Inspector Thomas Pitt is shocked. The body of a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London’s most dangerous slums. What’s more, the unfo
How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the
How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the
In this exploration of crisis in Counter-Reformation Spain, Mary Elizabeth Perry reveals the significance of gender for social order by portraying the lives of women who lived on the margins of respec
Perry (government, Harvard University) examines the construction of revolutionary citizenship and its subsequent implications for state-society relations in contemporary China, arguing that contempora
This volume brings together the disciplines of plant and animal genome research, and serves as an opportunity for scientists from both fields to compare results, problems and prospects.
In ten essays reprinted and in some cases revised from previous publication, Perry (government and east Asian studies, Harvard U.) explores the importance of popular protest in the politics of modern
With the help of the Discovery Channel, undersea explorer Barry Clifford fields an expedition that includes some of America's top experts in shipwreck recovery. Their goal is to find, identify, and p
This text provides a solid introduction to the foundations of research methods, with the goal of enabling students and professionals in the various fields of education to not simply become casual cons
This text provides a solid introduction to the foundations of research methods, with the goal of enabling students and professionals in the various fields of education to not simply become casual cons
This stunning photographic essay on Greece is the result of a passionate love affair with the country conducted over twenty years by Clay Perry, a photographer whose books on English landscape, archit
"Just as Edwin Denby, Clement Greenburg, and Pauline Kael transformed the nature of criticism in the fields of dance, art, and film, respectively, Hardwick has redefined the possibilities of the liter
Some written by mathematical psychologists and others by mathematical philosophers, 12 essays demonstrate the little known overlap of methods in the two fields. They were presented as the 2010 Purdue
Set in seventeenth-century England at the outbreak of Civil War, The White Witch brings to life the fields, forests, and homes of rural Oxfordshire.In the manor house, Margaret Haslewood and her twin
Can wrong choices early on affect a family's lives forever?Since they were pupils in the village school, it had been obvious that Becca the ploughman's daughter and George the blacksmith's son would o
A dramatic saga of love lost and found againRachel Gardner's family life is far from a happy one. Her father, Stanhope, is cold and remote, and her mother Nellie seems to care for nothing but housewor
A dramatic family saga, filled to the brim with scandal and intrigueAfter a London pub brawl in which her beloved father is injured, 13-year-old Sally Stangate and her family must flee to begin a new
This work is an important addition to the rather limited literature on the social history of China during the first half of the twentieth century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have a
When Jimmy Carter was a boy, he listened to his parents talk about local politics and watched them live out their Baptist faith in the community. From the fields of his family farm to traveling the wo
Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either
In this third edition of Understanding Violence, author Elizabeth Kandel Englander draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields to present a uniquely balanced, integrated, and readable s
