Gerhard Ernst & Andreas Huttemann 
Time, Chance, and Reduction [EPUB ebook] 
Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics

Based on new source material available in both England and India, India »s Partition examines the partition in the context of the retreat of the British Empire. The freeing of India from British rule …

Retaining the conceptual framework of the first edition through emphasis on the dual themes of continuity and change, the second edition of Libya is revised and updated to include discussion of key d …

When China opened its doors to the West in the late 1970s, Western businesses jumped at the chance to sell their products to the most populous nation in the world. Boardrooms everywhere buzzed with e …

The importance of Lutfi al-Khuli and the intellectual circle associated with the Nasserist regime is examined here. Rami Ginat looks at al-Khuli »s contribution to the short-lived yet formidable succ …

Anantadas is the first  »biographer » who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a b …

In Even the Odds, Karen Firestone explains how risk assessment plays a prominent role in all aspects of life. We may all define risk, and our tolerance for it, somewhat differently, but we might all …

There is a long-standing fear of that which is not understood. Since September 11, 2001 the fear surrounding the violent elements of religion has led to heightened tensions. Research is thus essentia …

Originally published in 1919, this 2 volume work chronicles the British missions in Mesopotamia which the author states the purpose as being  »the safeguarding of India and the destruction of the Tur …

This second edition comprehensively presents important tools of linear systems theory, including differential and difference equations, Laplace and Z transforms, and more. Linear Systems Theory discu …

Ethnography, with all its limitations, has as its strongest impulse the quest to see and understand “others” on their own terms and to step out of our own viewpoints in order to do so. Conjoining eth …