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Hormones, Cells and Organisms : The Role of Hormones in Mammals $16.90 P. Catherine Clegg and Arthur Clegg Book Hormones, Cells and Organisms The Role of Hormones in Mammals P. Catherine Clegg & Arthur Clegg A concise summary and synthesis of current knowledge in the rapidly expanding field of mammalian endocrinology, this volume also has the distinction of being organized around physiological problems and processes as opposed to individual hormones and glands. This novel approach is analogous to the new way biology as a whole is being taught - treating all aspects of each level of organization instead of breaking things up into such separate disciplines as genetics. The arrangement of topics, the repeated emphasis upon interpreting hormone action in molecular terms, and the consideration of most of our bodily regulatory phenomena in terms of hormone-nerve interaction combine to make this the most up-to-date and modern analysis of hormone action in the biological literature. Among the topics covered are: brief history of the science of mammalian endocrinology; research techniques; production, chemical nature, and mode of action of hormones; regulation of hormone balance; hormonal adaptation to environment; and functions of hormones in growth, digestion, reproduction, and thermoregulation. The text is supplemented by excellent line drawings and charts. P. Catherine Clegg was formerly Principal Lecturer in Biology at the City College of Education, Sheffield, and Arthur G. Clegg wsa formerly Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Sheffield. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Hormones, Cells and Organisms Author Clegg Publisher Stanford University Press ISBN 0804705704, 9780804705707 Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Stanford Short Stories 1962 $15.28 Edited by Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft with assistance from Nancy Packer Book Stanford Short Stories 1962 Edited by Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft With the assistance of Nancy Packer Preface by Blair Fuller "A first-class collection, worth to rank even with the annual 'best' volumes for the prevalent freshness and vitality of its writing" said the Boston Herald in a review of the most recent volume of short stories from the Stanford Creative Writing Center. The unusual literary and commercial success of many of the writers to come from the Center makes the publication of a new collection of stories an event, and readers who enjoy the feeling of personal discovery will find in this volume the best new stories of the last two years. Eugene Burdick, Tillie Olsen, Robin White, Dan Jacobson, Dennis Murphy, and Evan S. Connell, Jr., to name only a few, are graduates of the Center whose names are now well known, and from this volume others may join that list. Since 1946, the Center has brought to Stanford not only those who are perfecting their craft but, as guest lecturers, those who have mastered it: Katherine Anne Porter, Malcome Cowley, Frank O'Connor, Hortense Calisher, and others. The influence of suck renowned writers as these has supplemented the direction and encouragement of Wallace Stegner and Richard Scowcroft, Directors of the Center, in helping to shape the stories in this volume. Mr. Stegner and Mr. Scowcroft are Professors of English at Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Stanford Short Stories 1962 Author Stegner Publisher Stanford University Press ISBN 0804745544, 9780804745543 Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Neotropical lizards in the collection of the Natural history museum of Stanford University $12.78 Charles Earl Burt, George Sprague Myers Book Boardsmanship: a guide for the school board member $13.63 By California School Boards Association Book Boardsmanship A Guide for the School Board Member By California School Boards Association 1961 Edition One of the few nonpartisan, elected bodies in our society, and one of the few bodies to maintain a strong emphasis on local control, is the school board. This guide points out the responsibilities and obligations of the school board members, who in large part determine what the citizens of the next generation will be. After a brief discussion of the role of the school board member, the guide tells how a board organizes itself to work efficiently - electing officers, preparing agendas for meetings, keeping minutes. The major decision-making responsibilities, especially in the areas of curriculum, finance, and housing, are discussed. Practical suggestions are made; for example, the board is urged to delegate such business affairs as purchasing, accounting, auditing, and insurance to a competent professional staff, so that the board can be freed from time-consuming detail work. Because of the importance of the complex relationships that develop among members of any educational organization, a section is devoted to the problem of staff relationship between the board and the superintendent. The procedure for choosing a superintendent is outlined, and criteria for appraising his competence and effectiveness are suggested. The powers and responsibilities of the board as defined by California law are pointed out, including choosing books, hiring teachers, issuing bonds, and conducting school district elections. Appendixes include samples of a school board meeting agenda and minutes of a meeting. Prepared under the direction of the California School Boards Association "Boardsmanship" Revision Committee, Helen S. Kerwin, Chairman. Edited by H. Thomas James, School of Education, Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Boardsmanship: a guide for the school board member Authors California School Boards Association. Administration Committee, California School Boards Association. Boardsmanship Revision Committee Publisher California School Boards Assoc, 1961 Length 102 pages How to Study Physics $10.93 Seville Chapman Book How to Study Physics By Seville Chapman A university is not a place where education is forced into you, but rather a place where the faculty have tried to make your learning process as efficient as possible. It is our obligation to provide you with a good return for the effort you put in, but you yourself must make that effort and keep your mind open and alert. Now you may say, "Yes, I agree with your ideas on how to study," and then you may proceed to forget all about them. In that case neither of us is better off than if you had never read this handbook. A good plan is for you to put the volume where you may review it occasionally. You will be interested to see how your own ideas change as you get further along. Ten years from now you will wish you had done things differently while you were in college. Probably most of the thoughts in here on what you should do in college would have come to you sooner or later anyway, but it is my hope that from studying this manual you will get these thoughts soon enough for them to be helpful to you. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title How to study physics Author Seville Chapman Publisher Addison-Wesley, 1955 Length 34 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

