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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World provides an interdisciplinary exploration into Humboldt's approach to seeing and describing the many subjects he pursued. Though …
Spacewalker
From the age of ten, looking up at the stars, Jerry Ross knew that he wanted to journey into space. This autobiography tells the story of how he came not only to achieve that goal, …
Empire and Identity
Empire and Identity is a novel approach to the critical last decades of the Habsburg Empire. The book is organized as three dual political biographies, each focusing a certain …
How I Became a Scientist
The Significance of Children and Animals
What role does an animal play in a child's developing sense of self? Are children and animals interacting in ways no longer recognizable to adults? The Significance of Children and …
A Summer of Mass Murder
Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a …
The Opening of Hegel's Logic
Hegel is one of the most importantmodern philosophers, whose thought influenced the development ofexistentialism, Marxism, pragmatism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. YetHegel's …
Necklace of Pleiades
In Persian literature the Necklace of the Pleiades is a metaphor for the six or seven stars (Parvin, or Soray, high up in the constellation Taurus) which the heavens bestow, like …
Gender Discourse and Desire in the 20th Century Brazilian Womens' Literature
This study by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto explores the poetic and narrative strategies twentieth-century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the …
Without Covers
Without Covers incites conversation, debate, argument, and most pressingly, questions regarding the reasons behind and effects of small literary magazines moving to online …
Divided Loyalties
This study provides a detailed, in-depth analysis of a single incident rooted in the effort of a group of professional employees to serve the public welfare. It reveals in …
Enzymology and Molecular Biology of Carbonyl Metabolism No. 13
The continuation of an annual series, Enzymology and Molecular Biology of Carbonyl Metabolism is the largest collection of articles on the three major gene families. The scope of …