As president of Harvard University, Neil Rudenstine has enjoyed a unique perspective on the state of higher learning, while exerting a significant influence on its recent and future course. Published to commemorate his decade-long tenure, this selection of Rudenstine's talks and writings illuminates many of the ideas and issues that animate higher education today. 
 In a collection of more than fifty speeches and writings, Rudenstine eloquently explores topics both timely and timeless, from the educational importance of diversity to the enduring value of the humanities; from the teaching potential of new technologies to the profound benefits of basic research; from developments in the professions and public service to the singular power of education to transform lives. 
 Specially designed and printed in a limited edition, Pointing Our Thoughts features a foreword by Hanna Holborn Gray, President Emeritus of the University of Chicago and a member of the Harvard Corporation. As Gray remarks, "To read [Rudenstine's] thoughtful and beautifully crafted speeches is to hear the voice of a teacher deeply committed to the vocation of opening minds to reflection and insight, listening intensely to his colleagues and entering with them into a continuing process of intellectual dialogue, sharing the convictions and perplexities of the search for understanding." This volume is testament to that commitment. It represents an invaluable addition to the literature on higher education in America and around the world.

Pointing Our Thoughts: Reflections on Harvard and Higher Education, 1991–2001, with a Foreword by Hanna Holborn Gray

History

Rudenstine, Neil L.

Americas

Harvard University

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.  Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history.  He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Biographies & Memoirs

Frederick edited by Benjamin Quarles Douglass

Community & Culture

This book boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. While retaining all the main points of analysis and interpretation, the author has reduced the full complement of statistics, sources, and technical data contained in the original edition to serve the needs of general readers and undergraduates.

Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution

Gary B. Nash

This important monograph on commercial policy was written by the best-known and most authoritative American student of the tariff. It examines theoretical principles relating to the controversy on free trade and protection--the effect of duties on imports and prices, the infant industry argument and the principle of comparative advantage--and includes illustrations and verifications drawn from the histories of several industries such as sugar, iron and steel, and silk, cotton and wool manufacture. The third enlarged edition here reprinted was continued to 1930 with the cooperation of H.D. White. "Practically sums up and condenses ... the conclusions of a life of thoughtful study of a great problem." Journal of Political Economy. "An important contribution to American economic history." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Some aspects of the tariff question;: An examination of the development of American industries under protection (Reprints of economic classics)

Taussig, F. W.

The Vendee

Tilly, Charles

Architecture of Colen Campbell

Stutchbury, Howard E.

This book is the product of a one-year investigation of New Orleans and its animate forms of exchange within the Lower Mississippi River Basin. Completed by the Harvard University GSD just weeks before Hurricane Katrina struck, the research cuts through multiple scales and topographies as it moves from synthesizing the vast deltaic plain to carefully measuring and calibrating the liminal space between the river and the city's urban edge, color & b&w illus.

New Orleans: Strategies For A City In A Soft Land

Joan Busquets

Ila Berman

Felipe Correa

From Kievan Rus' to modern Ukraine: Formation of the Ukrainian nation

Harvard Ukrainian Studies

"Contrary to what their parents tell them, identical twins are essentially the same person". Plautus' Roman comedy Menaechmi, (the inspiration behind Shakespeare's A comedy of Errors and Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) is a thrilling medley of song and satire, a farcical comedy bubbling over with crazed stock characters, absurd coincidences, and wild confrontations that haven't aged a bit over the past two millennia.

The Menaechmi (Classics: Roman Comedy)

Plautus

Animals are us anthropomorphism in children's literature

Houghton Library

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