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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, published in 1962, did more than any other single publication to alert the world to the hazards of environmental poisoning and to inspire a powerful social movement that

Mark Borthwick is among the generation of photographers who in the ’90s broke through the conventions of fashion photography. Integrating elements of architecture and design, he has developed a very p

Your best friend hates you. The guy you liked hates you. Your entire group of friends hates you.All because you did the right thing.Welcome to life for Mena, whose year is starting off in the worst wa

Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherfordgrew up on the frontier--a different world fromCambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work revolutionized mod

Symmetry is all around us. Our eyes and minds are drawn to symmetrical objects, from the pyramid to the pentagon. Of fundamental significance to the way we interpret the world, this unique, pervasive

The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord—warrior by instinct, Viking by nature—has finally settled down. He has land, a wife, and two children, and a duty given to him by King Alfred to hold the frontier on the Thames. But then trouble stirs: a dead man has risen, and new Vikings have arrived to occupy the decayed Roman city of London. Their dream is to conquer Wessex, and to do it they need Uhtred's help. Alfred has other ideas. He wants Uhtred to expel the Viking raiders from London. Uhtred must weigh his oath to the king against the dangerous turning tide of shifting allegiances and deadly power struggles. And other storm clouds are gathering: Ætheleflæd—Alfred's daughter—is newly married, but by a cruel twist of fate, her very existence now threatens Alfred's kingdom. It is Uhtred—half Saxon, half Dane—whose uncertain loyalties must now

Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences

The "core actors" of the United States body politic are, in the words of Smith (criminal justice, Westfield State College), that "particular coterie of individual and small group actors who, in each g

An encyclopedia of the natural world covers the processes and life forms of the natural world from A to Z, including ecology, cells, classification, and over one hundred individual species of plants a

六十多年前，劉建康先生在黃鱔中揭示出雌雄同體和性反轉現象，被當時國際權威認為是在低等脊椎動物中的首次發現。六十多年來，魚類性別和生殖研究不但發展迅速、成果迭出，而且應用價值厚實，已為漁業所用。本書在重印劉建康院士關於黃鱔性別分化研究的兩篇論文和英國皇家學會博洛博士針對黃鱔雌雄同體和性反轉現象的發現在Nature上發表的專題評論的基礎上，結合作者的研究工作，系統地論述了魚類性別和生殖的遺傳基礎及其人

Series: The Second World War

Students of politics frequently confuse politics with current events and the activities of political actors. Lost in this view is a deeper understanding of politics that emphasizes the need for govern

This book introduces readers to politics by exploring the cultural foundations of American political ideals and understandings. The author discusses the basic values of America's political inheritance

Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and many other Beatrix Potter characters remain in the hearts of millions.However, though Potter is a household name around the world, few know the woman behind the

White, president of the U. of Illinois, offers his thoughts on leadership, drawing on his own experience as a leader in various capacities. The two sides of a successful leader require a cold and disc

This volume, which includes a number of Haeckel's drawings and watercolours which have never been published before, is the first detailed overview of the scientist and artist's vast output and provide

Grant (philosophy, U. of the West, UK) points out that approaches to "naturephilosophy" range from the 1830s to the present and that rather than dying out this inquiry seems to actually be growing. Pa