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  • Piece of Another Period

    Four sons and a Cambridge childhood

    by Richard Boyd, Stephen Boyd, Robert Boyd, John Boyd ...
    Dixon and Amelie Boyd were Belfast medical students. Later he was a Cambridge Professor and she an Academic's wife. They and their four sons, became a Cambridge mid-century fixture. Their copious letters (and memories of those sons, the authors) bring to light an unvarnished picture of that University at a time of dramatic change.Darlingest, It not only seems but it was a long time ago. We were ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life

    Might We All Be Aliens?

    by Richard Boyd ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have been produced in the cosmos, and that the fact that the Earthly amino acids have a specific handedness provides an important clue for that explanation. The book discusses several models that purport to ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Polymer Dynamics and Relaxation

    by Richard Boyd, Grant Smith ...
    Polymers exhibit a range of physical characteristics, from rubber-like elasticity to the glassy state. These particular properties are controlled at the molecular level by the mobility of the structural constituents. Remarkable changes in mobility can be witnessed with temperature, over narrow, well defined regions, termed relaxation processes. This is an important, unique phenomenon controlling ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America

    Edited by Richard Boyd ...
    This collection of essays is an invaluable companion for understanding the composition, reception, and contemporary legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work Democracy in America. Chapters by political theorists, intellectual historians, economists, political scientists, and community organizers explore the major intellectual influences on Tocqueville's thought, the book's reception in its ... Read more

    Was $41.99 CAD Now $35.99 CAD

  • Cellular Signal Transduction in Toxicology and Pharmacology

    Data Collection, Analysis, and Interpretation

    Edited by Jonathan W. Boyd, Richard R. Neubig ...
    Covering a key topic due to growing research into the role of signaling mechanisms in toxicology, this book focuses on practical approaches for informatics, big data, and complex data sets.Combines fundamentals / basics with experimental applications that can help those involved in preclinical drug studies and translational researchIncludes detailed presentations of study methodology and data ... Read more

    $172.99 CAD

  • Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy

    Edited by Ewa Atanassow, Richard Boyd ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American political culture, yet his thoughts on democratization outside the West and the challenges of a globalizing age are less known and often misunderstood. This collection of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars explores Tocqueville's vision of democracy in Asia and the Middle East; the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Political Conflict and Development in East Asia and Latin America

    Edited by Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo, Galjart Benno ...
    Long run processes of socio-economic change generate prodigious problems of social conflict and social control, and governments responsible for these processes must therefore manage the resultant conflict. Consequently, the success or failure of a government's management of such conflicts is a crucial factor in development outcomes.This volume investigates the political struggle for development ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • State Making in Asia

    Edited by Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when states and state making are judged solely on the basis of Western history. The contributors argue that if we are to understand states in Asia then we must first recognize the particular combination of ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Asian States

    Beyond the Developmental Perspective

    Edited by Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far short of being an adequate theory of the state in Asia. The contributors critically review claims about ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Creating the Molecules of Life

    by Professor Dr Richard N Boyd, Professor Dr Michael A Famiano ...
    Series series IOP ebooks
    Creating the Molecules of Life discusses origins, including the Big Bang and the origin of the elements. With a complete presentation and explanation, this book provides evidence that the molecules of life are produced in outer space and how the SNAAP model purports to explain that origin. Extremophiles, which explain that evolution is robust enough to create life forms in a wide variety of ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • At the Top of the Grand Staircase

    The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah

    by L. Barry Albright, Michael A. Arthur, Richard Barclay, Clint Boyd, Donald B. Brinkman, Michael E. Burns, Richard L. Cidelli, Leon P. Claessens, Walter E. Dean, Don DeBlieux, Jeffrey G. Eaton, Andrew A. Farke, James D. Gardner, Terry A. Gates, Gerard D. Gierlinski, David D. Gillette, Martha C. Hayden, Hannah Hilbert-Wolf, Randall Irmis, Zubair Ali Jinnah, Kirk Johnson, Gy-Su Kim, James I. Kirkland, Douglas Kline, Lindsay Zanno, Michael Knell, Eric K. Lund, Ian M. Miller, Andrew G. Neuman, Michael Newbrey, Randall L. Nyoam, Patrick M. O’Connor, Tomas Prikryl, Eric M. Roberts, Zbynek Rocek, Scott D. Sampson, Joseph Sertich, Leif Tapanila, Edward L. Simpson, Matthew K. Vickaryous, Jelle Wiersma, Thomas E. Williamson, Michael Wizevich, Sarah E. Tindall ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship

    by Derek Barker, Richard Boyd, Paul Carresse, Brian Danoff, Albert W. Dzur, Khalil M. Habib, L. Joseph Hebert Jr., Peter Augustine Lawler, Susan McWilliams Barndt0, Thomas L. Pangle1, William B. Parsons Jr.2, Jon D. Schaff3, F Flagg Taylor IV4, Aristide Tessitore5, Alexis De Tocqueville6, Conor Williams7, Thad Williamson8 ...
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., have brought together a diverse set of essays revealing ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD