Cambridge University Press
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A Fortunate Universe: Life in a Finely Tuned Cosmos
$25.99 Add to cartOver the last forty years, scientists have uncovered evidence that if the Universe had been forged with even slightly different properties, life as we know it – and life as we can imagine it – would b… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Geraint F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: March 26 2020
- ISBN10: 110874740X
- Language: English
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Understanding How Science Explains the World
$15.99 Add to cart- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: McCain, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: July 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1108995500
- Language: English
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Abortion Rights: For and Against
$49.58 Add to cartThis book features opening arguments followed by two rounds of reply between two moral philosophers on opposing sides of the abortion debate. In the opening essays, Kate Greasley and Christopher Kaczo… [more below]
- Author: Greasley, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: November 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1316621855
- Language: English
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Contraception: The Answers You’ve Been Looking for
$14.95 Add to cartA handy guide to every method of contraception, helping readers decide what works best for them. Covering how each method works, how to use it correctly and how effective it is, the authors expertly e… [more below]
- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Briggs, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1009124382
- Language: English
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Solitude: The Science and Power of Being Alone
$25.95 Add to cartThe average adult spends nearly one-third of their waking life alone. How do we overcome the stigma of solitude and find strength in going it alone? Whether we love it or try to avoid it, we can make … [more below]
- Author: Weinstein, Netta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: April 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1009256602
- Language: English
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Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
$39.99 Add to cartIn this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utili… [more below]
- Author: Huang, Xuelei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 309
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1009207040
- Language: English
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Understanding Charles Darwin
$19.99 Add to cartThe legend of Charles Darwin has never been more alive or more potent, but by virtue of this, his legacy has become susceptible to myths and misunderstandings. Understanding Charles Darwin examines ke… [more below]
- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Peterson, Erik L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1009338595
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Brazil
$32.00 Add to cartThe second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America’s largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil’s history from the arrival of the Portuguese… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Fausto, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: August 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1107635241
- Language: English
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Making a New Deal
$29.99 Add to cartThis book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as t… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Cohen, Lizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 566
- Publish Date: November 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1107431794
- Language: English
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Computability and Logic
$59.50 Add to cartComputability and Logic has become a classic because of its accessibility to students without a mathematical background and because it covers not simply the staple topics of an intermediate logic cour… [more below]
- Author: Boolos, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 366
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 0521701465
- Language: English
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
$30.00 Add to cartIn what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) #61
- Author: Clendinnen, Inga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0521527317
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
$35.00 Add to cartThis book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic ‘Orange Revolution’ … [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0521155118
- Language: English
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Much Like Us: What Science Reveals about the Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviour of Animals
$24.99 Add to cartWhat really differentiates us from our relatives in the animal world? And what can they teach us about ourselves? Taking these questions as his starting point, Norbert Sachser presents fascinating ins… [more below]
- Author: Sachser, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: May 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1108838499
- Language: English
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Cuban Privilege
$42.00 Add to cartFor over half a century the US granted Cubans, one of the largest immigrant groups in the country, unique entitlements. While other unauthorized immigrants faced detention, deportation, and no legal r… [more below]
- Author: Eckstein, Susan Eva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1108830617
- Language: English
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Understanding Forensic DNA
$15.99 Add to cart- Series: Understanding Life
- Author: Bell, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: September 22 2022
- ISBN10: 100904401X
- Language: English
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Unequal Health: Anti-Black Racism and the Threat to America’s Health
$34.99 Add to cartRacial disparities in health and life expectancy are public health problems that have existed since before the US became a country and affect all American’s lives. On average, Black Americans have poo… [more below]
- Author: Penner, Louis A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1316519481
- Language: English
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Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports
$29.99 Add to cart- Series: Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
- Author: Druckman, James N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1009338366
- Language: English
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Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order
$35.00 Add to cartSpinoza’s Ethics is one of the most significant texts of the early modern period, important to history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies. It had a major influence on Enlightenment thin… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Author: Kisner, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1107655633
- Language: English
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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, a History of Power from the Beginning to Ad 1760
$48.00 Add to cartDistinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military, and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this fir… [more below]
- Author: Mann, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: September 10 2012
- ISBN10: 1107635977
- Language: English
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The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
$30.00 Add to cartWhat drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues that all authoritarian regimes must resolve two fundamental conflicts. First, dictators face threats from the masses over which they rule … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Svolik, Milan W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1107607450
- Language: English
