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This provocative new study proves the existence of a de facto Confederate policy of giving no quarter to captured black combatants during the Civil War--killing them instead of treating them as prisoners of war. Rather than looking at the massacres as a series of discrete and random events, this wor... More

This introductory book contains all the knowledge needed to get started with Mathematica quickly and easily. Self-test problems are given with each section and readers learn Mathematica through examples which concentrate on particular aspects of the Mathematica software.... More

Charles Darwin stands as a towering figure in the history of science, who changed the direction of modern thought in establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. This unique selection of his letters offers a fascinating window onto the daily experience of Darwin as naturalist and family man, from... More

This special anniversary edition of Burkhardt's bestselling work, "Origins: Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859," now includes previously unpublished letters.Charles Darwin changed the direction of modern thought by establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. This fascinating selecti... More

This volume inaugurates a complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's letters are available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. The first volume of the edition contains the letters of the years 1... More

This is the second volume of the complete edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin. The letters in this volume were written during the seven years following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage. It was a period of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recogni... More

This volume covers the first years of Darwin's study of the structure and systematics of barnacles: work that involved a worldwide search for specimens, detailed microscopic investigations, a consideration of the theoretical assumptions underlying classification schemes, and the solution of practica... More