Public School Camping $16.00 Clarke Book Public School Camping California's Pilot Project in Outdoor Education By James Mitchell Clarke Prepared for the San Diego City-County Camp Commission under the direction of the School-Camp Steering Committee. The school camping movement, one of the most significant of recent developments in American education, is arousing more and more interest because it has demonstrated the real value as an extension of education into rich and hihgly stimulating environments. In response to this growing interest, a number of American communities have organized camping programs to serve the interest of public education. Among these programs, one carried out in recent years by the City and County of San Diego, California, is recognized as outstanding. A mountain camp Camp Cuyamaca was established in 1946 among mountains clothed with oak and pine fifty miles inland from San Diego. Under a rotating plan of attendance, sixth-grade children of the San Diego City and County public schools spend one week of their school year at the camp. Here they learn the practical essentials of democracy by making and enforcing their own rules for community living. Their week of shared experiences in natural surroundings helps them develop new and wholesome attitudes toward themselves and physical environments. Above all, they have a rousing good time as they take part in a rich program of activities which supplement and vitalize the lessons of the classroom. A pioneer experience In Public School Camping, James Mitchell Clarke describes the development of Camp Cuyamaca from its beginning to the present time and uses this pioneer experience as the basis for a discussion of the theory and practice of school camping. This discussion includes practical details concerning development and administration of a public school camping program, as well as a valuable analysis of the educational and psychological principles underlying school camping. For every school Public school officials all over the country are now thinking about the advantages children may gain from supervised camping. All may profit from the discussion of methods and objectives in this timely book. Indoor and outdoor activities of the campers, the maintenance of physical and emotional health, exploitation of the camp's natural environment, problems of administration and of co-ordination between the schools and the community -- these are only a few of the topics which Mr. Clarke's book covers. The photographs of Camp Cuyamaca and its enthusiastic population of sixth-graders confirm the message of the text -- that public school camping can be greatly worth while. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Clarke Author Public School Camping Publisher Stanford University Press ISBN 0804705658, 9780804705653 Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Sunset All-Western Cook Book $16.69 Genevieve Callahan Book How to select, prepare, cook and serve all typically Western food products. Recipes included for favorite regional and foreign dishes peculiar to the West. Toward an Ethic of Higher Education $16.21 Mortimer R. Kadish Book This carefully reasoned book presents an alternative to those current views of higher education that regard it principally either as a leisure activity unconnected with the rest of life or as a special means for the advancement of the economy. Instead, the author asserts, higher education constitutes a primary social means for the forming of selves capable of participating widely and effectively in the affairs of a modern, complex world. What basic policy choices, then, should higher education make? The aim of this book is to locate the grounds on which American institutions of higher education might best decide among some of the major policy alternatives pressed on them by their commitments and the cirucmstances of their civilization, and then to appraise and judge those alternatives. The author reacts against two primary tendencies in the history of higher education in the United States. The first he terms as "intellectualistic" education that turns colleges and universities into instruments for restricted class of potential connoisseurs of certain rare and marvelous objects; higher education's problem here is to determine the objects best deserving appreciation. The university need not concern itself with providing its students with experiences available in a democratic society, because they will have them in any event. The second tendency is probably more prevalent today. Production tends to concern us more than refined consumption, and higher education cooperates by devoting itself to forming people who may be useful in a market economy. Education becomes investment, and bits and pieces of an intellectualistic education are more or less acceptable on the periphery - provided there is money for them. The author recommends the furthering of self-interest of those who do the job of education - the students and faculty - as a principle of choice, and he suggests that taking the self-interest of students and faculty seriously and centrally may throw light on the relation of higher education to the ethical conduct of life. He further suggests an "opening of the university" beyond its traditional limits toward the exchange of labor, toward the provision of exercises outside the system of exchange, toward the performance of the arts, toward the absorption or integration of politics within university practice and tradition, and, most important, toward an integration of ethics into policy and performance. The author sees persons disposed to ethical values as more valuable to society than either cultured minds or technological and business whizzes. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Toward an ethic of higher education Author Mortimer Raymond Kadish Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN 0804718830, 9780804718837 Length 205 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com The Interrupted Moment $18.40 Lucio P. Ruotolo Book The Interrupted Moment A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels Lucio P. Ruotolo Throughout Virginia Woolf's life and fiction, interruptions arouse inventive impulses, and such disorienting moments constitute, in the author's view, a key aspect of Woolf's experimental intention. To remain open to the shock of unmediated experience, what Woolf calls its "anarchy and newness," is to recognize and celebrate the random diversity of modern life. Those of her characters who allow the chaotic intrusion of events or people to reshape expectations emerge as her most creative heroines. Those who voice distaste for interruption, and succumb to a protective impulse to close themselves off, invariably fall back into postures of self-supporting insularity. In widening perception, the impact of discontinuity occasions a more communal view of art and society - a shift from "I" to "we." Woolf's recurring impulse to break derived sequences of art and politics reveals a growing critique of something more fundamental than either patriarchal hierarchy or what Leonard Woolf describes as "bourgeois Victorianism." In a manner of anarchism, she comes to question those presumptions that underlie the theory of governance itself. Central to all her thinking is the revelation of interruption, heralding change, and the growing expectation that society is on the verge of radical transformation. The author studies each novel in turn, showing how the issues that motivated Woolf as a creative writer gradually developed in complexity - from The Voyage Out and its attempt to cultivate the art of doing nothing to Between the Acts and its vision of a egalitarian society where each new interruption emerges with a promise of renewal. Lucio P. Routolo is Professor of English at Stanford University, and the author of Six Existential Heros: The Politics of Faith and the editor of Virginia Woolf's Freshwater: A Play. