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Beam is the story of the race to make the laser, the three intense years from the birth of the laser idea to its breakthrough demonstration in a California laboratory.

Blending linguistic, anthropological, and historical research, Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the German language as it evolved across the millennia. --from publisher description

Special Sound traces the fascinating creation and rich legacy of the BBC's electronic music studio, particularly in the context of other studios in Europe and America. From the ashes of highbrow BBC radio drama emerged an extremely influential kind of electronic music consisting of quirky tonal jingles, signature tunes, and incidental music for such popular programs as Doctor Who.

On August 18, 1775 a black man was hanged and burned to oblivion. For nearly 235 years, the man and his story have remained obscure. By looking at the world of this free African American harbor pilot, the narrative of American Revolution takes on a different dimension.

Walker proposes a view of morality and an approach to ethical theory which uses the critical insights of feminism and race theory to rethink the epistemological and moral position of the ethical theorist, and how moral theory is shaped by culture and history. The new edition contains a new preface, chapters and an afterword responding to critics.

The Man who Saved Sea Turtles: Archie Carr and the Origins of Conservation Biology is the first scientific biography of Archie Carr (1909-1987), the leading authority on the ecology and conservation of sea turtles for most of his distinguished career.

Introduces the thoughts of the Franciscan theologian St Bonaventure, and focuses on the relation between philosophy and theology in the work of this neglected thinker, revealing Bonaventure as a synthesizer. The author's exposition shows Bonaventure's debt to Augustine, while making clear how he was influenced by Aristotle.

Nearly two-thirds of the New Testament - including all of the letters of Paul, most of the book of Acts, and the book of Revelation - is set outside of Israel, in either Turkey or Greece. This is a guide through every significant location in the area mentioned in the Bible, with biblical links.

Singing Out: An Oral History of America's Folk Music Revivals excerpts primary sources from musicologists, performers, promoters, producers, writers, and others-among them Dr. Charles Seeger, Earl Robinson, Moses Asch, Pete Seeger, Dr. Bernice Reagon, Arlo Guthrie, Don McLean, and Holly Near-to tell the multi-faceted, first-hand history of folk music and folk revivalism in America.

This collection explores the internal structure of prepositional phrases, and finds that phrases composed of spatial prepositions, adverbs, and particles do not have different structures, but merely spell out different parts of the same articulated configuration.

Evolution of Human Behavior is the first text to synthesize and compare the major proposals for human behavioral evolution from an anthropological perspective. Ideal for courses in the evolution of human behavior, human evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, and biological anthropology, this unique volume reviews a wide array of approaches on how and why humans evolved behaviorally.

A fascinating and much-needed account of a key force in American politics, God's Own Party is the only full-scale analysis of the electoral shifts, cultural changes, and political activists at the movement's core-showing how the Christian Right redefined politics as we know it.

The gripping story of the 1950s polio scare and of the intense-and intensely bitter-competition to find the first vaccine.

The Sound of Broadway Music is the first book ever written about the virtually anonymous world of theatrical orchestrators and arrangers. Stocked with intriguing facts and juicy anecdotes, most of which have never before appeared in print, The Sound of Broadway Music brings fascinating and sometimes surprising new insight into the world of musical theatre.