Understanding the World's Cultures

The world's preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form...

From one of the world's preeminent neuroscientists: a landmark reflection that spans the biological and social sciences, offering a new way of unde...

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Human Geography: A Serious Introduction gives students a thorough, rigorous grounding in the subject and its historical, economic, political, cultu...

If the Western world knows anything about Zen Buddhism, it is down to the efforts of one remarkable man, D.T. Suzuki. The twenty-seven year-old Jap...

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DescriptionWar bows were a mainstay of armies throughout the world from the earliest recorded battles over three thousand years ago to the 16th cen...