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Weeds of the Northeast (Comstock Books)

28 reviews
Richard H. Uva, Joseph C. Neal, ...

Cornell University Press, 1997

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Weeds.....
This is the BEST book on the subject......and coming from the experts at Cornell, it is to be expected. Fine photography, making identification a breeze. A great addition to the home library!

The Racial Contract

6 reviews
Charles W. Mills

Cornell University Press, 1999

Not Deconstruction but Still a Tour de Force
"White supremacy is the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today." So begins The Racial Contract, and in the mere 133 pages that follow this line the book deftly marshals evidence from the Western political tradition and general history to effectively place race at the heart of political theory. It centrally elucidates the ways in which the social contract has ...

Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan
Sean L. Malloy

Cornell University Press, 2008

Atomic Tragedy offers a unique perspective on one of the most important events of the twentieth century. As secretary of war during World War II, Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) oversaw the American nuclear weapons program. In a book about how an experienced, principled man faltered when confronted by the tremendous challenge posed by the intersection of war, diplomacy, and technology, Sean L. Malloy examines Stimson's struggle to reconcile his ...

Handbook of Nature Study

20 reviews
Anna Botsford Comstock

Comstock Publishing/Cornell University Press, 1986

Nature Lovers Bible!
If you love nature, have children, teach or are involved in Scouting, you should own this book. It is a wonderful treasure and full of interesting diagrams, studies and information. This is a tremendous guidebook that will help familiarize you with plants, insects, trees, mushrooms -- you name it!

Tropical Plants of Costa Rica: A Guide to Native and Exotic Flora

5 reviews
Willow Zuchowski

Cornell University Press, 2007

A very handy plant guide for visitors to Costa Rica
I picked up a copy of this guide (published in San Jose by Zona Tropical) at La Selva last year and consider it a worthy addition to the small library I carry in Costa Rica. I would recommend it as the most useful single volume work on Costa Rican plants. The guide is aimed at the amateur rather than the professional botanist: photographs are the prime means of identification, plants are ...

The Beekeeper's Handbook, Third Edition

13 reviews
Alphonse Avitabile, Diana Sammataro

Cornell University Press, 2006

Good book
I like this book quite a-lot. I recommend it over BeeKeeping for Dummies. Well written, nice pictures, simple style.

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry, Updated Edition (Cornell Studies in ...

19 reviews
P. W. Singer

Cornell University Press, 2007

A must read!
A must read for anyone interested in the private security industry and the new future of war! I served in the Kosovo region and the information about that region was 100% accurate. The US militray can no longer function without the assistance of private contractors and thier vast companies. Cpl Dombrowski 578th Engineer BN

Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

1 review
Jack Donnelly

Cornell University Press, 2002

A Starter and a Reference
In a sense, this book is so good it doesn't need a review. Almost everyone knows that the Donnelly book is the standard and most readable text on human rights theory. It is a good starter book for the beginner. You'll learn something new on every page. My copy is full of irresistable, self-made underlines, markings, and comments in the margins. It's also a good reference book, one that you'll ...

A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica (Comstock Book)

36 reviews
F. Gary Stiles, Alexander F. Skutch

Cornell University Press, 1990

nothing compares
Yes, it's too big for the field. Yes, it was published in 1989, and no update is imminent (presumably). But no birder traveling to Costa Rica should do so without this work (and Amazon offers a great price). It's also true that Garrigues and Dean have now offered a much more portable guide that can (and should) be carried in the field, and for that I'm especially grateful. But when puzzles ...

The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide

27 reviews
Richard Garrigues

Cornell University Press, 2007

The Birds of Costa Rica
The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field GuideThis is an excellent guide to take of field trips because of it's size and it is available in paperback. The information is concise, all that is needed for field trip info.

From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods

5 reviews
Martha C. Howell, Walter Prevenier

Cornell University Press, 2001

Very helpful introduction
History used to be a subject that one could view as somewhat ancillary, as an interesting subject but one that was not really needed to function in the modern world. One could dispense with studying history and still maintain a proper perspective of world events. Any inaccuracies in the reporting of world events were the responsibility of reporters, and historians were viewed in general as ...

This Sex Which Is Not One

3 reviews
Luce Irigaray

Cornell University Press, 1985

This Sex Which Is Not One
A must read for those interested in Femenist Theory. Travelling across Freudian and Lacanian perspectives, this book seriously explains, with accesible language, the female sexuality. It simply expresses very difficult theories, and guides the reader with accesible terminology from the outset. In my opinion, after reading this text, one can be said to be fluent in femenist issues. I also ...

Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

1 review
Richard J. Samuels

Cornell University Press, 2007

Charting Japan's Political Scene
Securing Japan has always been the central axis of Japanese political life, and it very much remains so today. There is a remarkable continuity in the debates surrounding Japanese security. Ideas are connected across time, and so are people: heirs to political traditions are often the direct offsprings of politicians from bygone eras, and they tend to reenact on the contemporary scene the ...

Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science

3 reviews
Stephen Van Evera

Cornell University Press, 1997

Practical guide to research/writing (and the arrows work)
Van Evera's book is simple, to be sure, but not simplistic; a prior reviewer's gibes at the notion of flow-charting a theory, with arrows, are a bit off the mark. As the reviewer notes, a theory designates a causal relationship. If so -- no matter what its other "good" points (parsimony, explanatory reach, etc) -- you can draw that causal relationship between the various independent variables ...

Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death

2 reviews
Mark S. Schantz

Cornell University Press, 2008

the old, weird America
In "Awaiting the Heavenly Country," Mark Schantz leads his reader on a tour of the fascinating and often perverse world of 19th Century death literature, philosophy, and photography. What about those post-mortem pictures of Aunt Ida on the mantle? Wondering how your friends will recognize you in heaven? How could they read and enjoy all that bad poetry about the romantic deaths of young people? ...

The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World

5 reviews
James F. Clements

Cornell University Press, 2007

Essential for bird listers
Several years ago I had an epiphany as a bird lover, and stopped keeping my Life List. For several years before that I was an avid bird lister. Clements was always at hand, at home or on the trail or on trips. I still read that well used copy from time to time, filled with my notes and filled with memories. Jim Clement's checklist was first published in 1972. The 6th edition was published in ...

Nations and Nationalism (New Perspectives on the Past)

7 reviews
Ernest Gellner

Cornell University Press, 1983

classic modernist account of nationalism
Truly one of the most important books ever written about nationalism, this is also one of the few modernist accounts of nationalism that ages well. While this book was published in 1983, it is basically an expanded version of a chapter from Gellner's earlier _Thought and Change_ (1964) with some alterations. However, even 36 years later his thesis is still as strong as ever: nationalism is ...

Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing (The Culture and Politics of Health Care ...

4 reviews
Dana Beth Weinberg

Cornell University Press, 2004

The "true" colour of healthcare...
Although this book is based in the U.S., so much is the same in Canada. I would highly recommend this book for nurses [who may be trying to figure out 'what it's all about Alfie'], for nursing students and no doubt, the public - so they can gain a better understanding of what it is that nurses are up against. As one wise person put it - it's a pity that these corporate entities in charge of ...

The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge To China's Future (Council on Foreign Relations Book)

7 reviews
Elizabeth C. Economy

Cornell University Press, 2005

powerful, well documented
Not an easy read, but one that many Americans probably should...it demonstrates well how our life styles here in the US increases demand for cheap consumer goods, resulting in corporations poisoning other parts of the planet to supply them quickly and without major expense to us. Incredibly sickening injury to the planet is well documented and presented in a professional way, and the book ...

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide, Revised and Updated Edition

9 reviews
Gerard Prunier

Cornell University Press, 2007

Clarity Triumphs Over Cliche
If you will read just one book about Darfur, I can't imagine a better choice. Nothing else I've read so deftly sorts through Darfur's complex history, making clear how geographic, economic, social and political strands of the region's past made it vulnerable to the crimes perpetrated there. Prunier takes a seemingly incomprehensible story and makes it almost perfectly comprehensible. ...

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