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This two-volume set investigates the interaction of organic compounds with various forms of life, including macromolecules, enzymes, and organelles. It provides an introduction to the Hammett...

Masses In Latin America / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Development And Stagnation In Latin America / Celso Furtado -- Working-class Consciousness And Economic Development In Latin America / Alain...

Historians of science and Sinologists have long needed a unified narrative to describe the Chinese development of modern science, medicine, and technology since 1600. They welcomed the appearance in...

This collection of essays by leading scholars of archaeology and prehistory examines the emergence of permanent human settlements and the social, political, and religious ideas that may have...

The new community planning: invaluable strategies for creative rebuilding and renovating from around the world.For many years planning was something done in the name of progress by distant committees...

A groundbreaking history of Europe's "new lefts," from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960sIn the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the...

A Forbes Best Business Book“Vital reading for today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.” ―Arianna Huffington“Burnout seems to be everyone’s problem, and this book has solutions. As trailblazers in burnout...

Examines theories about the creation of the universe, argues that matter and energy have the ability to self-organize, and suggests that the universe is developing along a predestined plan

Drawing on numerous previously unpublished manuscript sources, this study reappraises Wordsworth's and Coleridge's radical careers in the years before their emergence as major poets. By tracing...

Presenting a new interpretation of the British government's policy toward Germany from the period of Churchill and Eden to that of Attlee and Bevin, this study exploits recently released documents to...

Compellingly argues that good health is as much social as it is biological, and that the racial health gap and the racial wealth gap are mutually constitutive.The Danger Zone Is Everywhere shows that...

In 1738, Jacques Vaucanson unveiled his masterpiece before the court of Louis XV: a gilded copper duck that ate, drank, quacked, flapped its wings, splashed about, and, most astonishing of all,...

This book offers a compelling new interpretation of the proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs) at the end of the twentieth century. Challenging the widespread assumption that RTAs should...

Emerging evidence suggests that dendritic cells play a major role in the orchestration of the immune response to bacteria. This volume introduces the reader to the complex world of dendritic cells...

On September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women workers in Watsonville, California, the "frozen food capital of the world," were forced out on strike in response to an attempt by Watsonville...

This volume focuses on the everyday social relationships through which international justice is produced. Using case studies from the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights,...

Explore and understand how investment capital is transforming the world’s most critical emerging marketsIn Power of Capital: An Adventure Capitalist’s Journey to a Sustainable Future, distinguished...

A “keenly observed and timely investigation” of how capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe—“a potent weapon for shock resistors around the world” (Naomi Klein, author of...

The book explains an unexpected consequence of the decrease in conflict in Africa after the 1990s. Analysis of cross-national data and in-depth comparisons of case studies of Uganda, Liberia, and...

Linguistic variation has been studied primarily in communities with the dominant social organization of our time: ethnic diversity, socioeconomic stratification, and a population size that precludes...