In a novel set in 1797 Massachusetts and the Allegheny Mountains, a gay army officer is forced to flee the Continental army and takes up with a loner who is secretly murdering Indian girls. A first novel. Reprint.
In this provocative book, Michael Bhaskar looks at why the flow of big, world-changing ideas has slowed, and what this means for the future.
They made knowledge. Frontiers of Science offers a new framework for approaching American intellectual history, one that transcends political and cultural boundaries and reveals persistence across the colonial and national eras.
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In this bold new book, distinguished philosopher Isabelle Stengers shows that research is deeply intertwined with broader social interests, which means that science cannot race ahead in isolation but must learn instead to slow down.
The fourteen chapters of this book cover the central ideas and concepts of chaos and fractals as well as many related topics including: the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, cellular automata, L-systems, percolation and strange attractors.
A thrilling homoerotic odyssey etched in the cross-currents of lust, greed, murder, and revenge as the struggle of two men against a depraved killer draws us into the heart of...
The story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliestt Times to the Date of their removal to the west, 1838.
Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages Filled with rich ethnographic and ...
The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world – this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.
Unsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time.