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How do big things (like Earth or Moon) come from small things (like quarks and electrons)? How do tiny particles push and pull? How does the world hangs in the balance? Why does E=mc-squared? How does Heisenberg's quantum universe operate? From tiny atoms to vast galaxies, the universe is ours to explore and to know: its particles, its...

An Inside Account of America&'s Search for Security after the Cold WarThe Aspin-Brown Commission of 1995-1996, led by former U.S. Defense Secretaries Les Aspin and Harold Brown, was a landmark inquiry into the activities of America&'s secret agencies. The purpose of the commission was to help the Central Intelligence Agency and other organizations...

In her first published novel, Jane Austen presents us with the subtle portraits of two contrasting by equally compelling heroines. Through their parallel experiences of love, loss, and hope, she offers a powerful analysis of the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the claustrophobic society in which they had to survive. This revised editions...

Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning  Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking. She addresses such fundamental issues about public speaking as what talents and techniques differentiate eloquent speakers from non-eloquent speakers. She also analyzes the...

In   God of Justice, anthropologist William S. Sax offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of cursing, black magic, and ritual healing in the Central Himalayas of North India. Based on ten years' ethnographic fieldwork,   God of Justice shows how these practices are part of a moral system based on the principle of family unity....

A Biological ModelRuth Millikan is well known for having developed a strikingly original way for philosophers to seek understanding of mind and language, which she sees as biological phenomena. She now draws together a series of groundbreaking essays which set out her approach to language. Guiding the work of most linguists and philosophers of...