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Red Atom

Red Atom

Russias Nuclear Power Program From Stalin To Today

Reveals the history and death of the Soviet Union’s peaceful use of nuclear power through exploration of both the projects and the technocratic and political elite who were dedicated to increasing state power through technology. Paul Josephson illuminates the problems that can befall any society heavily invested in large-scale technology.

City, Country, Empire

City, Country, Empire

Landscapes In Environmental History

A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.

Drums In The Forest

Drums In The Forest

Decision At The Forks

This reissued edition deals with the French and Indian War. A discussion of the historical background of Fort Duquesne is followed by the description of five forts on the forks of the Ohio river.

Outposts Of The War For Empire

Outposts Of The War For Empire

The French And English In Western Pennsylvania

This reissued hardcover edition thoroughly examines colonial era forts through narrative and illustration. It offers information about their physical attributes as well as why they were built.

Language Of Experience

Language Of Experience

Literate Practices And Social Change

Relying on Gestalt theory, this work describes the relationship between literacy and change in both personal and social situations. It presents historical and contemporary case studies, emphasizing the ways language interacts with perception.

Theories On The Scrap Heap

Theories On The Scrap Heap

Scientists and Philosophers on the Falsification, Rejection, and Replacement of Theories

Using a wide variety of examples of rejected scientific theories, Losee provides an unusually clear analysis of the way scientific method works.

Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006).

Cognitive Harmony

Cognitive Harmony

The Role of Systemic Harmony in the Constitution of Knowledge

Cognitive Harmony is part of an exciting new trilogy exploring the theory of knowledge by one of the world’s foremost philosophers. Together the books provide an integrated approach to the subject, but each also stands alone, and they can be read in any order.

Shadows On a Wall

Shadows On a Wall

Juan O'Gorman and the Mural in Patzcuaro

As a novel deeply concerned with the relationship of politics and art, this work follows the story of department store founder E. J. Kaufmann and his interactions with Mexican painter Juan O’Gorman. The narrative describes the unexpected events that led Kaufmann to commission murals from this avid Marxist and, ultimately, his failure to use them.

Realism And Pragmatic Epistemology

Realism And Pragmatic Epistemology

Realism and Pragmatic Epistemology is part of an exciting new trilogy exploring the theory of knowledge by one of the world’s foremost philosophers. Together the books provide an integrated approach to the subject, but each also stands alone, and they can be read in any order.

90 Miles

90 Miles

Selected And New Poems

In creating this collection Suarez creatively combines poems from six previous collections with unpublished ones to give compelling expression of what it means to live in exile.

No Heaven

No Heaven

A commentary on America, this book delves into major aspects of contemporary society and expounds upon the country’s qualities, both positive and negative.

Flying At Night

Flying At Night

Poems 1965-1985

In this work the 2004-2005 U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Ted Kooser has selected poems from Sure Signs, winner of the Society of Midland Authors Prize, and the acclaimed One World at a Time.

Epistemic Logic

Epistemic Logic

A Survey of the Logic of Knowledge

Epistemic Logic is part of an exciting new trilogy exploring the theory of knowledge by one of the world’s foremost philosophers. Together the books provide an integrated approach to the subject, but each also stands alone, and they can be read in any order.

Two And Two

Two And Two

Winner of the 2007 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award

Ranging in subject matter from traditional literary matter to Hong Kong action films, the poems in this collection provide unusual perspectives on American society.

Front-Page Pittsburgh

Front-Page Pittsburgh

Two Hundred Years Of The Post-Gazette

Clarke Thomas has compiled a two-hundred-year history of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the first paper published west of the Alleghenies. From the Whiskey Rebellion to the present, the stories the paper covered reveal the history of Pittsburgh and the people who live there.

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