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This book is a long-term history of optics, from early Greek theories of vision to        the nineteenth-century victory of the wave theory of light. It is a clear and richly        illustrated synthesis of a large amount of literature, and a reliable and efficient        guide for anyone who wishes to enter this domain....

Landed Gentry Masculinities, 1660-1900The first study on masculinity to focus on the English landed gentry. It covers        the period from 1700 to 1900 and is based on several thousand letters written by 19        families. It concentrates on the common experiences of sons' upbringing,        particularly schooling, university or business,...

An Evidence-Based Approach to Supported EmploymentThis comprehensive monograph synthesizes the research on the Individual Placement and Support model of supported employment for people with severe mental illness. It identifies empirical foundations for core principles of the model and reviews the literature on effectiveness, long-term outcomes,...

The mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls remains, over 60 years after their rediscovery. Who hid them and why? This groundbreaking book reinvigorates the contested hypothesis that the Essenes were responsible. Rather than being a marginal esoteric sect, Taylor shows that this group acted as one of the leading legal schools of Judaism....

Thirty four essays by a team of leading scholars offering a broad reassessment of the cold war, calling into question orthodox ways of ordering the chronology of the period and presenting new insights into the global dimension of the conflict....