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The interrupted moment: a view of Virginia Woolf's novels Author Lucio P. Ruotolo Publisher Stanford University Press, 1986 ISBN 0804713421, 9780804713429 Length 262 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com An Instance of Treason $20.14 Chalmers A Johnson Book This is the only complete, authoritative account of the most brilliantly successful espionage operation of the twentieth century: the notorious Communist spy ring headed by Dr. Richard Sorge, whose cover was that of senior German journalist in Tokyo during World War II. Ozaki Hotsumi, the second-ranking member of the ring, was also a prominent journalist, a leading authority on China, and a consultant to the Konoye cabinet. Opposition to fascism led to a kind of heroic treason by m any intellectuals in the 1930's and 1940's; some of them betrayed their countries for the Soviet Union. On who did so was Ozaki, who joined Sorge and gave his life to the anti-fascist cause because he believed that his own nation's policies in China were reprehensible and that Japan's aggression would lead to military defeat and a probable domestic Communist revolution. Although the spy ring had many successes in supplying Stalin with the highest level information from within the Japanese government, its most important accomplishment was to inform Moscow of the Japanese decision to maintain its nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union and to strike south against the United States and Britain - thus enabling Stalin to keep the Red Army intact against Hitler in the West. The only comparable espionage coup is that of the Cambridge Communists headed by Kim Philby, with whom Ozaki had much in common. When this book was first published in July 1964, the Soviet Union had never acknowledged the existence of Sorge. Two months later, and perhaps in response to the book's publication, Sorge was acclaimed as one of the Soviet Union's most illustrious spies and was made post humous "Hero of the Soviet Union's Ritus, the high-ranking Japanese Communist who was accused of betraying the Sorge ring to the Japanese authorities, was thought to have been killed by the Communists in China during the early 1950's. In 1980, the Chinese suddenly released him after 27 years in jail, and he returned to Japan to tell a complex and contradictory story. In an extensive Reprise prepared for this new edition, the author analyzes these developments in depth, as well as much other significant information that has come to light since the book's original publication. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title An instance of treason: Ozaki Hotsumi and the Sorge spy ring Author Chalmers A. Johnson Edition 2, illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990 ISBN 0804717664, 9780804717663 Length 324 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia $19.78 Stephen Lessing Baehr Book From the reign of Peter the Great through that of Catherine the Great, visions of an earthly paradise recurred in a wide variety of Russian sources: panegyric and pastoral poetry, portrait painting, the utopian novel, allegorical fireworks and masquerades, Masonic ritual and literature, and even the winter garden. In this rich, many-faceted work, the author traces how, at a time when Russian culture was being transformed from sacred to secular, the paradise myth provided a bridge between the two. Most Western writers of the period, influenced by the scientific and critical worldview of the Enlightenment, used the conventions of the paradise myth to idealize faraway lands and hence criticize existing reality. The author shows that in eighteenth-century Russian, however, most writers used these conventions to idealize, mythologize, and "utopianize" the Russian status quo and the Slavic past. These writings were thus closer to the literature of European Renaissance courts than to that of the contemporary Enlightenment, reflecting a "culture gap" between Russia and the West that is significantly larger than has heretofore been realized. Instead of using utopian methods to oppose governmental opposition to promote the rights of individuals, Russian writers often used them to glorify existing authoritarian structures. The author contends that this tendency to propagandize the status quo through paradisal imagery has been a constant current in Russia from its Christianization through socialist realism, reflecting an "urge to utopia" among the populace that was frequently abused by those in power. In analyzing the ways in which the paradise myth helped to shape eighteenth-century Russian literature and culture, the author begins with a typology of paradise, focusing on Western paradisal conventions that were to become omnipresent in Russian culture. He discusses the paradise myth in terms of the impact of Peter the Great's secularization and westernization and of two other myths that were also central to it: the rebirth or renaissance of Russia and Russia as an Edenic garden. The author examines in detail the influence of the paradise myth on the allegorical rituals and literature of Freemasonry and on the Russian utopia and "eutopia" (a hybrid of the panegyric ode and the utopia that is virtually unique to Russia). Finally, he deals with the reactions against the paradise myth during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and its replacement by the myth of the iron age Stephen Lessing Baehr is Associate Professor of Russian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The paradise myth in eighteenth-century Russia: utopian patterns in early secular Russian literature and culture Author Stephen Lessing Baehr Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN 0804715335, 9780804715331 Length 308 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Beyond Metaphor $19.06 James W Fernandez Book Beyond Metaphor The Theory of Tropes in Anthropology Edited by James W. Fernandez The study of tropes, or figures of speech, in particular metaphor, has become an immensely productive focus of interest in the social sciences in recent years as scholars increasingly recognize the role of rhetoric in the construction of social and cultural reality and historical continuity. An ancient topic of interest in literature and philosophy, metaphor and the other tropes have been important in anthropology virtually since its inception as a discipline in the late nineteenth century. Building on that tradition, this collection of eight essays is a pioneering record of current thinking by anthropologists about metaphor as a theoretical problem, as a problem of the organization of behavior, and as a problem of the coherence of culture. But the book is titled Beyond Metaphor because metaphor is only one of the figurative devices or tropes (metaphor, as a generic term, consists of various subtropes - chiefly metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony). In these essays, the authors go "beyond" metaphor to address the dynamic interrelationships of all the tropes in culture, examining as well the contemporary notion of "the play of tropes." The contribution of anthropology, then, lies first in its insistence upon the role of culture in the formation of the metaphoric models with which various peoples reason, and second in its concern to avoid over-concentration on metaphor as the uniquely interesting trope. Because anthropology is a discipline of considerable internal diversity, with strong links to half a dozen other fields, the essays address the problem of metaphor from a number of perspectives, and the collection as a whole embraces an important dialogue between anthropological poetics and cognitive anthropology. As is customary in anthropology - and profoundly effective in attaining insight, targetability, and significance - the authors employ cross-cultural materials in every essay. James W. Fernandez is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and the author of Persuasions and Performances: The Play of Tropes in Culture; Bwiti; An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa; and Fang Architectonics. