This eye-opening look at the emotions of everyday life is the first book to move beyond clinical jargon and popular psychology to really explain why people feel the way they do. Based on four decades of pioneering research, it explores...

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...

Covers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox von Sorensen, Roy

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...

"Directed Mutagenesis: A Practical Approach" von M. J. McPherson ist ein wissenschaftliches Fachbuch, das sich mit der Technik der gerichteten Mutagenese befasst. Das Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die Methode, bei der DNA...

Through a sustained historical analysis of three of the most important issues in American politics--Social Security, environmental regulation, and federal education policy--Conservatism and American Political Development explores how...

"Biocoordination Chemistry" von David E. Fenton ist ein informatives Lehrbuch, das sich auf die Prinzipien und Anwendungen der Koordinationschemie in biologischen Systemen konzentriert. Das Buch deckt eine breite Palette von Themen ab,...

In this overview of the modern occult revival, Nevill Drury traces the rise of various forms of magical belief and practice, from the influential Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn to the emergence of Wicca and Goddess worship as...

How did Japan fall from challenger to US hegemonic leadership in the high tech industries in the 1980s, to stumbling giant by the turn of the century? This book examines the challenges faced by Japanese companies through emulation by...

In this path-breaking book, the author argues that European countries' political-economic policies, practices, and discourses have changed profoundly in response to globalization and Europeanization, but they have not converged. Although...

Japan in World History addresses the entire scope of Japanese history, beginning with Japan's prehistoric culture and ending with a look at Japan in the world today. The majority of large-scale history books on Japan, by contrast, focus...

In "Nature, Justice, And Rights In Aristotle's Politics", Fred D. Miller Jr. bietet eine gründliche Untersuchung von Aristoteles' politischer Philosophie. Das Buch konzentriert sich auf die Konzepte der Natur, Gerechtigkeit und Rechte in...