After being relegated to the realm of children's literature for the first 25 years of its history, the comic book industry experienced an unexpected flowering in the early 1960s. A celebration of that emergence, "Marvel Comics in the 1960s: An Issue-by-Issue Field Guide to a Pop Culture Phenomenon" [...]

The second edition of this authoritative textbook continues the tradition of providing clear and concise descriptions of the new and classic concepts in financial theory. The authors keep the theory accessible by requiring very little mathematical background. The first edition was published by Prent[...]

Numerous Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished in Southeast Asia from the 5th to the 9th century, yet until recently few concrete details were known about them. Lost Kingdoms reveals newly discovered architectural and sculptural relics from this region, which provide key insights into the formerly [...]

This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations among language, power, and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches to language, including the linguistic theories of Saussure and Chomsky and the theory of speech-acts e[...]

Focuses on making connections between biomechanics and other subdisciplines of Exercise Science. This title provides qualitative, conceptual explanation and then moves to a mathematical one, including both qualitative and some mathematical examples.[...]

James Hillman dubs his friend Luigi Zoja of Milan an 'anthropological psychologist' with good reason. Drawn from Zoja's lectures in Europe and the Americas between 2000 and 2007, this collection probes in depth one of the core issues that vex contemporary life: violence. Zoja brings a breadth of vis[...]