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Sustainable Energy
This comprehensive guide to sustainable energy builds robust connections between abstract theory and practical applications, providing students with a global perspective on this …
Astrobiology and Christian Doctrine
In recent decades, powerful telescopes have enabled astrophysicists to uncover startling new worlds and solar systems. An epochal moment came in 1995, when a planet – 51 Pegasi b – …
Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos
The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from …
Parasites in Past Civilizations and Their Impact upon Health
Parasites have been infecting humans throughout our evolution. When complex societies developed, the greater population density provided new opportunities for parasites to spread. …
Order and Rivalry
The First World War transformed the legal and geopolitical framework for international trade by decentring Europe in global markets. Order and Rivalry traces the formation and …
Modern Moral Philosophy
In this magisterial study, one of our leading moral philosophers refutes the charge (originally made by Elizabeth Anscombe) that modern ethics is incoherent because it essentially …
Quantum Phases of Matter
This modern text describes the remarkable developments in quantum condensed matter physics following the experimental discoveries of quantum Hall effects and high temperature …
A Student's Guide to the Navier-Stokes Equations
The Navier-Stokes equations describe the motion of fluids and are an invaluable addition to the toolbox of every physicist, applied mathematician, and engineer. The equations arise …
Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany
In the wake of World War II, the victorious Allied armies implemented a radical program to purge Nazism from Germany and preserve peace in Europe. Between 1945 and 1949, 20 million …
The Idea of Epilepsy
Epilepsy has a fascinating history. To the medical historian Oswei Temkin it was 'the paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul in disease'. It is justifiably considered a …
The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 1580–1877
This major new reference work presents an accessible and innovative survey of the latest developments in the study of early modern Japan. The period from about 1580 to 1877 saw the …
The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Ratzinger
Among the most important modern Catholic thinkers, Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, fundamentally shaped Christian theology in the 20th and early 21st centuries. His …