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Evolution's Bite
A Story of Teeth, Diet, and Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human species
Whether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. Our teeth are like living fossils that can be studied and compared to those of our ancestors to teach us how we became human. In Evolution's Bite,...
The Qualities of a Citizen
Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The...
After Hegel
German Philosophy, 1840–1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half—when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline....
Euler's Gem
The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
How a simple equation reshaped mathematics
Leonhard Euler’s polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects—from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller’s buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler’s theorem is so simple it can be explained to a child. From...
The Physicist and the Philosopher
Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who gained fame as a philosopher by arguing that time...
Relativity
The Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
A handsome annotated edition of Einstein’s celebrated book on relativity
After completing the final version of his general theory of relativity in November 1915, Albert Einstein wrote Relativity. Intended for a popular audience, the book remains one of the most lucid explanations of the special...
Birder's Conservation Handbook
100 North American Birds at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2010
Until now there has been no single, comprehensive resource on the status of North America's most threatened birds and what people can do to help protect them. Birder's Conservation Handbook is the only book of its kind, written specifically to help birders and researchers understand the threats while...
by Andrew Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. Palms of Southern Asia is the only complete field guide to the 43 genera and 352 species of palms and rattans that occur...
Essays and Reviews
1959–2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection of Williams's popular essays and reviews. Williams...
The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity
A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754...
Disorienting Fiction
The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book gives an ambitious revisionist account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the complex historical process that ultimately gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture and its accredited researcher, the Participant Observer. Buzard reads the great nineteenth-century...
The Right Wrong Man
John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk’s legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence...
Bovids of the World
Antelopes, Gazelles, Cattle, Goats, Sheep, and Relatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Bovids are a diverse group of ruminant mammals that have hooves and unbranched hollow horns. Bovids of the World is the first comprehensive field guide to cover all 279 bovid species, including antelopes, gazelles, cattle, buffaloes, sheep, and goats. From the hartebeest of Africa and the takin of...
The Real Planet of the Apes
A New Story of Human Origins
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage—such as dexterous hands and larger brains. In this compelling and accessible book,...