Physics has the reputation of being difficult to understand and remote from everyday life. Robert Ehrlich, however, has spent much of his career disproving these stereotypes. In the long-awaited sequel to Turning the World Inside Out and 175 Other Simple Physics Demonstrations, he provides a new col[...]

"Memoirs of adolescence by renowned YA authors. . . . Readers can journey to places where the seeds of imagination and keen powers of observation are planted." -- "Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
"Tell me a story of when you were little" is something children love to ask. Twenty award-winnin[...]

During the seventy-eight years of his life, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted thousands of paintings and made uncounted drawings, watercolors and sketches. Behind this prodigious output, rivaling even Picasso's, is a lifetime of struggle and anguish seldom hinted at in the work of this happy painter. Hi[...]

The contributions to this volume, selected papers from several conferences held in conjunction with the centenary of Karl Jaspers's birth, constitute the first reassessment of his significance as philosopher and scholar since his death in 1969. The contributions are grouped in eight parts, according[...]

Students of Latin and all crossword puzzle aficionados will enjoy broadening their knowledge of Latin and discovering English words rooted in Latin, with this ingenious Quid Pro Quo method-exchanging English clues for Latin words (and, for the last four puzzles, vice versa).[...]

Designed for the beginning health care student, Introduction to Medical Terminology, Second Edition, simplifies the process of learning hundreds of complex medical terms. The See and Say pronunciation system makes pronouncing unfamiliar terms easy. Because word parts are integral to learning medical[...]

Advances in geomicrobiology have progressed at an accelerated pace in recent years. Ehrlich's Geomicrobiology, Sixth Edition surveys various aspects of the field, including the microbial role in elemental cycling and in the formation and degradation of minerals and fossil fuels. Unlike the fifth edi[...]

Based on first-hand reporting from Syria and Washington, journalist Reese Erlich unravels the complex dynamics underlying the Syrian civil war. Through vivid, on-the-ground accounts and interviews with both rebel leaders and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Erlich gives the reader a better understa[...]

The work of Eugen Ehrlich (1862 - 1922) is directly relevant for an understanding of law in society and of the role of sociology of law, for both law and social sciences. Today, it is possible to see behind the smokescreen of historical debates and to assess his key ideas in the light of today'[...]