In "Dying to Know", eminent critic George Levine makes a landmark contribution to the history and theory of scientific knowledge. This book explores the paradoxes of our modern ideal of objectivity, in particular its emphasis on the impersonality and disinterestedness of truth. How, asks Levine, did[...]

In "The Realistic Imagination," George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a con[...]

Levine shows how Darwin's ideas affected nineteenth-century novelists--from Dickens and Trollope to Conrad. Levine stands in our day as the premier critic and commentator on Victorian prose.--Frank M. Turner, Nineteenth-Century Literature. Magnificently written, with a care and delicacy worthy of it[...]

In this essential introduction to postwar America, central currents in art, film, theatre, intellectual history and media are explored alongside political and social change. The new edition has been revised and updated in the light of new scholarship and the last two chapters now cover recent events[...]

Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian provinc[...]

In economics, most noncooperative game theory has focused on equilibrium in games, especially Nash equilibrium and its refinements. The traditional explanation for when and why equilibrium arises is that it results from analysis and introspection by the players in a situation where the rules of the [...]

Texts-including essays, reviews, and statements by the artist-on the work of Sherrie Levine.The artist Sherrie Levine (b. 1947) is best known for her appropriations of work by other artists-most famously for her rephotographs Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and other masters of modern photography. Sinc[...]

For one semester courses in business statistics. A student-friendly approach that shows how statistics work in each area of business. Students need a frame of reference when learning statistics, especially when it’s not their major.Business Statistics: A First Course teaches students how statist[...]

In his comprehensive history of the synagogue from the Hellenistic period through Late Antiquity, Lee Levine traces the origins and development of this dynamic and revolutionary institution. This revised paperback edition reflects the latest information in the field and includes a wealth of recently[...]

Although the American photographer and conceptual artist Sherrie Levine (b. 1947) has been the subject of much critical discourse for the past thirty years, she has not been the subject of a comprehensive survey, until now. This handsome volume, created in close collaboration with the artist, contai[...]

Meet Lola Levine--a biracial bicultural second grader, who isn't afraid to be herself, in this first book in a new chapter book series. Lola loves writing in her diario, and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. But when a soccer game at recess gets too "competitive," Lola accidentally[...]