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Perspectives on his Life and WorkJames Clerk Maxwell (1831 -1879) was one of the most important mathematical physicists of all time. In scientific terms his immortality is enshrined in electromagnetism and Maxwell's equations, but as this book shows, there was much more to Maxwell than electromagnetism, both in terms of his science and his...

Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century AmericaThe twentieth century has been popularly seen as "e;the American Century,"e; a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership. By century&'s end, the trajectory of...

Knowledge and Presuppositions develops a novel account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions. According to Blome-Tillmann, knowledge attributions are sensitive to what is pragmatically presupposed at the context of ascription. The resulting...

A Practical GuideDoing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. Over the past decades, the development of digital audio and video recording technology has...

Climate change is still, arguably, the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. Previously published as Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction, the new edition is now Climate Change: A Very Short introduction, reflecting an important change in the terminology of the last decade. In the third edition,...

2012This is the first annual report on armed conflicts around the world, providing detailed study of each conflict which occurred in 2012, describing its classification, the applicable norms, key actors, methods of warfare, and the number of casualties. It also analyses the key legal issues that arose in the context of these armed conflicts....