10058 results for '"John R. Brobeck (Editor)'

In this invaluable book, a broad range of contributors--musicians, acousticians, electronic engineers, and broadcasters--share their specialized expertise on the equipment used to record, transmit,...

Chapbooks formed the staple reading matter of ordinary people during the eighteenth and much of the nineteenth centuries; they were also read by children of the gentry. They included fiction,...

Books XXI-XXXIII of Livy cover the period of the second Macedonian War, the critical years that marked the beginning of Rome's domination of the Hellenistic world. This new paperback edition of...

A contemporary look at Albert Einstein's classic call for socialismFirst published more than seventy-five years ago in the inaugural issue of Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, Albert...

Daniel Defoe had an eventful and adventurous life as a merchant, politician, spy and literary hack. He is one of the eighteenth century's most lively, innovative and important authors, famous not...

An indispensable survey of new developments and results in experimental economicsWhen The Handbook of Experimental Economics first came out in 1995, the notion of economists conducting lab...

Nero's reign (AD 54–68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians—not to mention Nero's murder of his...

This book is about the nature of morphology and its place in the structure of grammar. Drawing on a wide range of aspects of Romance inflectional morphology, leading scholars present detailed...

In the decade following the end of the Cold War, Western democracies stood victorious, brimming with optimism and grand designs. Today, the 1990s look less like a great triumph for liberal democracy...

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon  The legendary author of Paradise Lost and other poems was also a superb and provocative prose writer. Culled from Modern Library’s...

This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgments), with positive...

Essays by leading anthropologists illuminate the role of witchcraft, black magic, and related magical beliefs in primitive societies

These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and...

This second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four...

An All-Pro line-up of writers including Red Smith, Frank Deford, Jimmy Breslin, George Plimpton, Richard Price, Charles Pierce, Michael Lewis, and Roy Blount Jr tackle our most popular pastime: Since...

This volume brings together philosophical essays on emotions by eleven leading thinkers in the field. The essays cover a variety of topics that relate emotions to humor, opera, theater, justice, war,...

Likely to become a major reference work, this book investigates what has happened to the welfare state in Britain since 1974. It examines particularly the differences and similarities in trends...

The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings,...