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Susan Steele (University of Arizona)
Many books have been written about Queen Esther,
extolling her excellent character, but who is King Ahasuerus,
or Xerxes, as he is known in the Greek?
Is he the larger-than-life…
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Edward Harrison (University of Arizona)
LUCKY 12: It started in Brooklyn NY in a carpet shop. And the people that work there hit a big New York lottery. The owner of the carpet shop had…
Bad Seed is about a daughter of a young girl who had been raped by five local boys who were the sons of the big men in town. The mother…
William Simmons (University of Arizona)
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
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Tommaso Pavone (University of Arizona)
The European Union (EU) is often depicted as a cradle of judicial activism and a polity built by courts. The Ghostwriters instead reveals that the EU was forged through a…
Phyllis Taoua (University of Arizona)
African Freedom explains how freedom emerged as an ideal during the national liberation movements and continues to inspire struggles to achieve meaningful freedom for the majority. The author takes a…
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Sergio Puig (University of Arizona)
This book addresses how international trade, investment and finance agreements have unintended consequences and result in inequality. It will be of use to scholars, practitioners and policy-makers that want to…
Gary Cook (University of Arizona)
Gain the knowledge and skills needed to learn–and teach–percussion with TEACHING PERCUSSION, Enhanced 3rd Edition! Providing a comprehensive introduction to every aspect of percussion education, technique and performance, this text…
Uriah Kriegel (University of Arizona)
Uriah Kriegel develops an objective theory of what it is for a mental state to be conscious. The key idea is that consciousness arises when self-awareness and world-awareness are integrated…
Michael Hammond (University of Arizona)
This book provides an introduction to Python - one of the most widely-used programming languages - for those who are familiar with linguistic concepts but have no prior background in…
Jennifer Cyr (University of Arizona)
A concise and accessible introduction to focus groups, Cyr highlights the unique, inter-related features of the method for data collection in social science. She explains if, when, and how to…
Richard Healey (University of Arizona)
This is a prize-winning study of an area of physics not previously explored by philosophy: gauge theory. Gauge theories have provided our most successful representations of the fundamental forces of…
Andrew Carnie (University of Arizona)
This book explores the empirical and theoretical aspects of constituent structure in natural language syntax, critically examining the strengths and limitations of different approaches. It is an ideal introduction for…
Jason Turner (University of Arizona)
Philosophers have long been tempted by the idea that objects and properties are abstractions from the facts. But if objects and properties aren’t ‘already’ there, how do the facts give…
Carolina Sartorio (University of Arizona)
Carolina Sartorio argues that only the actual causes of our behaviour matter to our freedom. Causation has some important features that make it a responsibility-grounding relation, and actual causes reflect…
Juan Comesana (University of Arizona)
Juan Comesana presents a new framework for understanding the rationality of action and belief, which he calls Experientalism . Arguing that rational action requires rational belief but tolerates false belief…
Julia Annas (University of Arizona)
Julia Annas offers a new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. She argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of the kind we find in someone…
Including letters from a sailor 1954-1957. –Title page.
Molly Romano (University of Arizona)
Nikki is a lovely young woman with sparkling blue eyes. She loves to dance and swim. She loves pizza and Coke, and hates eggs and cleaning her room. Nikki is…
Kory Floyd (University of Arizona)
This book reviews and critiques empirical research on affectionate communication in close relationships, and offers compelling questions for future empirical work. It will appeal to faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate…
Jose Sasian (University of Arizona)
A concise introduction to lens design, including the fundamental theory, concepts, methods and tools used in the field. Covering all the essential concepts and providing suggestions for further reading at…
Manya Lempert (University of Arizona)
This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy…
Ravi Sethi (University of Arizona)
This introductory textbook addresses the main challenges of software development, and offers tips and templates for a student team project. To meet user needs, software is developed by eliciting requirements…
Andrew Weil, MD,Andrew Weil, MD (University of Arizona)
Delicious, nutritious, quick, and easy recipes from bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil’s own kitchen. These days, fewer people than ever are cooking meals at home. Convincing ourselves that we don’t…
Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona)
Shaun Nichols offers a naturalistic, psychological account of the origins of the problem of free will. He argues that our belief in indeterminist choice is grounded in faulty inference and…
Chris Impey (University of Arizona)
Considering the development of life on Earth and the potential for life elsewhere in the Universe, this book is a fascinating insight into our place in the Universe. Accompanied by…
Gary Goertz (University of Arizona)
Through different theoretical references and concrete studies, Goertz illustrates the fruitfulness of the contextual approach to international politics.
Helmut Groemer (University of Arizona)
An exposition of the application of spherical harmonics to prove geometric results such as geometric inequalities, uniqueness results for projections, and stability. An important feature of the book is a…
David Schmidtz (University of Arizona)
What is justice? Questions of justice are questions about what people are due, but what that means in practice depends on context. Thus, the formal question of what people are…
Ewen A. Whitaker (University of Arizona)
With its historical maps and rare early photographs, this is for everyone interested in the Moon. Observers will appreciate this account of mapping and nomenclature. Appendices and bibliography provide a…
Assuming no previous background in syntax, this practical coursebook introduces all the basics of modern syntactic analysis in a simple step-by-step fashion. Each unit is constructed so that the reader…
David Christenson (University of Arizona)
This edition is designed to facilitate reading of Pseudolus, one of Plautus’ most innovative and delightful plays and a lens into Roman slave society. It assumes no specialised knowledge of…
A synthesis of scientific, philosophical and religious issues in cosmology.
Paulette Kurzer (University of Arizona)
What effect is European integration having on national cultures and policies? Kurzer demonstrates how the impact of the single market has led to adjustments which have brought policy on moral…
Fulvio Melia (University of Arizona)
Recent discoveries indicate that supermassive black holes may have been critical to the formation of structure in the early universe, spawning bursts of star formation, planets, and even life itself…
Frederick Kiefer (University of Arizona)
In this study of Shakespeare’s visual culture Frederick Kiefer looks at the personified characters created by Shakespeare in his plays, his walking, talking abstractions. These include Rumour in 2 Henry…
