How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry ...

In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the ...

Much agony over writing research papers originates in the failure of the academic system to teach students how to use the library and how to write formally structured English. This handbook is ...

Timothy O. Benedict is Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ...

Paulina Pospieszna is Associate Professor of Political Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests include democracy promotion, democratization, and democratic ...

Cruelty and sensual pleasure are identical, like extreme heat and extreme cold. Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare" No other themes were so consistently embraced in Cézanne's early oeuvre as ...

Food, televisions, computer equipment, plumbing supplies, clothing. Much of the material foundation of our everyday lives is produced along the U.S./Mexico border in a world largely hidden from our ...

Abortion has been practiced for centuries in Japan, but it is only since the mid-1970s that religious rituals for aborted fetuses, rites called "mizuko kuyô," have been commercialized on a large scale ...

"We should double the rate of growth, and we should double the size of the American economy!" hailed candidate Jack Kemp during the vice presidential debate of October 9, 1996. Kemp was firing away ...

Adaptive behavior is behavior that raises an animal's fitness in its biotic and abiotic environment. The study of adaptive behavior is mainly the study of how behavior changes with environmental ...