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Thoroughly revised for the paperback edition, this practical volume describes the different modes of transmission of neurological conditions and how they may be identified, and assesses the risk of...

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In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form...

The century between the Restoration and David Garrick's Stratford Jubilee saw William Shakespeare's promotion from the status of archaic, rustic playwright to that of England's timeless Bard, and...

A basic premise of the book is that the social sciences offer a perspective that is essential for anyone desiring a well-rounded education. American education is returning to fundamentals and should...

Texts and Monographs in Computer Science series. With 49 figures.

Korea, the world's fastest growing industrial nation, is to the '90s what Japan was to the '70s. In less than a generation, Korea has moved from abject poverty to industrial might. This book explains...

Une soixantaine de brefs billets d'humour destinés à tous ceux qui s'intéressent, de près ou de loin, de manière personnelle ou professionnelle, au livre. L'auteur y aborde tous les aspects de la vie...

Warning!*This book contains the following:Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosivesCultivation of illegal cropsImpressionable minors being exposed to illicit activitiesPiloting...

"Davis Cone's extraordinarily realistic paintings of old movie theatres . . . [produce] a sharp ache of recognition of a kind of innocence that is somehow irretrievably lost. Or perhaps, because Mr...

Argues that the concept of God is vanishing, causing a widespread erosion of moral and social values, and calls for a union between faith and anti-faith to create a society in which people can...

The author of Founders of the Western World assesses the achievements of the man who founded Constantinople and converted the Roman Empire to Christianity.

What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This book answers and prolongs these questions through the close...

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech?...