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After Every War
Twentieth-Century Women Poets
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
They are nine women with much in common--all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood.
After...
Angina Days
Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
This is the most comprehensive English translation of the work of Günter Eich, one of the greatest postwar German poets. The author of the POW poem "Inventory," among one of the most famous lyrics in the German language, Eich was rivaled only by Paul Celan as the leading poet in the generation...
by John Kricher
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The acclaimed guide to the ecology and natural history of the American tropics—now fully updated and expanded
The New Neotropical Companion is the completely revised and expanded edition of a book that has helped thousands of people to understand the complex ecology and natural history of...
by Fernando Cornejo, John Janovec
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Seeds of Amazonian Plants is the first field guide to treat the extraordinary diversity of seeds and diaspores of plants commonly encountered in the Amazon and other lowland moist forests of the American tropics. This stunningly illustrated guide features an easy-to-use whole-plant approach to seed...
Enlightening Symbols
A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did mathematicians rely on for their work before then? And how did mathematical notations evolve into what we know...
Why Size Matters
From Bacteria to Blue Whales
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's...
by John Tyler Bonner
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural selection.
With...
Extended Heredity
A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How genes are not the only basis of heredity—and what this means for evolution, human life, and disease
For much of the twentieth century it was assumed that genes alone mediate the transmission of biological information across generations and provide the raw material for natural selection....
Is Democracy Possible Here?
Principles for a New Political Debate
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The result, Ronald Dworkin...
by Ian Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of fighting injustice and oppression. Yet he makes a compelling case that democracy's...
On the Side of the Angels
An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are among the chief concerns of the field. Yet most political theorists--including democratic theorists--ignore or disparage parties as grubby...
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle,...
Einstein and Religion
Physics and Theology
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
The philosophy of religion and the quest for spiritual truth preoccupied Albert Einstein--so much that it has been said "one might suspect he was a disguised theologian." Nevertheless, the literature on the life and work of Einstein, extensive as it is, does not provide an adequate account...
by Ian Lewington, Will Russell, Steve N. G. Howell
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Rare Birds of North America is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the vagrant birds that occur throughout the United States and Canada. Featuring 275 stunning color plates, this book covers 262 species originating from three very different regions--the Old World, the New World tropics, and...