This free structured look at the 1986 Challenger disaster places the teacher who died with six others as they hurtled into space at the center of an exploration of our…

Designed to enable students and researchers of molecular biology, biochemistry and physics to better understand the biophysics of DNA, this text surveys the very latest research. The author integrates theoretical…

With a focus on twentieth-century work, this book offers a new understanding of what text can do in theater. Written for scholars and students of modern drama, theater studies, modernist…

Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. Their shared master-narrative might…

This book focuses on the role of miscommunication in the financial crises of developing nations. By examining the determinants of Asia’s financial crisis of 1997-8, it demonstrates why developing democracies…

The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo, initially published in 1998, elucidates the professional and literary means by which Spanish American modernistas negotiated a cultural politics of rapprochement with Spain and…

This advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy attempts to breathe new life into stalled research. It introduces existing views about the nature of law, but rather than survey…

A systematic analysis of the impression of reality in the cinema and the pleasure it gives to the film spectator. It also touches on basic issues in current discourses of…