Allan Franklin provides an overview of notable experiments in particle physics. Using papers published in Physical Review, the journal of the American Physical Society, as his basis, Franklin details
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Masterworks of Cuban literature, an early formulation of the concept of ?Cubanidad,” Cuban-American music that reflects today’s Cuba, the revisionist interpretation of Jose Marti in Cuba, and a study
This book surveys the nature and structure of theories in contemporary neuroscience and explores many of its methodological techniques and problems. Twelve essays consider basic questions about how t
Mexico City became one of the centers of architectural modernism in the Americas in the first half of the twentieth century. Invigorated by insights drawn from the first published histories of Mexican
Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. Cuban Studies 45 features two special dossiers
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Initially commissioned to record the progress of Pittsburgh's renaissance, photographer Stryker's b&w photographs capture the city in a state of flux and reveal a number of contrasts (such as the
The eight essays in Milton Studies 50 offer profound insights into Milton's poems, ranging from Comus and Lycidas, to Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. One essay offers an entirely new direction fo
To most scientists, and to those interested in the sciences, understanding is the ultimate aim of scientific endeavor. In spite of this, understanding, and how it is achieved, has received little att
When Fat Boy, the first atomic bomb was detonated at Los Alamos, New Mexico in 1945, moral responsibility in science was forever thrust into the forefront of philosophical debate. The culmination of
