1415 results for '"Salomon, Xavier F.'

Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates...

This is a fully revised and updated edition of S.F. Goodman's popular book The European Community. Retitled to reflect recent changes, the book includes discussion of the 1996 Intergovernmental...

This book is about how our addiction to testing influences both society and ourselves as socially defined persons. The analysis focuses on tests of people, particularly tests in schools, intelligence...

This is a military history of the two Persian invasions of Greece, the first of which came to grief at Marathon, the second at Salamis and Plataia. The conflicts are largely examined in terms of the...

This is an exceptionally accessible, accurate, and nontechnical introduction to quantum mechanics. After briefly summarizing the differences between classical and quantum behavior, this engaging...

An examination of the Civil War era which is concerned primarily with the political struggles of the 1850s

A reflection on the diverse ways Western humanity has attempted to escape its frightening historyThis book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors—from the...

'...The essays in this collection represent a sampling from the more than five thousand studies dealing with Flaubert....'- from the Introduction.

Essays on the nature of touch, hearing, smell, sight and taste reflect on the author's childhood memories in Mexico and studies of other cultures and times

Reading this book should be at the top of your To Do list. Life Admin will give you many hours of your life back.Every day an unseen form of labor creeps into our lives—stealing precious moments of...

Justice requires that we tolerate the chance of such errors and that we resist the temptation to demand the most science intensive evaluation of each substance in order to protect individuals better...