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A Guide and ResourceWrite Like a Chemist is a writing guide for anyone who wishes to write about chemistry for a professional audience. It is specifically designed to help students transition from the writing skills required in undergraduate lecture and laboratory classes to writing skills required by career chemists: a journal article, a...

What Women Want--What Men Want offers compelling new evidence about the real reasons behind men's and women's differing sexual psychologies and sheds new light on what men and women look for in a mate, the predicament of marriage in the modern world, the relation between sex and emotion, and many other hotly debated questions. Drawing upon 2000...

Looking in detail at the works of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange and their historical trajectories in black anti-Eurocentric discourses, Olaniyan offers a sophisticated reading of how these writers are preoccupied with the invention of a post-imperial cultural identity. Drawing on contemporary theory and cultural studies, Olaniyan provides a...

The Continuity of Mind presents a systematic overview of how perception, cognition, and action are partially overlapping segments of one continuous mental flow, rather than three distinct mental systems. The book is essential reading for those interested in the progression of the Dynamical Cognition movement....

Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States        has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of origin. While the        rights of immigrants-with or without legal status--as well as the appropriate        pathway to legal status are the subject of much debate, hardly any attention...

In his second collection of writings, acclaimed music critic Gene Santoro takes the reader on a tour through the ever-changing soundscape of modern popular music. Ranging across jazz (John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Tom Harrell), rock (Sting, Elvis Costello, P.J. Harvey), and the international scene (Jamaican, Brazilian, and African pop music),...