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Insect-Plant Biology uncovers the highly intricate antagonistic as well as mutualistic interactions that have evolved between plants and insects. The authors discuss the operation of these mechanisms at the molecular and organismal levels and explicitly put these in the context of both ecological interactions and evolutionary processes. This...

On the Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and MusicPeter Kivy presents a fascinating critical examination of the two rival ways of        understanding instrumental music. He argues against 'literary' interpretation in        terms of representational or narrative content, and defends musical formalism. Along        the way he discusses...

Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the        stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England.          Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print        culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform...

This book introduces the reader to the importance of observation prior to, and sometimes instead of, experimental manipulation in the study of animal behaviour. It starts with simple and easily accessible methods suitable for student projects, before going on to demonstrate the possibilities that now exist for much more sophisticated analyses of...

Kit Fine develops a Fregean theory of abstraction, and suggests that it may yield a new philosophical foundation for mathematics, one that can account for both our reference to various mathematical objects and our knowledge of various mathematical truths.   The Limits of Abstraction breaks new ground both technically and philosophically....