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Beyond metaphor: the theory of tropes in anthropology Author James W. Fernandez Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN 0804718709, 9780804718707 Length 298 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com The Living Tree : The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today $18.94 Wei-ming Tu Book The Living Tree The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today Edited by Tu Wei-ming Growing out of a highly acclaimed issue of Daedalus (Spring 1991), this volume explores the emergence of a cultural space that both encompasses and transcends the ethnic, territorial, linguistic, and religious boundaries that normally define Chinese-ness. By challenging the hegemonic discourse of the political core in Beijing, this newly constructed cultural space opens up exciting possibilities for concerned intellectuals worldwide as well as peripheral Chinese communities around the globe to provide inside perspectives on the meaning of being Chinese. Eleven leading scholars of Chinese society have imaginatively articulated the ambiguities and implications of this cultural space as a historically significant phenomenon. In the twentieth century, China experienced a level of cultural confusion it had never before known, as revolution, war, economic dislocation, and political authoritarianism took a heavy toll. One product of almost continual turmoil was an unprecedented rate of emigration. Another was the challenging of traditional Chinese culture by several Western ideologies, including Marxism. The whole concept of modernity, with all of its ambiguities, had profound effects on many aspects of the Chinese world, both in China and abroad. These essays attempt to illuminate how the events of the twentieth century in China affected the Chinese living outside China and suggest important reciprocal influences. Among the topics discussed are the long-range historical influence of the overseas Chinese, the relationship between ordinary Chinese and their leaders, a comparison of Han and non-Han cultural identities, the meaning of being a Chinese exile, the Chinese experience of living among non-Chinese, the Asian American experience, the "evil wife" in contemporary Chinese fiction, and, in a glance backward, what it meant to be Chinese before the invasion of the West. Tu Wei-ming, a Confucian scholar, is Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy at Harvard University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The living tree: the changing meaning of being Chinese today Author Wei-ming Tu Publisher Stanford University Press, 1994 ISBN 0804721912, 9780804721912 Length 295 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Merlin's Disciples $18.10 Howard Dobin Book Merlin's Disciples Prophecy, Poetry, and Power in Renaissance England Howard Dobin "This book presents a powerful new argument about ambivalent attitudes toward prophecy in the Renaissance, and how the government's uneasy attitude became an important means of undoing the desired aims of the Reformation. No less central is the book's discussion of critical method, a successful attempt to synthesize many of the most interesting aspects of poststructuralism of new Historicism...In both theory and the historical realm this book seems to me to have a claim to extraordinary importance." - David Bevington, University of Chicago Political prophecy in Britain extends back at least to the twelfth century, to Geoffrey of Monmouth's collection of Merlin's prophecies. Through the Renaissance, the secular prophetic tradition burgeoned in new native prophets and interpretations, invoked by both the crown and would-be usurpers. The Elizabethan period's veritable explosion of prophetic activity was kindled by the religious and political upheavals of the Reformation and inflamed by the nation's anxiety concerning the Spanish threat and the uncertainty of royal succession. The prophet appeared in many forms -- contemporary doomsayer, religious fanatic, partisan propagandist, and outright fraud. But whatever its source, prophecy challenged political, religious, and social institutions. It became a dominant mode of political discourse. Methodologically, the book allies itself with the New Historicism, where its contributions are, first, to articulate the importance of deconstruction for the New Historicism in relation to a novel set of canonical and noncanonical texts and, second, to delineate a mode of subversive discourse that eludes both political and authorial control. The author shows that prophetic texts and the interpretive dynamics that surround them are virtually textbook models of certain concerns foregrounded in deconstruction and the New Historicism. The prophetic text claims a referentiality that is endlessly deferred; when that reference is politically invested, the powers that be shift responsibility from the text to its interpreters -- ofter, in this period, leading to torture and even execution. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical influences, from Derrida to Weber and Geertz, the author knits together historical evidence and critical theory to show how prophecy functions in a great variety of texts, from little-known works like The Birth of Merlin to The Faerie Queene and Shakespeare's history plays. An Afterword traces how political prophecy emerges as a potent public weapon in the civil-war period -- then is revived and transformed in the literary realm, in the disempowered and private vision of Milton. Howard Dobin is Associate Professor of Englis at the University of Maryland at College Park. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Merlin's disciples: prophecy, poetry, and power in Renaissance England Author Howard Dobin Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990 ISBN 0804717834, 9780804717830 Length 257 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com State and Society in Early Medieval China $23.28 Albert E. Dien Book State and Society in Early Medieval China Edited by Albert E. Dien Extending roughly from the final collapse of the Han Dynasty in A.D. 220 to the establishment of the T'ang Dynasty in 618, the Six Dynasties period in China is commonly compared to the "Dark Ages" of European history. The political history of the period is a dismal record of disunity, intrigue, strife, and alien encroachments, seeming to amount to little more than a confusing series of dynastic names. Given such an array of fragile ands short-lived dynasties, it is natural to attempt to summarize the period, but the inadequate state of our knowledge (the historical record is sparse, fragmentary, and very difficult to interpret) makes such an attempt at best provisional. The twelve essays in this volume are therefore to be viewed as attempts to further our knowledge of the period and to test what few generalizations we do have. The authors address a wide range of problems, including the composition of the ruling elites, the evolution of eminent families, and the nature of the state and its administration. For example, previous scholarship has portrayed the period as one dominated by powerful aristocratic clans; a revisionist view presented here argues that the leading families were neither powerful, nor aristocratic, nor clans. In almost every case the topics of the individual papers are treated here for the first time in English The period of the Six Dynasties suggests fragmentation and disorder, and yet it is now generally recognized that the so-called fragmentation simply meant that the level of cohesion had shifted from a national to a regional level. To a large extent, what was involved were changes in the ways in which various social and political groups related to one another. The focus of this volume, then, is to explore the interfaces within Six Dynasties social and political organizations and to trace the changes in the these complex and often puzzling relationships. The editor suggests that in these developments are to be found the roots of T'ang greatness. The contributors are William Crowell, Albert E. Dien, Patricia Ebrey, Dennis Grafflin, Jennifer Holmgren, Whalen Lai, Carl Leban, Mao Hankuang, Richard Mather, Robert M. Somers, and Tang Changru. Albert E. Dien is Professor of Chinese at Stanford University. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title State and society in early medieval China Author Albert E. Dien Editor Albert E. Dien Contributor Albert E. Dien Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991 ISBN 0804717451, 9780804717458 Length 414 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

Wordsworth The Sense of History $48.23 Alan Liu Book Wordsworth The Sense of History Alan Liu "An original and powerful book, a major reinterpretation of Wordsworth that we are likely to be learning from for years to come." -- Peter Manning, University of Southern California The imaginative power of Wordsworth's poetry stems from a denial of history so strong and precise that denial itself -- the determined absence of history -- must be studied as positive fact. The author argues this thesis with the aid of substantial methodological innovations allowing the best of formalist, deconstructive, and New Historicist reading strategies to be synthesized and informed by a wealth of historical matter. Drawing upon recent advances in the history and theory of the French Revolution, art history, economic history, family history, and the social history of the Lake District, he shows that history -- however absent it seems to be -- influences literature deeply at the level of form. In particular, the most telling register of historical and perception in Wordsworth's poetry is generic transformation. Studying the works of the early and middle years intensively, and the later works suggestively, the author argues that Wordsworth's overall shift from description to narrative, and from narrative to lyric, is a mimetic denial of contemporary cultural history. By the time "imagination" invest lyric imagery, it has learned to capture history within an empire of self that is no less than a surrogate history, a facsimile ideology. Part One of the book introduces the subject by rereading the Simplon Pass episode in The Prelude as a denial of Napoleon's Alpine crossing of 1800. It then formulates a methodology of historical reading by witnessing in the modern and postmodern notion of "context" a developing collaboration between formalist and materialist perspectives. The "matter" of history, the author argues, is collectively structured, witnessed, and uttered absence: and the reading of history is therefore a discrimination of forms of absence. When a city or a cottage is effaced, there is left only the nothing that is the constitutive basis of conventions of difference -- of hate, prejudicial discrimination, "nation," "culture," and, as one of the most discriminating of cultural discriminations, the differential forms of art. Part Two draws upon art history, political history, contemporary journalism, and narrative theory to study the formal collision between Wordsworth's early picturesque and the predominantly narrative mode of French Revolutionary violence. Out of this collision, "time" arose as the massive denial of history, giving the poet his first authority separate from the "People." In chapters entitled "The Tragedy of the Family," "The Economy of Lyric," and " A Transformed Revolution, " Part Three traces the development of authority into the "originality" of the poet's mature ideology of autobiography. Part Four concludes the work by pointing ahead in Wordsworth's corpus toward "The Idea of the Memorial Tour" and the self-critical stance of a poet whose quintessential act was to "collect" himself. The book ends with a brief epilogue on history and critical self-consciousness. Alan Liu is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Wordsworth: The Sense of History Author Alan Liu Publisher Stanford University Press, 1989 Length 742 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com The Odyssey of Shen Congwen $24.64 Jeffrey C. Kinkley Book This is a literary biography and a study of the life and times of Shen Congwen (b. 1902), a founder of China's modern fiction and one of the most important Chinese writers of this century. Almost alone among modern Chinese writers, Shen refused to join any writers' group or political movement on principle, in order to retain his freedom to create and to criticize. He thus came to be "every faction's enemy, but no faction's archenemy." Yet his very aloofness from politics enabled him to survive the martyrdoms of his leftist friends in the 1920's and 1930's, and the purges of the more visible writers (often Party members) in the 1950's and 1960's. He weathered more than five decades of literary turmoil to reemerge in 1979 and 1980, when he was extensively interviewed by the author both in China and during his first visit to the United States. This book does four things: first, it presents a biography of Shen, using his autobiographical essays and fiction as well as new information from interviews and historical materials; second, it gives a vivid picture of recent Chinese history, depicting the saga of Shen's native region, West Hunan, as seen by him in his capacities as regional writer, mythmaker, and chronicler; third, it elucidates Shen's thinking about literature; and fourth, it describes Shens's trials and tribulations as an author, casting light on the development of Chinese literature in this century. Shen has had three careers in his long life. In his late teens he became a warlord soldier in West Hunan, a remote mountainous area of Southwest China. Later, in his second career as a young writer in Peking, it was Shen's social and artistic vision of this land and the soldiers that defended it that quickly established him as a regional writers and the "Dumas of China." Adding teaching and editing of prominent literary journals to his writing in the 1930's, Shen evolved the lyrical, pastoral style and well-made plots that made him famous. His third career as an art historian since 1949 builds on his longstanding fascination with the material culture of traditional China. Jeffery C. Kinkley is Associate Professor of Asian Studies at St. John's University, Jamaica, New York. