This is a paperback reprint of a cloth edition published in 1996. Kane explores the significance of recent work about free will for contemporary concerns in ethics, politics, science, and religion, and also defends a "libertarian" conception of free will in a way that responds to contemporary scient[...]

Citizen Kane is arguably the most admired and significant film since the advent of talking pictures. No other film is quite so interesting from both artistic and political points of view. To study it even briefly is to learn a great deal about American history, motion-picture style, and the literary[...]

Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured t[...]

Offers an overview of partical physics for readers with little scientific knowledge, covering the history of the field, the established facts, and the state of current research[...]

For beginning and intermediate typography courses.

A practical and hands-on approach.

Designed for beginning design and typography students, this text assists students in understanding and demonstrating the basic principles of typography. Focused on intent and content, not affect or s[...]

There are thousands of social entrepreneurship programs in various stages of planning and implementation at any given time. For the most part, these programs start out small with the intention of "scaling up" based on trial and error. One Laptop per Child started out with a very ambitious mission--t[...]

Written by established and acclaimed authors in the field of sports sociology, this book combines fascinating empirical studies and theoretical debates to examine sports identity in society today. This title was written by leading scholars in the field. It examines key issues, including race, disabi[...]

What makes an ultimate hero? A man who'll give his all Sheriff Lucas is the law in his small bayou town. And the mayor's secretary Mariah has often weathered his powerful fury. But when a kidnapper takes her son, Mariah knows Lucas will do anything to bring back her precious little boy - and win her[...]

The first of its kind--a comprehensive collection of the best of the villanelle, a delightful poetic form whose popularity ranks only behind that of the sonnet and the haiku.
With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeating lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the [...]

OpenGL(R) Shading Language, Third Edition, extensively updated for OpenGL 3.1, is the experienced application programmer's guide to writing shaders. Part reference, part tutorial, this book thoroughly explains the shift from fixed-functionality graphics hardware to the new era of programmable graphi[...]