Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music: With Special Emphasis on J.S. BachOrnaments play an..

Figure and Likeness presents a thought-provoking new account of Byzantine iconoclasm--the fundamen..

The Sin of KnowledgeAdam, Prometheus, and Faust--their stories were central to the formation of West..

The definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death c..

Population Harvesting (MPB-27), Volume 27: Demographic Models of Fish, Forest, and Animal Resources...

Historical and Political WritingsCarl von Clausewitz's major theoretical work, On War, has retained ..

Understanding Quantum MechanicsHere Roland Omnès offers a clear, up-to-date guide to the conceptual ..

This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky,..

The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (MPB-32) (Monographs in Population Biolo..

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis (MPB-35) (Monographs in Population Bi..

Information technology accounts for over one-third of recent U.S. GDP growth and nearly two-thirds ..

Information technology accounts for over one-third of recent U.S. GDP growth and nearly two-thirds ..

When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should ne..

Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of DifferenceEmpires--vast states of territories an..

The Practice of Psychotherapy (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 16)Essays on aspects of ana..

The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 24, 1912This volume opens in January 1912 with the official begin..

The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's ViennaMozart's comic operas are among the masterworks of West..

Identifying shorebirds can be a challenge--and having a field guide specifically devoted to the spe..

Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a BackThis strikingly unusual and beautifully illustrated bo..

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/Empirical Synthesis (MPB-35) (Monographs in Population Bi..

Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their TextsNearly all of us have studied poetr..

String Theory in a NutshellThis book is the essential new introduction to modern string theory, by o..

Papers of Thomas Jefferson : March-October, 1788, Vol. 13From 1784 to 1789 Jefferson was in France, ..

Levels of Selection in EvolutionEver since the groundbreaking work of George Williams, W. D. Hamilto..

Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of VinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways,..

What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we rej..

The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal VentsTeeming with weird and wonderful life--giant clams and mus..

The Description for this book, The Fracture of Meaning: Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth ..

In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisio..

Turbulence in World PoliticsIn this ambitious work a leading scholar undertakes a full-scale reconce..