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Rubin's Pathology: Clinicopathologic Foundations of Medicine 5th Edition

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007

Rubin's Pathology, Fifth Edition has won First Prize in Pathology in the British Medical Association Book Competition Awards, 2008.

Widely acclaimed for its clinical approach to pathology and superb full-color illustrations, Rubin's Pathology is now in its Fifth Edition—with a new...

Dilemmas Of International Trade: Second Edition (Dilemmas in World Politics)

Westview Press, 2000

In the post-Cold War world, trade is the new arena for competition-between nations, between groups, between ethical and theoretical ideas. In this revised and updated second edition of Dilemmas of International Trade political economist Bruce Moon puts contemporary trade events--NAFTA, United States-Japan controversies, the Uruguay...

Algorithmic Probability and Combinatorics: Ams Special Sessions on Algorithmic Probability and Combinatorics, October 5-6, 2007, Depaul University, ... Bc, Canada (Contemporary Mathematics)

American Mathematical Society, 2010

This volume contains the proceedings of the AMS Special Sessions on Algorithmic Probability and Combinatories held at DePaul University on October 5-6, 2007 and at the University of British Columbia on October 4-5, 2008.

This volume collects cutting-edge research and expository on algorithmic probability and combinatories. It...

Empire: A New History of the World

Pegasus Books, 2020

A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.

Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire,...

Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism (Refiguring Modernism)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement’s significance to art history today.

In the context of modernism,...

Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy?Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien?to our culture’s perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots of the striking preoccupation with mortality and...

Looking Through Philosophy in Black: Memoirs (Global Critical Caribbean Thought)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding in the inferno of the South African apartheid system. Mabogo More details what it means to be a black philosopher in an anti-black apartheid academic world. More’s life story...

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

Oxford University Press, 2019

Eric Hobsbawm's works have had a nearly incalculable effect across generations of readers and students, influencing more than the practice of history but also the perception of it. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, of second-generation British parents, Hobsbawm was orphaned at age fourteen in 1931. Living with an uncle in Berlin, he...

The Lady Is a Spy: Virginia Hall, World War II Hero of the French Resistance (Scholastic Focus)

Scholastic Nonfiction, 2019

The Lady Is a Spy is the audacious and riveting true story of Virginia Hall, America's greatest spy and unsung hero, brought to vivid life by acclaimed author Don Mitchell.

When Hitler invaded Poland, Virginia Hall was traveling in Europe. Which was dangerous enough, but as fighting erupted,...

Place and Identity: The Performance of Home (Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy)

Routledge, 2018

The UK is experiencing a housing crisis unlike any other. Homelessness is on the increase and more people are at the mercy of landlords due to unaffordable housing. Place and Identity: Home as Performance highlights that the meaning of home is not just found within the bricks and mortar; it is constructed from the network of...

George Eliot: Interdisciplinary Essays (Bicentennial Collection)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times. Here, researchers, students, teachers and the general public gain access to new perspectives on Eliot’s vast interests and knowledge, informed by the...

Gandhi's Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (Global South Asia)

University of Chicago Press, 2019

Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in coordination with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his...

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