2324 results for '"Csikai, Ellen L.'

Are all moral truths relative or do certain moral truths hold for all cultures and people? In Moral Relativism: A Reader, this and related questions are addressed by twenty-one contemporary moral...

From ancient acorns to future forests, the story of how oaks evolved and the many ways they shape our world. An oak begins its life with the precarious journey of a pollen grain, then an acorn,...

Discover the secret to flourishing in an age of division: belonging. In a world filled with discord and loneliness, finding harmony and happiness can be difficult. But what if the key to unlocking...

In this delightful memoir, Bhante Walpola Piyananda, a Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka, shares his often amusing, often poignant experiences of life in America. Whether he's reasoning with a group of...

An intimate culinary portrait of Los Angeles today—a city now recognized among food lovers for its booming, vibrant, international restaurant landscape—with 100 recipes from its restaurants, juice...

"Né des curiosités de l'adolescence, nourri des révoltes et des expériences de l'homme, ordonné par la puissance magique du poète, L'Enchanteur pourrissant n'est pas une composition laborieuse...

English summary: This collection of nineteen articles examines the specificity and coherence of Xenophons representation of Socrates. Of Socratess students, Plato and Xenophon are the only ones to...

The third novel in The L.A. Quartet. L.A. Confidential is one of the most beloved and influential crime novels ever written.“Nobody in this generation matches the breadth and depth of James Ellroy’s...

Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx...

Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx...

Book Description Sur l'eau, roman sur l'amitié et le bonheur, frappe par l'élégance de son écriture. Les pages que Van den Brink consacre à la beauté fascinante de l'eau, de même que ses...

A desperate queen makes a deal with the gods to save her land in this spellbinding romantasy debut from Sarah K. L. Wilson. Queen Coralys rules the Kingdom of the Five Isles, but when disaster...

A groundbreaking and detailed presentation of the rich system of meditation traditions that have come to us through the Pali tradition of Buddhism.Meditations of the Pali Tradition, from consummate...

This book studies the interplay between the geometry and topology of locally symmetric spaces, and the arithmetic aspects of the special values of L-functions.The authors study the cohomology of...

News of Alzheimer’s disease is constantly in the headlines. Every day we hear heart-wrenching stories of people caring for a loved one who has become a shell of their former self, of projections...

A groundbreaking contribution to number theory that unifies classical and modern resultsThis book develops a new theory of p-adic modular forms on modular curves, extending Katz's classical theory to...

Classic African American Women's Narratives offers teachers, students, and general readers a one-volume collection of the most memorable and important prose written by African American women before...

Streptococcal Infections: Clinical Aspects, Microbiology, and Molecular Pathogenesis offers an in-depth examination of the spectrum of hemolytic streptococcal infections and their complications...

Most scientists now agree that some sixty-five million years ago, an immense comet slammed into the Yucatan, detonating a blast twenty million times more powerful than the largest hydrogen bomb,...

In every era of communications technology - whether print, radio, television, or Internet - some form of government censorship follows to regulate the medium and its messages. Today we are seeing the...