Literatura obcojęzyczna41 produktów szukasz: × skeletons in the closet skeletons in the ground Producent: × Princeton University Press

The dead tell no tales. Or do they? In this fascinating book, Clark Spencer Larsen shows that the dead can speak to us - about their lives, and ours - through the remarkable insights of...

In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping,...

Scattered throughout the Talmud, the founding document of rabbinic Judaism in late antiquity, can be found quite a few references to Jesus--and they're not flattering. In this lucid, richly...

In the words of B. B. Mandelbrot's contribution to this important collection of original papers, fractal geometry is a "new geometric language, which is geared towards the study of diverse...

The description for this book, Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter, will be forthcoming.

In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest...

What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman...

Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked aby suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman,...

What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe$797 Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends,...

How businesses and other organizations can improve their performance żeby tapping the power of differences in how people think What if workforce diversity is more than simply the right thing to...

Game Theory in Action is an undergraduate textbook about using game theory across a range of real-life scenarios. From traffic accidents to the sex lives of lizards, Stephen Schecter and Herbert...

In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous "Chin P'ing Mei", an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that...

The fifth and final volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and...

The fourth volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novelThis is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important...

The Description for this book, Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation between Religion and Philosophy, will be forthcoming.

In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses...

Pontius Pilate is one of the Bible's best-known villains--but up until the tenth century, artistic imagery appears to have consistently portrayed him as a benevolent Christian and holy symbol...

In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous "Chin P'ing Mei", an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese...