Winner of the 1995 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistoryImportant and stimulating.--HistoryThis book is concerned with the shaping of the scholarly tradition in the West, and as such it is a brilliant exposition of the charismatic ideals and the intellectual aspirations of the masters and scholars who brought it into being, and whose influence was to linger on almost down to our own time and pl...

Winner of the 1995 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistoryImportant and stimulating.--HistoryThis book is concerned with the shaping of the scholarly tradition in the West, and as such it is a brilliant exposition of the charismatic ideals and the intellectual aspirations of the masters and scholars who brought it into being, and whose influence was to linger on almost down to our own time and pl...

Winner of the 1995 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistoryImportant and stimulating.--HistoryThis book is concerned with the shaping of the scholarly tradition in the West, and as such it is a brilliant exposition of the charismatic ideals and the intellectual aspirations of the masters and scholars who brought it into being, and whose influence was to linger on almost down to our own time and pl...

Winner of the 1995 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistoryImportant and stimulating.--HistoryThis book is concerned with the shaping of the scholarly tradition in the West, and as such it is a brilliant exposition of the charismatic ideals and the intellectual aspirations of the masters and scholars who brought it into being, and whose influence was to linger on almost down to our own time and pl...

Winner of the 1995 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural HistoryImportant and stimulating.--HistoryThis book is concerned with the shaping of the scholarly tradition in the West, and as such it is a brilliant exposition of the charismatic ideals and the intellectual aspirations of the masters and scholars who brought it into being, and whose influence was to linger on almost down to our own time and pl...

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a third basket of human rights principles; and the Carter adm...

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a third basket of human rights principles; and the Carter adm...

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a third basket of human rights principles; and the Carter adm...

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a third basket of human rights principles; and the Carter adm...

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a third basket of human rights principles; and the Carter adm...

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a third basket of human rights principles; and the Carter adm...

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a third basket of human rights principles; and the Carter adm...

The Late Byzantine ArmyArms and Society, 1204-1453Mark C. BartusisAn essential tool for comparative historians, Byzantinists, Balkanologists, historians of the later Crusades, medieval Islamic, especially Ottoman, and western European medieval and Renaissance history. Its publication reinforces the reputation of Bartusis as a foremost authority on many dimensions of late Byzantine institutions and...

The Late Byzantine ArmyArms and Society, 1204-1453Mark C. BartusisAn essential tool for comparative historians, Byzantinists, Balkanologists, historians of the later Crusades, medieval Islamic, especially Ottoman, and western European medieval and Renaissance history. Its publication reinforces the reputation of Bartusis as a foremost authority on many dimensions of late Byzantine institutions and...

The Late Byzantine ArmyArms and Society, 1204-1453Mark C. BartusisAn essential tool for comparative historians, Byzantinists, Balkanologists, historians of the later Crusades, medieval Islamic, especially Ottoman, and western European medieval and Renaissance history. Its publication reinforces the reputation of Bartusis as a foremost authority on many dimensions of late Byzantine institutions and...

The Late Byzantine ArmyArms and Society, 1204-1453Mark C. BartusisAn essential tool for comparative historians, Byzantinists, Balkanologists, historians of the later Crusades, medieval Islamic, especially Ottoman, and western European medieval and Renaissance history. Its publication reinforces the reputation of Bartusis as a foremost authority on many dimensions of late Byzantine institutions and...

The Late Byzantine ArmyArms and Society, 1204-1453Mark C. BartusisAn essential tool for comparative historians, Byzantinists, Balkanologists, historians of the later Crusades, medieval Islamic, especially Ottoman, and western European medieval and Renaissance history. Its publication reinforces the reputation of Bartusis as a foremost authority on many dimensions of late Byzantine institutions and...

The Late Byzantine ArmyArms and Society, 1204-1453Mark C. BartusisAn essential tool for comparative historians, Byzantinists, Balkanologists, historians of the later Crusades, medieval Islamic, especially Ottoman, and western European medieval and Renaissance history. Its publication reinforces the reputation of Bartusis as a foremost authority on many dimensions of late Byzantine institutions and...

The Late Byzantine ArmyArms and Society, 1204-1453Mark C. BartusisAn essential tool for comparative historians, Byzantinists, Balkanologists, historians of the later Crusades, medieval Islamic, especially Ottoman, and western European medieval and Renaissance history. Its publication reinforces the reputation of Bartusis as a foremost authority on many dimensions of late Byzantine institutions and...

Beer in the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceRichard W. UngerThis is an important book on the history of beer and brewing and is a valuable resource.--ChoiceAn important book, going beyond what is usually found in a synthesis. [Ungers] analysis has important implications for the nature and comparative development of technology diffusion and social and industrial organization, as well as more obvious...

Beer in the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceRichard W. UngerThis is an important book on the history of beer and brewing and is a valuable resource.--ChoiceAn important book, going beyond what is usually found in a synthesis. [Ungers] analysis has important implications for the nature and comparative development of technology diffusion and social and industrial organization, as well as more obvious...

Beer in the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceRichard W. UngerThis is an important book on the history of beer and brewing and is a valuable resource.--ChoiceAn important book, going beyond what is usually found in a synthesis. [Ungers] analysis has important implications for the nature and comparative development of technology diffusion and social and industrial organization, as well as more obvious...

Beer in the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceRichard W. UngerThis is an important book on the history of beer and brewing and is a valuable resource.--ChoiceAn important book, going beyond what is usually found in a synthesis. [Ungers] analysis has important implications for the nature and comparative development of technology diffusion and social and industrial organization, as well as more obvious...

Beer in the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceRichard W. UngerThis is an important book on the history of beer and brewing and is a valuable resource.--ChoiceAn important book, going beyond what is usually found in a synthesis. [Ungers] analysis has important implications for the nature and comparative development of technology diffusion and social and industrial organization, as well as more obvious...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Hope in a JarThe Making of Americas Beauty CultureKathy PeissIncisive, lively. The model of everything social history should be.--Los Angeles TimesHow did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a kitchen physic, as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rar...

Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character--its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action--makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of...

Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character--its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action--makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of...

Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character--its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action--makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of...

Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character--its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action--makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of...

Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character--its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action--makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of...

Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character--its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action--makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of...

Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character--its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action--makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp theoretically. At the same time, moderation seems to be the foundation of...

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Building on the groundbreaking success and unique offerings of earlier volumes, the fifth edition presents insightful new content on aspects of the search at all stages. Beginning with an overview of academic careers and institutional structures, it moves step by step through the applicatio...

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Building on the groundbreaking success and unique offerings of earlier volumes, the fifth edition presents insightful new content on aspects of the search at all stages. Beginning with an overview of academic careers and institutional structures, it moves step by step through the applicatio...

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Building on the groundbreaking success and unique offerings of earlier volumes, the fifth edition presents insightful new content on aspects of the search at all stages. Beginning with an overview of academic careers and institutional structures, it moves step by step through the applicatio...

The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Building on the groundbreaking success and unique offerings of earlier volumes, the fifth edition presents insightful new content on aspects of the search at all stages. Beginning with an overview of academic careers and institutional structures, it moves step by step through the applicatio...