7613 results for '"Culp, William J.'

Compared with Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo, the recent western intervention in Sierra Leone has been largely forgotten. When the State Fails rectifies this, providing a comprehensive and critical...

An essential textbook on the mathematical methods used in geophysics and space physicsGraduate students in the natural sciences—including not only geophysics and space physics but also atmospheric...

Expanded to include updated cultural and political material, this social history of the USA following World War II includes discussion of race, the 1992 presidential elections, the Perot phenomenon...

An incisive analysis of the complex interaction between the poet's life and work offers a chronological approach to Frost's life and poetry

Nelson identifies three principal institutions involved in conflict resolution: the twon meeting, the church congregation, and the courts of law. He subsequently determines the type of cases over...

Discusses the history of the Fourteenth Amendment, considers the intent of its framers and assesses its impact on U.S. history

Few attempts have been made to trace the emergence of modern American law from its colonial antecedents during the half-century following the American Revolution. The present monograph makes a...

Originally published in 1973, this book deals with what were, even at that time, the well-known neural coding processes of the sensory transmission processes. The book was written to demonstrate the...

Aristotle, Rhetoric II: A Commentary completes the acclaimed work undertaken by the author in his first (1980) volume on Aristotle's Rhetoric. The first Commentary on the Rhetoric in more than a...

On the basis of newly available archival evidence, Shea and Artigas reexamine the famed clash of Galileo (1564-1642) with the Catholic Church for espousing the view that the Earth orbits the Sun...

John Lindley is honoured nowadays as the foremost British orchidologist of the nineteenth century, indeed by some as 'the father of orchidology'. He is especially remembered for his fundamental...

Heraclides of Pontus hailed from the shores of the Black Sea. He studied with Aristotle in Plato's Academy, and became a respected member of that school. During Plato's third trip to Sicily,...

Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award from the Ohio Academy of HistoryWinner of the Book Award from the Ohio Academy of HistoryNew York City's crowded streets and energetic people, its vast...

The Enûma Eliš is the Babylonian creation myth recovered by Austen Henry Layard in 1849 (in fragmentary form) in the ruined Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq), and published by George...

Portrays the tragic course of a marriage which fails through the moral decay of its self-centered participants

What is English? Can we be as certain as we usually are when we say something is not English? To find some answers Tim Machan explores the language's present and past, and looks ahead to its futures...