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Environmental Suffering in an Argentine ShantytownSurrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries, a hazardous and largely unsupervised waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, Flammable&'s soil, air, and water are contaminated with...

What causes a financial crisis? Can crises be anticipated or even avoided? Should        governments and international institutions intervene? Based on ten years of        research, the authors develop a theoretical approach to analyzing financial crises        and use the latest economic theories to begin to understand the causes...

Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for RecognitionJean-Jacques Rousseau revolutionized our understanding of ourselves with his        brilliant investigation of amour propre: the passion that drives humans to seek the        esteem, approval, admiration, or love - the recognition - of their fellow beings.          Frederick Neuhouser traces the...

Is today's language at an all-time low? Edwin Battistella argues that it is wrong to think of slang, regional dialects and nonstandard grammar as simply breaking the rules of good English. Reexamining debates over relativism in language, Battistella argues that we should view language as made up of alternative forms of regularity and orderliness,...

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Every atom of our bodies has been part of a star. Our very own star, the Sun, is        crucial to the development and sustainability of life on Earth. This Very Short        Introduction presents a modern, authoritative examination of how stars live,        producing all the chemical elements beyond helium, and how they die,...