New Releases by James Reed

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 Border ballads are the creation of a medieval frontier community who were Borderers before they were Scots or English and whose first allegiance was to the kinship group, the Surname. In this study, James Reed discusses the ballads within their geographical and historical environment as the unique record of a people tenuously surviving in a world of poverty, violence and superstition, yet singing down the centuries their strange and melancholy tales of love and hate and longing, of thieving and killing, of jealousy, incest, witchcraft and revenge.

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.

At a telling moment in the development of American East Asia policy, the dream of a Christian China fired the imagination of the public, influenced opinion leaders and policymakers, and furthered the Open Door doctrine. Reed argues that the Protestant missionary movement profoundly shaped the course of our historical relations with East Asia.

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.