books by Cornell University Press     books:     Cornell University...      Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds Thomas G. West, Grace Starry West Cornell University Press, 1998 A Great Help for Teachers This is an outstanding translation of these Greek texts. These are texts that many of us regularly teach in introductory classes, and it is a great help to have such a reliable translation: the translation is clear and accessible, but maintains an unusually strict ...             Handbook of Nature Study Anna Botsford Comstock Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, 1986 Nature Lovers Bible! If you love nature, have children, teach or are involved in Scouting, you should own this book. It is a wonderful treasure and full of interesting diagrams, studies and information. This is a tremendous guidebook that will help familiarize you with plants, insects, ...             The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Richard Garrigues Cornell University Press, 2007 Best Costa Rican Bird Field Guide I purchased this book among others prior to taking a summer birding tour to Costa Rica. This is the book you will, currently, need to take with you!!! Don't even hesitate to purchase this one if you are going to be doing some serious birding. Another nice ...             Nations and Nationalism (New Perspectives on the Past) Ernest Gellner Cornell University Press, 1983 classic modernist account of nationalism Truly one of the most important books ever written about nationalism, this is also one of the few modernist accounts of nationalism that ages well. While this book was published in 1983, it is basically an expanded version of a chapter from Gellner's earlier ...             Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice Jack Donnelly Cornell University Press, 2002 A Starter and a Reference In a sense, this book is so good it doesn't need a review. Almost everyone knows that the Donnelly book is the standard and most readable text on human rights theory. It is a good starter book for the beginner. You'll learn something new on every page. My copy is ...             The Racial Contract Charles W. Mills Cornell University Press, 1999 Not Deconstruction but Still a Tour de Force "White supremacy is the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today." So begins The Racial Contract, and in the mere 133 pages that follow this line the book deftly marshals evidence from the Western political tradition and general history ...             From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods Martha C. Howell, Walter Prevenier Cornell University Press, 2001 Very helpful introduction History used to be a subject that one could view as somewhat ancillary, as an interesting subject but one that was not really needed to function in the modern world. One could dispense with studying history and still maintain a proper perspective of world events. Any ...             Weeds of the Northeast (Comstock Books) Richard H. Uva, Joseph C. Neal, ... Cornell University Press, 1997 Best weed book I'ver ever had This book was recommended to by by a university professor who uses this as a textbook in class, and I can certainly see why. There are several outstanding features besides the excellent disctiptions and pictures of plants at diferent stages of growth. How to identify ...             Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out Cornell University Press, 2008 A. Pia Abola, San Francisco, California Caroline (Cal) Baier-Anderson, University of Maryland, Baltimore; Environmental Defense Joan S. Baizer, University at Buffalo Stefi Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology Aviva Brecher, US Department of Transportation, Volpe Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Teresa Capone Cook, American ...             The Beekeeper's Handbook, Third Edition Alphonse Avitabile, Diana Sammataro Cornell University Press, 2006 Good book I like this book quite a-lot. I recommend it over BeeKeeping for Dummies. Well written, nice pictures, simple style.             The Political Unconscious Fredric Jameson Cornell University Press, 1982 Paralogisms and enchainment. Literary productions..., The Political Unconscious is a prodigious crical enterprise that unveils in a stimulating protean verve, the relationship between the political structure and the narrative enterprises of a variety of literary movements and/or individual authors. A model work of Marxist ...             Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) Richard J. Samuels Cornell University Press, 2008 Charting Japan's Political Scene Securing Japan has always been the central axis of Japanese political life, and it very much remains so today. There is a remarkable continuity in the debates surrounding Japanese security. Ideas are connected across time, and so are people: heirs to political ...             The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera (Comstock Book) Peggy Alrich, Wesley Higgins Cornell University Press, 2008 "The hundreds of orchid genera and thousands of species can seem unbelievably complex, but they are beautiful, mysterious, and alluring. Therefore we want reliable ways in which to refer to them--ways that will be understood by those who hear us or read our written communications about these plants. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated ...             Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care (The Culture and Politics of Health ... Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, ... Cornell University Press, 2008 Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ...             State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century Francis Fukuyama Cornell University Press, 2004 Key distinction One of the main contributions of this book is the underappreciated distinction between state-building and nation-building. Anyone interested in democractic nation-building ought to consider reading this volume. A clear analysis with obvious implications for American ...          products you might be interested in search for books aristophanes, introduction, nationalism, nurse-to-patient, perspectives, state-building      toavi.com    web we recommend Best weed book I'ver ever had randomly chosen DVD: Vanilla Sky