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An analysis of the role of metaphor in shaping the work and findings of science, using cell biology as the central case study.

Jasper looks at the key role played by emotions in political protest, from the decision to protest through the structure of actual protests to their effectiveness.

A technological analysis of the incredible complexity of the Tokyo subway system.

A look at the range of close relationships between humans and wild and domesticated animals in the Himalayas.

A series of belles lettres-style reflections on touch and its role in our life, art, and culture.

In his usual incantatory style, Taussig takes on palm oil, one of the most perniciously exploitative commodities in our world today.

One of the most distinctive aspects of our politics today is the sorting of religious and non-religious voters into different parties; Margolis shows that this is more an effect of partisan sorting than a cause.

A history of America's love of cars, taking in everything from gangsters to hot rodders.

An argument for the role of culture in human evolution, arguing that the leaps we made can only really be understood if we explore the role of culture in their development.

Emerging democracies need a lot of support from international institutions, and this book analyzes the ways those organizations succeed and fail in providing that assistance.

How does a state function during the collapse of institutions that revolutions bring? Pashman answers that in the case of New York during and after the Revolutionary War, showing how a new state was built on the fly.

A guide to inspire the future of conservation and to lead the next generation of conservation leaders in this country, written by the former Director of the National Park Service and the first Science Advisor to the Director of the NPS.

A Trios volume that addresses the question of church and state in three different contexts: nineteenth-century Brazil, early Canada, and contemporary American courtrooms.

Unpublished autobiography of gay writing pioneer Samuel Steward.

A state-of-the art analysis of conservation as practiced by zoos and aquariums worldwide today.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A collection covering all aspects of ethics in the work of science communication, for scientists and communications professionals alike.

An analysis of the major role played by Sartre as both figure and philosopher in the development of political thought in post-colonial Arab countries.

A history of China's Xinjiang Province that shows how the hunt for natural resources determined how Chinese and Russian authorities viewed and tried to control it over the years.