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The World of Myth
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 1991
Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing...
Kennedy's Wars : Berlin Cuba Laos and Vietnam
Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2000
In his thousand-day presidency John F. Kennedy led America through one of its most difficult and potentially explosive eras. With the Cold War at its height and the threat of communist advances in Europe and the Third World Kennedy had the unenviable task of maintaining U.S. solidarity without leading...
Quantum Enigma : Physics Encounters Consciousness
Physics Encounters Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
In trying to understand the atom physicists built quantum mechanics the most successful theory in science and the basis of one-third of our economy. They found to their embarrassment that with their theory physics encounters consciousness. Authors Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner explain all this...
Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem,...
The Great Sea
A Human History of the Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself:...
Why Geography Matters
More Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial...
Ignorance:How It Drives Science
How It Drives Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Knowledge is a big subject, says Stuart Firestein, but ignorance is a bigger one. And it is ignorance--not knowledge--that is the true engine of science. Most of us have a false impression of science as a surefire, deliberate, step-by-step method for finding things out and getting things done. In...
Using R for Data Analysis in Social Sciences
A Research Project-Oriented Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Statistical analysis is common in the social sciences, and among the more popular programs is R. This book provides a foundation for undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences on how to use R to manage, visualize, and analyze data. The focus is on how to address substantive questions...
by Margaret Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The city is a paradoxical space, in theory belonging to everyone, in practice inaccessible to people who cannot afford the high price of urban real estate. Within these urban spaces are public and social goods including roads, policing, transit, public education, and culture, all of which have been...
The Judge
26 Machiavellian Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
There is no book of political strategy more canonical than Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince, but few ethicists would advise policymakers to treat it as a bible. The lofty ideals of the law, especially, seem distant from the values that the word "Machiavellian" connotes, and judges are supposed to...
The Unfinished Revolution
Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck, and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the children of the gender revolution,...
The News Media
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The past several years have seen the newspaper...
Dog Whistle Politics
How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks with food stamps. In trumpeting these tales of welfare run amok, Reagan never needed to mention race, because he was blowing a dog whistle: sending a...
by Suzanne Staggenborg
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Now in a second edition, Social Movements offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements...