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This magnificent account of the coming of age of physics in America has been heralded as the best introduction to the history of science in the United States. Unsurpassed in its breadth and literary...

With beguiling wit and undeniable passion, Lush Lives is a deliciously queer and sexy novel about bold, brilliant women unafraid to take risks and fight for what they love An unabashedly charged love...

Today's arguments over Britain's relationship with Europe and its place in the world are shaped by its imperial history. The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where, thanks to...

This is the most up-to-date, brief and accessible introduction to Kant's ethics available. It approaches the moral theory via the political philosophy, thus allowing the reader to appreciate why Kant...

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country,...

"In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are...

Ever since Harry had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he's packing...

"The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic...

Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stereotypes. That's why some images of Indians can be so unexpected and disorienting: What is Geronimo...

The central theme of this book is the changing spatial pattern of human activities during the last 2,500 years of Europe's history. Professor Pounds argues that three factors have determined the...

With a new preface by the author, this book posists two pillars as the foundations of Paul's thought: the interaction between coherence and contingency in Paul's interpretation of the gospel and the...

This is the first systematic attempt to compare Herodotus and Thucydides as contemporaries, that is, as pre- Socratic thinkers who employed rather similar concepts and intellectual tools and who...

A non-Catholic elaborates on the opportunity of the Church to concern itself with spirituality at the same time accommodating the values of modern life

Using everyday computational power to tackle complex--and seemingly unsolvable--math problems Confronted by a math problem of seemingly impenetrable difficulty, what can you do? In The Delicate Art...

This is the story of the true horrors of The Great War - the catastrophic offensives and tragic errors that led to the brutal deaths of thousands of brave soldiers sent 'over the top' from the...

"The book explores the concept of epistemic autonomy in the context of our dependence on social and technological systems for knowledge. It challenges the Cartesian ideal of self-sufficient knowledge...

This is a pithy exploration of the place of science in the 21st century from one of the world's greatest scientists. The BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures were given in 2010 by the Astronomer Royal,...