New Releases by John Harris

This behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and commercially successful albums draws on original, new interviews with every member of the band.

John Harris presents an informed defence of human cloning, carefully exposing the rhetorical and highly dubious arguments against it. He shows that far from ending the diversity of human life, cloning has the power to improve and heal human life.

The development of biotechnology has produced nothing short of a revolution, both in our capacity to manipulate living things from single plant cells to human nature itself, but also to manufacture brand new life forms. This power to shape and create forms of life has sometimes been described as the power to "play God" and this book is about the ethics of "playing God" in the field of biotechnology. International scholars cover moral dilemmas posed by biotechnology, from the smallest cells through animals to the engineering of human beings.

In Friend and Foe, Frederick Harris examines the life and works of French authors Marcel Proust and André Gide. Proust and Gide clearly defined French literature in the first part of the twentieth century. This book contains the whole of correspondence between Proust and Gide, some letters translated in English for the first time. By looking at Proust and Gide simultaneously, looking at Proust and the whole coterie of writers and critics that gathered around Gide at the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF), Harris provides a new context in which to assess both Proust and Gide. It forces consideration in a more incisive way of the key issues in both their careers: the Dreyfus Affair, World War I, homosexuality, and their art.

The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was a huge and bloody struggle, a devil''s wind of retribution and death that swept across the jungles, hills and parched plains of the Indian sub-continent.

This guide includes forty walks through Boston''s major historic areas including: Beacon Hill, the Common, and Cambridge. With information such as history of the area, architecture, politics, religion, and intrigues of the past.

On May 10th 1941, Rudolf Hess took off from an Augsberg airfield in a Messerschmidt headed for Scotland. This controversial book contains previously unpublished evi dence and theories about Hess'''' mysterious flight. ''

Introduction; Mathematical background; Dynamic modelling of robots; Structured network modelling of robots; Adaptive neural network control of robots; Neural network model reference adaptive control; Flexible joint robots; task space and force control; Bibliography; Computer simulation; Simulation software in C.

Cases and Materials on International Law draws together in one volume an exhaustive selection of cases, materials and background information on public international law, supplemented by expert commentary and analysis. It is widely recognised as the leading cases and materials text on this area of law. The fifth edition has been completely revised to include all major developments in the subject, including: * The end of the USSR and the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia have had major repercussions; the chapter on Personality is extensively revised to reflect these events * The chapter on the Use of Force by States has been rewritten to take account of the new lease of life given to the Security Council by the end of the Cold War * Full consideration is given to the developments resulting from the entry into force of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention

Herring Lake is located in Benzie County along the shores of Lake Michigan. John Howard, the self-styled "bard of Benzie," chronicles its history through legends, anecdotes, and an abundance of antiquarian information about local artifacts, town characters, Indians, and memorable occurrences. He discusses Watervale''s transformation from a "defunct lumber village" to a summer resort community, and recalls vanished technological processes used in processing and transporting lumber. The book''s preface is a verse legend, "The Bride of Mystery," concerning the courtship, marriage, and drowning of an Indian maiden, "Arequipah."

"The primary object of this manual is to teach natives to converse in English. It is designed to help carry out the plan o the Government to extend English schools among the indigenous race of these islands. At the same time, the work is designed to assist strangers, speaking the English, to acquire the correct colloquial speech of the Hawaiians"--p. [iii].