books by Belknap Press     books:     Belknap Press      The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition Emily Dickinson Belknap Press, 2005 One of the most important poetry collections available If you know Dickinson's compositional method -- with almost no publication in her lifetime, often with many versions of one poem, and with poetic significance altered by the paper and exact handwriting -- you will recognize that any printed edition of her work cannot ...             The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Bernard Bailyn Belknap Press, 1992 A spark in the study of the Revolution This is a book that all students of the American Revolution should be forced to read. Without understanding Bailyn's argument, that the "conspiracy against liberty" was the main reason why America decided to break away from the British Empire, a student will be forever ...             A Theory of Justice: Original Edition John Rawls Belknap Press, 2005 Comic reviews I suppose one of the great attributes of the internet is that it allows the juxtaposition of the good, the bad and the ugly. Where else could one find reviews of one of the twentieth century's towering works that variously describe it as a recipe for a police state, an ...             My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams Abigail Adams, John Adams Belknap Press, 2007 My Dearest Friend~Letters from John Adams to his wife Abbigail If you are a history buff or just a little interested in the history of our nation you will love this book. The letters exchanged between John and Abigail Adams are wonderful. Abigail was definitely John's rock. She kept him focused and steady. John was a very ...             The Race between Education and Technology Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz Belknap Press, 2008 This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century. That is, the American educational system is what made America ...             Justice as Fairness: A Restatement John Rawls Belknap Press, 2001 Profound Rawls set himself the difficult task of accomplishing for political philosophy what Kant attempted for moral philosophy; developing a systematic logical rationale for an intuitively attactive body of thought that raises this body of thought to new levels. Kant ...             A Secular Age Charles Taylor Belknap Press, 2007 Landmark portrait of modernity An exhaustive, very learned string of reviews on Taylor's study can be found at "The Immanent Frame" ([...]), a blog maintained by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). After all that has been said, I will only add that Taylor's book is work of synthetic and ...             Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life Martin A. Nowak Belknap Press, 2006 Excellent and Approachable Survey This book is an accessible introduction to the mathematics of evolution and results in the field of evolutionary dynamics with a heavy emphasis on applications including the immune system, virulence, AIDS, and even the evolution of language. Many of the ideas are from ...             The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God David J. Linden Belknap Press, 2007 Our mental ice cream cone The greatest fear among those who reject Charles Darwin's "Dangerous Idea" is the implications the concept holds for human beings. Our brain, they often claim, demonstrates how far we are from the other animals. It must have been designed by "divine intelligence". ...             China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition John King Fairbank, Merle Goldman Belknap Press, 2006 Great This book is a great overview of Chinese history. While true that Spence's Volume has more artistic qualities this volume is mor than sufficient for the student of history. Clear and concise, this book describes the major events of Chinese history while integrating a ...             The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering Michael J. Sandel Belknap Press, 2007 Perfect Debate A Case Against Perfection, which I read in two sittings over 5 hours in one afternoon. I simply could not put the book down, Sandel proposes both sides in the debate of Cloning/Perfomance Enhancement/Gene Therapy etc... Sandel makes you guess and second guess, then ...             A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War Williamson Murray, Allan R. Millett Belknap Press, 2001 Amazing Plain and simple, this is an amazing book, surely the best one-volume military history of World War II out there. Murray and Millett nimbly and ably cover all the war's theaters on land, at sea, and in the sky. The research is solid; the analysis is top-notch; and ...             Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 Christopher Clark Belknap Press, 2006 Outstanding I will say it again this book was outstanding. This is one of the best historical works I have ever read. Clark is an eminent scholar and an excellent writer as well. This book offers the reader a wealth of knowledge and information in a style that is both eloquent ...             Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood Steven Mintz Belknap Press, 2006 superb! I used "Huck's Raft" in a senior seminar I taught in the fall 2005 semester on Children's Health, Education & Welfare, and it was one of my students' favorites. It works especially well as a first book in a course, because it is so comprehensive and engrossing. ...             Life and Death in the Third Reich Peter Fritzsche Belknap Press, 2008 A lucid explanation of the unthinkable It's never sat well with me--not really--because no one thing can explain or excuse it. Were the German people stupid? Brainwashed? Intrinsically evil? Forced into obeyance? Ignorant, and thus brutal? Victims, and thus innocent? 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