The earliest recorded Irvine in Orkney was a William de Irwyn in 1369. This book draws on copious contemporary records that survive in Edinburgh, Kirkwall and elsewhere, together with implications…

Jeremy Wilson and Matt Carver are about as different as two grade-nine boys can be. Jeremy has little supervision, little regard for others, and no rules. He does no homework…

Presents new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within…

This volume covers the subclass Bangiophycidae of the red algae Rhodophyta. Each entry gives notes on ecology and distribution, and there are user-friendly keys to identification of species and genera.

Son of a north Texas wheat- and cotton-farming family, Marvin Jones grew up with strong agrarian roots and a taste for Democratic politics. Elected to Congress in 1916, he joined…

Patrick Morgan’s study revisits the place of deterrence after the Cold War.

This book develops a general approach to learning within the framework of probability theory, drawing on Bayesian epistemology, and discusses its applications to decision and game theory. It will appeal…

The latest research regarding the neurodegenerative conditions known as neuroacanthocytosis will be found in this book. In vitro studies have identified potential protein interactions, and work on erythrocyte membranes suggests…