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Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take RevengeSomeone has a bad day at work...and goes home and yells at his wife, or kicks the dog. A student gets a bad grade on an essay and "e;takes it out"e; on her boyfriend. But this pattern isn't limited to people: A baboon, attacked by a higher-ranking individual, is liable to respond by...

A Computational Chemistry ApproachA textbook for a one-semester course for students in chemistry, physics and nanotechnology, on the interaction of molecules with electric and magnetic fields as, for example, in light. The book provides the necessary background knowledge for simulating these interactions on computers with modern quantum chemical...

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material        things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's        brief hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English        Renaissance, and what the material circumstances were in which they did so. It        charts a...

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Can wrongs be righted? Can we make up for our misdeeds, or does the impossibility of changing the past mean that we remain permanently guilty? While atonement is traditionally considered a theological topic,    Making Amends uses the resources of secular moral philosophy to explore the possibility of correcting the wrongs we do to one another....

This is a study of six historians from different corners of the Roman empire at the end of the Republic. All these writers accept the new ruling power, but comment on how that power might best be used. They therefore provide a unique insight into the minds of the conquered peoples and the intellectual culture which allowed them to influence their...