Category: Non Fiction

Starting in the early days of the Space Age – well before the advent of manned spaceflight – the United States, trailed soon by other nations, undertook an enthusiastic effort to study the planets of the solar system. The exceptional fruits of this research revolutionized the public’s view of their

We live in an age in which informational, expressive, and technological subject matter are becoming increasingly important. Intellectual property is the key means by which the law seeks to regulate such subject matter. It intends to promote innovation and creativity, and in doing so to support solutions to global health

Transportation Engineering, A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations (PDF) clearly describes the several aspects of transportation systems planning, design, operation, and maintenance. Transportation Engineering explores key topics, including geometric design for roadway alignment; flow, and control; traffic demand, and highway and intersection capacity. Emerging issues

Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems (PDF) introduces Spinoza into the present-day discussion on moral problems and free will surrounding this discussion. Old Western moral philosophy, for the most part, has been built on the assumption of free will as a special human capacity to liberally choose

J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the well-known South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of the San-Bushmen to make a larger theory of how myth is used in culture. He extracts their “nuggets,” the far-reaching but rarely unspoken words and concepts of language and understanding that