3234 results for '"Douglas E. Appelt'

An essential primer on impeachment for today’s divided public squareWe are witnessing an unprecedented moment in American politics in which impeachments are increasingly common. In today’s partisan...

"Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship." --Frances Lee, Princeton University Partisanship is a dirty word in American politics. If there is...

Considered a great classic by all who seek for a meeting ground between science and the humanities, Art and Illusion examines the history and psychology of pictorial representation in light of...

How does the visual system compute the global motion of an object from local views of its contours? This book describes a neurally based model, implemented as a connectionist network, of how the...

In arguing that feminism has neither adequately acknowledged its ties to individualism nor squarely faced the extent to which many of its campaigns for social justice are based on the insistence of...

Does economics hold the key to everything or does the recent financial crisis show that it has failed? This book provides an assessment of modern economics that cuts through the confusion and...

Gaming the language of addiction treatment Scripting Addiction takes readers into the highly ritualized world of mainstream American addiction treatment. It is a world where clinical practitioners...

How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he...

How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined...