The humor of Sherlock Holmes, Donald Westlake, Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Edmund Crispin are just a few of those discussed. A major point highlighted by this book is simply that wit, slapstic
Conflict, disaster, and destruction—despite their historical and current significance—have not yet been adequately studied from the economic point of view.Economic Behaviour in Adversity brings togeth
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of "truth," Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne's starting point is a simple observatio
This work demonstrates the striking kinship between developments in modern physics and Bergson's own work on intuition, determinism, and the consciousness of the observer. Taking as a starting point t
How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical
The Glorious Revolution of 1688 represented a crucial turning point in modern British history by decisively shifting political power from the monarchy to Parliament. In this cogent study, first publis
Beyond drugs, beyond technology, there will always be the human element, "the healer's art." Dr. Cassell discusses the world of the sick, the healing connection and healer's battle, the role of omnipo
Dependence upon grain deeply marked every aspect of life in eighteenth-century France. Steven Kaplan focuses upon this dependence at the point where it placed the greatest strain on the state, the soc
The Web of Victory tells of the Union siege of Vicksburg, a campaign that might very well have been the turning point of the Civil War and was without any doubt the turning point in the military caree
With the publication of The Image of the City in 1959, Kevin Lynch embarked upon the process of exploring city form. Good City Form is both a summation and an extension of his vision, a high point fr
This is an authoritative and comprehensive vision of molecular cell biology. Advances in our knowledge of how cells work has driven the discipline to the point where we understand the cell at new leve
Taking the underlying competition of interests between worker and employer as his starting point, Hill documents the evolution of new forms of managerial organization designed to enhance and legitimat
In the summer of 1871, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack married Fayette Washington Roe, fresh out of West Point, and left the East behind to join his infantry regiment at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where her s
The publication in 1890 of William James's acknowledged masterpiece marked a turning point in the development of psychology as a science in America. The Principles of Psychology also became a source o
Detective stories should be examined from a literary point of view, with special attention to literary history and to materials and patterns from which the writers created their fictions. This book sh
The eleven essays that make up this volume point to some of the new directions biography and biographical criticism have taken in recent years. Among the subjects treated are the responsibilities of t
Here is the first book all the great sauces of practical, workable system. Raymond Sokolov, the widely admired former Food Editor of The first to point out that the hitherto mysterious saucier's art,
Examines the designs, structures, activities, and weaknesses of the human body and its parts and systems, from a bioengineering point of view, and the technological possibilities for repair and replac
The objectives set forth by the passage of the Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act of 1966 marked a turning point in U.S. policy toward marine affairs, inaugurating a fresh set of active
In this groundbreaking book, trend forecaster James Wallman reveals the world's growing sense of Stuffocation - and how we can move away from it 'Like The Tipping Point meets Freakonomics - but with a
When Rosamund, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no on
What is turning five supposed to feel like, anyway? A charming look at growing older, from a child's point of view. Fritz can't wait to turn five! His birthday starts off well when he eats all five of
Success secrets of e-commerce pioneers What's so important about 213 websites you've probably never heard of? They introduce you to Webpreneurs whose experiences and instincts point the way to the fut
On today's Nasdaq, volatility and 100 point intraday swings are the norm. "Trading on Momentum explains how to take advantage of these new market dynamics by trading stocks based on market momentum ra
Day trading tactics from a Wall Street insider A groundbreaking work in electronic trading, The Market Maker's Edge gives you the unique point of view of an actual "Ax." The Ax -- usually the day trad
Much of the novel is written from the view-point of his canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang examines the violent world of wil
A movies storyboard is the crucial stage when the words of the screenplay becomes a visual narrative; its often the source of the iconic imagery of the finished movie, and it is always a key point in
The conference for which the papers collected in this volume were written marked a new stage, if not a turning point, in the history of the study of Chinese society on Taiwan. The extent to which this
Gives advice, fact and personal, on how to make the flowers in the window look attractive from the outside and from the viewer's and the flower's point of interest
Hailed as "the Christian Supremes" in The New York Times Magazine, the four stars of Point Of Grace are lavishly talented, tuneful, pretty, professional - and one of the hottest Christian pop groups i
Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion o
"The Connection Machine "describes a fundamentally different kind of computer. It offers a preview of a parallel processing computer that Daniel Hillis and others are now developing to perform tasks t
You can keep your protocolhe'll go rogue to keep his family safe Tortured in captivity, navy SEAL Miguel Estrada owes his survival to his fiancée, the memory of her keeping him strong
In lush, glowing prose, Louise Hawes’s historical novel draws readers into the life and art of sixteenth-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female p
