Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Richard Robbins
yhteensä 63 hakutulosta
It Came from the Closet
“Horror opened me up to new possibilities for survival … I saw power in freakery and transgression and wondered if it could be mine.” The relationship between horror films and the …
What Is Mathematics?
For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, …
Dialogues on Cultural Studies
How should the project of cultural studies change for the twenty-first century? Does theory have general application? How should we evaluate revolutions? How should we define …
World Turned Upside Down
Aspen Policy Books is a series of annual publications on the United States' most pressing foreign policy and national security issues. In 2017, the Aspen Strategy Group examined …
Perfect Understanding
PERFECT UNDERSTANDING "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way …
Asiatic-Pacific Ticks
Asiatic-Pacific Ticks: Species of Medical and Veterinary Importance provides the most comprehensive and updated research on the taxonomy, biology, and bionomics of tick species …
The Untested Hand
Richard Robbins' The Untested Hand is the kind of book in which birds at a window feeder are seen as "changing all the indoor lives to sky." That is to say, this collection of …
An Ethics for Today
Richard Rorty is famous, maybe even infamous, for his philosophical nonchalance. His groundbreaking work not only rejects all theories of truth but also dismisses modern …
Was ist Mathematik?
Mathematik ist nicht jedermanns Sache. Wer sie liebt, für den ist sie spannend und aufregend wie das schönste Rätsel. Für viele Menschen aber ist Mathematik ein Buch mit sieben …
Hard Ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) Parasitizing Humans
Ticks of the family Ixodidae, commonly known as hard ticks, occur worldwide and are second only to mosquitoes as vectors of agents pathogenic to humans. Of the 729 currently …
World in Motion
The essays collected in World in Motion all address the same issue: The global paradox that modern prosperity has entailed extreme environmental degradation. Gary M. Kroll and …