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Windows into the Soul
Surveillance and Society in an Age of High Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
We live in an age saturated with surveillance. Our personal and public lives are increasingly on display for governments, merchants, employers, hackers—and the merely curious—to see. In Windows into the Soul, Gary T. Marx, a central figure in the rapidly expanding field of surveillance studies,...
A Student's Guide to Law School
What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Law school can be a joyous, soul-transforming challenge that leads to a rewarding career. It can also be an exhausting, self-limiting trap. It all depends on making smart decisions. When every advantage counts, A Student’s Guide to Law School is like having a personal mentor available at every turn.
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Education in a New Society
Renewing the Sociology of Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In recent decades, sociology of education has been dominated by quantitative analyses of race, class, and gender gaps in educational achievement. And while there’s no question that such work is important, it leaves a lot of other fruitful areas of inquiry unstudied. This book takes that problem...
The Meaning of Fossils
Episodes in the History of Palaeontology
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology
"Rudwick has not merely written...
The Gaia Hypothesis
Science on a Pagan Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Golding, and then in an extensive collaboration with...
After the Ice Age
The Return of Life to Glaciated North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.
"One of the best scientific books published in the last ten years."—Ottowa Journal
"A valuable new synthesis...
by Charles J. Krebs
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Global temperatures and seawater levels rise; the world’s smallest porpoise species looms at the edge of extinction; and a tiny emerald beetle from Japan flourishes in North America—but why does it matter? Who cares? With this concise, accessible, and up-to-date book, Charles J. Krebs answers...
by Mark Monmonier
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
An instant classic when first published in 1991*, How to Lie with Maps* revealed how the choices mapmakers make—consciously or unconsciously—mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. The principles Mark Monmonier outlined back then remain...
Nature All Around Us
A Guide to Urban Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
It’s easy to stand in awe of a city’s impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a city is man-made, all concrete, steel, and glass. But even the...
Metropolitan Jews
Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
In this provocative and accessible urban history, Lila Corwin Berman considers the role that Detroit’s Jews played in the city’s well-known narrative of migration and decline. Taking its cue from social critics and historians who have long looked toward Detroit to understand twentieth-century...
Letters on Ethics
To Lucilius
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence. Letters on Ethics includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero’s Italy, discussions of poetry and oratory, and philosophical...
Truth and Beauty
Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."—Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature
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Parables of Coercion
Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unlike previous books on conversion in early modern...
by Peter Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the...