6920 results for '"Charles D. Canham (Editor)'

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experiments. Yet his passion for the natural world was so strong that he suffered through terrible...

For over 40 years, satellites have been orbiting the Earth quietly monitoring the state of our planet. Unseen by most of us, they are providing information on the many changes taking place, from...

A sophisticated introduction to how astronomers identify, observe, and understand black holesEmitting no radiation or any other kind of information, black holes mark the edge of the universe—both...

The Civilization of Angkor is remarkable and unique in that it delves into the prehistoric roots of the civilization. Higham is the international authority on southeast Asian archaeology, and...

The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies has played a pioneering role in the development of cultural studies. This book, by bringing together old and new work from the Centre, charts both the...

This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, India's leading philosopher of the twentieth century. Elected president of India in 1962, Radhakrishnan stressed the...

Sustain and Develop, the thirteenth volume from 306090 Books, investigates the contradictory yet potentially productive tension between our drive to develop and our growing realization that...

The opponents of legal recognition for same-sex marriage frequently appeal to a "Judeo-Christian" tradition. But does it make any sense to speak of that tradition as a single teaching on marriage?...

Ideas and rules on the systematics of parasite groups, and to a lesser extent their hosts, have been influenced by the assumption that coevolution between parasites and hosts has resulted in parallel...

À distance égale des polémiques et d'une vision hagiographique du combat des ombres, l'auteur propose au lecteur curieux de salutaires clefs de compréhension sur l'aventure singulière que fut la...

Sophisticated, simple “Bible” for long-term investors, especially those in or approaching retirement In just 10 short, accessible, and inviting chapters, Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Book on...

First-hand descriptions highlight this volume on exploration of the shallow sea bed. It collects the dispersed material on this environment, which the development of SCUBA equipment has made easier...

228p hardback with brown illustrated paper jacket, from a Cambridge college library, first edition, pages clean, very good

Disasters can strike often and with unexpected fury, resulting in devastating consequences for local populations that are insufficiently prepared and largely dependent upon foreign aid in the wake of...

This volume presents a broad range of knowledge about the organization of the segmental motor apparatus of mammals. Over the past 30 years, the mammalian segmental motor system has served as a...

The description for this book, Stratigraphic Atlas: North and Central America, will be forthcoming.

The essays is this volume--written by prominent philosophers and academic lawyers--examine various aspects of both the right to privacy and the roles that this right plays in moral philosophy, legal...

This work is a new edition of Thomas Jefferson's literary commonplace book, a notebook of his literary and philosophical reading. Unlike the only previous edition, published in 1928, it contains full...

"The third illustrated anthology of erotica takes the reader on a journey through four centuries of erotic literature and art. Part one, 'The libertine imagination', fuels libidinous fantasies. Part...