Edition for students and scholars of this climactic book in the epic featuring the fatal encounter between Hector and Achilles.

This engaging and accessible book explains the incredible mastery of language by young children.

A practical guide to the research tools and working skills necessary for a scientific career, for postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.

An essential guide for succeeding in today's competitive environment, this book provides beginning scientists and experienced researchers alike with practical advice on writing about their work and getting published. This new, updated edition guides readers through the processes involved in publishing for scientific journals.

Examines the emergence of population as an object of knowledge and governance through attempts to manage poverty, vagrancy, colonization, slavery, religious difference, and empire in the early modern British Atlantic world. This engaging study connects the history of demographic ideas to early modern intellectual, political, and colonial contexts.

This 1991 book is a major theoretical integration of several previously isolated literatures looking at human error in major accidents.

Allan Mazur's book tells the appealing history of the scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages, and how the waning of the last Ice Age paved the way for agrarian civilization and, ultimately, our present social structures. An engrossing combination of natural science and social history: glaciology and sociology writ large.