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A gathering of artful essays by one of Poland's most translated post-war writers is here brought to a new audience. Poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artistic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Herbert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humour, and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he...

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In an era of social confusion and visual pandemonium, David Levi Strauss tackles issues of photography and politics in a way that few critics today are courageous enough to attempt. The essays collected in "Between the Eyes" address topics ranging from propaganda and the imagery of dreams, to Sebastião Salgado's epic social documents and the deeply personal photographic revelations of Francesca Woodman. Other issues broached here include the l...

Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics and pragmatics, and assesses recent answers to fundamental questions of how and where to draw the divide between the two. She argues for a minimal account of the interrelation between them-a 'minimal semantics'-which holds that only rule-governed appeals to context can influence semantic content.

Chris Stringer is Britain's foremost expert on human origins and works in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum. He also currently directs the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project, aimed at reconstructing the first detailed history of how and when Britain was occupied by early humans. His previous books include African Exodus: The Origins of Modern Humanity, The Complete World of Human Evolution and most recently...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages, COORDINATION 2012, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 2012, as one of the DisCoTec 2012 events. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including coordination of social collaboration processes, coordination of mobile systems in pe...

There is considerable debate about the demands citizenship places upon us in our everyday lives. Living Together as Equals distinguishes two different ways of thinking about citizenship both of which shed some light on the demands that it makes upon us.

First published in 1871, this is Florence Nightingale's analysis of the statistics surrounding the mortality rates of pregnant women.

First published in 1880, this wide-ranging study of island life addresses important questions of nineteenth-century biology and geography.

Part of the Cambridge Illustrated Surgical Pathology series, this book provides a comprehensive account of the experienced gynecologic pathologists' diagnostic approach to uterine pathology. Discussion is built around major pathologic entities in the uterus and cervix while highlighting the diverse and complex spectrum of alterations encountered in daily practice. Emphasizing clear description, diagnostic algorithms and problem solving, the bo...

A wonderfully written account of how synergy has influenced evolution, human society and technology, first published in 2003.

First published in 2006, this book demonstrates the power of the adaptive landscape concept in understanding evolution.

Originally published in 2006, this book was the first critical review of the effects of lizard foraging modes in 30 years.

This fully revised 2006 edition covers the range of neuropsychiatric syndromes associated with stroke.

This book, first published in 2007, examines the anatomy, physiology, molecular biology, pharmacology and therapeutics of norepinephrine in the brain.

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This book is the how and why Public safety divers do what they do. The book is instructional and educational on what classes Public safety divers need and why they need the classes. This book is for current Public Safety Divers, Public Safety Diving Officers, Public Safety Diving Instructors and anyone who is interested in becoming a Public Safety Diver. This book is used as an instruction manual for new and current Public Safety Divers. I am ...

Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole family is bonded by secrets, their genealogy stitched together by pride, shame and sometimes despair. Baby No - eyes has several threads running through it. One is the death of Te Paania's child, which is based on the true story of a dead child who was returned to her whanau with her eyes missing. In the years after her death, Bab...