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Takes us on a tour of the world of boas, pythons, and basal snakes - from primitive blindsnakes to the mighty anaconda. In more than one hundred detailed species accounts, this title examines snakes as different as the cryptically patterned Madagascan Ground Boa and Australasia's beautiful Green Tree Python.

Captures the diversity of birds, and illuminates their conservation status around the world. This title features maps that show where birds are found, both by country and terrain, and reveal how a variety of behavioral adaptations - from flight and feeding to nest building and song - have enabled them to thrive in various habitats on Earth.

A guide to the birds of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia. It also covers a range of species found in the Indian subcontinent, China, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Borneo, and the Philippines. It covers the identification, voice, habitat, behavior, and range of all the region's species.

As a young man growing up near Basel, the author was fascinated and disturbed by tales of Nietzsche's brilliance, eccentricity, and eventual decline into permanent psychosis. These volumes reveal the fruits of his initial curiosity: Nietzsche's works, which he read as a student at the University of Basel, had a lifelong influence on his thought.

Features the seminars that are based on a series of 30 dreams of a male patient of C G Jung's.

Explores the fantasy system of Frank Miller, the young American woman whose account of her poetic and vivid mental images helped lead him to his redefinition of libido while encouraging his explorations in mythology.

Offers an approach to understanding the evolution of abstractionism by looking at the personal artistic development of seven of its practitioners. This book explores the works and concerns of three European abstract painters - Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky - and then those of their American successors - Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still.

A collection that offers a range of articles and extracts from Jung's writings on marriage, Eros, the mother, the maiden, and the anima/animus concept. In the absence of any single formal statement by Jung on the psychology of women, it conveys his views on the feminine and on topics that are intrinsic or related.

Lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, this book provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century.

A book that radically changes our understanding of the capitalist system, particularly the role of financial markets. It breaks free of traditional ideological arguments of the Right and Left and points to a new way of understanding and spreading the wealth-generating capabilities of capitalism.

The description for this book, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, will be forthcoming.

"The I Ching", or "Book of Changes", a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It has exerted a living influence in China for 3,000 years, and interest in it rapidly spreads in the West.

A field guide to Peru that features various Peru's 1,817 bird species. It features detailed species accounts, including a full-color distribution map.

Offers insights into the true nature of fanaticism and proposes an approach to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict. This book comments on contemporary issues - the Gaza pullout, Yasser Arafat's death, and the war in Iraq. It argues that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a war of religion or cultures or traditions.

In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures, C G Jung laid the groundwork for a psychology of the spirit. This title illuminates the concept of the unconscious, the central pillar of his work.

C G Jung had a lifelong interest in the paranormal that culminated in his influential theory of synchronicity. Combining extracts taken from the collected works; letters; the autobiographical memories, dreams, reflections; and transcripts of seminars, this book sets out his seminal contribution to our understanding of this area.

Gives modern translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle's philosophy. This title reflects issues of the philosophical interest and the perennial themes.

Covering resident, migrant, and vagrant birds of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, this guide describes and illustrates 1,388 species. It includes: maps and accounts describing identification, status, range, habits, and voice for each species; and introductory sections that provide notes on how to use the species accounts.

Brings together a comprehensive review of the world's pheasants, partridges, quails, grouse, turkeys, guineafowl, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and the enigmatic Plains-wanderer - over 250 species in all. This book concentrates on detailed identification and distribution, but also highlights conservation issues where relevant.

In no other group of perching birds has evolution produced such a degree of variation as in the 120 species of crows and jays. This guide details all species of corvid, combining text which treats each species in depth, summarizing identification techniques and reviewing all aspects of corvid behavior, distribution, population, and taxonomy.

Provides fresh insights into both famous and little-known episodes in Thomas Mann's life and into his writing - the only realm in which he ever felt free. This book shows how love, death, religion, and politics were not merely themes in "Buddenbrooks", "The Magic Mountain", and other works, but were woven into the fabric of his existence.

In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. This book covers various aspects of the Darwinian revolution, from an examination of the Victorian publishing scene to a survey of the debates between scientists and churchmen over evolutionary theory.