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Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that...

What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences...

The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and...

This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy...

Education for deaf learners has gone through significant changes over the past three decades. The needs of many have changed considerably....

Django Reinhardt was arguably the greatest guitarist who ever lived, an important influence on Les Paul, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, Jerry...

Essential guide, bringing a poorly understood term into focus.

Positive Psychotherapy provides therapists with a session-by-session therapeutic approach based on the principles of positive psychology,...

While most people find it relatively easy to manage their possessions, some find it extremely difficult. If you have a problem resisting...

Packed with more than a hundred color illustrations and a wide variety of puzzles and brainteasers, Taking Sudoku Seriously uses this popular...

This engaging and long influential collection of essays looks at the art of singing in its totality. Written in a lively, non-technical...

In 1432, the Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Seventy years of denunciations, accusations, interrogations...

This entertaining tour of the brain answers such fundamental questions as, What is the purpose of the brain? What is an emotion? What is...

The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses key issues and concerns about a controversial and very hot topic. Written...

We live our lives through our emotions, writes Robert Solomon, and it is our emotions that give our lives meaning. What interests or fascinates...

This volumes collects new essays żeby top philosophers, all on the theme of perception while also making connections between perception...

Drawing on the concept of hypermediacy from media studies, this book situates opera within the larger context of contemporary media practices,...

What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak...

Algorithmic puzzles are puzzles involving well-defined procedures for solving problems. This book will provide an enjoyable and accessible...

Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern...

A revised fourth edition, with a new foreword, afterword and further reading list.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also...

In this book, Walter Judd and Grant Judd give detailed species accounts of every plant found in Tolkien's universe, complete with the etymology...

The Russian school of violin playing produced many of the twentieth century's leading violinists - from the famed disciples of Leopold Auer...

In 2014, a tribal alliance from Yemen's northern regions seized the capital city of Sana'a and overthrew a republic that had ruled since...

"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication,...

Now in its fourth edition, The Art of Music Production has established itself as the definitive guide to the art and business of music production...

This landmark resource, the first fully-based on authoritative NABRE translation, contains the trustworthy study notes, expanded essays,...

We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife...

No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity,...

The Oxford Handbook of Hegel is a comprehensive guide to Hegel's philosophy, from his first published writings to his final lectures. The...

When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece--one of the finest books...

Bach has remained a figure of continuous fascination and interest to scholars and readers since the original Master Musicians Bach volume's...

This is a study of the Romantic poets and the relation between tradition and the individual artist. For the second edition, Bloom offers...

Intuitive Biostatistics takes a non-technical, non-quantitative approach to statistics and emphasizes interpretation of statistical results...

This landmark resource, the first fully-based on authoritative NABRE translation, contains the trustworthy study notes, expanded essays,...

The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works...

A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this prize-winning and critically acclaimed history uses foreign...

On November 10, 1995, the Nigerian military government under General Sani Abacha executed dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight...

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of behavioural finance. With the use of the latest psychological research, Shefrin helps us...

The Arab Maghreb-the long stretch of North Africa that expands from Libya to Mauritania-is a vitally important region that impacts the security...

This volume provides a much-needed English translation of the sixth edition of what is considered the fundamental text for fully understanding...

Comprehensive, systematic, and balanced, Systems of Psychotherapy uses a wealth of clinical cases to help readers understand a wide variety...

C. Wright Mills is best remembered for his highly acclaimed work The Sociological Imagination, in which he set forth his views on how social...

An essential overview of Iran, a complex and important nation that has occupied world headlines for nearly four decades.

In January of 1999, an otherwise nonviolent man under great stress at work brutally murdered his wife in their backyard. He then went back...

Environmental Protection: What Everyone Needs to Know(R) helps readers to access and navigate the robust system of environmental laws that...

The Ballet of the Planets unravels the beautiful mystery of planetary motion, revealing how our understanding of astronomy evolved from...

The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes...

In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of...

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits...

How to Build a Brain provides a guided exploration of a new cognitive architecture that takes biological detail seriously while addressing...

The tenth anniversary edition of The Oxford History of Mexico tells the fascinating story of Mexico as it has evolved from the reign of...

Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of the most spectacular...

Positive Psychotherapy: Workbook guides readers through a session-by-session therapeutic approach based on the principles of positive psychology,...

James McPherson evokes the meaning and significance of the Civil War

Reframing Vivien Leigh takes a new look at the laboring life one of the twentieth century's most iconic stars. Author Lisa Stead reframes...

" A] masterful volume that will do much to advance understanding of mental health as an essential public health challenge." -Journal of...

The MMPI-2 is the most widely used personality test in the U.S. And around the world. It is employed in mental health settings, medical...

Plato is the best known, and continues to be the most widely studied, of all the ancient Greek philosophers. The twenty-one commissioned...

The Indian philosopher Acharya Nagarjuna (c. 150-250 CE) was the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahayana Buddhism and...

In this volume based on her 2014 Locke Lectures, Martha C. Nussbaum provides a bracing new view that strips the notion of forgiveness down...

In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth...

Now featuring a new Afterword by the author, this handy paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom is without...

When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the...

