By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing trends made religious rituals look out...

The esteemed author of "The Age Of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics & Culture" returns with this intriguing narrative which argues that economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a...

Through a historical analysis of Vermeer's method of production and a close reading of his art, Daniel Arasse explores the originality of this artist in the context of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. Arguing that Vermeer was not a...

Containing 146 color photos, this book looks at the mammals and reptiles most likely to be encountered in the world-famous Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater. It includes 89 species of mammal and reptile. von Kennedy, Adam...

Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major national literature or cultural...

"Earth's Earliest Biosphere: Its Origin and Evolution" von William Schopf ist ein umfassendes wissenschaftliches Werk, das die Entwicklung des Lebens auf der Erde untersucht. Das Buch bietet eine detaillierte Darstellung der ältesten...

Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling....

"For too long, qualitative research has been portrayed as the ill-mannered stepchild of quantitative research, hampered by its seemingly primitive analytic techniques and misplaced enthusiasm for understanding and interpreting 'cases.' A...

From the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, New York, Paris, and London changed profoundly in physical appearance, social makeup, and politics. Here is a lively and informative account of the transformation of the three cities....

No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso,...

"Zee's lovely book on the theory of group representations is comprehensive and complete, both from the mathematical and physical points of view. While it doesn't discuss the representations of the symmetric groups, the book's got almost...

"Catastrophes and Earth History: The New Uniformitarianism" ist ein wissenschaftliches Buch, das die Geschichte der Erde und ihre katastrophalen Ereignisse untersucht. Die Autoren, William A. Berggren und andere, präsentieren eine neue...