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100 Billion Suns: The Birth, Life, and Death of th...
$19.55
How are the nuclear power plants we call "stars" formed Where do they get their energy and how do they die--and what does this suggest about the future of the universe One of the most popular books written on astrophysics, 100 Billion Suns provides an exhilarating and authoritative life history of..
A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ec...
$44.87
Thirty years ago, biologists could get by with a rudimentary grasp of mathematics and modeling. Not so today. In seeking to answer fundamental questions about how biological systems function and change over time, the modern biologist is as likely to rely on sophisticated mathematical and computer-ba..
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treati...
$15.42
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and politica..
A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989
$12.33
This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies--but in the whirlwind of ..
A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1...
$31.45
Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The..
A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1...
$9.07
Robert B. Ray examines the ideology of the most enduringly popular cinema in the world--the Hollywood movie. Aided by 364 frame enlargements, he describes the development of that historically overdetermined form, giving close readings of five typical instances: Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, The..
A Constructed Peace: The Making of the European Se...
$13.51
People still think of the Cold War as a simple two-sided conflict, a kind of gigantic arm wrestle on a global scale," writes Marc Trachtenberg, "but this view fails to grasp the essence of what was really going on." America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What the..
A Course in Microeconomic Theory
$21.34
David M. Kreps has developed a text in microeconomics that is both challenging and "user-friendly." The work is designed for the first-year graduate microeconomic theory course and is accessible to advanced undergraduates as well. Placing unusual emphasis on modern noncooperative game theory, it pro..
A Diary of Darkness
$23.36
A Diary of Darkness is one of the most important and compelling documents of wartime Japan. Between 1942 and 1945, the liberal journalist Kiyosawa Kiyoshi (1890-1945) kept at great personal risk a diary of his often subversive social and political observations and his personal struggles. The diary c..
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of th...
$10.27
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and..
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of th...
$10.40
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and..
A Field Guide to Birds of Russia and Adjacent Terr...
$18.49
The description for this book, A Field Guide to Birds of Russia and Adjacent Territories, will be forthcoming. Author: Flint, Vladimir Evgenevich Publisher: Princeton University Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0691082448 ISBN-13: 9780691082448..
A First Course in Scientific Computing: Symbolic, ...
$15.16
Review "Rubin H. Landau, Winner of the 2006 Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences Award, The Krell Institute""One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005""Essential. . . . Rubin Landau offers a practical introduction to the world of scientific computing or numerical analysis...
A Fragile Eden: Portraits of the Endemic Flowering...
$24.38
Review"A most welcome addition to the botanical literature because it brings to us a collection of such rare and little-known botanical treasures." From the foreword by Sir Ghillean Prance, Director, Royal Botanical Gardens, KewProduct DescriptionThis is an extraordinary book, filled with beautiful ..
A Guide to the Birds and Mammals of Coastal Patago...
$114.73
This is the first guidebook to the birds and mammals of the coastal region of Patagonia, a vast area at the southern tip of South America. This guide describes the 185 species of birds and 61 species of mammals known to inhabit the land and sea along two thousand miles of the Patagonian coast, from ..
A Guide to the Birds of Colombia
$55.64
Describing all of Colombia's birds, Steven Hilty and William Brown bring together information on one of the world's largest avifaunas-nearly 1,700 species. Over half of all the species of birds in South America are included, thus making the book useful in regions adjacent to Colombia, as well as in ..
A Guide to the Birds of Puerto Rico and the Virgin...
$9.03
This is a revised edition of a widely praised guide to the birds of the largest of the Caribbean islands and the neighboring Virgin Islands. It includes detailed accounts of all 284 well-documented species known to occur in the region, 273 being illustrated. The book also contains specific sections ..
A Guide to the Birds of the Galápagos Islands
$12.08
Made famous by Charles Darwin's work on evolution and speciation, the Galápagos Islands contain an extraordinary wildlife that attracts thousands of visitors today. Those tourists who wish to concentrate on the birdlife now have A Guide to the Birds of the The Galápagos Islands, which offers unprece..
A Guide to the Identification and Natural History ...
$13.37
A Guide to the Identification and Natural History of the Sparrows of the United States and Canada provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on all the features that make possible identification of all 62 species of sparrows that occur in North America. The text gives detailed descriptions of..
A History of Building Types
$11.11
An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the WestThis book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. Drawing on his immense erudition and keenly discerning eye, Nikolaus Pevsner descr..
A History of Building Types (The A. W. Mellon Lect...
$45.58
An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the WestThis marvelously illustrated book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. Drawing on his immense erudition and keenly discerning eye..
A History of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 1: The Perio...
$27.50
Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the study of their country's philosophy. In 1952 the book was published by Princeton University Press in an English translation by the distinguished scholar o..
A History of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 2: The Perio...
$46.56
Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the study of their country's philosophy. In 1952 the book was published by Princeton University Press in an English translation by the distinguished scholar o..
A History of Chinese Political Thought, Volume One...
$46.66
This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late Chou era into the twentieth century. The author systematically treats leading thinkers, schools, and movements, displaying a consummate mastery of traditi..
A History of Economic Thought
$19.56
Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published.Lord Robbins (1898-1984) was a remarkably accomplished thinker..