Myth is oral, collective, sacred, and timeless. Fantasy is a modern literary mode and a popular entertainment. Yet the two have always been...

Some investigators have argued that emotions, especially animal emotions, are illusory concepts outside the realm of scientific inquiry....

In 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals. But only two months after the war's end, Berliners...

Most people think about philosophical problems without realizing it: What really exists? Can we know anything? Is anything really right...

In Cathedrals of Science, Patrick Coffey describes how chemistry got its modern footing-how thirteen brilliant men and one woman struggled...

Eye-opening look at the Stoic philosophers, revealing how to use their psychological insights and techniques to live a happier life.

Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual...

For millennia, beer has been a staple beverage in cultures across the globe. After water and tea, it is the most popular drink in the world,...

Lavishly illustrated with over 175 black-and-white and color images that range from high to popular culture and from Ancient Greece to contemporary...

DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION provides expert advice to the reader on selection guidelines and programming techniques for straight-forward as well...

First published in 1927 this monumental book has long been out of print. Brilliantly written, it stands on its own merits and has not been...

Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings...

Part of the Neurosurgery aby Example series, this volume on peripheral nerve disorders presents exemplary cases in which renowned authors...

Nurturing Our Humanity offers a new perspective on our personal and social options in today's world, showing how to structure our environments-from...

What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished...

Children of Lucifer tells the history of Satanism, from its earliest conception as polemical construct żeby the Christian Church to its...

The Middle Ages inherited from antiquity a tradition of prophecy and gave it new life. This tradition foretold a millennium in which humanity...

Craig L. Symonds' World War II at Sea offers a definitive naval history of the Second World War presenting the chronology of the naval war,...

Explores the possiblity and process of evolution beyond the standard and established scientific principles.

This concise volume provides brief original reading matter to illustrate key features of Greek grammar and syntax. Each chapter begins with...

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy,...

Part of the "What Do I Do Now?" series, Emergency Neurology uses a case-based approach to cover challenging cases for clinicians caring...

Written for beginners and scholars, for students and teachers, for philosophers and engineers, What is Mathematics?, Second Edition is a...

In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval...

The practice of economic development has undergone significant transformation over the past decade, due to globalization and democratization....

First published in 1996 to great critical and popular acclaim, the Grove Book of Operas, is a collection of synopses and descriptions of...

Where did the Israelites originate? What was the fate of the Canaanites? In this revealing introduction, Jonathan M. Golden tackles these...

In September 2017, North Korea shocked the world aby exploding the most powerful nuclear device tested anywhere in 25 years. Months earlier,...

This textbook aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the essentials of microeconomics. It offers unprecedented depth of coverage, whilst...

Lucidly explaining both the appeals and dangers of populism across history, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand...

In the dairy aisle of the supermarket, one milk carton features cows grazing on a verdant pasture, backed by a forest and undulating hillside....

Social epidemiology is the study of how the social world influences - and in many cases defines - the fundamental determinants of health....

"Responsible gambling" refers to a range of strategies, initiatives, and activities introduced żeby gambling regulators, policymakers, and...

Revered aby Buddhists in the United States and China, Master Sheng-yen shares his wisdom and teachings in this first comprehensive English...

Koevecses recasts CMT as a contextual theory of metaphor, expanding and refining it to account for the ways in which many verbal metaphors...

Cicero's Brutus and Orator constitute his final major statements on the history of Roman oratory and the nature of the ideal orator. In...

Acclaimed neuroscientist Gary Wenk reveals the fascinating impacts of exercise on the brain Decades of research demonstrate that regular...

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost...

Exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence are revealing minds like ours as predictive minds, forever...

A comprehensive study of the style and structure of her songs, analysing her technique, poetic nuances and cultural references.

Elkhonon Goldberg's groundbreaking The Executive Brain was a classic of scientific writing, revealing how the frontal lobes command the...

Clear, authoritative, and provocative, by All Means Necessary is a sweeping account of where China's pursuit of raw materials may take the...

If science has the equivalent of a Bloomsbury group, it is the five men born at the turn of the 20th century in the same neighborhood in...

This book exposes our unconscious selfish motives, those we're reluctant to discuss or even think about. These motives drive our body language,...

As the world evolves in increasingly unpredictable directions, one of the key determinants of the future global order will surely be the...

While we have known for centuries that facial expressions can reveal what people are thinking and feeling, it is only recently that the...

This casebook provides a selection of key criticism, including an article newly translated into English, on the Cantos of Ezra Pound. The...

The untold story of China's rise as a global superpower, chronicled through the diplomatic shock troops that connect Beijing to the world....

This fascinating account of the Salem Witch Trials explores their religious, social, and political dimensions, their origins, their critics,...

Thoroughly updated, streamlined, and enhanced with pedagogical features, the twelfth edition of Barresi and Gilbert's Developmental Biology...

Supreme Court Justice Antonin scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution...

Subtitled, }The Transformation Of America: 1815-1848{.

Neuroscience has made considerable progress in figuring out how the brain works. We know much about the molecular-genetic and biochemical...

This Second Edition of Mastering Your Adult ADHD is thoroughly updated to present the most current, empirically supported treatment strategies...