Presenting an informative introduction to the science of codebreaking, this book explains what algorithms do, how they are used, the risks associated with using them, and why governments should be concerned. It also highlights the explosive impact of cryptography on modern society, with, for example, the evolution of the internet.

Describes various facets of human language - its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects.

Combines an account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with examples and illustrations of anthropologists. This book discusses about the anthropology's contributions to modern thought, and examines specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture.

Martin Heidegger is probably the most divisive philosopher of the twentieth century. This introduction to Heidegger's thought focuses on his most important work, Being and Time , and its major themes of existence in the world. These themes are then assessed in the light of Heidegger's later work.

An introduction to modern formal logic, this book explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how it deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time, to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Each chapter takes some philosophical problem, and explains how it may be handled in modern logic.

Providing a non-technical introduction to cosmology, this work explains what it is and what cosmologists do. It also discusses the history of the subject, the development of the Big Bang theory, and the speculative issues like quantum cosmology, superstrings, and dark matter.