Mark Silverman has seen light perform many wonders. From the marvel of seeing inside cloudy liquids as a result of his own cutting-edge research to reproducing and examining an unusual diffraction pattern first witnessed by Isaac Newton...

The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming. von Herzfeld, Michael

"Jacqueline Rose proposes a suggestive analysis of a communal neurosis gripping Israel. Her examination . . . is topical and important."--Amos Elon, author of The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933. "I never...

Charles Cashdollar reinterprets nineteenth-century British and American Protestant thought by identifying positivism as the central intellectual issue of the era. Positivism meant, at first, the ideas of the French thinker Auguste Comte;...

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...

A look at the most exciting unsolved problems in maths today. von Ash, Avner

"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...

By "literary criticism" we usually mean a self-conscious act involving the technical and aesthetic appraisal, by individuals, of autonomous works of art. Aristotle and Plato come to mind. The word "social" does not. Yet, as this book...

"Albrecht Dürer: A Biography" von Jane Campbell Hutchison ist eine umfassende und detaillierte Darstellung des Lebens und Schaffens des berühmten deutschen Renaissancekünstlers Albrecht Dürer. Das Buch beleuchtet Dürers frühe Jahre,...

In "Governance in a Global Economy: Political Authority in Transition", David A. Lake und seine Mitautoren untersuchen die Auswirkungen der Globalisierung auf politische Autorität und Governance-Strukturen. Sie argumentieren, dass die...

The Nature of Rationality

Das Buch "The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC" von J. G. Manning behandelt die Geschichte Ägyptens unter der Herrschaft der Ptolemäer-Dynastie. Es konzentriert sich darauf, wie diese hellenistische Dynastie das alte...