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Nourishing Wisdom
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.99"Marc David eloquently describes the importance of addressing the emotional and spiritual aspects of our lives in order to truly nourish ourselves." --Dean Ornish, M.D. Combining the principles of nutritional awareness, personal growth, and body psychology, Nourishing Wisdom provides practical methods for redefining the role food plays in our lives.... more...
Arguing About Climate Change
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 46.50Intergenerational justice requires that climate risks to future generations be handled with the same reasonable care deemed acceptable by society in the case of risks to contemporaries. Such general standards of conduct are laid down in tort law, for example. Consequently, the validity of arguments for or against more stringent climate policy can be... more...
Television in the Antenna Age
Wiley 2008; US$ 121.95Television in the Antenna Age is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium’s history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns--television as an industry, a technology, and an art—the book is a basic primer on the complex, fascinating, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American... more...
Political Theory
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 43.99Lively introduction to the many interesting ways to do political theory in the 21st century. - ;Political theorists are too often silent on questions of method and approach. David Leopold and Marc Stears have assembled a distinguished group of contributors to break that silence and to explain and defend the research methods they utilise in their own... more...
Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences
Wiley 2003; US$ 375.00Reductionism as a scientific methodology has been extraordinarily successful in biology. However, recent developments in molecular biology have shown that reductionism is seriously inadequate in dealing with the mind-boggling complexity of integrated biological systems. This title presents an appropriate balance between science and philosophy and covers... more...
Legitimacy and Politics
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 39.00In recent years instances of corruption, extremism, and public distrust have increasingly raised the question of political legitimacy. Jean-Marc Coicaud examines the issue and offers answers to questions ranging from the connections between morality and politics, and how rulers acquire or lose the right to govern. more...
Acute Mental Health Nursing
SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 67.00Recent mental health policy has focused on developing community-based services, but the reality remains that patients experiencing acute episodes of illness are mainly cared for in hospital settings. Acute Mental Health Nursing has been developed as a guide to the core knowledge and skills required for working in inpatient settings. more...
The Quantum Structure Of Space And Time
World Scientific Publishing Company 2007; US$ 114.40Ever since 1911, the Solvay Conferences have shaped modern physics. The 23rd edition, chaired by 2004 Nobel Laureate David Gross, did not break with that tradition. It gathered most of the leading figures working on the central problem of reconciling Einsteins theory of gravity with quantum mechanics. These proceedings give a broad overview with... more...
Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 39.95Pyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful... more...
Rustic Italian Food
Ten Speed Press 2011; US$ 35.00Slow-cooked meats, homemade breads, flavorful pastas...these are the traditional comfort-food classics that Italians have been roasting, baking, curing, and making in their own kitchens for generations--dishes that people actually want to cook and eat. In Rustic Italian Food , acclaimed Philadelphia chef Marc Vetri celebrates the handcrafted cuisine... more...









