The standard textbook for courses in electrochemical engineering for nearly three decades, Electrochemical Systems rigorously lays out the fundamentals of mass transport, thermodynamics, electrochemical kinetics, and fluid dynamics necessary for the understanding of their interactions in electrochem[...]

From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its cou[...]

This volume traces the evolution of the American military, its institutions, strategic doctrines, and technology. The selections provide a social and institutional focus of the "new" military history, and follow the metamorphosis of the militia, the professionalization of the officers' corps, and th[...]

Was George W. Bush the true heir of Woodrow Wilson, the architect of liberal internationalism? Was the Iraq War a result of liberal ideas about America's right to promote democracy abroad? In this timely book, four distinguished scholars of American foreign policy discuss the relationship between th[...]

This edition of the multi-authored text The Witch of Edmonton offers a thorough reconsideration of the text, comprehensive notes and glossary, together with a complete transcription of the original pamphlet by Henry Goodcole.[...]

At sixteen weeks the unborn child shies away from light. At twenty weeks there is a response to speech patterns. At twenty-five weeks the baby can kick in time to music. And at six months the unborn baby can understand the subtle shifts of its mother's emotions. THE SECRET LIFE OF THE UNBORN CHILD p[...]

For the last decade, Joe Quesada has guided Marvel and its characters back to prominence as editor in chief - along the way changing the manner in which the industry works from the inside out. With those achievements part of his resume, it's perhaps easy to overlook that at the root of all his succe[...]

"First Kings is not so much a book of history as a book of religion," says Dr. Simon J. DeVries. "Through the historic events it relates, the religion of the Hebrew people was being shaped." Dr. DeVries's thorough overview of the world of 1 Kings--its geography, its culture, its politics, and the re[...]

For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper, "The Body Politic", he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and critic[...]

An 1852 account of the discovery of a 'corrected' Shakespeare Second Folio, published here with three pieces from 1860 debating its authenticity.[...]

*Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology, Ninth Edition takes mental disorders from the realm of theory into the complex reality of human lives. *Strong coverage of cultural, ethnic, gender, and women's issues.[...]