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What constitutes an adaptation, how do complex adaptations come into being, and where do species with their special attributes come from? This book explores these questions, explaining why some biologists think they know what adaptations are, and how they arise, and what species are.

The fields of psychology of aging and adult development have considered cognitive topics, such as concerns of work and retirement, and issues related to coping and bereavement. Meanwhile, the field of adult learning considers applied perspective topics. This book focuses on the dovetailing of adult development and learning.

In an engaging narrative format, Sleuthing the Alamo employs a particular archival 'find' in each chapter to show uow the meaning of the Texas Revolution, and especially the Alamo battle, cannot be understood without examining the construction of the histories and myths about the birth of the Texas Republic.

The Future of Imprisonment unites some of the leading prison and penal policy scholars of our time to address fundamental questions. Inspired by the work of Norval Morris, the contributors look back to the past twenty-five years of penal policy in an effort to look forward to the prison's twenty-first century future.

'Environmental Performance Measurement: The Global Report 2001-2002' attempts to measure environmental sustainability in one summary indicator and rank 122 countries on the basis of this index. Country profiles provide detailed information about the environmental performance of these countries across 22 critical environmental indicators.

The author of this text counters the assumption that American workers are too independent-minded to be managed in such a way that they can produce world-class products. He argues that the very diversity of the American workforce is a great advantage to US firms, not a handicap.

Presents a comprehensive study of the corticocortical and cortisubcortical connections in the cerebral cortex of the rhesus monkey. This text gives readers a detailed understanding of the white matter fiber pathways of the brain. It also provides an in-depth historical background and an atlas of the cerebral white matter.

An ambitious, comprehensive assessment of the current status of neotropical migratory birds in the USA, and the methods and strategies for conserving migrant populations. This book represents an attempt to lay out the subject in its full scope, with chapters reviewing and assessing the various subjects written as consensus documents by several leading workers representing various views.

This volume derives from the Lunar and Planetary Institute Conference on the Origin of the Earth, held at the University of California, Berkeley, in December 1988. Central themes of the conference were the "giant impact" theory of the Moon's formation, and issues related to the Earth's origins.

This detailed review of primate behaviour outlines primatological insights in six areas: sex, parenting, behavioural development, aggression/dominance, culture and kinship. The chapters also explain how primates have been used as simplified models of human behavioural research.

Each fossil group is discussed by an international specialist on the group, and the book is comprehensively illustrated with fossil photographs and diagrams.

With the architectural profession in a state of crisis over the nature - and even the necessity - of its role in society, this book puts the debate into a historical perspective.

Reveals every aspect of Carnegie's complex personality and fabulous career, his activities in industry, politics, education, philanthropy, and pacificism.

Focusing on the first seven centuries of the Islamic intellectual history, Unsaying God examines the ways in which Muslim, and some Jewish, scholars negated what they said about God in order to indicate the limits of human thought on the absolute. Ardogan Kars argue that contemporary studies on apophasis and negative theology in Islam are strongly motivated by the challenges and demands of modernity, and tend to preserve European universalism in thelanguage of pluralism.

This volume contains fifteen papers by Paul Humphreys, who has made important contributions to the philosophy of computer simulations, emergence, the philosophy of probability, probabilistic causality, and scientific explanation. It includes detailed postscripts to each section and a philosophical introduction. One of the papers is previously unpublished.

This book chronologically tells the birth, life, and death of the Whigs, a major American political party that was the country's last and best hope to avert secession. Michael Holt has reconstructed, and recaptured, what politicians - including Andrew Jackson, John C.Calhoun, Daniel Webster and others - thought they were doing and why.

Since its inception, Islam and its civilization have been in continuous relationships with other religions. The essays collected here examine the many texts that have come down to us about these cultures and their religions, from Muslim theologians and jurists.

This new translation of a classic Brazilian novel, originally published in 1900, includes an informative introduction and notes by John Gledson, which set the novel in its historical context.

Mitchell concentrates on the experiences of Northern soldiers when they left their home communities for the Civil War. Quoting extensively from letters and diaries, he not only creates an important social document describing the soldiers' relationships to their families, to their communities, and to their government, but also paints a moving portrait of men at war.

This book gives a systematic account of the main algorithms derived from the simplex method and the means by which they may be organized into effective procedures for solving practical linear programming problems on a computer.

Latin America, where 90% of the population is Christian and where nearly 40% of the world's Catholics reside, has its own unique brand of Christianity. The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity offers a survey of Latin American Christianity from thirty-three leading scholars. The volume systematically introduces and examines dramatic shifts in Catholic and Protestant Christianity over the course of several centuries. Its four sections explore theemergence of colonial Christianity, its institutional and popular evolution, and its dynamic role the region's contemporary developments.

China's one-child policy, as well as policies to increase fertility in east Asia, are well-known population issues. The "Population Problem" in Pacific Asia explores why fertility is so low, why China's fertility is likely to stay low, and what governments might be able to do to both improve the population situation in their countries and simultaneously better people's lives.

In Other People's Struggles, Nicholas Owen looks at the outsider in social movements¿people like men in women's movements, white people in anti-colonial movements, or rich people in movements for the poor. He asks why such outsiders, usually termed conscience constituents, are sometimes present and sometimes absent, drawing on examples from British history of the last two hundred years. It develops an original theory to explain their motivations, theconsequences of their participation, and their controversial, complex and changing place in social movements of the past and present.

And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the evolution of Russian literary scholar, art historian, and ballet critic Akim Volynsky's life-altering fascination with female ballet dancers, and the dance writings that resulted from his fascination.

And Then Came Dance provides new insight into the evolution of Russian literary scholar, art historian, and ballet critic Akim Volynsky's life-altering fascination with female ballet dancers, and the dance writings that resulted from his fascination.

Imagining Religious Communities tells the story of the Gupta family through the personal and religious narratives they tell as they create and maintain their extended family and community across national borders. Based on ethnographic research, the book demonstrates the ways that transnational communities are involved in shaping their experiences through narrative performances.

In Sinners in the Presence of a Loving God, R. Zachary Manis examines in detail the several facets of the problem of hell, considers the reasons why the usual responses to the problem are unsatisfying, and suggests how an adequate solution to the problem can be constructed.