EVERY WOMAN'S GUIDE TO DIABETES
Women have long needed a book devoted to their unique issues with diabetes. This up-to-date and practical guide advocates simple lifestyle changes that can help women reduce their risk of getting diabetes or, if already diagnosed, prevent the disease's most serious complications.
THE ADAMS FAMILY PAPERS
The Adams Papers Project was founded in 1954 to edit and publish the writings of the family of John Adams. This extraordinary family included presidents, statesmen, scholars, and literary figures. The family members' extensive writings--letters, diaries, legal and diplomatic papers, and more--form an unmatched record of the first century and a half of American history, in which four generations played a central role.
TRAVEL THE WORLD WITH HARVARD
For the sophisticated and seasoned traveler to the armchair dreamer and restless spirit, we offer a wide range of great reading.
VENICE FROM THE GROUND UP
James H. S. McGregor tells his unique history of Venice by drawing on a crumbling, tide-threatened cityscape and a treasure-trove of art that can still be seen in place today. The narrative follows both a chronological and geographical organization, so that readers can trace the city's evolution chapter by chapter and visitors can explore it district by district on foot and by boat.
ROME FROM THE GROUND UP
Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, James H. S. McGregor conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting the reader through time and space to the complex and shifting realities--architectural, historical, political, and social--that constitute Rome. A multifaceted historical portrait, this richly illustrated work is as gritty as it is gorgeous.
HIGHER EDUCATION TITLES
Harvard University Press has published a number of "must read" books on some of the most pressing issues that students, educators, and administrators face today in the higher education arena.
THE SMALLER MAJORITY
Smaller 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 spellbinding book. A large-format volume of over 400 exquisite, full-color photographs, some depicting animals never before captured with a camera, The Smaller Majority takes us on a visual journey into the remote world of organisms that, however little known, overlooked, or even reviled, are critical to the life of our planet.
STREET STORIES: The World of Police Detectives
Detectives work the streets to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the justice system--semi-military police hierarchies--transforming hard-won street knowledge into public narratives of responsibility for crime. Street Stories, based on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS FAMILY HEALTH GUIDES
This new series offers short, accessible books about medical conditions that affect the entire family. In addition to discussing evaluation and treatment, the books emphasize the impact of a given diagnosis and prognosis on family life: on parent-child, sibling, and spouse relationships, everyday routines, family dynamics, and the family's overall emotional and financial health.
A HACKER MANIFESTO
Drawing in equal measure on Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization. In the widespread revolt against commodified information, McKenzie Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons.
THE EARLY ADMISSIONS GAME: Joining the Elite
This book--based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 college applications to fourteen elite colleges, and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers--provides an extraordinarily thorough analysis of early admissions. In clear language it details the advantages and pitfalls of applying early as it provides a map for students and parents to navigate the process.
ANALOG DAYS: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer
Tracing the development of the Moog synthesizer from its initial conception to its ascension to stardom in Switched-On Bach, from its contribution to the San Francisco psychedelic sound, to its wholesale adoption by the worlds of film and advertising, Analog Days conveys the excitement, uncertainties, and unexpected consequences of a new technology that would provide the soundtrack for a critical chapter of our cultural history.
STAND BY ME
A child at loose ends needs help, and someone steps in--a Big Brother, a Big Sister, a mentor from the growing ranks of volunteers offering their time and guidance to more than two million American adolescents. How effective are mentoring programs, and how do they work? In this provocative, thoroughly researched, and lucidly written book, Rhodes offers readers the benefit of the latest findings in this burgeoning field, including those from her own extensive, groundbreaking studies.
THE ULTIMATE TERRORISTS
Jessica Stern, a former member of the National Security Council staff, gives an insider's perspective on the increasing possibility of terrorist attacks with weapons of mass destruction.
POPULAR MUSIC SITE
This comprehensive feature compiles Harvard University Press's extensive collection of books on popular music studies. In these books, renowned music, literary and cultural critics explore everything from folk to punk, with coverage of artists from Elvis Presley to the Sex Pistols.
THE ART OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS
Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language.
BEYOND WINNING
Conflict is inevitable, in both deals and disputes. Yet when clients call in the lawyers to haggle over who gets how much of the pie, traditional hard-bargaining tactics can lead to ruin. Beyond Winning offers a fresh look at negotiation, aimed at helping lawyers turn disputes into deals, and deals into better deals, through practical, tough-minded problem-solving techniques.
THE BIBLE AS IT WAS
This is a guide to the Hebrew Bible unlike any other. Leading us chapter by chapter through its most important stories, James Kugel shows how a group of anonymous, ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today. This features site includes the full text of Chapter 10 and the Preface as well as Internet resources on Biblical studies.
BLACK JACKS: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
Few Americans recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster, master mariner and historian, reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America. This feature site includes excerpts, reviews, illustrations, information about the author, and Web resources.
IN THE COMPANY OF MUSHROOMS: A Biologist's Tale
In this immensely engaging book, biologist Elio Schaechter reveals the power of these curious organisms--not quite animal, not quite plant--to enchant and instruct, to nourish and make way for other forms of nature. From mushroom biology to the allure of the mushroom hunt, this spirited tour will delight anyone with even a passing interest in the natural world. This site includes excerpts from the book, photographs and illustrations, mushroom poetry, fungi facts, Web resources, and much more.
FLORENCE: A Portrait
Michael Levey, former Director of London's National Gallery, offers a richly illustrated guide to the history and culture of Florence. This feature site includes excerpts, reviews of the book, illustrations, and Web resources.
GRACELAND: Going Home with Elvis
Karal Ann Marling interprets the places and look of Elvis Presley's life. This feature site includes information about the author, reviews, excerpts, and links.
THE HARVARD BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF MUSIC
This new, invaluable guide to 5,500 figures in the history of music features biographical information on composers, performers, music theorists and instrument makers. This site includes sample entries, Internet music resources, and reviews.
JEFFERSON AND THE INDIANS
Anthony Wallace takes us on a tour of discovery to unexplored regions of Thomas Jefferson's mind. There, the bookish Enlightenment scholar--collector of Indian vocabularies, excavator of ancient burial mounds, chronicler of the eloquence of America's native peoples, and mourner of their tragic fate--sits uncomfortably close to Jefferson the imperialist and architect of Indian removal.
JORGE LUIS BORGES: THIS CRAFT OF VERSE AUDIO CD
Here are excerpts from the six Norton Lectures that Jorge Luis Borges delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968. The recordings, only lately discovered in the Harvard University Archives, uniquely capture the cadences, candor, wit, and remarkable erudition of one of the most extraordinary and enduring literary voices of our age.
RANDOMNESS
To acquire a (correct) intuition of chance is not easy to begin with, and moving to a formal notion of probability presents further problems. Deborah Bennett traces the path an individual takes in trying to come to grips with concepts of uncertainty and fairness, and also charts the parallel path by which societies have developed ideas about chance. This feature site includes interactive brainteasers, a timeline of events from ancient Mesopotamia to the present, and much more.
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
A complex tale of ethnic mingling and borrowing, of entrepreneurship and connoisseurship, of food as a social and political symbol and weapon--and a thoroughly entertaining history of our culinary tradition of multiculturalism. Donna Gabaccia invites us to consider: If we are what we eat, who are we? This feature includes a history of the bagel, memorable menus from throughout American history, a timeline of events, and much more.
