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By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this volume demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. It contains more than one hundred essays by critics from around the world.

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A translated selection from the epic five-volume "Italian Il Romanzo" (2001-2003), this title views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and looking at the plurality of the genre and its lineages. It is suitable for all students and scholars of literature.

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Explores the socio-cultural fallout of America's technoscientific project - the atomic bomb. This book examines how diverse groups - weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pueblo Indian Nations and Nuevomexicano communities, and antinuclear activists - have engaged the US nuclear weapons project in the post-Cold War period.

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Menard begins with the leading hypotheses (such as that the earth expands) and the supporting evidence for each. He traces the crucial work of the 1960s year by year as researchers debated hypotheses in correspondence and at frequent meetings. Throughout the book Professor Menard considers the implications of his story for the sociology of science

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A look at quantum mechanics.

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In this study Karen Lawrence presents Joyce's Ulysses as it evolves through radical changes of style. She traces the abandonment of a narrative norm for a series of rhetorical masks, regarded as conscious aesthetic experiments, and considers the theoretical implication of this process, for both the writing and reading of novels. Originally publish

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In the first comprehensive study of the Office of Management and Budget Larry Berman traces its evolution from a once impartial and objective presidential staff agency to The Office of Meddling and Bumbling (TOMB), as it was known by the end of the Nixon administration. In doing so he analyzes both its established role and the subsequent changes in

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The description for this book, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth, will be forthcoming.

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Characterization has been a troubled and neglected problem within literary theory. This book demonstrates that the representation of a character takes place within a shifting field of narrative attention and obscurity. By making the person indispensable to our understanding of literary form, it offers a forward-looking avenue for narrative theory.

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During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this book, the German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, "terror labor" and the extermination of human beings.

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Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing theology was not the only issue

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This volume of papers delivered to The Royal Society in February of 1992 explores the debate over the "single center" hypothesis of human origins versus "multi-regional evolution." Over the last five years there has been growing support for a recent "Out of Africa" origin of modern humans--based on fresh interpretations of the palaeoanthropological

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Charles Darwin's "Origin of Species" is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. This guide to Darwin's masterwork examines "Origin" within the historical context in which it was written, and modern examples are used to reveal how this work remains a relevant and living document for today.

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In this unusual synthesis of political and socio-economic history, Philip Manville demonstrates that citizenship for the Athenians was not merely a legal construct but rather a complex concept that was both an institution and a mode of social behavior. He further shows that it was not static, as most scholarship has assumed, but rather has slowly e