Ancient Greek Scholarship constitutes a precious resource for classicists, but one that is underutilized because graduate students and even mature scholars lack familiarity with its conventions. The peculiarities of scholarly Greek and...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience is a state-of-the-art collection of interdisciplinary research. Contributors, including both philosophers and neuroscientists, bring evidence from current neurobiology of learning and...

"The Suicidal Mind" brims with insights into the suicidal impulse and with helpful suggestions for counteraction methods. Throughout, Dr. Edwin Shneidman offers practical, explicit maneuvers to assist in treating a suicidal...

This eloquent volume reconciles the modern scientific understanding of reality with our timeless spiritual yearnings for reverence and continuity by looking at such topics as evolution, emotions, sexuality, and death. 18 illustrations....

Das Buch "Responsible Conduct of Research" von David B. Resnik bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die ethischen und rechtlichen Aspekten der wissenschaftlichen Forschung. Das Buch behandelt Themen wie Forschungsunehrlichkeit, Konflikte...

Process development bridges the gap between the laboratory synthesis of an organic compound and its industrial manufacture on a large scale. This concise and readable text uses real examples and case histories from ICI/Zeneca...

"C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music" ist eine umfassende Biografie des britischen Komponisten C. Hubert H. Parry, geschrieben von Jeremy Dibble. Das Buch beleuchtet das Leben und die Karriere von Parry, der als einer der...

What did it mean to be British during the 'People's War'? Professor Rose uses material from newspapers, diaries, novels and letters to examine popular notions of citizenship on the home front. She shows that what we now mean by 'identity...

Nancy C. Dorian's examination of the fisherfolk Gaelic spoken in a Highland Scottish village offers a number of explanations for delayed recognition of linguistic variation unrelated to social class or other social sub-groups. von...

The Mahler Companion consists of a collection of original essays on Mahler written especially for the occasion by Mahler specialists from around the world. It addresses all parts of his life and work-- symphonies, songs and song-cycles...

Recent developments in the field of differential geometry have been so extensive that a new book with particular emphasis on current work in Riemannian geometry is clearly necessary. This new text brilliantly serves that purpose and...

This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of the auxiliary verb construction. Drawing on a database of over 800 languages the author examines their morphosyntactic forms and semantic roles, and investigates the historical...