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A general anthropology for the university level.

From Social Analysis issue 42(2) JULY 1998

Textbook for critical thinking across academic study areas. Contents: What is critical thinking? -- The elements of reasoning -- What is critical thinking withing a field or discipline?

An airliner attempting a bad-weather landing in a Midwest city plows into another awaiting takeoff.

Short review of Chemotherapy treatment for cancer in general.

It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well.

The rise and fall of motivation 2.0 -- Reasons carrots and sticks (often) don

Afghanistan. Every year, an assignment for thousands of British personnel. Some of them bring back more than memories. TV producer Dan Simmons wants to film it all.

Based on the real life of a remarkable young woman at the beginning of the last century, this is the gripping, heart-wrenching story of Jessica and her courageous fight for justice and love against

Private Investigator Leo Rivers finds himself at the overheated heart of an inquiry into the savage killing of several young women.

a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years-from the Soviet invasion to the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding-that puts the violence,

Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolutio