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Reducere. Nonlinear optics is the study of the interaction of intense laser light with matter. The third edition of this textbook has been rewritten to confo...

Reducere. Significantly revised in this third edition, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works examines morality from an environmental p...

Reducere. Antiracism is a global and historical social movement of resistance and solidarity, yet there have been relatively few books focusing on it as a su...

Reducere. The time seems ripe for the greening of cities: green roofs and walls, planted pavements, shared or therapeutic gardens... Is the city discovering ...

Reducere. Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership, state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind laws that trap black Ameri...

Contributor(s): Author: Heath Fogg DavisGoes beyond transgender to question the need for gender classification.Beyond Trans pushes the conversation...

Islamophobia and the Law is a foundational volume of critical scholarship on the emerging form of bigotry widely known as Islamophobia. This book b...

Reducere. How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

Three generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of...

Reducere. The decade ahead will test the nation's nearly 4 million nurses in new and complex ways. Nurses live and work at the intersection of health, educat...

The theory of open quantum systems is developed from first principles, and a detailed discussion of real quantum devices is also covered. This uniq...

This is the first rigorous, self-contained treatment of the theory of deep learning. Starting with the foundations of the theory and building it up...

This core text is the first to provide a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to international studies. Emphasizing the interconnected nature of ...

DescriptionThis elementary introduction to the subject of quantum optics, the study of the quantum mechanical nature of light and its interaction w...

Reducere. Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume,...

Aref El-Rayess's The 5th of June, or, The Changing of Horses was exhibited at the Salle de L'Orient in the city center of Beirut in April 1968. Dim...

Did the Universe have a beginning? Will it have an end? Or has it always been the same, never changing? This is the subject of cosmology; the study...

Spacetime and Geometry is an introductory textbook on general relativity, specifically aimed at students. Using a lucid style, Carroll first covers...

Clarity, readability and rigor combine in the second edition of this widely-used textbook to provide the first step into general relativity for und...

Reducere. In the first volume on the Sacraments, St. Robert follows the order of teaching in the Council of Trent to defend Catholic truth against the teachi...

Reducere. This work is the first English translation of Scotus's commentary on Aristotle's Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin...

Reducere. Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of...

Reducere. The poet Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) was once recognized as one of black America's most important modernist voices. Playful, fluent, and intellect...

Reducere. Today, no matter where you are in the world, you can turn on a radio and hear the echoes and influences of Chicago house music. Do You Remember Hou...

Reducere. In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield bro...

Reducere. Provides a timely portrait of young Black Christians and how digital technology is transforming the Black Church They stand at the forefront of the...

Reducere. All five of J. F. Strombeck's classic Christian books from 1936-1950 are now contained in one convenient volume: SO GREAT SALVATION; GRACE AND TRUT...

Reducere. In the first edition of this book, I began by saying that my purpose was not to write a typical municipal history. That still stands. Too often suc...

Reducere. An informative, accessible, easy-to-use guide to physics, covering the fundamental concepts and amazing discoveries that govern our universe! We do...

Reducere. Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership, state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind laws that trap black Ameri...

DescriptionAs we enter a new millennium ruled by technology, will poetry still matter? The Song of the Earth answers eloquently in the affirmative....

Reducere. This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into ...

Contributor(s): Author: Michel Eyquem MontaigneTranslator: Donald M. FrameThis new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclai...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Endale ZenawiDictionaries can be something of a personal matter; people become very attached to their favorite. In the abov...

In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted w...

DescriptionFor the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by those plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have ...

DescriptionThe Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristoteli...

From the moment of their first client engagement, consultants in all fields face communication opportunities and challenges. No matter what their f...

Reducere. First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine...

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy--a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin,...

Get an exclusive look behind the scenes of the first two seasons of Outlander with this official, fully illustrated companion to the hit Starz tele...

Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists of the twentieth century. Among other accomplishments, he was the first to i...

Reducere. DescriptionAn authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest artThroughout history, artists and citizens have turned ...

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press For the Cowboy Junkies it all begins with a song: an acoustic guitar and a...

DescriptionPastoral poetry was probably the creation of the Hellenistic poet Theocritus, and he was certainly its most distinguished exponent in Gr...

Reducere. No matter what you know about Lewis and Clark, the Hopi Snake Dance, the occupation of Wounded Knee village, or the Seminole Freedmen claim, you ha...

DescriptionA provocative new novel from bestselling author T.C. Boyle exploring the first scientific and recreational forays into LSD and its mind-...

DescriptionLearn authentic Mexican cooking from the internationally celebrated chef Enrique Olvera (and featured in the Netflix docuseries Chef's T...

Reducere. In Cosmic Consciousness, R. M. Bucke identifies and explores three forms, or degrees, of consciousness: * Simple consciousness, possessed by both a...

Reducere. In September 2011, Occupy Wall Street activists took over New York's Zuccotti Park. Within a matter of weeks, the encampment had become a tiny mode...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

Reducere. Can you hear me? Scritch, scratch. I'm a little sea turtle inside an egg. Follow a hatchling's treacherous journey from nest to sea. Longtime scien...

Reducere. So vast is the material to be controlled, digested and presented in the work of preparing a manual of Church History for the use of students in col...

Reducere. This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own ti...

DescriptionA second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wal...

Reducere. The insecure little girl was the platform God used to get to Stevie Wonder, former President, Donald J. Trump, Whitney Houston, Elizabeth Taylor, B...

Reducere. DescriptionStudents of Latin have long enjoyed the poetry of Ovid, but his love poems, aptly titled Amores, have proved more difficult to introduce...

Contemporary monetary institutions are flawed at a foundational level. The reigning paradigm in monetary policy holds up constrained discretion as ...

Reducere. When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I ...

Reducere. "Besides Homer, there is Hesiod." These words still contain much truth today. Hesiod is a very important poet, and for this reason his two survivin...

Reducere. In the first volume on the Sacraments, St. Robert follows the order of teaching in the Council of Trent to defend Catholic truth against the teachi...

Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mo...

Reducere. Carl Schmitt ranks among the most original and controversial political thinkers of the twentieth century. His incisive criticisms of Enlightenment ...

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, many Christian theologians have been converted to the theory of evolution--a theory whose scientific tenability they ...

This is a short textbook on general relativity and gravitation aimed at readers with a broad range of interests in physics, from cosmology to high ...

The first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement...

Reducere. From planetary movements and the exploration of our solar system to black holes and dark matter, this comprehensive reference simplifies all aspect...

DescriptionArgues for the queer potential of video gamesWhile popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstrea...

Reducere. President Obama's former United States chief of protocol looks at why diplomacy and etiquette matter--from the international stage to everyday life...

Reducere. Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive American poets of the twentieth century. His tremendous output of poetry, totalin...