340 years. Volcanoes with “lava” ...             Condemnation of Blackness: race, crime, and the making of modern urban America Harvard University Press, 2010 Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.             Teaching What You Don't Know Therese Huston Harvard University Press, 2009 Your graduate work was on bacterial evolution, but now you're lecturing to 200 freshmen on primate social life. You've taught Kant for twenty years, but now you're team-teaching a new course on “Ethics and the Internet.” The personality theorist retired and wasn't replaced, so now you, the neuroscientist, have to teach the "Sexual Identity" course. Everyone in academia knows it and no one likes to admit it: faculty often have to teach ...             Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook Edward N. Luttwak Harvard University Press, 1979 The coup is the most frequently attempted method of changing government, and the most successful. Coup d’État outlines the mechanism of the coup and analyzes the conditions—political, military, and social, that gives rise to it. In doing so, the book sheds much light on societies where power does indeed grow out of the barrel of a gun and the role of law is a concept little understood.             What Is Ancient Philosophy? Pierre Hadot, Michael Chase Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004 A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy—and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Through a meticulous historical reading, he shows how the various ...             Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War Robert A. Doughty Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008 As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favoring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts around the periphery of the German, Austrian, and Ottoman empires and ...             Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History Stephen Jay Gould Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011 With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.             Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought Louis A. Sass Harvard University Press, 1994 The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of authority, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this book, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, and Duchamp and philosophers including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida. It provides a ...             A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique Bruce Fink Harvard University Press, 1999 "The goal of my teaching has always been, and remains, to train analysts." --Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI, 209 Arguably the most profound psychoanalytic thinker since Freud, and deeply influential in many fields, Jacques Lacan often seems opaque to those he most wanted to reach. These are the readers Bruce Fink addresses in this clear and practical account of Lacan's highly original approach to therapy. 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