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Toward a Reconstruction of PhilosophyIn these essays, distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher argues for a reconstruction of philosophy along the lines of classical Pragmatism...

Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind is a uniquely intensive psychological analysis of a        suicidal mind. In this poignant scientific study, Edwin S. Shneidman, a founder of        the field of suicidology, assembles an extraordinary cast of eight renowned experts        to analyze the suicidal materials, including a ten-page suicide note, given to...

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Sanders studies the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. She explores several major themes in African American religious and intellectual life from the 'exilic' perspective of the Sanctified Church tradition, including the...

This book highlights that among affluent Western societies, there is immense cross-national and historical variation in poverty, and seeks to determine what makes poverty so entrenched in some affluent democracies when it is a solvable problem in others. Brady points out that where poverty is low, equality has been institutionalized, and that where...

This book describes a century of research on how nerve cells communicate with one another, beginning with the formulation of the Neuron Theory at the end of the nineteenth century and proceeding with studies from a range of disciplines. The course of these investigations reveals ingenious experiments, powerful new techniques, and imaginative...