New Releases by James Reed

James Lawrence Sr. was born during the 1720''s. He and his wife, Elizabeth, moved from Virginia to Kentucky before 1780. They had 12 children. Elizabeth died between 1791-1801 and James died 5 Mar 1802 in Danville, Kentucky. Their descendants have lived in Kentucky, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ohio, and other areas in the United States.

Through his research with over ten thousand gifted children in four countries, Dr. Campbell discovered new angles to the nature versus nurture debate.

With this new entry in Twayne''s Masterwork Studies Series, the preeminent Mann scholar T. J. Reed provides students from secondary to graduate levels with a concise but comprehensive guide to the art and the issues of Death in Venice.

Photographic Pictorialism was an early twentieth-century movement that had its goal the romantic expression of forms of beauty. In California, Pictorialism took forms as varied as landscape photographs, Hollywood portraits, and moody evocations of modern dance. This book contains one hundred photographs that illustrate the full range of the Pictorialist movement in Northern and in Southern California. It includes images by such well-known Pictorialists as Ansel Adams, Imogene Cunningham, and Edward Weston.

Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) was, with Goëthe, the supreme dramatist and lyric poet of the great classical age of German literature. In this study T.J. Reed carefully considers the popular image of Schiller as a serious moralizer, and finds that, though he was indeed concerned with morality, his passion, subtlety and wit make him a more complex and sympathetic personality than posterity has appreciated.

The literary work which Goethe produced and stimulated in his Weimar years - the greater part of his life - gave to a country which was not yet a nation the centre of artistic and intellectual authority it lacked. T. J. Reed''s study traces the way this came about, against what social andpolitcal difficulties and literary opposition, and places the results in the larger context of German cultural history. The historical narrative is built up from a precise analysis of the major (and many minor) texts of the period, and weaves individual writers'' careers persuasively into the broaderpattern.

This Handbook provides a basic reference source on the Art and Science of Industrial Heating with gaseous and liquid fuels. First printed in 1952 it has been updated continuously to reflect advances in the technology behind combustion equipment and controls and is now in its third edition. More than 100,000 printed copies have been distributed worldwide. The purpose of the handbook is to provide users of combustion equipment with the following: A basic explanation of the theory of combustion; Outlines for combustion, heat transfer, and fluid calculations; Charts and data to simplify and speed these calculations; A discussion of combustion equipment, its application, selection and operation. Although the stated scope of the handbook is Industrial Heating with gaseous and liquid fuels, the reader will find that the book also contains considerable information applicable to commercial heating and to solid fuels.

Dramatist, novelist, and lyric poet, Goethe is one of the major figures in Germany''s national literature. This book describes the revolutionary impact of Goethe''s youthful poetry, analyzes the classicism of his later years, and sketches his related work in science. (Past Masters)

Based, in part, on close reading of manuscripts and sources at the Zurich Thomas Mann Archive, Reed''s study has long established itself as the standard work in English on Mann''s fiction and thought. In this new edition, Reed adds a chapter on the new documentation that has appeared since thefirst edition. He details the main currents in Mann scholarship over the last two decades, suggesting how we should now see the writer, the man, and the political figure, and, above all, the complex relationship between the three.