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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, …
An Anthropology of Money
An Anthropology of Money: A Critical Introduction shows how our present monetary system was imposed by elites and how they benefit from it. The book poses the question: how, by …
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 …
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 …
Was ist Mathematik?
47 brauchen nur den Nenner n so groß zu wählen, daß das Intervall [0, Ijn] kleiner wird als das fragliche Intervall [A, B], dann muß mindestens einer der Brüche mfn innerhalb des …
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 …
Focus on the Good Stuff
Written by a former professional baseball player whose career was ended with an injury to his pitching arm in the middle of his third season, Focus on the Good Stuff is filled with …