"The story of Smith & Wesson handguns and their evolution is one of the hallowed tales of American firearms' history," according to the firearms writer Jim Casada. Anyone who collects Smith & Wessons or is simply interested in their backstory will cherish this book.Though originally published in 194[...]
Sports prototype racing is about endurance - for the drivers, for the teams, and for the companies involved. Under the new management at Renault, and with assistance from Elf, the state-owned French oil company, Alpine made a remarkable return to sports car racing, vividly described here along with [...]
This book is a letter to you, me, all of us, from a British postie.
Global Banking, Third Edition wades into the chaos and confusion of today's global banking and capital market environment and strips out the central parts, so each can be examined separately.[...]
A critical intervention into the ongoing nature-nurture debates surrounding human development. Susan Oyama argues that nature and nurture are not alternative influences on human development but, rather, developmental products and the developmental processes that produce them.[...]
The Hungarian emigre Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In "Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason" John Kadvany shows that embedded in Lakatos's English-language wor[...]
In attempting to illuminate the plurality inherent in Chinese medical practice, Scheid redefines - and in some cases abandons - traditional anthropological concepts such as tradition, culture, and practice, in favour of approaches from disciplines such as cognitive studies and systems theory.[...]
Sports prototype racing is about endurance, for the drivers, for the teams and for the companies involved. In this story we see the effort, the blood, the sweat and the tears, reputations won and lost, life and also death. The cars were some of the most evocative ever seen, in the case of Alpine the[...]