"The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue" von William Dunham ist eine detaillierte Untersuchung der Entwicklung und des Fortschritts der mathematischen Disziplin des Kalküls. Das Buch beginnt mit den Anfängen bei Isaac...

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...

For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an affordable format, these works serve as an...

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and The World Economy Bigger

Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire...

"A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China" von Dale C. Copeland bietet eine umfassende Analyse der wirtschaftlichen Motive hinter der US-amerikanischen Außenpolitik vom späten 18....

Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later...

Despite its supreme importance and the threat of its global crash, biodiversity remains poorly understood both empirically and theoretically. This ambitious book presents a new, general neutral theory to explain the origin, maintenance,...

This is a masterly theoretical treatment of one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. Steven Frank tackles the problem with a highly original combination of approaches: game...

In "The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics", untersucht Martha C. Nussbaum die philosophischen Grundlagen der hellenistischen Ethik, insbesondere wie sie sich auf menschliches Verlangen und Emotionen bezieht....

Das Buch "Complete Guide to the Antarctic Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean" von Brett Jarrett ist ein umfassender Leitfaden zur Tierwelt der Antarktis. Es bietet detaillierte...

China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was rightly hailed as a huge step forward in international cooperation. However, China's participation in the WTO has been anything but smooth, with China alienating some of...