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Tunas and billfishes are peak predators of the oceans. Admired by scientists and naturalists for their speed, grace, unique physiology, and diversity, they are important both ecologically and socioeconomically. Vital sources of food and income for many maritime nations, whose fleets of vessels target them with huge purse seines or miles-long ......
News of financial entanglements among biomedical companies and researchers has increasingly called into question the worth and integrity of medical studies, nearly threefifths of which are funded by industry. This volume assesses the ethical, quantitative, and qualitative questions posed by the current financing of biomedical research.The ten ......
A brief but engaging look at the importance of trust. Gert Tinggaard Svendsen explores how to cultivate this elusive feeling--and why developing trust is so important for maintaining a happy, stable, and economically sound society. Without it, societies become more corrupt and legal systems cannot guarantee justice. Why do Nordic countries like ......
The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of Cochin, ......
The South Seas and the Discovery of American Identity
With American independence came the freedom to sail anywhere in the world under a new flag. During the years between the Treaty of Paris and the Treaty of Wangxi, Americans first voyaged past the Cape of Good Hope, reaching the ports of Algiers and the bazaars of Arabia, the markets of India and the beaches of Sumatra, the villages of Cochin, ......
Trouble in Mind is an introduction to psychiatry that provides an original perspective on mental life, explaining the normal processes that become disrupted in mental illness. Dean F. MacKinnon offers a biological focus on the mental nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and selfdestruction.Trouble in Mind offers alternatives to the ......
Trouble in Mind is an introduction to psychiatry that provides an original perspective on mental life, explaining the normal processes that become disrupted in mental illness. Dean F. MacKinnon offers a biological focus on the mental nature of human anguish, unreason, disability, and selfdestruction.Trouble in Mind offers alternatives to the ......
''Tropics of Discourse'' develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the ......
Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880
Tribe, Race, History examines American Indian communities in southern New England between the Revolution and Reconstruction, when Indians lived in the region's socioeconomic margins, moved between semiautonomous communities and towns, and intermarried extensively with blacks and whites. Drawing from a wealth of primary documentation, Daniel R. ......
