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Challenging traditional accounts of the origins of astrophysics, this book re-examines the life and career of nineteenth-century English amateur astronomer William Huggins and his wife, Margaret Huggins. Written in an engaging style, this book will be valuable to scientists, students and anyone interested in the history of astronomy.

Daughters of Hecate presents a diverse collection of essays on the topic of women and magic in the ancient Mediterranean world. The book gathers investigations by leading scholars from the fields of Classics, Judaic Studies, and early Christianity, illuminating as well as interrogating the persistent associations of women with magic.

In Law's Allure, Gordon Silverstein explains the risks and rewards of America's increasing reliance on litigation, judicial decisions, and formal legal rules to achieve political and policy goals, drawing a map that helps explain how, when, and why law and judicial rulings shape, constrain, save, and sometimes even kill politics.

Garden of the World examines how overlapping waves of Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino immigrants fundamentally altered the agricultural economy and landscape of the Santa Clara Valley as well as white residents' ideas about race, gender, and what it meant to be an American family farmer.

In early 1864, Major-General Patrick of the Cleburne Confederate Army of Tennessee proposed that 'the most courageous of our slaves' be trained as soldiers and that 'every slave in the South who shall remain true to the Confederacy in this war' be freed. This work looks at such Confederate plans to arm and free slaves.

In Acting White, two of America's leading scholars of race and the law, Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati, argue that that racial judgments are based not just on phenotypic skin color differences but on performative differences-how a person conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain race.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the cognitive and ethical role of emotion, particularly empathy, in medical practice. The author explains how doctors can use empathy in diagnosing and treating patients without jeopardizing their objectivity or projecting their own values on to patients.

This undergraduate textbook on the theory of functions of a complex variable explains the standard introductory material, clearly but in depth, with many examples and applications, and also introduces more advanced topics. Primarily an introductory text, it will be useful at a more advanced level and as a reference.

In Exceeding Our Grasp , Stanford argues that careful attention to the history of scientific investigation invites a challenge to this view that is not well represented in contemporary debates about the nature of the scientific enterprise.

Reasons and reasoning were central to the work of Paul Grice, one of the most influential and admired philosophers of the late twentieth century. In the John Locke Lectures that Grice delivered in Oxford at the end of the 1970s, he set out his fundamental thoughts about these topics. This work presents those lectures.

A major new interpretation of European integration. Leading scholar, Neil Fligstein, provocatively argues that European integration has produced a truly transnational European society.

Presents a structural view of the nature of mathematics, and uses it to explain a number of features of mathematics that have puzzled philosophers. This work shows that, in order to understand how mathematical systems are applied in science, it is not necessary to assume that its theorems either presuppose mathematical objects or are even true.

Duncan Linsey takes a critical look at the current child welfare system and makes a compelling argument for the criminal justice system to assume responsibility for the problem of child abuse in order for the child welfare system to address the well-being of a much larger number of children now growing up in poverty.

How do firms grow? How do firms compete? An influential answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. David Teece has been a leading pioneer of this perspective, and this book is the clearest and most succinct statement of his ideas. Essential reading for business students and managers.

The impact of medical and psychological illness on foreign policy decision making. It discusses four cases in American history in which presidential decision making was affected by illness. Health problems have a bigger impact on important political decisions than people may have realized.

Henry Allison offers a new understanding of Hume's theory of knowledge, as contained in the first book of his Treatise. Allison provides a comprehensive and detailed critical analysis of Hume's views on the subject, and an extensive comparison with Kant on a range of issues including space and time, causation, existence, and the self.

This 1999 book examines how individuals influence and organize their life course.

'Thinking Orientals' is a study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of 20th-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity and also analyses the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.

This volume is a collection of problems in atomic, molecular, and optical physics intended for a broad audience of physicists: from undergraduate students to researchers who wish to sharpen their knowledge and learn about recent developments. The 2nd edition contains over 10 new problems, and includes important updates, revisions, and corrections.

The most notable attempt to formulate the standard theory of quantum mechanics, in order to deal with the measurement problem surrounding it, was initiated by Hugh Everett III in the 1950s. The author provides an examination of the work of Everett and those who have followed him.

Charles Townes is one of the leading figures in 20th-century physics, inventor of the maser and the laser, and one of the pioneers in the use of spectroscopic techniques to determine the atomic composition of stars. This book is the memoir of a life devoted to scientific research, and also to the application of this research in the public sphere.

This study argues that racial grief is not only the result of racism but also a foundation for racial identity. It proposes that racial identification is itself a melancholy act - a social category supported by loss and compensation, rejecting and retaining, denigrating and idealizing the minority.