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This advanced textbook brings together a unique network of the world's most respected and knowledgeable experts to provide a review of the biology and conservation of wild felids, and detailed case-studies from species investigations worldwide....

The classic articles in this volume address the fundamental questions of social epistemology in ways that are both cutting-edge and easy to understand....

A Very Short IntroductionIn a fluid and uncertain world, wracked by fears of terrorism, the Bomb matters. Indeed it may matter more today than at any time before or during the Cold War. This book reveals why - providing a lucid and chilling account of nuclear weapons, their history, their role in global politics, and how we have - so far - managed...

A unique introduction to graph theory, written by one of the founding fathers.          Professor William Tutte, codebreaker and mathematician, details his experiences in        the area and provides a fascinating insight into the processes leading to his        proofs....

Was the man who lent his name to "e;Jacksonian America"e; a rough-hewn frontiersman? A        powerful, victorious general? Or merely a man of will? Separating myth from reality,        John William Ward here demonstrates how Andrew Jackson captured the imagination of a        generation of Americans and came to represent not just...

Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the        reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil        and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating        study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these...