Paperback: 459 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press; 2 edition (May 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262532034
ISBN-13: 978-0262532037

This book delivers exactly what its title promises: a straightforward and comprehensive account of the electronic digital computer’s first five decades. Starting with the historic ENIAC of 1945, Ceruzzi moves nimbly through one epochal generation of computing technology after another: the gargantuan, vacuum-tube-filled mainframes of the early ’50s; the sleeker, transistorized minicomputers of the ’60s; the personal computers conjured up by hobbyists in the ’70s; and the computer networks that have come to span offices and the globe in the last 10 years.

TiTLE : Encyclopedia of Russian History , Vol 3
AUTHOR : James R. Millar
PUBLISHER : MacMillan Library Reference
iSBN : 0028656962

ISBN-10: 0028656946
ISBN-13: 978-0028656946

A scholarly resource accessible to a general audience, the Encyclopedia of Russian History provides more than 1,500 entries encompassing more than 1,000 years of Russian history, from the formation of Kievan Rus in the mid-ninth century to the present-day Russian Federation. A seven-member editorial board of Russian scholars headed by editor-in-chief Millar (Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University) oversaw topic selection. All entries are signed by one of more than 500 contributors.
Entries are arranged alphabetically. To access them, users can scan the article title list in volume 1 or use the cumulative subject index in volume 4. Bold type in the index designates main entries. Volume 1 also provides a list of article titles arranged by one of 21 general topics, such as “Agriculture,” “Government,” “Religion,” and “Science and Technology.”

Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (December 30, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195157575
ISBN-13: 978-0195157574

In 1992 Weissmark brought together 22 Jews and Germans for a four-day meeting at Harvard University. They were sons and daughters of concentration camp survivors and sons and daughters of Nazis.

Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 23, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 019514631X
ISBN-13: 978-0195146318

Harkins, assistant professor of history at Western Kentucky University, means to examine the “cultural and ideological construct `the hillbilly’… rather than the actual people of the southern mountains.”

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (March 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0748608656
ISBN-13: 978-0748608652

Including developments in medicine, surgery, and alternative medicine in relation to the changing economic and social background, the author offers a new synthesis of medicine and society in Scotland.

Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (January 17, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471136026
ISBN-13: 978-0471136026

Serve up a heaping lesson of history with delicious recipes from our nation’s past–– from the pilgrims’ first feast to today’s high-tech, low-fat fare

Hardcover: 403 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (August 6, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520219198
ISBN-13: 978-0520219199

On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric of Motives, among other works, was an innovative and original thinker who worked at the intersection of sociology, psychology, literary theory, and semiotics. This book, a selection of fourteen representative pieces of his productive later years, addresses many important themes Burke tackled throughout his career such as logology (his attempt to find a universal language theory and methodology), technology, and ecology. The essays also elaborate Burke’s notions about creativity and its relation to stress, language and its literary uses, the relation of mind and body, and more. Provocative, idiosyncratic, and erudite, On Human Nature makes a significant statement about cultural linguistics and is an important rounding-out of the Burkean corpus.