Is a fact still the same fact if you take it somewhere else? Where do the facts we do have come from, and where are they going next? These diverse stories from the humanities and sciences explain why some facts travel well enough to acquire a life of their own.
Drawing on a wide range of significant but understudied source materials, Andrew Cambers seeks to advance our understanding of Puritan... Læs mere
Heisenberg in the Atomic Age explores the transformations of science's public presence in the postwar Federal Republic of Germany. Working... Læs mere
Immigration and Conflict in Europe presents a wealth of qualitative and quantitative materials on immigrant conflict in Great Britain, Germany, and France from the postwar years until the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The third edition of this well-established textbook is ideal for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses in high energy astrophysics. Now consolidated into a... Læs mere
Neorealists argue that nations operate on the basis of self-interest defined in terms of power. This book contends that while some leaders have egregiously expanded their power,... Læs mere
This is an undergraduate level introduction to homology that will appeal to students interested in the application of algebra to geometrical problems, specifically the study... Læs mere
This analysis of the ethical and legal basis for healthcare decision-making provides detailed analysis of the legal... Læs mere
This up-to-date treatise on heat transport processes explains the key physical principles with simple arguments and scaling laws that allow quantitative... Læs mere
This highly innovative and accessible study by one of the world's leading Homeric scholars applies research in cognitive psychology and visual... Læs mere
Phones, computers and PDAs all offer information and interaction opportunities well above our processing abilities, placing continuous demands on our cognitive and... Læs mere
This book is a study of the woman-and-child motif - known as the kourotrophos - as it appeared in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean. Budin argues that, contrary to many current beliefs, the image was not a universal symbol of maternity or a depiction of a mother goddess.