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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.

Philipp W. Rosemann begins by demonstrating how the Book of Sentences grew out of a long tradition of Christian reflection rooted in Scripture, which by the 12th century had become ready to transform itself into a theological system. Turning to the Sentences , Rosemann then offers a brief exposition of the Lombard's life and work.

This layman's guide to the workings of the immune system uses stories and examples to emphasize exactly what occurs in such immunological disorders as hypersensitivity and allergy, autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiency, AIDS, transplantation and cancer.

Explains the origins and persistence of religious ideas on the basis of common structures and functions of human thought. This book describes the evolutionary forces that molded the modern human mind. It details many adapted features of the brain, illustrating their operation with examples of everyday human behavior.

Addressing the issues surrounding essentialism from the perspective of developmental psychology, this book examines children's thinking and ways in which language influences thought. Synthesizing 15 years of empirical research on essentialism into a coherent framework, it is aimed at developmental, cognitive and social psychologists, and others.

In 680 CE, the prophet Muhammad's grandson, Husain, led a small band of followers in rebellion against the caliph, Yazid. Husain and his followers were slain at Karbala leading to the split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. This book traces the development of the story from the earliest historical sources to the beginning of the 21st century.

Examining the ideal of wilderness preservation in the USA, the author shows how the early (antebellum era) conceptions of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. The policies of Indian removal at Yosemite and other parks are explored.

This study shows how the writings of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce are politically subversive in the most local and dangerous sense of the term: they aim to take apart the assumptions and verbal practices that make dominance possible.

In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual and its study. She presents comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and in the process continues to develop her own distinctive position regarding the nature of ritual.

Collecting the articles on the metaphysics of modality, this book chronicles Plantinga's thought from the late 1960's. It covers fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena? Are there possible but non-actual objects?

The use of primates in research is an ongoing controversy. In this book, Deborah Blum gives a human face to the often caustic debate between animal rights activists and the scientists who use animals as subjects in their research. Blum criss-crosses America to show us first-hand the issues and personalities involved.

This book will review the physics of the concept of solar forcing, or driving, of climate change in manageable terms, tracing its history from its beginnings in the early 1800s to a resurgence of interest in the idea in recent years. Emphasis will be on solar variation as a driver for climate change; other mechanisms will be treated briefly.

Systematic Theology promises to be the capstone of Jenson's long and distinguished career as a theologian, being a full-scale systematic/dogmatic theology in the classic format. Volume 1 begins with an extended discussion of Jenson's methodology, and addresses questions on the nature of the Christian God, including the classic christological and trinitarian questions.

Weaves geography, geology, earth history and exploration into a fascinating story about an important but little known experiment that changed how we map the earth.

A general study of Jewish participation in American sports, which focuses specifically on baseball, boxing and basketball. The author refutes the assumption that Jewish tradition has not been positive about sporting activities.

This study interprets ancient Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on cross-linguistic evidence and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic data. It reconstructs the syllable structure, rhythm, accent, phrasing and intonation of Greek speech.

Drummin' Men profiles the very best of this generation, illuminating the high-energy drive of Gene Krupa, the explosive power of Chick Webb, and the elegant style of Jo Jones. Photographs.

Offers an introduction to Christian rituals and the sacraments. This book aims to demonstrate that celebration, ritual and symbol are already central to the readers' lives, even though most do not see their actions as symbolic or ritualistic. It then connects central Christian symbols to the symbols and rituals present in the readers' lives.

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is best known for his music inspired by the art of Francisco Goya, especially the monumental Goyescas suite for solo piano. This biography examines Granados's life and music in the context of Spanish art, literature, and history, leading to a fuller understanding of his enduring significance.

This text examines the political history of telecommunications between 1851, the year the first telegraph cable linked France and Britain, and the end of World War II. The author attempts to illustrate the political aspects of information technology, such as radio propaganda and cryptography.

This is a new translation of the Analects (Lun Yu) of Confucius, the 5th-century BC Chinese sage whose influence on Chinese and other East Asian cultures is still felt today. Huang's translation is more literal than any available version, and is accompanied by notes that explain unfamiliar terms and concepts and provide historical and cultural context.

This lively account of the Roaring 20s' in America embraces all the major personalities in jazz and popular music - singers, composers and instrumentalists - together with a detailed discography and lists of songs and films.

Combining rigorous historicism with new critical theory, and using a feminist perspective, Davidson questions the ideology implicit in any definition of a univocal "American literary tradition" and goes far beyond polemics to show an alternative--and subversive--American literary tradition at work.

Provides information on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a relatively common and sometimes debilitating disorder in which sufferers are obsessed with perceived appearance flaws. This book describes BDD and includes a quick self-assessment questionnaire. It also provides information and recommendations on how to effectively treat BDD.

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.

Defines the nature and importance of clinical judgement. Although physicians make use of science, this book argues that medicine is not itself a science, but rather an interpretive practice that relies on clinical reasoning. It also contends that there can be adverse side effects to assuming that medicine is strictly science.

In this study, Goldman argues that simulation is intensively used in mindreading tasks, from recognizing emotion in faces to assigning conceptual contents to thoughts. Psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy are applied to questions of third- and first- person mindreading, as well as mental concepts, moral psychology and other topics in social cognition.

As the least literal form of creative writing, poetry is for many readers also the most cryptic. This book offers a step-by-step introduction to skills for reading poetry, working from the individual word, the line, and the image to verse forms, voice and gender, and metrical patterns.

Outlines a fresh approach to analysing the sonata. After establishing the normative features of the sonata, this book examines how individual sonatas from Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart both adhere to and deviate from the standards to a variety of effects.