ISBN: 9780231150125 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 752 Rok wydania: 2013
Fossil Mammals of Asia, edited by and with contributions from world-renowned scholars, is the first major work devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of...
ISBN: 9780231163880 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 312 Rok wydania: 2014
Written in the early eighth century, the Kojiki is considered Japan's first literary and historical work. A compilation of myths, legends, songs, and genealogies, it recounts the birth of...
ISBN: 9780231069649 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 236 Rok wydania: 1990
ISBN: 9780231078740 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 205 Rok wydania: 1994
The first book to clearly explain the science used żeby paleontologists and the new, cutting-edge techniques that led to the discovery of Seismosaurus, the longest dinosaur yet known----and...
ISBN: 9780231135221 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2010
The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologists, however, it also marks the rise of the world's first modern land ecosystems. Over the past...
ISBN: 9780231025157 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 480 Rok wydania: 1967
Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu were three of the most important philosophers in ancient China. This collection of their basic writings points to three very different positions within in the...
ISBN: 9780231176842 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2017
J. David Archibald explores how Darwin first came to the conclusion that species had evolved in different regions throughout the world. Carefully retracing Darwin's gathering of evidence and...
ISBN: 9780231157551 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 2032 Rok wydania: 2011
Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Based on the authoritative Italian edition...
ISBN: 9780231133388 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2005
For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit aby imperial rulers and...
ISBN: 9780231164740 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 368 Rok wydania: 2013
Only aby inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet,...
ISBN: 9780231101806 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 891 Rok wydania: 1995
A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry...
ISBN: 9780231166485 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 400 Rok wydania: 2018
Perrin Selcer tells the story of how the United Nations built the international knowledge infrastructure that made the global-scale environment visible. Experts affiliated with UN agencies helped...
ISBN: 9780231924146 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 264 Rok wydania: 2020
ISBN: 9780231160575 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2013
The invasion of land aby ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events in the evolution of life on Earth, yet the animal invasion almost failed -- twice -- because of...
ISBN: 9780231180979 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2018
300 million years ago, dog-sized scorpions and millipedes walked the earth and tropical rainforests towered into the sky. George R. McGhee Jr. Explores that ancient world, explaining its origins,...
ISBN: 9780231054751 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 364
Featuring an introduction by Stephen Jay Gould, "Genetics and the Origin of Species" presents the first edition of Dobzhansky's groundbreaking and now classic inquiry into what has...
ISBN: 9780231180771 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2018
Collaborating in the laboratory and the kitchen, Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrb k investigate the multiple ways in which food texture influences taste. Combining scientific analysis with creative...
ISBN: 9780231138413 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 784 Rok wydania: 2007
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature has long been a definitive resource for Chinese literature in translation, offering a complete overview of twentieth-century writing from China,...
ISBN: 9780231121392 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 552 Rok wydania: 2002
Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the...
ISBN: 9780231109956 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2001
One of the most important questions we can ask about life is "Does ecology matter?" Most biologists and paleontologists are trained to answer "yes," but the exact mechanisms by...