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Fleeing the City
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 90.00This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy and fear of the city. more...
Georg Lukacs Reconsidered
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 110.00Georg Lukács stands as a towering figure in the areas of critical theory, literary criticism, aesthetics, ethical theory and the philosophy of Marxism and German Idealism. Yet, despite his influence throughout the twentieth century, his contributions to the humanities and theoretical social sciences are marked by neglect. What has been lost is... more...
The Politics of Inequality
Columbia University Press 2007; US$ 28.99Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American liberalism. Nowhere is this more evident than... more...
Visions of the Future: Chemistry and Life Science
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 56.00Writing in a popular and well illustrated style, leading young scientists describe their research and give their visions of future developments in Chemistry and Life Science. The book conveys their excitement and enthusiasm and offers definitive reviews for anyone with a general interest in science. more...
Stellar Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 54.00A comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge in stellar astrophysical fluid dynamics. Topics include properties of pulsating stars, helioseismology, convection and mixing in stellar interiors, dynamics of stellar rotation, planet formation and the generation of stellar and planetary magnetic fields. more...
Population Ecology
Wiley 2009; US$ 104.95Worldwide, Population Ecology is the leading textbook on this titled subject. Written primarily for students, it describes the present state of population ecology in terms that can be readily understood by undergraduates with little or no background in the subject. Carefully chosen experimental examples illustrate each topic, and studies of plants... more...
The Logos Reader
The University Press of Kentucky 2005; US$ 30.00Founded in 2002, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture was established in response to the increasing erosion of a left political culture and the new possibilities for international political engagement and cooperation produced by the Internet. Many of the best known intellectual representatives of what might be termed a "rational radicalism"... more...
Patterns of Growth and Development in the Genus Homo
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 46.00Our earliest human ancestors grew more like modern apes than present-day humans. When, how and why did our modern pattern evolve, therefore? This book, covering growth patterns in Plio-Pleistocene adults and juveniles, including Homo antecessor, provides a rich data source for future research. more...
Instilling Ethics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2000; US$ 30.99Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices today. Instilling Ethics offers... more...
Readings in Caribbean History and Culture
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 79.99This collection of eleven essays is designed to highlight some important new voices who have been doing research on the general subject areas of the history and culture of the Caribbean. The essays in this volume also address a number of themes which are critical to developing an understanding of current scholarly work on the two broad subject areas.... more...