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The odyssey of Shen Congwen Author Jeffrey C. Kinkley Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987 ISBN 0804713723, 9780804713726 Length 464 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com The 'Nazi Menace' in Argentina 1931-1947 $26.41 Robert C. Newton Book One of the unanswered questions in the history of the 1930's and 1940's concerns just what the Nazis were up to in Argentina. Here was a country whose population was almost entirely European in origin and outlook, led by a conservative landed elite determined to retain power against the rising forces of socialism and "bolshevism." Here, too, was a substantial German-speaking minority numbering some quarter of a million. Could Argentina, then, have "gone Nazi"? This is the first complete, thoroughly researched investigation into the myth and reality of Nazi Germany's influence and activities in Argentina. It covers Nazi attempts to penetrate and convert Argentina's German-speaking population, to proselytize the Argentine military and right-wing political groups, and to influence the governments of the period. It also penetrates the maze of forgeries, propaganda, and assorted "dirty tricks" propagated by both the Allies and the Axis, thus providing a factual account of clandestine activities during the war years, and the alleged movement of Nazi war criminals and treasure to Argentina at the war's end. Among the author's major findings are that Germany in fact had no strategic designs on Argentina, but saw it as a market for export sales and a source of raw materials; that the response of German-Argentines and Argentines in general to Nazism was limited and dictated mostly by opportunism; and that both the British and Argentine governments took the measure of the German challenge calmly and rationally, and that it was the United States that became alarmed over the "Nazi menace." Despite what the author demonstrates were the reckless and foolish activities of Nazi agents, the U.S. government and media were ignorant and gullible concerning Argentina. The British and antifascist exiles were consequently able to manipulate the United States skillfully through a series of hoaxes, several of which this book exposes. And though Argentina did provide sanctuary to ex-fascists after World War II, Germs were almost certainly outnumbered by Italians, Croats, and East Europeans. The book is illustrated with some 20 photographs. Ronald C. Newton is Professor of Latin American History at Simon Fraser University and the author of German Buenos Aires, 1900-1933: Social Change and Cultural Crisis. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title The "Nazi menace" in Argentina, 1931-1947 Author Ronald C. Newton Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992 ISBN 0804719292, 9780804719292 Length 520 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Systematics, Historical Ecology, and North American Freshwater Fishes $58.47 Richard L Mayden Book Systematics, Historical Ecology, & North American Freshwater Fishes Edited by Richard L. Mayden This book addresses the current need for a holistic approach in comparative and evolutionary biology and offers numbers applications of the modern methods of phylogenetic systematics and historical ecology, using the North American fish fauna as its case study. This major synthesis, the first published work of its kind, provides a theoretical and methodological foundation for future studies in ichthyology, evolutionary biology, and other fields of comparative biology. Several introductory pieces present major statements of general principles, detailed examinations of the diversity and distributions of North American freshwater fishes, and what is known of their systematic relationships. The rest of the volume's 30 papers then contribute new phylogenetic hypotheses for a significant number of taxa. Along the way, the reader is introduced to the principles, first, of phylogenetic systematics -- the reconstruction of evolutionary or ancestor-descendant relationships of groups of organisms on th ebasis of heritable traits -- and, second, of historical ecology -- a comprehensive research program that links systematics with many areas of comparative biology. Together, the two allow for the formulation of direct and testable hypotheses regarding the evolution of species and their attributes, inter species interactions, and the formation and persistence of biotic communities. Without these methods that incorporate "historical controls," our estimates of history for all areas of biology are inefficient, indirect, and worst of all, untestable. This book focuses on North America freshwater fishes not only because the 42 contributors know them so well but also because this highly diverse fauna is well know in so many important aspects (diversity, species distributions, life histories) relevant to evaluating general applications of the new paradigms of systematics and historical ecology. Many other faunas present interesting biotas appropriate for the preparation of a similar piece of work, but no other fauna can claim as complete a knowledge base. The theme articulated throughout the book underscores the Darwinian proposition of descent with modification. The biological information particular to the North American fresh water fish fauna establishes an invaluable foundation for understanding diversification and advancing education and research. Moreover, the methods, theories, and empirical data presented serve as essential resources for comparative and evolutionary research programs applicable to any biota or taxonomic grouping. The book includes some 200 illustrations, 60 tables, 10 appendixes, and comprehensive taxonomic and subject indexes. Richard L. Mayden is Associate Professor of Biology and Curator of Fishes at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. COVER ART Pirate perch illustrated by Eugene C. Beckham III; cavefishes illustrated by John Parker Sherrod. Illustrations from A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of North America North of Mexico. Illustrations copyright © 1991 by Eugene Beckham, John Sherrod, and Craig Ronto. Used by permission of Houghton MIfflin Co. All rights reserved. Swamp habitat. Bayou Bartholomew, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. This extensive swamp is a tributary to the Ouachia River and is characteristic habitat for the pirate perch. Photograph by Brooks M. Burr. Reproduced with permission. Spring habitat. Round Spring, Shannon County, Missouri. This sprint is a tributary to the Current River and is a major attraction in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. It ranks fourteenth in average discharge amount Missouri springs. Photograph by James E. Gardner. Reproduced with permission. Cave habitat. Still Spring Cave, Douglas County, Missouri. Discharge from this cave forms a tributary to the North Fork River System of southeastern Missouri. Several records of cavefishes are known from this system. Photographed by James E. Gardner. Reproduced with permission. