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Tipping points are zones or thresholds of profound changes in natural or social conditions with very considerable and largely unforecastable consequences. Tipping points may be dangerous for societies

Pocket Prescriber 2013 is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the "must-have" information that junior doctors, nurse prescribers, and medical students need at their fingertips.Key f

Moo Moo serves up another half-baked scheme—and loyal Mr. Quackers goes along for the ride—in this madcap follow-up to Moo Moo in a Tutu.Yes, for real! The hilarious cow-and-duck duo are o

Two volumes introduce the history of colonial wars in Africa and illustrate why African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan continue to experience ethnic, poli

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire—a millennium and a half in the making—was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been bef

Today, academic freedom is a core value in American higher education, and tenure is its primary protection. Yet modern understandings of faculty rights and responsibilities did not arise without diffi

Nicolas Ruault was a printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris at the end of the eighteenth century. He is virtually unknown among historians and was intensely aware of, in his own words, his 'obscurity' and 'mediocrity'. This is far from the truth. Living through the age of the Enlightenment and the tumultuous period of the French Revolution, he rubbed shoulders with some of the leading figures of his age, including the Marquis de Condorcet, Caron de Beaumarchais, Benjamin Franklin, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Maximilien Robespierre, and Georges Danton. Through 400 remarkable and lively letters from and to Nicolas and in correspondence with six family members and friends, including Condorcet, his life offers fresh insight into Paris before, during, and after the Revolution: his intellectual passions, especially for the works of the philosophes of the Enlightenment; his daily and nightly cultural activities; his eventual commitment to the radical politics of the Revolution; and