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Georges Cuvier, Fossil Bones, and Geological Catastrophes
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00French zoologist Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) helped form and bring credibility to geology and paleontology. Here Martin J. S. Rudwick provides the first modern translation of Cuvier's essential writings on fossils and catastrophes and links these translated texts together with his own insightful narrative and interpretive commentary. "Martin Rudwick... more...
Worlds Before Adam
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about this vast timescale. But despite this apparent harmony between geology and Genesis, these scientists... more...
Bursting the Limits of Time
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh joined the long-running theological debate on the age of the earth by famously announcing that creation had occurred on October 23, 4004 B.C. Although widely challenged during the Enlightenment, this belief in a six-thousand-year-old planet was only laid to rest during a revolution of discovery in the late... more...
The Great Devonian Controversy
University of Chicago Press 2011; US$ 34.00"Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology."—David R. Oldroyd, Science "After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss [this book] as being too much about too little. They would be making one of the biggest mistakes in their intellectual lives. . . . [It] could become one of our... more...
Anglo-French Defence Relations Between the Wars
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 145.00This collection of essays reviews the politico-military relationship between Britain and France between the two World Wars. As well as examining the relationship between the two nations' armed services, the book's contributors also analyse key themes in Anglo-French inter-war defence politics - disarmament, intelligence and imperial defence - and joint... more...
Minor League Baseball
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 50.50Examine the big-league benefits of minor league baseball! The Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown Sports examines the role played by minor league baseball in hundreds of cities and towns across the United States. Written from the unique perspective of a sociologist who also happens to be an avid baseball fan, the book looks... more...
Geometric Group Theory: Volume 2
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 78.00For anyone whose interest lies in the interplay between groups and geometry, these books will be an essential addition to their library. more...
Dual Attraction
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 25.95For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious--and potentially illuminating--variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS makes greater awareness of all forms of... more...
The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders
Wiley 2012; US$ 204.95Through contributions from leading experts in the fields of communication science, The Handbook of Speech and Language Disorders presents a comprehensive survey detailing the state of the art in speech, language, and cognitive/intellectual disorders. Provides the first in-depth exploration of the rapidly expanding field of communication disorders... more...









