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Volume 91, July 2009Since 1951, the prestigious Les Houches summer school has given rigorous graduate programmes in France. In July 2009, the first Les Houches school outside Europe took place in Singapore. This volume gathers the lectures conducted at the four-week school, focused on two exciting key topics: quantum information science and...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson illuminates the life of Abraham Lincoln in this first short biography of America's sixteenth president. McPherson follows the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks from their Kentucky farm to the Illinois legislature, and finally the nation's capitol. February 2009 marks the bicentennial of his birth...

What are the things that we assert, believe, and desire? The orthodox view among        philosophers is eternalism: these are contents that have their truth-values        eternally. Transient Truths provides the first book-length exposition and defense of        the opposing view, temporalism: these are contents that can change...

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant....

Workbook 2/eThis book is a revision of the highly successful first edition of   Mastery of Your Specific Phobia, Client Workbook. It is written for clients in treatment for a variety of specific phobias, including animal, natural environment, situational, blood, injection, injury, and other phobias. When used in conjunction with the corresponding  ...

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