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"-Abraham F. Lowenthal, from the foreword

Explores questions relating to the nature of representation in art. It asks how we recognize likeness in caricatures or portraits, for instance, and presents the conflicting arguments and opinions of an art historian, a psychologist and a philosopher.

It further suggests how regulatory structures might develop to support a comprehensive, holistic, and balanced approach to health, one that permits integration of orthodox medicine with complementary and alternative medicine, while continuing to protect patients from fraudulent and dangerous treatments.

This text examines the recent record of United Nations peacekeeping forces, developing criteria for assessing their operations. It aims to provide guidance for the management of new hostilities in areas such as Eastern Europe. An epilogue discusses the situations in Somalia, Bosnia and Cambodia.

Providing a history of economic theory, this book shows how the analytical tools used by economists have evolved from the 18th century to the present, and offers a comprehensive account of modern mainstream economics.

In the third part, Tchen focuses on how Americans' attitude toward the Chinese changed from fascination to demonization, leading to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Acts beginning in 1882.

Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in mediaeval cities and monasteries, this is a study of water technology in the Middle Ages. Roberta J. Magnusson challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance.

By the mid-nineteenth century, ornithology had become a scientific discipline with international experts, a large empirical base, and a rigorous methodology of watching and cataloging.

Calling into question widely held notions about how Americans came to differ from one another and explaining why those differences continue to flourish, this iconoclastic study-by scholars with differing regional ties-will refresh and redirect the centuries-old discussion over Americans' conceptions of themselves.

Felicity Nussbaum, co-recipient of the American Association for 18th-Century Studies' Louis Gottschalk Prize, considers the convergence of genre, gender and class in this reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale.

And Race raises a difficult practical question: What price do we place on our political traditions, institutions, and civic arrangements? This ambitious volume reexamines old questions in new ways that will stimulate a wide readership.

The letters, diaries, and journals piece together what it was like to experience tuberculosis, and eloquently reveal the tenacity and resolve with which people faced it.

Maxwell Fry includes new chapters on finance in endogenous growth models, foreign direct investment and the accumulation of foreign debt, and fiscal activities of central banks in developing countries.

Anthony Appiah; Emily Apter; Charles Bernheimer; Peter Brooks; Rey Chow; Jonathan Culler; David Damrosch; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Roland Greene; Margaret R. Higonnet; Francoise Lionnet; Marjorie Perloff; Mary Russo; Tobin Siebers; Mary Louise Pratt; Michael Riffaterre; Arnold Weinstein

Brings together leading thinkers on higher education from the United States and other countries to explore the new realities that emerged during the 1980s and to examine the trends, issues and challenges of the 1990s.

military action is raised anew-from Iraq to Bosnia-the lessons of the Dominican crisis will continue to command attention.

Otto Mayr, the director of Germany's leading technological museum, explores the relationship between machinery, technological thought, and culture. Contrasting England and the Continent, particularly in the eighteenth century, he uncovers a stikring pattern of technological metaphors applied to political systems-and lays the foundations of a new intellectual history of technology

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 maps the political, cultural, and social dimensions of landscape design in urban America and offers new insights into the transformation of San Francisco's physical environment and quality of life through its world-famous park system.

A foundational text of the leading school of law in Sunni Islam, it provides essential insights into relations between Islamic nations and the larger world from their earliest days up to the present.

Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association, Roeber's study of German-American settlements and their ideas about liberty and property provides an unprecedented view of how non-English culture and beliefs made their way from Europe to America.

The book concludes with the decline of Italian universities, as internal abuses and external threats-including increased student violence and competition from religious schools-ended Italy's educational leadership in the seventeenth century.

Comparing the space station decision to earlier decisions to go to the moon and to build the space shuttle, McCurdy shows how public officials responsible for long-term science and technology policy maneuvered in a political system that demanded short-term flexibility.

"A timely and well-conceived collection of six essays that contributes to the history of the growth of the modern American state by focusing on the development of bureaucracies in selected areas of public policy since 1945."--'Perspective'

Schulz, Brandeis University; Michael Sherraden, Washington University; Alvar Svanborg, University of Illinois-Chicago and Goteburg University, Sweden; Brent A. Taylor, San Diego State University

Reverby. Wellesley College; David Rosner, Columbia University; Thomas Rutten, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, University of Greifswald; Christiane Sinding, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale