Cambridge University Press
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Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures
$18.00 Add to cartDeveloping a theory that seamlessly combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the most important conceptual breakthroughs in twentieth century physics, has proved to be a difficult and ongoing challe… [more below]
- Author: Feynman, Richard P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: July 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0521658624
- Language: English
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The Cambridge History of Medicine
$55.25 Add to cartThe Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, t… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0521682894
- Language: English
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Eruptions That Shook the World
$42.00 Add to cartWhat does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption… [more below]
- Author: Oppenheimer, Clive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: June 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0521641128
- Language: English
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Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955
$33.00 Add to cartAs World War II drew to a close and the world awakened to the horrors wrought by white supremacists in Nazi Germany, the NAACP and African-American leaders sensed an opportunity to launch an offensive… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: April 21 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531586
- Language: English
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Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating
$33.00 Add to cartThis book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating. Drawing on diverse theological, philosophical, and anthropological insights, it offers fresh ways to … [more below]
- Author: Wirzba, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: November 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1108455964
- Language: English
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Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
$106.08 Add to cartDrawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it show… [more below]
- Author: Moyar, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: August 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0521869110
- Language: English
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A Tattoo on My Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle Against Alzheimer’s Disease
$15.00 Add to cartAn engaging and optimistic account of a neurologist’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease, a condition he treated in many of his patients during his twenty-five year career. Combining his clinical know… [more below]
- Author: Gibbs, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1009325183
- Language: English
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English Pronunciation in Use Elementary Book with Answers and Downloadable Audio
$39.75 Add to cartUnderstand and be understood in English with the best-selling English Pronunciation in Use. This book, with over five hours of free downloadable audio, includes 50 units of explanations, examples, pra… [more below]
- Series: English Pronunciation in Use
- Author: Marks, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1108403522
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Italy
$32.00 Add to cartSince its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This new edition of Christopher Duggan’s acclaimed introduction chart… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Duggan, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0521747430
- Language: English
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The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class
$32.00 Add to cartDrawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single an… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and
- Author: Marsh, Kris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1316612910
- Language: English
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The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective
$49.58 Add to cartThe wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the United… [more below]
- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: December 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1107654238
- Language: English
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Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton
$56.67 Add to cartDrawing on a very wide range of unpublished and previously unexploited sources, Martin van Creveld examines the “nuts and bolts” of war. He considers the formidable problems of movement and supply, tr… [more below]
- Author: Van Creveld, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0521546575
- Language: English
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The Weeping Time
$25.00 Add to cartIn 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Anne C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1316643484
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Portugal
$32.00 Add to cartThis concise, illustrated history of Portugal offers an introduction to the people and culture of the country, its empire, and its search for economic modernisation, political stability and internatio… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Birmingham, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1108439551
- Language: English
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The Invention of Tradition
$26.00 Add to cartMany of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores exa… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: March 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1107604672
- Language: English
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Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper
$42.00 Add to cartAn in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939-45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimi… [more below]
- Author: Leff, Laurel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: April 10 2006
- ISBN10: 0521607825
- Language: English
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Acts
$77.92 Add to cartAs the earliest narrative source for the origins of Christianity, Acts is of unrivalled importance for understanding early Christianity and the mission that originally brought it from Judea and Galile… [more below]
- Series: New Cambridge Bible Commentary
- Author: Keener, Craig S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 714
- Publish Date: April 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1108468683
- Language: English
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Spinoza: A Life
$31.00 Add to cartA fully updated new edition of the prize-winning and now standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza.
- Author: Nadler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: August 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1108442463
- Language: English
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The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference
$30.00 Add to cartHistorical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Series on Statistical & Probabilistic Mathematics
- Author: Hacking, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0521685575
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Belgium
$32.00 Add to cartThe small and densely populated nation of Belgium has played an important role in the history of Europe and other continents, especially Africa. It was a pioneering force in industry, trade, and finan… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Vanthemsche, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0521127378
- Language: English
