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Hinduism: The Essential Readings is a compact but comprehensive collection of readings spanning the entire history of Hinduism, including both classic texts and non-traditional voices. No reader on the market will have the chronological, topical, and authorial breadth of this volume.

Free Creations of the Human Mind: The Worlds of Albert Einstein presents a concise and nuanced account of Einstein's life and work embedded in his intellectual and social contexts. His life is interconnected with so many of the important political and intellectual movements of his era - Zionism, pacifism, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, civil rights, McCarthyism, the League of Nations, and substantial discoveries in epochal theories of special relativity and quantum theory. His views on important political and intellectual movements of his era shaped the world he lived in while his persona acquired a formidable patina deposited by generations of apocryphal mythmaking, both during and after his lifetime.

Undaunted Mind tells the story of the development of Benjamin Franklin's intellect beginning with the earliest books he read as a child in Boston, his formal schooling and independent study, through his time in London, Paris, and Philadelphia, where he established himself as one of America's leading intellectuals and philanthropists. The story of Franklin's intellectual life is also the story of the friends he made in various stages of his life, so this book illuminates his circles of illustrious friends who encouraged his reading, his community improvement projects, and his scientific research.

In New York during the 1980s and early 1990s crime was seen, justifiably, as out of control. Then, between 1993 and 1996, New York City's murder rate decreased by fifty percent. Back from the Brink is an unofficial police history and narrative of the people and events that made New York City the safest big city in America. Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former police officer, takes readers behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into effective law enforcement directly from the police officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s, and won.

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Punishment is the most comprehensive collective work that has yet been published on the philosophical aspects of punishment. It is divided into ten sections covering all the main philosophical challenges arising from the questions of why, when, and how offenders should be punished for their misdeeds. Among the central themes are issues such as: how can the use of punishment be justified, what types of punishment can legitimately be imposed on offenders, and how should one determine the severity of punishments? The chapters are written by many of the field's leading scholars.

On Elton John offers a lively, provocative, and imaginative new way to explore the career and music of Elton John within the contexts both of other artists from David Bowie to Britney Spears and of sweeping shifts in popular culture during Sir Elton's lifetime. A must-have for fans, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in music history, popular culture, and the social issues of our era.

The Biology of Us describes the common but fascinating examples of biology and nature that are hidden in plain sight in our daily lives. It focuses on human biology, but describes animals and plants all around, on, and in us to put human features into an evolutionary context. Many aspects of ourselves and our normal activities are examples of evolution: breathing, eating, standing up, communicating, telling time, and more. This book illustrates evolutionary strategies used successfully by common organisms for hundreds of millions of years. Howard shows that the organisms in our daily lives are not trivial neighbors or even pests but are just as amazing as those in the Serengeti or the Galápagos Islands.

This eye-opening volume draws extensively on previously unused sources to chronicle the 1852 Utah territorial legislative session, during which the legislature passed two important statutes: one that legally transformed African American slaves into "servants" but did not pass the condition of servitude on to their children and another that authorized twenty-year indentures for enslaved Native Americans. This Abominable Slavery places these debates within the context of the nation's growing sectional divide and contextualizes the meaning of these laws in the lives of Black enslaved people and Native American indentured servants.

Supporting Your Teen's Mental Health is an essential resource for parents and caregivers looking to support teenagers who are struggling with mental health concerns. Written in a conversational tone by psychologist and fellow parent Andrea Temkin-Yu, the workbook is a thorough, evidence-based guide to essential parenting strategies that have been proven to help improve relationships and behavior. With plenty of examples and interactive exercises, this workbook will help parents feel more confident and prepared as they work to help their teen.

The core content of this textbook is designed to reflect the teaching elements of an intensive, one-week eradication course given first to graduate students at the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, United States, during the summer of 2012. Given the rapidly changing medical and development world, this textbook highlights essential issues for success, illustrated by disease-specific case studies.

Killing the Messiah reconstructs the trial of Jesus of Nazareth and the roles played by various people, especially Pontius Pilate, in his crucifixion. It places Jesus' trial in the legal context of Roman Judaea to identify the crime he reportedly committed, why he committed it, and the obligations that authorities fulfilled by having him arrested and tried.