Product Description: Introducing Genetics takes readers on a journey through this new science to the discovery of DNA and the heart of the human gene map. In everyday life, many of us increasingly have to make moral decisions where genetics plays a part. This book gives us the information to do so.

Product Description: This text traces the development of mathematics through some of its major turning points, occasions when counter-intuitive ideas such as the square root of minus one and space-filling curves, have forced themselves upon the attention of mathematicians, leading them to rethink their field...read more

Product Description: With humor, depth, and philosophical and historical insight, DNA reaches out to a wide range of readers with its graphic portrayal of a complicated science. Suitable for use in and out of the classroom, this volume covers DNA's many marvels, from its original discovery in 1869 to early-twentieth-century debates on the mechanisms of inheritance and the deeper nature of life's evolution and variety...read more

Product Description: The Great Sand Sea in Egypt presents the history of one of the large sand seas in the Sahara, beginning with the sand supply by fluvial transport from partly distant areas and also by local sandstone weathering. It also details sand as carrier of information and shows the possibilities of sedimentary analysis in dealing with such a topic...read more

Product Description: Make economics resonate to high school students. This practical handbook will help economics and social studies teachers foster critical thinking by introducing students to the real-life dimensions of the major controversies in contemporary economics...read more

Product Description: There are an astonishing number of treatments available to us for all types of disorders. But how can we choose wisely from so much on offer? "Introducing Psychotherapy" is a unique and valuable guide for anyone who wants to understand more about the subject of psychotherapy...read more

Product Description: Eastern philosophy is the most ancient form of thought known to man. More and more people are turning towards the integrated approach of Eastern thought, but often in a vague and generalized way. "Introducing Eastern Philosophy" focuses on India and China, the two oldest and most influential origins of Eastern thought...read more

'The comic book approach to learning mathematics for kids who do not like textbooks is fun, easy, and packed with all kinds of information.'

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The author presents an introduction to this ancient and often baffling religion, presenting its many contradictions while offering coverage of its many traditions, theologies, and deities. Original.

Charting the origins of cultural studies, and examining the ideas of its exponents from Gramsci to Raymond Williams, post-colonial discourse to the politics of diaspora, from feminism to queer theory and technoculture, this is a guide to the essential concepts of this area of study.

Brief text commenting on the disciplines known as collectively as 'cultural studies' accompanies cartoon-type illustrations recounting the theories of the major figures in the field in Britain, Europe, North America, and other areas.

Product Description: 1930. The biography of Rembrandt, a painter and etcher of some renown who lived and worked (which in his case was the same) in the town of Amsterdam (which is in Holland) and died of general neglect and diverse other unfortunate circumstances on the fourth of October of the year of Grace 1669 (God have mercy upon his soul) and who was attended in his afflictions by one Joannis van Loon Doctor Medicinae and Chirurgeon in Extraordinary to a vast number of humble citizens whose enduring gratitude has erected him a monument less perishable than granite and more enduring than porphyry and who during a most busy life yet found time to write down these personal recollections of the greatest of his fellow-citizens and which are now for the first time presented (provided with as few notes, emendations and critical observations as possible) by his great-great-grandson, nine times removed Hendrik Willem van Loon...read more

Looks at the life of the noted naturalist, explores previous theories about the nature of life, summarizes arguments supporting the theory of evolution, and discusses more recent discoveries in genetics.

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