This biography traces the formative years of one of America's most celebrated and influential authors. The first of a projected three-volume life, it examines Hemingway's midwestern childhood, his journalistic apprenticeship, and his experiences as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy during World War I.

Focusing on two key figures - Woodrow Wilson and Lloyd George - this book explores the collective impact on the western democracies of the revolutions that swept Mexico in 1910, China in 1911, and especially Russia in 1917.

Andres Bello played a role in shaping the national identities of independent Latin American countries. This text explores such subjects as grammar and philology, the aims of education, international relations, historiography, Latin and Roman Law, government and society, and many others.

The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833, when the state of South Carolina challenged the doctrine of states' rights by refusing to pay national tariffs, was the major crisis of Andrew Jackson's presidency. Ellis shows how his swift, decisive response reaffirmed the primacy of the national government and helped to shape Jacksonian democracy.

Describes the microstructures of polymeric, colloidal, amphiphilic, and liquid crystalline liquids, and the relationship between microstructure and mechanical and flow properties. This book provides illustrations, practical examples, and worked problems. It serves as both a textbook for a graduate course and a research monograph.

This volume collects fifteen original essays examining the nature and significance of knowledge how.

For thirty years, Linda Greenhouse chronicled the activities of the justices as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times. In this concise volume, she draws on her deep knowledge of the court's history as well as of its written and unwritten rules to show the reader how the Supreme Court really works.

The text charts the early developmental stages in children's growing awareness and understanding of mind. More than 12,000 conversations by children between the ages of one and a half and six have been recorded, creating a picture of the first steps in the development of a theory of mind.

Applications discussed in this book include supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of biopolymers from distillers dried grains, SFE of lipids from oilseeds, pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) of functional ingredients from plants and herbs, tandem SFE/PLE of acrylamide from potato chips, and SFE and PLE of cholesterol and fat from hamster liver.

Descartes's Cogito ergo sum is one of the best-known of all philosophical formulations, but many philosophers have found it problematic. Katz proposes that the Cogito should be understood as an example of analytical entailment .

The emphasis is on psychophysical experiments measuring the detection and identification of near-threshold patterns - and the mathematical models - such as multidimensional signal-detection theory.

This study describes how two late 19th-century electronic technologies - the telephone and the electric light - were publicly envisaged both by specialized engineering trade journals and the popular media.

The ethical treatment of animals has become an issue of serious moral concern. What is the relationship between human and animals? Do animals have moral standing? The use of animals for experimentation raises these and other questions. This work presents an argument, grounded in Christian theology, for restricted animal experimentation.