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This book addresses one of the fundamental topics in philosophy: the relation between appearance and reality. John Yolton draws on a rich combination of historical and contemporary material, ranging...

John Servos explains the emergence of physical chemistry in America by presenting a series of lively portraits of such pivotal figures as Wilhelm Ostwald, A. A. Noyes, G. N. Lewis, and Linus Pauling,...

This volume is an important clarification of the controversial religious beliefs of one of our most unorthodox but ethically committed presidents. Printed here are the facsimile texts of Jefferson's...

While scholarship on Lucretius has looked to connect De rerum natura to its larger cultural and historical context, it has never turned to speech act theory in this quest. This omission is striking...

In the early 1930s an exciting new musical form arose in Chicago known as the gospel blues. The principal figure in the creation of this distinctive music was a blues pianist named Thomas A. Dorsey,...

A substantial revision of Pedology, Weathering and Geomorphological Research, this work focuses on soils in the field, and it is unique in that it is written purely from a geologist's point of view,...

... a splendid and as yet unrivalled treatment of effective tariffs ...will surely become mandatory reading for all those concerned with international trade theory.'___ The Economic and Social Review...

This is a geographical introduction to public policy analysis in the United States, using an applied perspective to deal with the major contemporary spatial problems. A model of the policy process is...

Essays in Social History

Leonard Levy, whose Origins of the Fifth Amendment received the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in American History, is widely recognized as one of our nation's preeminent constitutional historians. This book...