7085 results for '"David L. Smith'

Why evolution is like a network, not a family tree—and why it matters for understanding the health of all living thingsIn The Network of Life, David Mindell explains why the conventional narrative of...

At the Pan–African Conference in London in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois famously prophesied that the problem of the twentieth century would be the global color line, the elevation of "whiteness" that...

How aggressive military strategies win wars, from ancient times to todayThe goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than...

The occult sciences have attracted followers and fascinated observers since the middle ages. Beyond Enlightenment examines the social, political, and metaphysical doctrines of Martinism, a French...

A new interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformative monetary contest American money and American democracy have always been in tension, pitting political equality against economic...

Sandra Smith Gangle tells a compelling story of a woman who overcame many obstacles to achieve her dream of becoming a lawyer. Sandra observed her mother suffer from discrimination in job-seeking,...

No one can doubt that the Bible has exerted a tremendous influence on Western civilization since the dawn of Christianity. But few of us have considered the precise nature of that influence in...

Read an excerpt "Chicago Firsthand" (click here). Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism for Black women. Her work in Black women's...

This volume explores the organizational principles of the ancient Indian sacrificial system, and the role Vedic religion plays in later orthodox Hinduism. Smith argues that Vedic conceptions of the...

Combining a critical account of observational methods (telescopes and instrumentation) with a lucid description of the Universe, including stars, galaxies and cosmology, Smith provides a...

Vroeg-joodse en vroeg-christelijke houding t.a.v. homosexualiteit, sociale politiek in Nazi-Duitsland, theologische en ethische implicaties van homofobisch geweld, veranderingen t.a.v...

Celebrate the world’s most seductive instrument. An obsessive, full-color book in the irresistible format of Shoes and Handbags—which together have over 700,000 copies in print—guitarS delivers a...

The first few decades of the eighteenth century witnessed an important moment in Jewish-Christian relations, as influential Christian scholars increasingly looked to Jewish texts to reveal the truths...

For centuries Europeans ruled vast portions of the world, as inhabitants of west European countries sailed to distant continents and took possession of territories whose societies and economies they...

"A riveting account of one of history's greatest blunders."--William L. O'Neill, The New Leader This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi...

Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's formula is...

Why do more people vote--or get involved in other civic and political activities--in some communities than in others? Why We Vote demonstrates that our communities shape our civic and political...

"The Other Side of Color" is an intimate look at a celebrity family's commitment to its culture. Firmly adhering to the belief that African American families should themselves collect and preserve...

Since the end of the civil rights era in the sixties it has become increasingly clear that social and political conflicts cannot be resolved entirely at the national level. Struggles between...

"A fascinating look into the origins of modern man."—Publishers Weekly "Authoritative."—New York Times • "A masterpiece."—Wilson Quarterly Unraveling the mystery surrounding the ancient mother tongue...