Examines the essential role of understanding in the scientific process, through three key topics:...

Cottam explains the patterns of U.S. intervention in Latin America, employing a number of case st...

al-Kindi (ca. 805-870) was one of the first Arab scholars interested in a scientific rather than ...

The dictionary covers phraseological fusions, units, and combinations; single words used figurati...

A compelling political biography of Galusha A. Grow, an often-overlooked, yet influential radical...

Concepts and Their Role in Knowledge offers scholarly analysis of key elements of Ayn Rand...

Tatjana Aleksic examines the widespread use of the sacrificial metaphor in cultural texts and its...

Selected by Li-Young Lee as the Winner of the 2000 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series ...

This book considers representations of science and technology at world's fairs as influential...

This is the first English translation of an important Russian social novel (published in 1865) th...

Modernhygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, andsewer system that...