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An updated version of the standard soil chemistry text published in 1989, The Chemistry of Soils 2nd Ed. covers topics that illustrate current applications to environmental chemistry, ecosystem biogeochemistry, and scientific agriculture, with a strong emphasis placed on the role of soil microbes as mediators of soil chemical phenomenon.

Concepts based on full-blown collective intentionality (aboutness) are central for understanding the social world. The book systematically studies social groups, collective commitment, group intentions, beliefs, and actions, especially authority-based group attitudes and actions, also addressing cooperation, cultural evolution, and responsibility.

Traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in the late 15th century to its fragmentation in the middle of the 17th century and situates it in relation to the expansion and crisis of Spanish imperial dominion in the Atlantic. This book reconstitutes the life of a community based on movement, maritime trade, and cultural hybridity.

This book interprets the music theory of Henrich Schenker (1868-1935), as part of a project encompassing musical reform and social and political critique. It sets his work into the contexts of Viennese modernism, German cultural conservatism, and Schenker's position as a Jewish immigrant to the city where modern anti-semitism first developed.

Boardwalk of Dreams traces the transformations of public space in Atlantic City during the 20th century, grappling with themes of tourism, racial identity, class mobility, urban 'renewal', and the various roles of middle-class vacationers, residents, and business figures in shaping this particular landscape.

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), the first black American to publish a book, was internationally famous during her short life. This edition, with an essay by the editor, restores her to her proper place in America's literary heritage.

This title provides a chronicle of New York City's labour strife, social movements, and political turmoil in the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Twenty years after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York City and the rise of the American working class.

Shadows appear to be counter-examples to the causal theory of perception. After all, an absence of light cannot reflect light into our eyes. Roy Sorensen sets out to resolve this anomaly and to show how the causal theory solves a broad range of visual puzzles about dark things.

Music, Education, and Multiculturalism presents a synopsis of the development of multiculturalism in education and in music education. Beginning with a discussion of the philosophical underpinnings surrounding this issue, it traces the growth and development of multicultural music education.

This in-depth account of Calvert Vaux's career, should be of interest to historians of art, architecture and urbanism, as well as preservationists and other readers interested in New York City's past and America's first parks.

Recognition in Mozart's Operas uses both literary and musicological methods to illuminate some of Mozart's best-loved operas. Waldoff argues that, rather than offering the simple happy endings or tragic climaxes of 'easier' operas, many of Mozart's works feature scenes of recognition - movements in which a protagonist has an important revelation that changes the course of the drama.

This title argues that Mark's gospel represents an early and evolving Christianity, which shaped its theological discourse out of the forms familiar to early Judaism. He maintains that, following Jewish tradition, Mark reinterpreted the Word for early Christians, ensuring its relevance.

This study tackles the most significant issues facing Muslims today. The author argues that it is necessary to re-open the doors of religious interpretation - to re-examine and correct false interpretations, replace outdated laws and formulate new doctrines that respond to changing social contexts.

Once famous for the beauty of its beaches, reefs, and forests, today the Philippines typifies the deep economic and social problems that ecological decline can bring. The Green Tiger gives an intimate, unflinching, but optimistic view of a country struggling to integrate conservation with development.

This text provides an introduction to the fundamental principles and differential equations that govern the kinematics and dynamics of laminar flow of incompressible Newtonian fluids. It illustrates the application of numerical methods to computing flow variables and solving a range of problems.

Presents a study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic immigration to America. Through analysis of the migrants' letters and memoirs, this book explores how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, and how their experiences and attitudes shaped society, culture and politics, and created modern Irish and Irish-American identities.

What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innovative, challenging answers to these and other fundamental questions in sociological, cultural, and religious theory.