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A Consideration of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Embracing Also the Evol... A Consideration of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Embracing Also the Evolution of Industry and Its Outcome Price: $17.54 (more details) A Consideration of the Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Embracing Also the Evolution of Industry and Its Outcome	Algae: An Introduction to Phycology Algae: An Introduction to Phycology Price: $66.30 (more details) Algae are ubiquitous; a multitude of species ranging from microscopic unicells to gigantic kelps inhabit the world's oceans, freshwater bodies, soils, rocks, and trees, and are responsible for most of the global production of organic matter by photosynthesis. They thus play a fundamental role in the world's ecosystems and a reliable and modern introduction to their kaleidoscopic diversity, systematics, and phylogeny is indispe...
Nature and Society in Historical Context Nature and Society in Historical Context Price: $126.75 (more details) In general terms, one way of describing the world we live in is to say that it is made up of nature and society, and that human beings belong to both. This is the first volume to be published that addresses the historical contexts of the relations between these two characteristics of human nature. Individual essays and the general conclusions of the volume are important not only for our understanding of the evolution of ...	The Evolution of Christianity The Evolution of Christianity Price: $23.39 (more details) The Evolution of Christianity
Early Man Early Man Price: $7.76 (more details) How were we transformed from ape-like creatures without tool-making, language ot culture into people of the latter part of the last ice age who, give or take the further progress of technology, were just like ourselves? Covering five million years, this is the story of human evolution. Incorporating fresh fossil discoveries in Africa, new assessments of old finds, the latest genetic developments and fledgling studies on the evolution of the mind, it is ...	Genetics of Populations Genetics of Populations Price: $87.70 (more details) Arizona State Univ., Tempe. Textbook designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students who have had a course in genetics or evolution and an aptitude for quantitative thinking. Features examples where actual data are used to illustrate the concepts developed in the text. Previous edition: c1984.
Illusive Identity: The Blurring of Working-Class Consciousness in Modern West... Illusive Identity: The Blurring of Working-Class Consciousness in Modern Western Culture Price: $25.35 (more details) Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters tackling changing class consciousness in Brit...	The Mexican American Orquesta: Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict The Mexican American Orquesta: Music, Culture, and the Dialectic of Conflict Price: $43.88 (more details) The Mexican American orquesta is neither a Mexican nor an American music. Relying on both the Mexican orquesta and the American dance band for repertorial and stylistic cues, it forges a synthesis of the two. The ensemble emerges historically as a powerful artistic vehicle for the expression of what Manuel Pena calls the 'dialectic of conflict.' Grounded in ethnic and class conflict, th...
Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution : Proveedings of the 1... Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution : Proveedings of the 163rd Symposium Ot the International Astronomical Union Held in Biodola, Price: $233.03 (more details) Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution : Proveedings of the 163rd Symposium Ot the International Astronomical Union Held in Biodola,	Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy Price: $24.33 (more details) Composition-Rhetoric is a story of the people who have studied and taught composition in American colleges since the early nineteenth century. It shows where many of the practices and assumptions about writing that today's teachers use come from, and it translates what our theories and techniques of teaching have said over time about our attitudes toward students, language, and life. Like all rhetorics thro...
The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Northern Conquest The Age of Robert Guiscard: Southern Italy and the Northern Conquest Price: $42.41 (more details) B> This is a wide ranging and engaging account of the conquest of southern Italy and Sicily by the Norman's during the eleventh century and of Robert 'Guiscard', The Cunning, who was a central figure in the conquest. While examining the process by which the conquest took place, Guiscard's role within it, and his turbulent role in the south, Graham Louds places the Norman takeover in conte...	Classic Convertibles Classic Convertibles Price: $11.68 (more details) Classic Convertibles is a glorious celebration of these fantastic machines. Beginning with the first models, introduced in 1927, and taking us right through to the present day, author Nicky Wright traces the evolution of the convertible automobile. Gorgeously illustrated throughout with full-color photographs, Classic Convertibles is sure to delight all those who have ever known the thrill of driving with the wind in their hair and the sun o...
Life and Work in Medieval Europe: The Evolution of Medieval Economy from the ... Life and Work in Medieval Europe: The Evolution of Medieval Economy from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century Price: $88.68 (more details) Life and Work in Medieval Europe: The Evolution of Medieval Economy from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Century	Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel Price: $21.02 (more details) The Pulitzer Prize-winning author celebrates the art of fiction and the pleasures of reading as she looks at one hundred very different examples of the novel, ranging from the classics to little-known gems and from the Tale of Genji to Zadie Smith's White Teeth, discussing the evolution of the novel, the practice of novel-writing, and the publication process. 50,000 first printing.
The Evolution of Language The Evolution of Language Price: $53.63 (more details) The Evolution of Language	Exchange-Rate Determination Exchange-Rate Determination Price: $43.88 (more details) This volume is intended to provide a survey of thought about exchange-rate determination as it emerged in the decade of the 1970s. This survey differs from many, however, in that the field itself is in a state of rapid change. Understanding the changes and the reasons for them is therefore essential if the reader is to have a basis for understanding future advances in knowledge and the further evolution of the system. The survey is al...