ISBN: 9780226558271 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 426 Rok wydania: 2007
Over the last several decades, mathematical models have become central to the study of social evolution, both in biology and the social sciences. But students in these disciplines often seriously...
ISBN: 9780226561233 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2012
Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we...
ISBN: 9780226569901 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2018
A collection of brief lives of prominent scientists, from Darwin to Crick to Goodall.
ISBN: 9780226059730 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 308 Rok wydania: 1992
Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch...
ISBN: 9780226101583 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 200 Rok wydania: 2010
Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization - home of the...
ISBN: 9780226345222 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 456 Rok wydania: 2015
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the...
ISBN: 9780226643939 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 200 Rok wydania: 2020
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance:...
ISBN: 9780226123745 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2014
The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the...
ISBN: 9780226702865 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2009
Fazlur Rahman (1919-88), one of the most important Muslim scholars of the twentieth century, devoted his career to helping students understand the Qur'an's teachings about God, man, and...
ISBN: 9780226043425 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2011
Though some dismiss opera as old-fashioned, it shows no sign of disappearing from the world's stage. So why do audiences continue to flock to it? Given its association with wealth, one might...
ISBN: 9780226545134 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 368 Rok wydania: 2018
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John...
ISBN: 9780226430911 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 2018
In offering helpful tips and advice on matters ranging from library research and proper citations to document version control and managing what's on your computer screen as a deadline looms,...
ISBN: 9780226430331 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2007
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways,...
ISBN: 9780226346823 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 620 Rok wydania: 2016
When the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986, millions of Americans became bound together in a single, historic moment. Many still vividly remember exactly where they were and...
ISBN: 9780226819440 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 192 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780226618555 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 382
"Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty... Weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art.... In her creative hands, enchanting...
ISBN: 9780226311944 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 145 Rok wydania: 1998
Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's...
ISBN: 9780226997018 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152
This book is designed to help biologists who must create their own illustrations and artists who are confronted with unfamiliar biological subjects. The author, an experienced biological...
ISBN: 9780226567709 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 280 Rok wydania: 2005
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In "Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife", Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl - a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and...
ISBN: 9780226448077 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 2019
Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear...