Steven Spielberg and Duel
Since the early 1970s, Steven Spielberg has directed more than two dozen films, many of which have achieved classic status. In addition to critical and commercial successes that include E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, Saving Private ...
Steven Spielberg and Duel
Since the early 1970s, Steven Spielberg has directed more than two dozen films, many of which have achieved classic status. In addition to critical and commercial successes that include E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler's List, Saving Private ...
Putin's Russia: Economy, Defence And Foreign Policy
This volume seeks to fill the vacuum created by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress's decision to cease publishing comprehensive assessments of Russia's performance and potential. It provides readers with authoritative descriptions of Russia'...
Chance, Logic And Intuition: An Introduction To The Counter-intuitive Logic Of Chance
Chance rules our daily lives in many different ways. From the outcomes of the lottery to the outcomes of medical tests, from the basketball court to the court of law. The ways of chance are capricious. Bizarre things happen all the time. Neverthel...
Creating Silicon Valley in Europe
Through the 1990s and early 2000s the strength of the United States economy has been linked to its ability to foster large numbers of small innovative technology companies, a few of which have grown to dominate new industries, such as Microsoft, G...
Handbook of Creative Writing
The inspirational resource for tutors, students and other creative writing professionals, now in a new edition. 54 chapters cover the 3 central¿areas of writing creatively: theories of creativity; the craft of writing; and creative writing as a bu...
Rhetoric's Pragmatism
For over thirty years, Steven Mailloux has championed and advanced the field of rhetorical hermeneutics, a historically and theoretically informed approach to textual interpretation. This volume collects fourteen of his most recent influential ess...
Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers
The rise of China and other great powers raises important questions about the persistence and stability of the 'liberal international order'. This book provides a new perspective on these questions by offering a novel theory of revisionist challen...
Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the reader into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century an...
Bourdieu and Affect
Steven Threadgold's study represents the first comprehensive engagement of Pierre Bourdieu's influential sociology with affect theory. With empirical research and examples from sociology, it develops a theory of "Affective Affinities," d...
Meateater Fish and Game Cookbook
From the host of the television series and podcast MeatEater, the long-awaited definitive guide to cooking wild game, including fish and fowl, featuring more than 100 new recipes 'As a MeatEater fan who loves to cook, I can tell you that this book is a must-have.'--Andrew Zimmern When Steven Rinella hears from fans of his MeatEater show and podcast, it's often requests for more recipes. One of the most respected and beloved hunters in America, Rinella is also an accomplished wild game cook, and he offers recipes here that range from his takes on favorite staples to more surprising and exotic meals. Big Game Techniques and strategies for butchering and cooking all big game, from whitetail deer to moose, wild hogs, and black bear, and recipes for everything from shanks to tongue. Small Game How to prepare appetizers and main courses using common small game species such as squirrels and rabbits as well as lesser-known culinary treats like muskrat and beaver. Waterfowl How to make the
Pig Disease Identification and Diagnosis Guide
Pork is one of the world's most widely consumed meats, with the pig industry undergoing recent rapid expansion across Asia and Latin America. This textbook covers more than 100 of the most common pig diseases. With each presented as a case study, ...
Superdiversity
Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in societies around the world. Migration plays a key role in these processes, bringing changes not jus...
Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies
In recent years the concept of 'diversity' has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, 'diversity' tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key ...
Never Pure
Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science ...
Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the reader into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century an...
Objectivity in Journalism
Objectivity in journalism is a key topic for debate in media, communication and journalism studies, and has been the subject of intensive historical and sociological research. In the first study of its kind, Steven Maras surveys the different view...
Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is often considered the first work of the philosophical school of utilitarianism and is thus a vital text for students of philosophy. In this comprehensive guide to the text, St...
When Rock Met Disco
Disco began as a gay, black, and brown underground New York City party music scene, which alone was enough to ward off most rockers. The difference between rock and disco was as sociological as it was aesthetic. At its best, disco was galvanizing ...
Microfoundations and Macroeconomics
In the past, Austrian economics has been seen as almost exclusively focused on microeconomics. Here,Steven Horwitz constructs a systematic presentation of what Austrian macroeconomics would look like. This original and highly accessible work will ...
Contested Knowledge
In the sixth edition of Contested Knowledge, social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory and addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates. Responds to current issues, debat...
Difference Troubles
Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - femi...
Queer Theory Sociology
This book aims to productively engage the pioneering work of Queer theorists and point toe way towards a new sociological Queer studies. First book to bring the works of theorists and researchers in the social sciences to Queer theory which is dis...
Sticking Together
This popular science title covers adhesion science in an easily accessible entertaining manner. As well as outlining types of adhesion and their importance in everyday life, the book covers interesting future applications of adhesion and inspirati...
Power
The third edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, the updates and reflections from the second edition and two groundbreaking new chapters. Power: A Radical View assesses the main debates about how to conce...
EM6 Waffen-SS Uniforms in Colour Photographs
This title offers a reference source for the uniform collector, modeller and student of military dress and equipment. Privates, NCOs, officers, infantrymen, mountain troopers, tank and assault gun crews are all illustrated here as they appeared on...
Telemann Compendium
The first guide to research on Telemann in any language. This book is the first guide to research on the composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) in any language. Although the scholarly 'Telemann Renaissance' is now a half-century old, there ha...
Physics Essentials For Dummies
Physics Essentials For Dummies¿(9781119590286) was previously published as¿Physics Essentials For Dummies (9780470618417). While this version features a new¿Dummies¿cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be c...
IFRS For Dummies
The easy way to get a grip on International Reporting Standards IFRS For Dummies is your complete introduction to IFRS and international accounting and balancing standards. Combining all the facts needed to understand this complex subject with use...
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Steven Cohan's study of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation unpacks the show's focus on forensic technology; its sophisticated visual style; its fascination with subcultures; its relationship with both 'Old' and 'New' Vegas, and the performance of its ...
Physics I For Dummies
An easy-to-follow guide to introductory physics, from the Big Bang to relativity All science, technology, engineering, and math majors in college and university require some familiarity with physics. Other career paths, like medicine, are also onl...
Competition and Regulation in the Airline Industry
An examination of the relationship between competition and the deregulation and liberalisation of the US and European air transport sectors reveals that the structure of the air transport sector has undergone a number of significant changes. A gro...
Self-Compassion For Dummies
Become your own best friend and reap the life-changing benefits!¿ Being kind to yourself might sound simple, but self-compassion can change your life dramatically (and most of us are WAY kinder to others than to ourselves)¿¿Self-Compassion¿For¿Dum...
Law and Business of Litigation Finance
How do litigation funders raise capital and how do they spend it? What are their corporate and financial structures? What types of cases do they invest in and what are their returns? What contractual structures do they use? What are the key legal ...
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology
The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology offers an overview of Jewish theology, an aspect of Judaism that is equal in importance to law and ethics. Covering the period from antiquity to the present, the volume focuses on what Jews believe about ...
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World explores the Jewish experience with art during the Greco-Roman period - from the Hellenistic period through the rise of Islam. It starts with the premise that Jewish art in antiquity was a 'minority' or 'et...
Nationalism
This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout ...