Historical Dictionary of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso, known as Upper Volta until its independence from France in 1960, and locally called the “land of the upright people,” is a medium-sized … Read more
Science (General)
Autotools, 2nd Edition: A Practitioner’s Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
The long awaited update to the practitioner’s guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool The GNU Autotools make it easy for developers to create software … Read more
Collecting the Self: Body and Identity in Strange Tale Collections of Late Imperial China
Chinese strange tale collections contain short stories about ghosts and animal spirits, supra-human heroes and freaks, exotic lands and haunted homes, earthquake and floods, and … Read more
Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman’s Life
Whats your favorite fairy tale? Whether its Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Hansel and Gretel, or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, … Read more
Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
From eighteenth-century courtiers to Cocteau, from Freudians to prime time TV, “Beauty and the Beast” has captured the artistic and popular imagination. Betsy Hearne brings … Read more
Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific
Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common … Read more
From Intuition to Inhibition
This book examines the critical roles and effects of mathematics education. The exposition draws from the authors forty-year mathematics career, integrating his research in the … Read more
Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics
Why are candle flames yellow? Why does ultraviolet light supposedly kill vampires? What about the monocle? Why was the monocle–a corrective lens that only corrects … Read more
St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan Da Cunha
A guidebook for true explorers, the south Atlantic islands of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha are isolated and therefore a fascinating destination for … Read more
Compressor Technology Advances: Beyond 2020
This book describes fresh approaches to compression technology. The authors describe in detail where, why, and how these can be of value to process plants. … Read more
Kant’s Justification of Ethics
Kant’s arguments for the reality of human freedom and the normativity of the moral law continue to inspire work in contemporary moral philosophy. Many prominent … Read more