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This volume deals with the history of the early federal courts in general, and with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase in particular. Presser lays out the relationships between the jurisprudence...

Lenin and Revolutionary Russia examines the background to and the course of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Lenin's regime. It explores all the key aspects such as the development of the...

"Social architecture is a theoretical approach that takes the city itself as a text. The built environment reflects the social system and the ways in which that system is expressed, reproduced, and...

Mexico features prominently in the literature and personal legends of the Beat writers, from its depiction as an extension of the American frontier in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to its role as a...

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has changed the landscape of religious thought in many ways. There is a widespread assumption that before Darwin, all Christians believed that the world was...

An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientistsThe Scientist’s Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists...

An updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed writing guide for scientistsThe Scientist’s Guide to Writing explains the essential techniques that students, postdocs, and early-career scientists...

Many know of Scott Nearing in the context of his retreat from the urban environment to the simpler world of homesteading, subsistence farming, and vegetarianism, so movingly portrayed in the book...

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an...