This book is dedicated to V.A. Yankov’s seminal contributions to the theory of propositional logics. His papers, published in the …
The fascinating story of how quantum mechanics went mainstream. The discovery of the quantum―the idea, born in the early 1900s …
Constructing Quantum Mechanicsis the first of two volumes on the genesis of quantum mechanics. This volume traces the early contributions …
Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. Its …
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Quantum mechanics is one of the great success stories of modern physics, making sense of the very small just as …
Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always? Was there a supernatural being behind it all, …
The periodic table of elements, first encountered by many of us at school, provides an arrangement of the chemical elements, …
The amazing history of our understanding of gravity, which still remains quite incomplete, cannot help but make one recognize the …
This work is the third edition of the classic text «Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical Science». It has …
In three volumes, a distinguished group of scholars from a variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the …
By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit …
Taking philosophical principles as a point of departure, this book provides essential distinctions for thinking through the history and systems …
Through Euclid's Window Leonard Mlodinow brilliantly and delightfully leads us on a journey through five revolutions in geometry, from the …
The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, …
Throughout our nation's history, patriotic songs have lifted our spirits during hard times and brought us closer to our heritage …
"Pamela McCorduck first went among the artificial intelligentsia when the field was fresh and new, and asked the scientists engaged …
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the …
Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable …
George Kennedy's three volumes on classical rhetoric have long been regarded as authoritative treatments of the subject. This new volume, …
Known to the Greeks as 'opos' or 'opion', as 'afiun' in Persian and Arabic, and 'fuyung' in Chinese, opium is …
The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British …
The British Literary Heritage is virtually unrivaled in the Western world, and this large, lavishly illustrated volume explores the richness, …
In The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White …
In its period of slow decline from the late 18th into the early 20th century and throughout its 20th century …
This book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It poses poignant questions in …
A New History of Christianity in China, written by one of the world's the leading writers on Christianity in China, …
America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated …
Many books offer information about the world’s most populous country, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. …
This second volume of Fung Yu-lan's History was first published in Chinese by the Commercial Press, Shanghai, in 1934. This …
The book depicts a unique historical and cultural phenomenon, the philosophy of Chinese moral education, in an attempt to capture …
Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most …
The leading textbook by the leading scholar.This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged …
This collection of primary source documents--many translated into English for the first time and available only in this book--gather proclamations, …
In November 1519, Hernando Cort�s walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face …
An illustrated guide to the history and evolution of the beloved role-playing game told through the paintings, sketches, illustrations, and …
