Peter McLaughlin 
What Functions Explain [PDF ebook] 
Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems

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 …

Business for Communicators provides future and current professional communicators with a hands-on, working knowledge of how businesses profit, grow, and adapt in their competitive environments. Corpo …

This volume is a survey of Soviet-Israeli relations from the time when the U.S.S.R. supported the establishment of Israel”s independence in 1947-48. Although diplomatic relations have been broken si …

Using the latest available data, Dr. Stewart provides a critical, historical study of the exploitation of a major agricultural resource by a developing country. It traces the political economy of Pap …

”An original, provocative and fascinating new theory by one of the world”s leading neuroscientists about why the mind wanders – and when and why it”s good for you” Daniel Gilbert Your brain is no …