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Smilodon

The Iconic Sabertooth

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

Few animals spark the imagination as much as the sabertooth cat Smilodon. With their incredibly long canines, which hung like fangs past their jaws, these ferocious predators were first encountered by humans when our species entered the Americas. We can only imagine what ice age humans felt when they...
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Rome's Christian Empress

Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire

by Joyce E. Salisbury
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

In Rome’s Christian Empress, Joyce E. Salisbury brings the captivating story of Rome’s Christian empress to life. The daughter of Roman emperor Theodosius I, Galla Placidia lived at the center of imperial Roman power during the first half of the fifth century. Taken hostage after the fall of Rome...
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Persian Interventions

The Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta, 450−386 BCE

by John O. Hyland
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017

Thirty years after Xerxes invaded Greece, the Achaemenid Persian Empire ended its long war with Athens. For the next four decades, the Persians tolerated Athenian control of their former tributaries, the Ionian Greek cities of western Anatolia. But during the Peloponnesian War, Persia reclaimed Ionia...
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by Christina Lupton
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century—when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers, magazines, broadsheets) surged in popularity—the material form of the codex book invited readers to situate...
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Diving Beetles of the World

Systematics and Biology of the Dytiscidae

by Kelly B. Miller, Johannes Bergsten
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

Among the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles, there is one family, containing some 4,300 species, that stands out as one of the most diverse and important groups of aquatic predatory insects. This is the Dytiscidae, whose species are commonly known as diving beetles. No comprehensive treatment...
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by Richard C. Sha
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

Richard C. Sha argues that scientific understandings of the imagination indelibly shaped literary Romanticism. Challenging the idea that the imagination found a home only on the side of the literary, as a mental vehicle for transcending the worldly materials of the sciences, Sha shows how imagination...
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Sage on the Screen

Education, Media, and How We Learn

by Bill Ferster
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

Since the days of Thomas Edison, technology has held the promise of lowering the cost of education. The fantasy of leveraging a fixed production cost to reach an unlimited number of consumers is an enticing economic proposition, one that has been repeatedly attempted with each new media format, from...
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Forging Trust Communities

How Technology Changes Politics

by Irene S. Wu
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015

Bloggers in India used social media and wikis to broadcast news and bring humanitarian aid to tsunami victims in South Asia. Terrorist groups like ISIS pour out messages and recruit new members on websites. The Internet is the new public square, bringing to politics a platform on which to create community...
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Hubs of Empire

The Southeastern Lowcountry and British Caribbean

by Matthew Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014

In Hubs of Empire, Matthew Mulcahy argues that it is useful to view Barbados, Jamaica, and the British Leeward Islands, along with the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, as a single region. Separated by thousands of miles of ocean but united by shared history and economic interest, these territories...
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Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015

This multidisciplinary collection explores three key concepts underpinning psychiatry—explanation, phenomenology, and nosology—and their continuing relevance in an age of neuroimaging and genetic analysis. An introduction by Kenneth S. Kendler lays out the philosophical grounding of psychiatric...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014

The obesity epidemic has a disproportionate impact on communities that are hard-hit by social and economic disadvantages. In Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities, a diverse group of researchers explores effective models for treating and preventing obesity in such communities. The volume...
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The Skeleton Revealed

An Illustrated Tour of the Vertebrates

by Steve Huskey
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017

The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature’s most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive structure for all the remaining aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can see the body’s fascinating underlying architecture. In this one-of-a-kind book, biologist...
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Resilience and Aging

Research and Practice

by Helen Lavretsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

When aging adults struggle with social isolation, financial instability, or the difficult work of caring for a spouse with a chronic illness, their levels of stress can be enormous. But many older adults are living longer and are trying to make the best of their later years despite being more vulnerable...
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The Mammals of Luzon Island

Biogeography and Natural History of a Philippine Fauna

by Lawrence R. Heaney, Danilo S. Balete, Eric A. Rickart
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Revealing the astounding mammalian diversity found on the largest Philippine island, The Mammals of Luzon Island is a unique book that functions both as a field guide and study of tropical fauna. The book features 120 fully illustrated species profiles and shows how the mammals fit into larger questions...
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