In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities bring together the results of recent research on the natural history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as they pertain to the evolution of social behavior.

In "The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France", untersucht Todd Shepard die Auswirkungen des algerischen Unabhängigkeitskrieges auf Frankreich. Er argumentiert, dass dieser Krieg und der darauf folgende...

"Dreams 1900-2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind" von Lynn Gamwell ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der Rolle und Darstellung von Träumen in Wissenschaft, Kunst und dem Bewusstsein im 20. Jahrhundert. Das Buch enthält eine...

In ihrem Buch "Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance" untersucht Victoria Kahn die Rolle der Rhetorik und der Klugheit in der Renaissance-Literatur. Sie argumentiert, dass die Renaissance eine Periode des Skeptizismus und...

Robert S. Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate at the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. He is the author of Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power, and Politics,...

Edna Bonacich is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the coauthor of Behind the Label, The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring, and Global...

Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development, combining progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with...

Leonard H. Lesko is Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Chair, Department of Egyptology, Brown University. von Lesko, Leonard H

Meredith F. Small is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. von Small, Meredith F.

Australian Snakes: A Natural History

Cornelia Woll is a Research Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po Paris, France, and the winner of the Seymour Martin Lipset Prize from the Society of Comparative Research in 2005. von Woll, Cornelia

The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America (Comstock Book)