Mostly historians, but also a sociologist, mostly from the US, but also Ireland and Canada, approach US history as a moral enterprise: an undertaking to understand the circumstances that allow evil to
During the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126), new ground was broken in aesthetic thought, particularly in the fields of art collecting, poetry criticism, connoisseurship of flowers, and the song lyric.
There is an epidemic obesity in America, and educators are ideally situated to identify, intervene, educate, and support overweight students who are headed for long-term illness or premature death. Su
Multitudes of veteran homeschool parents have graduated their first batch of kids, only to watch their graduates go wayward. Many were model homeschoolers while growing up, but sometime near their 18t
What causes multiple sclerosis? When will there be a cure?Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and dev
This classic explores why people laugh and what laughter means. According to Bergson, laughter helps us retain our humanity during an age of mechanization. His belief in life as a vital impulse, indef
A teacher of statistics and students of Eastern philosophy, Keller sets out the fundamental concepts of statistics through impressions and experiences, arguing that understanding the meaning and worth
The author offers a primer in drawing the human form, focusing particular attention on musculature in eight hundred drawings taken directly from his own sketchbook, accompanied by his own commentary.
This brand-new manual presents three model exams with all questions answered and explained. Subject review chapters cover arithmetic, algebra, geometry (plane, solid, and coordinate), trigonometry, fu
In his Meditations, René Descartes asks, "what am I?" His initial answer is "a man." But he soon discards it: "But what is a man? Shall I say 'a rational animal'? No: for then I should inquire what
Make numbers concrete and boost must-know counting skills with this charming collection of 16 illustrated, read-aloud storybooks that teach the numbers 1 to 10, 30, 100, skip counting, simple addition
