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Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum PresentCan we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience? This book recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only, beginning with Descartes' geometric construction of the world, and finishing with...

Treasure IslandSet sail on a swashbuckling adventure . . . Danger! Pirates! Excitement! Action! Join Jim Hawkins as he sails the high seas aboard the Hispaniola in search of lost treasure . . . Oxford Children&'s Classics present not only the original and unabridged story of Treasure Island but also help you to discover a whole world of new...

The historical link between marketing and markets, prevalent until the 1960s, has given way to the view of marketing as a portable set of tools applicable to markets and non-markets alike. By re-establishing the connection between the two, this book examines the argument that marketing produces markets: marketing practices and theories play a very...

Travel across the world with this set of gripping, adventure tales from Oxford World&'s Classics. This set of perennial favorites includes The Last of the Mohicans, Heart of Darkness, Riders of the Purple Sage, Greenmantle, Around the World in Eighty Days, The Prisoner of Zenda, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. About the Series: For...

Their Causes and ImplicationsWe must all make choices about how we want to live. We evaluate our possibilities by relying on historical, moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of evaluations, but the values and reasons that follow from them conflict. Philosophical problems are forced on us when we try to cope with such...

William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double-HelixSir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having &'stood on the shoulders of giants&'. The same might also be said of the scientists James Watson and Francis Crick. Their discovery of the structure of DNA was, without doubt, one of the biggest...