Its history, location, people and industry--all serve as an example of small riverside settlements that grew into industrial cities over the course of a century early in our country's history.

Describes the many kinds of wetlands in the United States and introduces the wide variety of plants and animals that depend on them.

This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship.

Perception and Imaging, Second Edition is for anyone and everyone involved with visual images and has a desire to better understand them.

This is a book that brings home, in no uncertain fashion, the discrepancy between the universe envisaged by the ancient sages and prophets and that of modern scientific cosmology, where the possibility of divine intervention looks less and ...

This is quite possibly the most useful manual on Hispanic ancestry ever published.