Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

The hard-won recognition that divine authority and human freedom ultimately cannot be in conflict must never be taken for granted, and the irony that the thought of Paul has repeatedly been invoked to undo that recognition truly does make this insight one of 'the permanent elements.'"-from the Introduction

In Preserving the Family Farm Mary Neth focuses on these relations-of gender and community-to shed new light on the events of this crucial period.

Thus, the negotiation and ratification of major cooperative accords will continue to be shaped by verification compromises and coalitions.

His book remains an engaging introduction both to the concept of the hero in Hellenic civilization and to the poetic forms through which the hero is defined: the Iliad and Odyssey in particular and archaic Greek poetry in general.

Threats and Promises challenges the conventional wisdom and is an original contribution to the field of international politics.

Black gives historical detail and analysis to account for this transformation.

Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats tap into this remarkable resource to reveal how individual political identities developed and political choices were made.

His analysis reveals major problems in the way in which the idea of cultural, as distinct from economic or political, imperialism is formulated.

In analyzing the formal and social aspects of this performance context, Gentili illuminates such topics as oral composition and improvisation, oral transmission and memory, the connections betweek poetry and music, the changing socioeconomic situation of the artist, and the relations among poets, patrons, and the public.

Although the book has plenty of the "how toof religious practice, Being a Jew is in the end an eloquent reflection on Judaism's deepest theme: living life as a way of serving God.

Exploring a range of competing representations, Gould asks whether Carmen is a dangerous femme fatale, a liberated woman, or, as Nietzsche saw her, a warrior in the vanguard of the battle between the sexes.

"-Kenneth J. Reckford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Approaching issues from a variety of perspectives, Salamon covers topics such as the theoretical basis of government-nonprofit cooperation and recent efforts to cut federal spending.

His appendixes of critical documents and his reflections on the Bill of Rights and on the Emancipation Proclamation set this volume apart from other treatises on the amendments to the Constitution.

Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

This is a biography of a major American inventor. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life.

This text is a study of the thinking which underlies recent theory about literary history. Through analysis of particular literary histories - most of them contemporary works - Perkins elaborates on fundamental problems that arise in the writing of literary history.

An examination of the ethical dimensions of land use decisions and policy, on the premise is that all land use decisions invariably involve ethical choices. Beatley is co-author, with Philip Berke, of "Planning for Earthquakes".

In offering an account of the relationship between urban architecture - especially vernacular architecture - and the spatial arrangement and development of cities in North America, this book shows how changes in the built environment parallel changes in urban economies and human culture.

This combined edition provides a sophisticated yet accessible discussion-across generations-of "the fundamental discourse of poetic structure."

social history.

Lowenthal, The United States and Latin American Democracy: Learning from History.

Based on a program developed at the National Institute on Aging in association with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Staying Dry is the book that will put you back in charge.

A distinguished group of authors reflects on problems currently enlivening the space shared by philosophy and literary theory in a series of chapters that range in scope from Plato to postmodernism.

Today's nuclear world can't afford such lessons.