5078 results for '"Andrew Fred Robinson (Editor)'

The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example,...

Sentencing and corrections issues are much the same in every Western country and increasingly efforts are being made to import policies and practices that have succeeded elsewhere. This volume brings...

"Australian Women: Feminist Perspectives" explores the position of women in Australian society from a broad range of perspectives: anthropology, sociology, education, history, psychology, biology and...

8vo. xxiv, 417 pp, James Marshall Osborn 1906-1976 by Rene Wellek, Jim Osborn: Some Personal Notes by David Daiches, list of b&w plates: frontis + illustrations following pages 134, and 182, 24...

What is reduction? Must all discussions of the mind, value, color, biological organisms, and persons aim to reduce these to objects and properties that can be studied by more basic, physical science?...

This title includes interviews with the following people; Walter Abish, Max Apple, Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Samuel Delany, Barry Hannah, Russell Hoban, William Kennedy, Ursula Le Guin, Thomas...

Bringing together the work of sixteen eminent scholars, this book discusses theoretical and methodological questions relevant to the structure of European trade after completion of the internal...

childhood studies.....

This book charts the evolution of Peter Paul Rubens's style from 1608 until 1620 and his rise from relative anonymity to celebrity.In 1600, Peter Paul Rubens left his home in Antwerp to travel to...

How will sport keep pace with current scientific and biological advances?Is the possibility of the 'bionic athlete' that far away and is this notion as bad as it might first appear?Is our fascination...

Covering scientific, legal, ethical, historical, theological and public policy aspects of human embryo research, the cases for and against are put strongly and clearly. Scientific evidence is...

The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s.We now have a...

Book by Pepper, David, Jenkins, Alan

Historical panorama of views about the state of political science as a discipline

An extraordinary confluence of forces stemming from automation and digital technologies is transforming both the world of work and the ways we educate current and future employees to contribute...

The first reference on rationality that integrates accounts from psychology and philosophy, covering descriptive and normative theories from both disciplines.Both analytic philosophy and cognitive...

Xenophon s personal history was exceptional for its combination of Socratic education and the exercise of military leadership in a time of crisis. His writings provide an intellectually and morally...

This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing. Key issues in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science are explored in the course of celebrating Turing's...

The Reader's Companion to American History offers a fresh, absorbing portrait of the United States from the origins of its native peoples to the nation's complex identity in the 1990s. Covering...

A publication that examines medieval art and European modernism together. Modernism is often described as a fundamental break with tradition. Yet precisely as art was being redefined around 1900,...