Whereas most writing on the Communist Revolution in China has concentrated on the influence of intellectual leaders, this book examines the role of peasants ...

Numerical analysts and computer operators in all fields will welcome this publication in book form of Cecil Hastings' well-known approximations for digital ...

The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. ...

In this monograph p -adic period domains are associated to arbitrary reductive groups. Using the concept of rigid-analytic period maps the relation of ...

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that ...

The author has "tried to understand the realities of Soviet society, drawing both upon a superb critical judgment and a warmly sympathetic human insight. ...

The History of Italian Cinema is the most comprehensive guide to Italian film ever published. Written by the foremost scholar of Italian cinema and ...

Our ability to walk on two legs is not only a characteristic human trait but one of the things that made us human in the first place. Once our ancestors ...

Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. ...

A Machine to Make a Future represents a remarkably original look at the present and possible future of biotechnology research in the wake of the mapping ...