3650 results for '"Wilkinson, Jeffrey S.'

"Though today opiates are highly controlled substances and generally viewed as menaces to society, the opium trade was once licit and profitable, both for merchants and for the governments to which...

An ecologist's investigation of the social lives of butterfliesThroughout his career, Henry Horn took a unique approach to the study of butterflies. This book brings together his findings with recent...

This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the...

Triggered by the atrocities of World War II, the last few decades have seen an increasing international awareness of the persistence of such practices as torture, abduction and arbitrary, summary,...

The only museum devoted to East Asian Art to open in England in the last 30 years, the Museum of East Asian Art amasses a formidable collection of Chinese art, notably ceramics, jades, and metalworks...

An incisive guide that helps up-and-coming economists become successful scholarsThe Economist's Craft introduces graduate students and rising scholars to the essentials of research, writing, and...

Featuring sixteen original essays by nationally prominent rhetoricians, critical theorists, and composition specialists, this wide-ranging and often controversial collection brings together the most...

Offers fresh insights into those areas where democracy and administration converge.

This text gives an integrated treatment of the three areas of transport momentum, heat, and mass. Through a unified approach, it emphasizes the commonality of transport phenomena while introducing...

NY 1978 1st Wiley. Hardcover. Octavo, 224pp., cloth. Institution stamps on fore-edges, label at heel of spine. Good, no dj.

Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it...

An engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information revolutionWhat happens to literature during an...

The intention of the participants was to deal with NATO's historical record and its significance for the present and future. For this purpose the early chapters concentrate on such issues as the...

Presents a sharply critical view of American foreign policy since the death of Roosevelt.