"SCIENCE JOURNALISM AT ITS BEST. . . An impeccably researched, amazingly up-to-date, crisply written and well-illustrated survey."--NatureAt the cutting edge of the sciences, a dynamic new concept is emerging: complexity. In this groundbreaking new book,...

Compilation of intense, spirited verse which explores the realms of religion, politics, nature, violence, and old age.

The author asks, "Why cannot liberal democracies solve their problems?" The author's answer is a study of the competing political traditions first developed in the 19th c. to mollify social tensions.

Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and...

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In this book Noam Chomsky offers an analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that follow. The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the last unarmed spot in our neighborhood--the...

In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational-and why are we so often irrational? How do we see in three dimensions? What makes us...

The Description for this book, Marxism and Domination: A Neo-Hegelian, Feminist, Psychoanalytic Theory of Sexual, Political, and Technological Liberation, will be forthcoming.

Lester S. King, M.D., focuses on those aspects of medicine that remain constant through the centuries--the problems that doctors always face and the critical judgment needed to solve them. According to Dr. King, modern technological advances are really...

A good deal of discussion of homosexuality, male and female.--P. Thorslev.

A fiery feminist manifesto from the Chilean performance collective who led the rallying cry for today's mass feminist movement across South AmericaAfter the feminist art collective LASTESIS created their performance “A Rapist in Your Path” in their...