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Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, was the pivotal figure in the one of the most contentious decisions in Supreme Court history and indeed the most divisive issue facing the Court today. All his life, Blackmun considered himself one of society's outsiders, someone who did not "e;belong."e; Remarkably,...

This book chronicles the rise of goddess worship in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on the goddesses Kali and Uma, McDermott examines lyrical poems written by devotees from Ramprasad Sen (ca. 1718-1775) to Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976)....

This handbook covers anatomy and physiology before moving on to identification and management of specific rheumatological disorders found in young people. As well as covering common and less common rheumatology problems, there are also chapters on rheumatology investigations and emergencies, designed for quick reference....

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, 'impressively atful minds'. Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioural singularities - science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art - that seems to indicate a...

Henry Mayr-Harting explores the intellectual culture underpinning Ottonian rule in tenth-century Germany, as seen through a surviving account of the life of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (935-65). Written shortly after Bruno's death by the otherwise obscure monk Ruotger, this biography examines the political and scholarly achievements of one of the...

A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields exhibit power-law behaviour, reflecting a hierarchical or fractal structure. Many of these phenomena seem to be susceptible to description using approaches drawn from thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, particularly approaches involving the maximization of entropy. During recent...