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An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and...

In The Dictator's Army, Caitlin Talmadge presents a compelling new argument to help us understand why authoritarian militaries sometimes fight very well—and sometimes very poorly. Talmadge's...

Photographs and text explore the anatomy and life cycle of trees, examining the different kinds of bark, seeds, and leaves, the commercial processing of trees to make lumber, and the creatures that...

Presents facts about the prehistoric world in which dinosaurs lived, the types of dinosaurs that lived in different time periods, and how dinosaur bones are discovered and studied.

A pair of shipwrecked sailors have very different approaches to handling an absurd series of dilemmas, in this entertaining picture book that doubles as a meditation for optimists and pessimists...

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability—and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and...

Why The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and the geopolitical model of our times. A tenth anniversary edition of the comprehensive political philosophy of...

Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging...

Tells the story of China through 96 short biographies. This book includes a colourful array of very different men and women: emperors and empresses, concubines, officials and political figures.

The reader follows Waldo as he travels through different time periods in history and must try to find him in the illustrations of some of the crowded events in which he participates.

This book traces the phenomenon of ecstasy in art and cultural history.Accompanying an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Zentrum Paul Klee, this book illuminates the various spiritual,...

In the spring of 1945, as the Allied victory in Europe was approaching, the shape of the postwar world hinged on the personal politics and flawed personalities of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin...

The author explores the relationship between ancient religious tradition and modern technology as he reflects on the very different lives of his two grandmothers--one American, and one murdered by...

There are a number of persistent anomalies in binding theory. One is the lack of an integrated view of long distance anaphora. Anaphors generally require an antecedent, but languages have been found...

The concept of democracy means that those governed--the demos--have a say in government. However, different conceptions of democracy have left many groups and individuals out. In this Very Short...

How does the American public formulate its opinions about U.S. foreign policy and military engagement abroad? War Stories argues that the media systematically distort the information the public...

The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New...

From your garden to your table, and every step in between, this lovely book will guide you through planting, growing, harvesting, and cooking herbs.There’s a visual index of 120 culinary herbs and...

A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one placePoetry...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating, important, and influential figures in the history of British music. He rose from humble beginnings and achieved fame with music...