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About 10, 000 years ago, humans abandoned three or four million yeas of successful foraging in favor of agriculture—and human society was fundamentally changed. In this book Donald Henry traces the path from simple foraging to agriculture. He challenges several contemporary theories on the origin of agriculture and introduces an alternative model that links the major adaptive shifts to changes in climate, changes in the distribution of resourc...

In Jane Austen and the Province of Womanhood, Alison Sulloway offers a comprehensive vision of Austen as a moderate feminist.

The Works of William HarveyTranslated by Robert Willis. Introduction by Arthur C. GuytonWilliam Harvey's revolutionary book on the circulatory system, published in Latin in 1628, demonstrated for the first time how the heart pumps blood through the body. His findings overturned the world's basic understanding of the way the body functions and changed fundamental knowledge of physiology as much as any scientific work in history. The Works of Wi...

Eleven-year-old Gilbert, self-styled private eye, takes on his toughest case when he finds a duck in the elevator of his housing project. In this easy-to-read mystery, "the solution is credible, the plot is fresh, the style casual and natural."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.

Freudenthals Untersuchung rekonstruiert die Genese der mechanistischen Theorieform, die die Newtonsche Mechanik ebenso wie zeitgenössische philosophische Systeme und Sozialtheorien kennzeichnet. Die Herausbildung einer spezifischen analytisch-synthetischen Methode, die zu dieser Theorieform führt, wird aufgrund theoretischer Prämissen erklärt, die eine bestimmte Interpretation von Verfahren der Technik bedingen. Der Nachweis, daß diese Prämiss...