5366 results for '"Mark D. LeBlanc'

Discusses the legal framework for environmental law suits, argues that plants, animals, and natural areas should have legal rights, and examines the moral and ethical issues

In this pioneering science-fictional treatment of superhuman intelligence, a mutant wonder child’s insights prove devastating.Science fiction luminary Ted Chiang introduces The Hampdenshire Wonder,...

Davies explains that the belief in the special relationship between the land and people of Israel has been an integral part of Judaism from Biblical times

Culler (English and comparative literature, Cornell) begins with an historical overview of the relationship between criticism and the academy and explores what has come to characterize contemporary...

"This book uncovers the ways natural selection leads to imperfection in humans and the implications of this for our understanding of how evolution works and human biology and health. The simplest...

In this classic work, John Steinbruner argues that the time is ripe for exploration of a new theoretical perspective on the decision-making process in government. He suggests that the cybernetic...

"The supreme task of the physicist," Einstein said, "is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction." In The World Within the World, eminent...

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the...

The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States' birth In these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the...

The first biography of a preeminent postwar architect who championed the cause of freedom through architecture and transformed Black history and modernism J. Max Bond Jr. (1935–2009) was a civil...

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads...

From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thoughtIn Three Roads...

When Calla finds out her favorite teacher has been accused of inappropriate conduct, she decides to take action in this powerful story about growing up and speaking up, about listening to others and...

Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share...

A global history of human rights in a world of nation-states that grant rights to some while denying them to othersOnce dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200...

Following the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an exhilarating outdoor activity that used to be practiced widely but which few people know about today. Thomas Seeley,...

We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. In fact, the...

Now in paperback! From the award-winning author of Babe: The Gallant Pig comes the story of how the Loch Ness monster finds his home, thanks to the human family that raises him.