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The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy ExperimentBased on extensive research in eighteenth-century primary sources, this engaging history offers an eye-opening look at how colonists--at first, the backwoods Paxton Boys of Pennsylvania, but later the U.S. government--expropriated Native American lands, ending forever the dream of...

A CasebookThe National Institutes of Health Clinical Center's Bioethics Consultation Service        draws on a decade of experience to share a collection of their most interesting and        informative research ethics consultations. The result is insight into the ethical        issues that arise in clinical research and the practice of research...

This exceptionally readable and down-to-earth handbook is destined to become the definitive guide to psychobiological research, the application of psychological theory and research to individual lives of historical importance. It brings together for the first time the world's leading psychobiographers, writing lucidly on many of the major figures...

Owing to its bizarre nature and its implications for understanding how brains work, synesthesia has recently received a lot of attention in the popular press and motivated a great deal of research and discussion among scientists. The questions generated by these two communities are intriguing. This volume brings together a distinguished group of...

In both science and philosophy, the twentieth century saw a radical breakdown of        certainty in the human worldview. Quantum theorist Stig Stenholm presents Bohr and        Wittgenstein as central figures undertaking the necessary replacement of apparent        order and certainty with an understanding based on limited concepts in...

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