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  • Cover of "Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes"
    By Sharon K. Collinge, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of environmental studies (Foreword by Richard T.T. Forman)Johns Hopkins University PressAsk airline passengers what they see as they gaze out the window, and they
  • Cover of "Local Governments and Rural Development"
    Comparing Lessons from Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and PeruBy Krister Andersson, assistant professor of environmental policy; Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, former U.N. official; and Frank van Laerhoven, Ph.D.University of Arizona PressDespite the recent
  • Cover of "What Is a Number?"
    Mathematical Concepts and Their OriginsBy Robert Tubbs, associate professor of mathematicsJohns Hopkins University PressMathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems and
  • Cover of "Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind"
    By Robert D. Rupert, assistant professor of philosophyOxford University Press鈥淐ognitive Systems and the Extended Mind鈥 surveys philosophical issues raised by the situated movement in cognitive science, that is, the treatment of cognitive phenomena
  • Cover of "Seeking God in Science: An Atheist Defends Intelligent Design"
    By Bradley Monton, associate professor of philosophyBroadview PressThe doctrine of intelligent design is often the subject of acrimonious debate. Seeking God in Science cuts through the rhetoric that distorts the debates between religious
  • Cover of "Yoruba women, work, and social change"
    By Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, distinguished professor of history emeritaIndiana University PressThe Yoruba, one of the largest and most historically important ethnic groups in Nigeria, are noted for the economic activity, confidence, and authority
  • Cover of "Max Goes to Jupiter"
    A Science Adventure with Max the DogBy Jeffrey Bennett, former CU astronomer; Nick Schneider, associate professor of astrophysics; and Erica Ellingson; associate professor of astrophysicsBig Kid Science (publisher)Scientifically accurate
  • Cover of "Symbolic Caxton"
    By William Kuskin, associate professor of EnglishUniversity of Notre Dame Press鈥淪ymbolic Caxton鈥 is the first study to explore the introduction of printing in symbolic terms. It presents a powerful literary history in which the 15th century is
  • Cover of "A History of the Ancient Southwest"
    Stephen H. Lekson, curator of anthropology, CU Museum of Natural HistorySAR PressAccording to archaeologist Stephen H. Lekson, much of what we think we know about the Southwest has been compressed into conventions and classifications and orthodoxies
  • Cover of "Aftershocks: politics and trauma in Britain"
    By Susan Kingsley Kent, professor of historyPalgrave MacmillanAftershocks examines the impact of collective trauma arising out of the Great War on the politics of the 1920s in Britain. Aftershocks studies how meanings of shellshock,
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