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The Donner Party's Perilous Journey WestDrawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable...

This Handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has        been and what it has meant to practice it. Thirty-six self-contained chapters, each        written by a specialist, provide a fascinating overview of 5000 years of mathematics        and its key cultures for academics in mathematics, historians of science,...

Denis McManus presents a novel account of Martin Heidegger's early vision of our subjectivity and the world we inhabit. He explores key elements of Heidegger's philosophy, and argues that Heidegger's central claims identify genuine demands that must be met if we are to achieve the feat of thinking determinate thoughts about the world around us....

In this wide-ranging philosophical work, Koons takes on two  powerful dogmas: anti-realism and materialism. In doing so,   Koons develops an efficient metaphysical system that       accounts for such phenomena as information, mental         representation, our knowledge of logic, mathematics and         science, the structure of spacetime, the...