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Are we approaching the boundaries of the knowable?Fundamental science will one day come to an end, argues Russell Stannard.          Ultimately there will be experiments too vast to finance, areas of knowledge the        human brain cannot comprehend, evidence that forever eludes us. His book explores        the likely boundaries of our quest to...

A major new critical biography of Sir William Jones (1746-94), the foremost Orientalist of his generation and one of the greatest intellectual navigators of all time, whose Sanskrit researches did more than any other writer to destroy Eurocentric prejudice, reshaping Western perceptions of India and the Orient....

Selected Writings of C. Wright MillsThe first collection of his writings to be published since 1963, The Politics of Truth contains 23 out-of-print and hard-to-find writings which show his growth from academic sociologist to an intellectual maestro in command of a mature style, a dissenter who sought to inspire the public to oppose the drift toward...

And what they tell us about evolution and developmentFrom two-legged goats and double-headed snakes, to 'Cyclops' infants with a single        eye in the middle of their forehead, Mark S. Blumberg looks at 'freak' bodily        anomalies in both humans and other animals to reveal how such deformities provide        valuable windows on the intimate...

Conversational Style presents a linguistic approach on how to analyze conversational style. Looking at six speakers over the course of a two-and-a-half hour Thanksgiving dinner, she analyzes the features that make up their conversational style, and in particular how these styles function in a positive manner when those style are similar to one...