This history of medieval inventions, focusing on the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, vividly portrays a thriving era of human ingenuity--and the results are still being felt to this day. From th
The recent killings in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Ferguson, and elsewhere are just the latest examples of the longstanding rift between law enforcement and people of color. In this revealing journey to the
Vidarian Rulorat, called the Tesseract, a powerful magic-user whose abilities spread across multiple elements, finds himself at war with the Alorean Import Company, a powerful cabal of merchants wealt
This history of atomism, from Democritus to the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, chronicles one of the most successful scientific hypotheses ever devised, making the case that in the final analysi
Talyn is a Hunter for the Caisah, a man responsible for the destruction of her people, the Vaerli, but she carries within her a Kindred, who may be their savior, as she is stalked by a story teller, F
Vidarian must face the consequences of opening the gate between worlds, lead sky ships in a war against the southern empire, train the demoralized Sky Knights, master his own amplified magic, and win
A stalwart in the atheist movement, Stenger (philosophy, U. of Colorado and emeritus physics and astronomy, U. of Hawaii) calls for scientists and other rationalists to join together to put a stop to
Based in Edmonton, Canada, freelance journalist and food writer Cockrall-King observed and then decided to write about a conspicuous trend: the growth of gardens and other food production activities i
When he needs more money for his nest egg, Doc Holliday enlists the conjuring help of Geronimo and the gadgetry wizardry of Thomas Edison to hunt down Billy the Kid for the bounty, but the Kid just ha
Sir Dennis Darby has been murdered and the Automaton has been destroyed. Lord Eschaton's plans to bring his apocalyptic vision of the future to the world are moving forward, but to complete his scheme
In this biography, Stolfi (the US Naval Postgraduate School) stresses the more personal sides of the dictator: the artistic teenager, the scholar, the loyal soldier decorated for valor in WWI. Casting
For decades, legal scholars and Supreme Court justices have debated the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. This debate has taken on particular significance today in the wake of terrorist threats to our
Out of the long and enlightened history of humanism—with its concern to overcome superstition in all its varied forms by employing reason, the scientific method, critical thinking, pluralism, democrac
Economic historian Erlichman reviews the sixteenth-century European exploration of the Americas and Far East in the light of the search for precious metals and the subsequent change in world economic
In this, his latest book, noted cultural critic and activist Parenti warns against the dangers of religion's dark side, whether the evils committed in the name of God or the hypocrisies of religious f
Posamentier (emeritus mathematics education, City College of New York) and Lehmann (mathematics, Humboldt U., Berlin) introduce students in nontechnical fields and general readers to some mathematical
Beneficial for law or philosophy students, or practicing lawyers, Ethics and the Legal Profession includes articles by eminent philosophers and lawyers that explore moral problems in legal practice.Th
This witty and learned exploration of critical views on the nature and existence of God, as expressed by major philosophers of the Western world from the medieval period to the present day, is the las
Writing for a general audience, Morris (a clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice) draws on his own professional experience, the professional literature, the public record of highly pub
Archaeological consultant Whitley (geographical sciences, Arizona State U.) explores the first visible evidence of religious beliefs and the oldest known creations of art. The oldest examples so far h
After twenty-five years of investigating, analyzing, and interviewing serial killers, their family members, neighbors, and even surviving victims, Jack Levin has become one of the world's most respec
Gardner, the creator of Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column and author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, collects some of his published essays (and a few unpublished) on false
Edis (physics, Truman State U.) explores the relationship between science and supernatural belief since the European Enlightenment. Among his topics are an accidental world, Darwinian creativity, the
When scientists peer through a telescope at the distant stars in outer space or use a particle-accelerator to analyze the smallest components of matter, they discover that the same laws of physics gov
This accessible and provocative collection of science fiction acquaints readers with cutting-edge gender controversies in moral and political philosophy. By imagining future worlds that defy our most
President Abraham Lincoln viewed the US Declaration of Independence as an American manifesto, as did its author, Thomas Jefferson, argues this work. It further contends that Lincoln and Jefferson view
With special reference to theories of just war and jihad, technical terms that arise in connection with the theology of early medieval Christianity and early Islam respectively, American scholars of r
In this new edition of an important work in the philosophy of language, Nathan U Salmon, one of the leading proponents of what has come to be called the new or causal theory of reference, presents his
