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A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Mod...
$13.31
In this powerful new look at modern China, Rana Mitter goes back to a pivotal moment in Chinese history to uncover the origins of the painful transition from pre-modern to modern. Mitter identifies May 4, 1919, as the defining moment of China's twentieth-century history. On that day, outrage over th..
A Century of DNA: A History of the Discovery of th...
$17.04
The story of DNA from the time of its discovery in 1869 up to the solution of the genetic code in the 1960s.Why did it take more than a century of research before scientists properly understood what DNA was and what it did within the cell A Century of DNA aims to answer this question, tracing the h..
University of California Press
A Flora of the White Mountains, California and Nev...
$12.32
A Flora of the White Mountains, California and Nevada Hardcover - February 26, 1973 Author: Mitchell, Richard S. Publisher: University of California Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0520021193 ISBN-13: 9780520021198..
A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in t...
$61.75
Review"As far as I know, the intersection of those who are distinguished composers and those who have published in Science contains one member: the author of this book. If you are interested in tonality in music, you must read it, because it describes by far the most comprehensive theory of what mak..
A History of Printed Textiles
$16.49
This is the first book in English to explore the fascinating story of man's attempts to print patterns on cloth. Previously the material has been available only in various articles, journals and books, which are mainly in foreign languages or long out of print. To remedy this situation a great deal ..
The University of North Carolina Press
A History of the Oratorio: Vol. 1: The Oratorio in...
$16.69
Howard Smither has written the first definitive work on the history of the oratorio since Arnold Schering published his Geschichte des Oratoriums in 1911. This volume is the first of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio.Volume 1, d..
A Landscape of Events (Writing Architecture)
$17.79
Introduction by Bernard Tschumi. In A Landscape of Events, the celebrated French architect, urban planner, and philosopher Paul Virilio focuses on the cultural chaos of the 1980s and 1990s. It was a time, he writes, that reflected the "cruelty of an epoch, the hills and dales of daily life, the usua..
A Little Salvation: Poems Old and New (Brown Thras...
$10.05
This new collection from acclaimed novelist and poet Judson Mitcham features poems from the last twenty-five years, including forty new works and poems from his previously published collections, Somewhere in Ecclesiastes (1991) and This April Day (2003). Wise, witty, and deceptively plainspoken, Mit..
A New Biology for the 21st Century
$11.60
Now more than ever, biology has the potential to contribute practical solutions to many of the major challenges confronting the United States and the world. A New Biology for the 21st Century recommends that a "New Biology" approach-one that depends on greater integration within biology, and closer ..
A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism i...
$36.43
Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism-the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist theories of science are very often invoked, they act..
A Place Called Home: A History of Low-Cost Housing...
$25.19
SUBJECT: ARCHITECTURE / URBAN & LAND USE PLANNING Author: Jackson, Anthony Publisher: The MIT Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0262100177 ISBN-13: 9780262100175..
A Spiritual Exercise for the Grieving
$11.16
Smith, Elwyn A. Author: Smith, Elwyn A. Publisher: Fortress Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0800618076 ISBN-13: 9780800618070..
A time for healing: Coming to terms with your divo...
$9.33
Book by Smith, Harold Ivan Author: Smith, Harold Ivan Publisher: LifeWay Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0805498753 ISBN-13: 9780805498752..
A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy
$11.34
It is zero hour for a new US water policy! At a time when many countries are adopting new national approaches to water management, the United States still has no cohesive federal policy, and water-related authorities are dispersed across more than 30 agencies. Here, at last, is a vision for what we ..
A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: De...
$23.54
A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book also becomes the richest scholarly treatment of D..
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
$7.95
Abusing Science is a manual for intellectual self-defense, the most complete available for presenting the case against Creationist pseudo-science. It is also a lucid exposition of the nature and methods of genuine science. The book begins with a concise introduction to evolutionary theory for non-sc..
Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
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Abusing Science is a manual for intellectual self-defense, the most complete available for presenting the case against Creationist pseudo-science. Author: Kitcher, Philip Publisher: MIT Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0262110857 ISBN-13: 9780262110853..
Active Listening 1 Student's Book with Self-study ...
$12.33
Active Listening, Second Edition, is grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic. Student's Book 1 is intended for beginning-level students. The Student's Book offers 16 task-based units, each built around an engaging topic. ..
Active Listening 3 Teacher's Manual with Audio CD ...
$38.66
Active Listening, Second Edition, is grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic. Teacher's Manual 3 contains step-by-step practical teaching notes, optional speaking activities and listening strategies, culture notes, and su..
Ada: A Life And A Legacy (History of Computing)
$10.83
ReviewThis book held my interest from beginning to end. Mrs. Stein has written a useful and rare kind of historical biography, one that evokes a historical period and sets a record straight. Tracy Kidder, The New York Times Book ReviewA rich study of human drama and social history at the birth of th..
Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Cambri...
$59.84
Adam Smith's major work of 1759 develops the foundation for a general system of morals, and is a text of central importance in the history of moral and political thought. Through the idea of sympathy and the mental construct of an impartial spectator, Smith formulated highly original theories of con..
Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages...
$102.68
A thorough and accessible introduction to a range of key ideas in type systems for programming language.The study of type systems for programming languages now touches many areas of computer science, from language design and implementation to software engineering, network security, databases, and an..
Advances in Automatic Text Summarization (Mit Pres...
$18.39
ntil now there has been no state-of-the-art collection of themost important writings in automatic text summarization. This bookpresents the key developments in the field in an integrated frameworkand suggests future research areas.With the rapid growth of the World Wide Web and electronic informatio..
Adventures on the Wine Route
$8.87
Kermit Lynch's recounting of his experiences on the wine route and in the wine cellars of France takes the reader through the Loire, Bordeaux, the Languedoc, Provence, Northern and Southern Rhone, and the Cote d'Or. Author: Lynch, Kermit Publisher: North Point Press Binding: Paperback Language: Engl..
Africa's Turn? (Boston Review Books)
$9.27
Signs of hope in sub-Saharan Africa: modest but steady economic growth and the spread of democracy.By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While “economic miracles” in China and India raised hundreds of millions fr..