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This book contains an introduction to the recently developed spectral theory of associative rings and Abelian categories, and its applications to the study of irreducible representations of classes of algebras which play an important part in modern mathematical physics. Audience: A self-contained vo... More

Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction introduces all the main themes in the philosophy of science, including the nature of causation, explanation, laws, theory, models, evidence, reductionism, probability, teleology, realism and instrumentalism. This substantially revised and updated se... More

Do the sciences aim to uncover the structure of nature, or are they ultimately a practical means of controlling our environment? In "Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science," Alexander Rosenberg argues that while physics and chemistry can develop laws that reveal the structure of natural ph... More

Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg - a biologist and a philosopher, respectively - join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and r... More

This is the extraordinary account of Alex Haley's own 12 year search for his family's origins. Tracing his ancestry through six generations, he discovered a 16 year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.... More

CIA agent John Wells has been undercover so long. Wells has been building his cover in the mountains of Afghanistan. But now he's coming home. He is a man alone, used by two adversaries and trusted by neither. And as terrorists prepare to unleash the most devastating attack in history, Wells knows h... More

A dark, chilling and brilliantly written thriller set in the canyon lands of Utah. It started with a child's letter: o god help me hes going to hurt me if you don't do what he says. San Francisco psychologist Karen Wiley thought she understood moral dilemma; a tormented past, a sister lost in childh... More