Looks at a conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of…

Presents the analytic foundations to the theory of the hypoelliptic Laplacian. This book shows that the hypoelliptic…

Traces the growth of mathematical modernism from its roots in problem solving and theory to its interactions with physics,…

Provides a conceptual and historical framework for understanding the causes of cancer and other diseases that increase with…

Presents a collection of papers in ancient moral philosophy. This book interprets Aristotle's ethical theory as a response…

Written from the perspective of a foreign student who has just arrived in China, this title provides the lessons and…

Explores why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness.…

Presents a broad picture of the fundamental ways in which the science of island biogeography has been shaped by the author's…

Offers an analysis and interpretation of the Court's historical understanding of religion, explaining the revolutionary…

Brings together thirteen critics and scholars to explore children's art and its documented influence on the evolution of…

A comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, this title explores the origins and outcomes of rural…

Attempts to distinguish the center from the periphery and the essential from the incidental in Heidegger's philosophy. This…

Presents a historical and sociological account of how, by the late 1960s, three small Italian towns had come to lead the…

Develops a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography which builds on the first principles of population…

Explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism…

One of the central questions of ecology is why there are so many different kinds of plants and animals. Here David Tilman…

Examines contemporary debates about Ciceronian, Cynic, and Cartesian moral philosophy, as well as subjects ranging from…

Contains various of W H Auden's prose works from 1949 through 1955, including various essays that exemplify his range, wit,…

Splines, both interpolatory and smoothing, have a long and rich history that has largely been application driven. This book…

Presents the findings on one of the most intensely investigated subjects in computational mathematics - the travelling…

Presses an understanding of the roles of women in public life and offers a history of urban America. This book also offers…

A collection of essays providing evidence that the connection between intelligence and inequality is weak and demonstrates…

Contrary to what news reports might suggest, the majority of politicians behave ethically and are never subject to…

A guide to the connections between animal social behavior and steroid and peptide hormones. It emphasizes concepts and…

Seventy-five years ago, on the brink of America's entry into World War II, the National Gallery of Art opened in Washington,…

A reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, this…

The hypoelliptic Laplacian is a family of operators that is supposed to interpolate between the ordinary Laplacian and the…

This book offers a survey of recent developments in the analysis of shock reflection-diffraction, a detailed presentation of…

Begins by asking how a traditional Jew can participate politically and socially and in good faith in a modern democratic…

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In 1951, the geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was teaching in Parma when a student told him about rich church records of…

Traces the historical roots of modern conservation thought and practice, and explores current perspectives from evolutionary…

While quick to question the claims to knowledge that others make, philosophers have not so readily submitted their own…

Wallace N. Atherton is concerned with a single but very important facet of the behavior of labor unions--the ways in which…

In the informal language of letters to public officials, Efraim Racker argues in favor of basic research as the most…

The studies in this book examine a long-neglected corpus of Hebrew poetry, martyrological laments written over the 12th and…

The essays in this book were originally presented by Professor Viner as the 1966 Jayne Lectures of the American…

How should planners use the available evidence to choose treatments? This book addresses key aspects of this question,…

In this ambitious work Anita Levy exposes certain forms of middle-class power that have been taken for granted as "common…

"Every poet has one or two compulsive themes," writes Leonard Nathan. "One of mine is how to make things fit together that…

In the absence of tape recordings from antiquity, we have a limited knowledge of how classical Latin prose or verse sounded…

Offers a "postmodern"???' assessment of the philosophy of mathematics - one that addresses issues of theoretical importance…

Michel Benamou's essays have established his reputation as a critical interpreter of Stevens' relation to the French poetic…

March 29, 1900, is considered by many to be the day mathematical finance was born. On that day a French doctoral student,…

First published in Russian in 1921 and never translated, Andrey Bely's long narrative poem--considered to be one of the…

Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Promethee as a modern allegory, a…

Looking at the uses and abuses of high-talent manpower in the United States, Dael Wolfle analyzes the ways in which this…

We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work…

This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to…