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How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development -- and How to Protect the Brains of the Next GenerationOne of every six children suffers from a neurodevelopmental abnormality of unknown cause. Environmental pollutants such as lead, mercury, and pesticides interfere with brain development, yet we do not test industrial chemicals for brain...

The Life and Legacy of a Radical Islamic IntellectualJames Toth traces the life and thought of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian thinker and Islamist martyr branded by The New York Times Magazine as "e;The Philosopher of Islamic Terror."e; By returning to Qutb's writings, both well-known and obscure, Toth draws a complex portrait of Qutb, one...

The Metamorphosis of the BeholderThis book is at the interface between Visual Studies and Biblical Studies, and is the only monograph to date on St Paul&'s visual piety. Heath argues that biblical scholarship has downplayed this-worldly visuality in Christian culture, and that the exegesis of Paul is both a partial cause and a symptom of this...

This work brings together Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two. Situating and contextualising topics and themes within the world of ancient Greece, he traces the intricate variations and retellings which they underwent in Greek antiquity....

Cracking the Case with Science and ForensicsThe Scientific Sherlock Holmes connects Holmes' vegetable poisons with concepts in botany, his use of fingerprinting with forensic science, and carbon monoxide poisoning and hemoglobin tests with concepts in chemistry, thus integrating the Holmes stories with all branches of science....

Zina Giannopoulou offers a new reading of Theaetetus, Plato's most systematic examination of knowledge, alongside Apology, Socrates' speech in defence of his philosophical practice, and argues that the former text is a philosophical elaboration of the latter....