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Early Modern European Society, Third Edition
A new edition of a seminal work—one that explores crucial changes within Europe from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century The early modern period was one of profound change in Europe. It was witness to...
Rhythms of Life
The Biological Clocks that Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
An eye-opening discussion of how biological clocks affect the lives of all living organisms Why can’t teenagers get out of bed in the morning? How do bees tell the time? Why do some plants open and close...
Chinese Cursive Script
An Introduction to Handwriting in Chinese
In this useful volume, Fred Fang-yu Wang presents materials designed to help solve an often vexing problem for students of Chinese: how to recognize and write handwritten or cursive-style forms of Chinese characters. Such...
Picture Bride
The winning volume in the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Cathy Song’s Picture Bride, a book about people and their innumerable journeys. Distinguished poet Richard Hugo says, “Cathy Song’s poems...
Body, Memory, and Architecture
"A valuable contribution."—Paul Goldberger, New York Times"Nearly every page of the book is wittily illustrated with cartoons, drawings, and photographs. If the coming generation or...
Science Since Babylon
Enlarged Edition
An eye-opening work for anyone concerned with the humanistic understanding of science "Enlightening reading for the scientist and non-scientist alike."—Times Educational Supplement
Epocas y avances [Workbook]
Lengua en su contexto cultural, Cuaderno de trabajo
Épocas y avances offers a communicative-humanistic approach to second language acquisition. It emphasizes particular aspects of the history, literature, art, society, geography, language, and culture of Spain and...
Messiaen
The French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) is a musician about whom most remains to be discovered. More than a decade after his death our knowledge of Messiaen is largely conditioned by what he said about himself in...
Becoming
Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
“A splendid statement of the historical development of psychology.”—New Republic "Provocative, penetrating, altogether worth reading."—Contemporary Psychology A...
Lost for Words
The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
The untold story of the complex word battles fought by the creators of the first Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) holds a cherished position in...