3836 results for '"Liddel, Peter P.'

Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the...

Although climate change is a global problem, there is growing recognition of the need to look at its regional manifestations and management. This book takes such an approach to the Alpine region. The...

Looks at the legal system, mass production, the consumer market, management philosophy, and the welfare state in America, and discusses the problems that face the United States in the future

Few developments in the intellectual life of the past quarter-century have provoked more controversy than the attempt to engineer human-like intelligence by artificial means. Born of computer...

This collection of micrographs illustrates a variety of soils and sediments using both scanning and transmission electron micrographs and forms both an atlas for the experienced microscopist and an...

Essays look at recent developments in particle physics, current and future instruments, elementary particles, superstrings, and colored quarks

"The Italian political and legal thinker Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) is justly regarded as the founding father of the movement for criminal law reform that emerged in Europe in the mid-18th century...

Nearly 90 percent of the earth's land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally "protected" for biodiversity conservation--and even most...

A foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His...

Examines historical accuracy (or lack of it) of films about the Third Reich, the European Resistance, the Battal of Britain, Bataan and D-Day, as they appear in American film. Primarily discussed...