Classical Chinese: A Basic Reader: Texts, Glossaries, Analyses: A Basic Reader in Three Volumes (The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese, 12)

"Fossil-fuel carbon is our dangerous treasure. David Archer brilliantly and lucidly provides the essential background on Earth's carbon cycle that we need to make wise decisions about future use."--Richard B. Alley, Pennsylvania State...

"The Challenger at Sea: A Ship That Revolutionized Earth Science" von Kenneth J. Hsu ist ein faszinierendes Buch über die Expedition der HMS Challenger im 19. Jahrhundert, die als Geburtsstunde der modernen Meereswissenschaft gilt. Das...

In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focus of debate; his "big book on species" still lay on his desk as a manuscript. For more...

Inspiring popular video games like Tetris while contributing to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory, polyominoes have continued to spark interest ever since their inventor, Solomon Golomb, introduced them to puzzle...

"David Ruelle has written an entertaining and thoughtful book on human theorizing in that most abstract science, mathematics. Yet its content has ramifications that extend well into other thought processes."--Stephen Smale, Toyota...

This is a thoroughly updated edition of "Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory, " the standard text for doctoral students and researchers on the theory of asset pricing and portfolio selection in multiperiod settings under uncertainty. Each...

Scholars and statesmen have debated the influence of international commerce on war and peace for thousands of years. Over the centuries, analysts have generally treated the questions "Does international commerce influence security?" and...

"Great Adaptations - Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved" von Kenneth Catania ist eine faszinierende Reise durch die Welt der Tieranpassungen und Evolution. Das Buch enthält eine Reihe von...

In this first full-scale attempt to reconstruct the chemical evolution of the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, Heinrich Holland assembles data from a wide spectrum of fields to trace the history of the ocean-atmosphere system. A pioneer in...

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...

"Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan" von Harry D. Harootunian ist eine tiefgehende Analyse der japanischen Geschichte und Kultur während der Zwischenkriegszeit. Das Buch untersucht die Spannungen...