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Systematics, historical ecology, and North American freshwater fishes Author Richard L. Mayden Editor Richard L. Mayden Contributor Richard L. Mayden Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1992 ISBN 0804721629, 9780804721622 Length 969 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Materialities of Communication $23.98 Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer Book Materialities of Communication Edited by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and K. Ludwig Pfeiffer The essays in this volume refer to an epistemological borderline, a stage of transition in Western thought. Within the academic field of the humanities, this transition can be described as a movement away from the identification of meaning (i.e., from "interpretation") toward problems concerning the conditions and forms of meaning-constitution. Converging with a leitmotive in early deconstruction, with Foucauldian discourse analysis, and with certain tendencies in cultural studies, such investigations on the constitution of meaning include -- under the concept "materialities of communication" -- any phenomena that contribute to the emergence of meaning without themselves belonging to this sphere: the human body and various media technologies, but also other situations and patterns of thinking that resist or obstruct meaning-constitution. The thrust of this volume is not a search for the reality of the material or the materiality of the real. Instead, the contributors investigates the underlying conditions and constraints of communication, whose technological, material, procedural, and performative potentials have been all too easily swallowed up by long-dominant interpretational habits. Among the authors are some of the most thought-provoking European participants in the ongoing reorientation of the humanities -- Jan Assman, Steven Bann, Wlad Godzich, Friedrich Kittler, Niklas Luhmann, Jean-Francous Lyotard, Francisco Varela, and Paul Zumthor. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Materialities of communication Authors Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer Editors Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer Contributor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1994 ISBN 0804722633, 9780804722636 Length 447 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

Bench and Bureaucracy $20.02 L. M. Hill Book The late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods witnessed the emergence of a transitional figure in the crown's service, a person who was not yet fully a bureaucrat in the modern sense, but who nonetheless acted with a considerable degree of independence from the crown. Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636) is an exemplar of this new kind of officer of state, and his career assumes even grater interest because he was also the most prominent civil lawyer of his generation. Through Caesar's career over a half-century, we can observe the inner workings of patronage, the day-to-day problems of royal service, the quarrels between rival crown servants, the conflicts between common law and civil courts, and more personally, the way in which an ambitious man could build a dynasty for his sons. Caesar occupied such judicial positions as Judge of the Admiralty, Master of Requests, Master of Chancery, and Master of the Rolls. Administratively, Caesar served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and as Privy Councillor. Through him we see some of these institutions at critical points in their history. Admiralty under stress of the privateering war against Spain; Request when that hapless court not only was subject to prohibitions, but saw its very existence threatened; and the Exchequer in the course of the fiscal crisis that culminated in the abortive negotiations over Salisbury's Great Contract in 1610. L.J. Hill is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of Sir Julius Caesar's The Ancient State, Authoritie, and Proceedings of the Court of Requests. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Bench and bureaucracy: the public career of Sir Julius Caesar, 1580-1636 Author Lamar M. Hill Publisher Stanford University Press, 1988 ISBN 0804714177, 9780804714174 Length 316 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Contents In Steade of Your Father 1 To Rule and Governe as an Admirall in Deede 26 The Last but Not the Least 54 The Eldest Judge the Youngest and the Poorest 88 Awaiting a Chasteminded Joseph 113 Dayly Labourers in the Publick Service 137 A Sacred Offer Not to Be Refused 150 Cares and Miseries 179 A Doating Time 197 Proper Days for Every Business 222 Enrolled in Heaven 238 Epilogue 258 Notes 271 Works Cited 298 Index 305 Copyright Taking Japan Seriously $18.22 Ronald Philip Dore Book An individualistic, anti-authoritarian society can hardly copy wholesale the institutions of a group-centered, hierarchical society like Japan, but the author argues that these differences do not put Japan's economic success out of the reach of Great Britain and the United States. He examines features of Japanese economic organization and policy-making that reveal alternatives not usually considered open to Western democracies. In some cases, the Japanese system could be profitably imitated; in others, it could be reproduced in new forms. The author asserts that the Western economies have much to gain by taking those possibilities seriously. In one chapter, he suggests that though Americans may take Japan seriously already, they may not be drawing the correct lessons from the Japanese experience. There are three dominant themes in this book. First, production efficiency; and for explaining the differences in the economic performances of Japan and Great Britain, it is more important. Second, a sense of the fairness of social and economic arrangements is a crucial precondition for production efficiency. Third, that sense of fairness requires a great deal of personal and corporate compromise, including restraint in the use of market power by bargaining partners or adversaries and intervention by government in coordinating, conciliating, and adjudicating. Taking Japan seriously means more than being impressed by bits of Japanese social technology and seeking to borrow them. It means asking what is behind this social technology and what changes Britain must make in its industrial relations to move toward the economic success of Japan. Ronald Dore is Visiting Professor at Harvard and Director of the Japanese and Comparative Industrial Research Centre at Imperial College, University of London. He is author of several books on Japan including British Factory -- Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Employment Relations and City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Taking Japan seriously: a Confucian perspective on leading economic issues Author Ronald Philip Dore Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987 ISBN 0804713502, 9780804713504 Length 264 pages Contents Introduction 3 Training in industry 20 Dual economy or spectrum economy? 48 Building an incomes policy to last 68 Authority hierarchy and community 85 Longterm thinking and the shareholders role 108 Innovation entrepreneurship and the Community model 125 The road to industrial democracy 145 Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism 169 Industrial policy 193 Meritocracy employment and citizenship 204 Home thoughts from America 226 Copyright Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Science, Technology, and Reparations $18.94 John Gimbel Book Most people know something about Werner von Braun and the German rocket scientists and engineers whom the Americans brought to the United States after the Second World War. What virtually no one seems to know is that the plan under which they were brought -- Project paperclip -- was but once aspect of a much more comprehensive and systematic program of "intellectual reparations." This program began in late 1944 with the limited aim of exploiting German scientific and technical know-how in order to shorten the war with Japan. As Allied armies swept across western Germany, teams of dozens of American experts -- drawn from government agencies, industrial and trade associations, and the universities -- visited hundreds of targeted German research institutions, technical schools, and industrial firms. They interviewed personnel, examined processes and products, took photographs and samples, and demanded drawings, plans, blueprints, research reports, and documents of all kinds. But the limited, war-related aims they began with quickly yielded to the tempting opportunities for industrial and technological plunder in virtually every area of German expertise, including wind tunnels, tape recorders, synthetic fuels and rubber, color film, textiles, machine tools, heavy equipment, ceramics, optical glass, dyes, and electron microscopes. Ostensibly, the information gathered was to be made, in Secretary of State George C. Marshall's words, "available to the rest of the world." In practice, however, much of it was transferred by the scientific consultants and document-screeners directly to their own firms and for their own purposes. This story has never before been told, and the author's meticulous but highly readable account is based on over ten years of research in German and American public and private archives, many of them previously unused. One of the most striking revelations in the books is the vast scale of the "intellectual reparations" program. At the Moscow meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1947, V.M. Molotov, the Soviet Union's Minister of Foreign Affairs, charged that the United States and Great Britain had taken over $10 billion in reparations from Germany in the form of patents and other technical knowledge. Secretary of State Marshall angrily denied the charge, but no precise evaluation was ever issued by the U. S. government. On the basis of his research, the author concludes that the $10 billion figure dismissed by State Department functionaries as "fantastic" is probably not far from the mark. General Lucius D. Clay, the American Military Governor in Germany, eventually succeeded in having the program shut down in the interests of German economic recovery, but he failed in his efforts to have an evaluation made in monetary terms to establish a credit to Germany's reparations account. Nevertheless, the popular American belief that the United States took no reparations from Germany needs to be drastically modified. The exploitation program had a negative effect on the early resumption of postwar German research and economic recovery. In the long run, however, the American exploitation program furthered an extensive network of American-German scientific, business, and industrial collaboration, and it contributed to the American climate of opinion that insured West Germany's participation in the Marshall Plan. Throughout the book, the author has used case studies to illustrate the program -- its nature, extent, and impact upon the Germans and Americans. John Gimbel is Professor of History Emeritus at Humboldt State University, California. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Science, technology, and reparations: exploitation and plunder in postwar Germany Author John Gimbel Edition illustrated Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990 ISBN 0804717613, 9780804717618 Length 280 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Theory of Lubrication $27.46 Tipei Book This is the first English edition of a book that, since its publication in Romania in 1957, has been recognized as a masterwork on the theory of lubrication. New material and a new chapter on lubrication in turbulent flow have been provided for the English edition. The purpose of the book is to present a complete picture of hydro- and aerodynamic lubrication that will permit immediate practical application, illustrated by situations actually encountered in machine design and construction. Three general considerations on friction and the motion of viscous fluids are presented at the beginning, followed by a chapter on lubricants, in which data on different types of lubricants are given. The remaining chapters are concerned with fluid and gas lubrication between solid walls. Important results obtained by other investigators have been included, but, in the main, the material presented is the results of the author's own investigations. The book is illustrated with more than 200 line drawings and many graphs. Professor Tipei is Head of the Machine and Mechanism Division of the Institute of Applied Mechanics, Bucharest. Mr. Gross is Director of Research Laboratories, Ampex Corporation. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Title Theory of Lubrication: With Applications to Liquid- and Gas-film Lubrication Authors Nicolae Tipei, William A Gross Publisher Stanford University Press, 1962 Length 506 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com A German Community Under American Occupation $17.83 John Gimbel Book This is the first comprehensive attempt to study the impact of American occupation upon a German community. By examining documentary sources and personal papers from the occupation period and interviewing a great many Germans and Americans directly associated with the military and civil administration of the town of Marburg, the author has written an illuminating case study of the occupation as a whole. The study discloses several significant paradoxes: the effect of some military government policies necessarily doomed other military government policies to failure; military government encouraged decentralization and practiced centralization; the American democratization program encouraged and produced institutions and agencies that Germans used to undermine basic occupation policies; undemocratic methods were often used to promote a democratic ideal. Perhaps the most important failure of the occupation authorities was their refusal to identify themselves with the German liberal and moderate forces that might have aided in the reconstruction of the kind of postwar Germany that the Americans sought to establish. These forces had an important stake in the results of the occupation, but no concessions or rewards were offered to obtain their active support. Instead, the occupation authorities chose to remain positively neutral during the struggle for power and status that liberals and moderates engaged in against leftists and Communists on the one hand, and conservatives, nationalists, and ex-Nazis on the other. The author states that "The effect of American efforts was to disillusion the occupation's most loyal supporters and to bring forth people who disagreed with Americans about the extent and intent of denazification...; people who disagree with Americans about municipal and county government codes, the nature of the civil service, the structure and purpose of education, the proper political party organization and proper electoral procedures, the extent of industrial disarmament, the value of grass-roots political activities, and many other things." Two striking conclusions emerge from the study. One is that American occupation policies fundamentally contradicted each other and thus were impossible to apply with any degree of success. The other is that in failing to achieve their stated objectives, Americans restored German self-respect at the expense of American policy and prestige. Mr. Gimbel is Assistant Professor of History at Humbolt State College, California. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: A German community under American occupation: Marburg, 1945-52 John Gimbel ISBN 0804700613, 9780804700610 259 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com

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