Oxford University Press

The debate over teaching evolution in the public schools remains one of the most emotionally charged controversies in twentieth-century America. The newly revised third edition of  Trial and Error, Edward J. Larson's highly acclaimed study--which ranges from before the Scopes trial of 1925 to the creationism disputes of the 1980s--offers the first...

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The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet EatonPublished for the first time, Harriet Eaton's nursing diary is rare among Civil War narratives. A church-sponsored relief agent, the widowed Eaton left children at home while she tended to soldiers in the field. Not one to mince words, Eaton tussled with co-workers and surgeons, illuminating the politics...

Carey shows how developmental cognitive science resolves aspects of long-standing        philosophical debates about the existence, nature, content, and format of innate        knowledge. She also shows that understanding the processes of conceptual development        in children illuminates the historical process by which concepts are...