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A Microcomparative PerspectiveVariation in Datives collects new research on the nature of syntactic micro-variation in datives....

As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped        develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of        strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use        this cutting-edge method for social change in our own neighborhoods.In...

Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices        have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural        contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in        this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of...

In this provocative look at higher education, Stanley Fish argues that there is        but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and        to equip students for doing the same. When teachers offer themselves as moralists,        political activists, or agents of social change rather than as credentialed...

The Third Man of the Double Helix An AutobiographyWorking with Watson and Crick on the structure of DNA was a third man, Maurice Wilkins, based at King's College London with co-worker Rosalind Franklin. Franklin died in 1958 and the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Double Helix was awarded to the three men in 1962. As Maurice Wilkins explains...

This book provides an overview of the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions. It describes each ecosystem type, the remarkable aquatic life that thrives in these extreme habitats, and the similarities and differences between Arctic and Antarctic waters....