While print and broadcast media are filled every day with homicide accounts, the general public seems most disturbed by crimes attributed to individuals who otherwise seem norma...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Gregory Fried.
Why are some people violent and aggressive while others are not? Where do these negative emotions and actions come from? What can be done to prevent dangerous behavior? Drawing...
Captured by United States Marines at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, a fifty-nine year old farmer was quickly brought to trial in nearby Charlestown and convicted of three capital cri...
Wounded Innocents and Fallen Angels
Gregory K. Moffatt · ISBN 9780275978488
Julkaistu 2003 Kieli englanti sidottu
Violence of any kind is hard for most people to understand, but crimes against children and crimes committed by children are perhaps the most difficult to comprehend. Child abus...
Food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation in the course of human history. Onions have been a staple of the European diet since the Paleol...
How to Protect Your Children on the Internet
Gregory S. Smith · ISBN 9780275994723
Julkaistu 2007 Kieli englanti sidottu
Parents and teachers are often ill-equipped to deal with the variety of devices and applications such as email, instant messaging, browsing, blogs, cell phones, and personal dig...
Originating from weekly talks given to a contemplative community of monks and nuns, the meditations in this book aim to help the reader live as profoundly as possible, in deepen...
The Evangelical Universalist
Gregory MacDonald · ISBN 9780281068753
Julkaistu 2012 Kieli englanti nidottu
Can an orthodox Christian, committed to the historic faith of the Church and the authority of the Bible, be a universalist? Is it possible to believe that salvation is found onl...
The Homeric Iliad and Odyssey are among the world's foremost epics. Yet, millennia after their composition, basic questions remain about them. Who was Homer-a real or an ideal p...
A Choice Outstanding Academic BookThe "Homeric Question" has vexed Classicists for generations. Was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey a single individual who created the p...
Walter Prescott Webb became one of the best known interpreters of the American West following the publication of The Great Plains in 1931. That book remained one of the outstand...
Magical Arrows
Gregory Schrempp; Marshall Sahlins · ISBN 9780299132347
Julkaistu 1992 Kieli englanti nidottu
An exploration of cosmology, connecting the Western philosophical tradition with the cosmological traditions of non-Western societies. Using the mythology and philosophy of the...
The Rulings of the Night
Gregory G. Maskarinec · ISBN 9780299144944
Julkaistu 1995 Kieli englanti nidottu
This text shows how the shamans, during their night-long performances, create the worlds of words in which shamans exist. It analyzes texts that the shamans use to diagnose and...
Arguing that homosexual poetry is part of the mainstream of poetic writing—not a distinct and differentiated category within it—Gregory Woods provides a fastidious study of homo...
The Conscription Society
Gregory J. Kasza · ISBN 9780300062427
Julkaistu 1995 Kieli englanti sidottu
The ability to organize millions of people for political purposes is a potent and relatively recent weapon in the struggle for power. Political scientists have studied two types...
A History of Gay Literature
Gregory Woods · ISBN 9780300080889
Julkaistu 1999 Kieli englanti pokkari
This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures, languages, and centuries. A work of reference as well as the definitive history of a...
In a groundbreaking work of literary archaeology, a bold young scholar adds a new page to the quintessential book of adventure stories, that of the heroic traditions of the Old...
The Psychology of Science and the Origins of the Scientific Mind
Gregory J. Feist · ISBN 9780300143270
Julkaistu 2008 Kieli englanti pokkari
An exploration of a new and richly promising discipline within science studies: the psychology of science In this book, Gregory Feist reviews and consolidates the scattered lite...
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks...
Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
Gregory J. Gbur · ISBN 9780300231298
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti sidottu
How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling...