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The Restless Anthropologist
New Fieldsites, New Visions
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In The Restless Anthropologist, Alma Gottlieb brings...
Swordfish
A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A perfect fish in the evolutionary sense, the broadbill swordfish derives its name from its distinctive bill—much longer and wider than the bill of any other billfish—which is flattened into the sword we all recognize. And though the majesty and allure of this warrior fish has commanded much attention—from...
Philanthropy in Democratic Societies
History, Institutions, Values
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy...
A Perfect Mess
The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Read the news about America’s colleges and universities—rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators—and it’s clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it’s always been...
Richard Owen
Biology without Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished...
We All Feel
Understanding Animal Grief and Love
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them, though scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront...
Theories of Translation
An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation. The essays provide an overview of the historical evolution in thinking...
Policing Immigrants
Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken...
The Romantic Absolute
Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic among contemporary scholars. In The Romantic Absolute,...
The Writer's Diet
A Guide to Fit Prose
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Do your sentences sag? Could your paragraphs use a pick-me-up? If so, The Writer’s Diet is for you! It’s a short, sharp introduction to great writing that will help you energize your prose and boost your verbal fitness.
Helen Sword dispenses with excessive explanations and overwrought analysis....
It's Alive!
The Science of B-Movie Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
The B-movie monster—be it gap-toothed gorilla, ripped-from-time dinosaur, overstretched arachnid, or another outrageous anthropomorphic fantasy—has thrilled moviegoers for decades, and firmly sunk its claws into popular culture. In It’s Alive!, Michael LaBarbera delves into the science behind these...
The Book of Beetles
A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
When renowned British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane was asked what could be inferred about God from a study of his works, Haldane replied, “An inordinate fondness for beetles.” With 350,000 known species, and scientific estimates that millions more have yet to be identified, their abundance is indisputable...
The Pontecorvo Affair
A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an expert working for the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment,...
by Galileo Galilei, Christoph Scheiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or moons crossing in front of the Sun. Galileo, on...