This well-written, opinionated, and engaging book explains what we can do differently to make serious and sustained progress…

President Jimmy Carter, this edition features a new foreword by Lachlan Forrow, president of The Albert Schweitzer…

\nConnecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well…

This introductory text offers a chronological account of the main Greek myths in surviving literary and artistic sources,…

As we watch the chimpanzees of Arnhem behave in ways we recognize from Machiavelli (and from the nightly news), de Waal…

This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study.…

More than a history of a train station, this book is the story of a city and an age as reflected in a building aptly…

We invent the past, Wood concludes, in our own image-as nineteenth-century villagers did quite literally and as suburban…

Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California…

, bring together experts to address the importance of caring, the reasons why it has eroded, and measures that can…

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\nUseful for everyone, including general medical professionals who want to learn more about the health of the eyes, this…

\nProviding up-to-date, evidence-based content that covers more than just medications, COPD gives you the tools you need to…

They outline a comprehensive plan to reform medical education, research funding and protocols, and the process for approving…

A timely, evocative, and beautifully written book, Not Even Past is essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War…

Only by understanding the historical forces that have shaped our current situation, Podolsky argues, can we properly…

With over one hundred photographs and an intuitive question-and-answer format, this authoritative and engaging guide sheds…

Topics include land and sea warfare from the Renaissance to the neoclassical age; the Anglo-American military tradition; the…

Traces the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire. The book describes the ships…

A capacious and synthetic historical investigation, The Secret History of Domesticity exemplifies how the methods of…

This book is indispensable for students working in a laboratory setting or studying free-ranging populations.…

The Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a…

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Presents an account of the significant changes in national security policy. This work offers an examination of the…

\nOffering inquisitive readers a warts-and-all view of American health care, Misunderstanding Health is the book that…

By thoroughly examining all of these aspects, Amish Quilts is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of…

\nShe investigates more mainstream art, from the teen dance sensation The Buddy Deane Show to the comedy-drama Roc to the…

\nWritten in an immediate, accessible way, this book has a crossover appeal, making it of interest not only to neurologists,…

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Rather, the Revolution built upon a long history of civic engagement and a complicated relationship between the practice of…

\nThey outline the stakes for the nation and the challenging work to be done.\n…

Secession Winter explores the fact of contingency and reminds readers and students that nothing was foreordained.…

He expands his examination of possible textual corruption and adds hundreds of new glosses to help scholars, students, and…

This richly detailed work reveals how the military and Indian policies of the early republic played out on the frontier,…

Aimed at educators, sociologists, political scientists, and policy makers, this book will be hailed as the definitive…

The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature's most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive…

The surprising colors and fascinating lifestyles of the reptile and amphibian species in this book will mesmerize readers…

Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an…