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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Book)

Gregory Clark

ISBN:9780691141282

Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution - and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it - occur in eighteenth-century England...more details
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Economic Modeling and Inference (Book)

BJ Christensen

ISBN:9780691120591

"Economic Modeling and Inference" takes econometrics to a new level by demonstrating how to combine modern economic theory with the latest statistical inference methods to get the most out of economic data. This graduate-level textbook draws applications from both microeconomics and macroeconomics...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:482

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Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane (Book)

Kari Astala

ISBN:9780691137773

This book explores the most recent developments in the theory of planar quasiconformal mappings with a particular focus on the interactions with partial differential equations and nonlinear analysis...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:677

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Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang (Book)

James Millward

ISBN:9780231139250

Eurasian Crossroads is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:440

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Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950 (Book)

Volker R Berghahn

ISBN:9780691141220

How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:163

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Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (Book)

Stephan Haggard

ISBN:9780231140010

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance...more details
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Film, A Sound Art (Book)

Michel Chion

ISBN:9780231137775

French critic and composer Michel Chion argues that watching movies is more than just a visual exercise& mdash;it enacts a process of audio-viewing. The audiovisual makes use of a wealth of tropes...more details
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Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism (Book)

Ralph Engelman

ISBN:9780231136907

Friendlyvision is the first comprehensive account of the life of Fred Friendly (1915-1998), the most important individual in news and public affairs programming during the first four decades of American television. Ralph Engelman recounts Friendly's unparalleled influence as producer...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:424

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Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction (Book)

Herbert Gintis

ISBN:9780691140506

Since its original publication in 2000, "Game Theory Evolving" has been considered the best textbook on evolutionary game theory. This completely...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:390

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Globalizing the Streets: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Youth, Social Control, and Empowerment (Book)

David C Brotherton

ISBN:9780231128223

Not since the 1960s have the activities of resistance among lower- and working-class youth caused such anxiety in the international community. Yet today the dispossessed are responding to the challenges of globalization and its methods of social control. The contributors to this volume examine the struggle for identity and interdependence of these youth...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:334

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Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet (Book)

Donald R Prothero

ISBN:9780231146609

Donald R. Prothero's science books combine straightforward research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that desperately needs a more appealing approach to nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark style to an increasingly relevant subject of concern...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:274

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Honoring Elders: Aging, Authority, and Ojibwe Religion (Book)

Michael D McNally

ISBN:9780231145039

Like many Native Americans, the Ojibwe have a high regard for the wisdom, authority, and religious significance of old age, but this respect does not come easily or naturally. The Ojibwe constitute eldership through a sophisticated system of narrative traditions...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:382

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How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas (Book)

David P Barash

ISBN:9780231146647

So how did women get their curves? Why do they have breasts, while other mammals only develop breast tissue while lactating, and why do women menstruate...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:210

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Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (Book)

Kenneth S Deffeyes

ISBN:9780691141190

In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade - and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. Deffeyes' claim echoed the work of geophysicist M. King Hubbert...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:208

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Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory (Book)

Axel Honneth

ISBN:9780231146265

Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays published over the past five years reclaim the relevant themes of the Frankfurt School...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:222

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Philosophical Essays: The Philosophical Significance of Language: v. 2 (Book)

Scott Soames

ISBN:9780691136837

The two volumes of "Philosophical Essays" bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:461

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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Book)

Richard Rorty

ISBN:9780691141329

When it first appeared in 1979, "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that...more details
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Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation: The Mathematical Basis of Performance Modeling (Book)

William J Stewart

ISBN:9780691140629

"Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation" provides a modern and authoritative treatment of the mathematical processes that underlie performance modeling...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:776

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Programs to Reduce Teen Dating Violence and Sexual Assault: Perspectives on What Works (Book)

Arlene Weisz

ISBN:9780231134538

Interviewing practitioners from more than fifty dating violence and sexual assault programs across the United States, Arlene Weisz and Beverly Black provide a unique resource for effective teen dating violence prevention. Combining the shared wisdom of the nation's vibrant prevention community with existing research...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:316

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Rational Decisions (Book)

Ken Binmore

ISBN:9780691130743

It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions. However, Leonard Savage - the inventor of Bayesian decision theory - argued that it would be ridiculous to use his theory outside the kind of small world in which it is always possible to 'look before you leap'. If taken seriously...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:200

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Readings of the Lotus Sutra (Book)

Stephen F Teiser

ISBN:9780231142892

Specialists in Buddhist philosophy, art, and history of religion outline the major ideas and controversies surrounding the Lotus Sutra and map its manifestations in ritual performance...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:284

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Reason and Rationality (Book)

Jon Elster

ISBN:9780691139005

One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book...more details
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Reshaping the Domain of Theory in Social Work: Toward a Critical Pluralism in Contemporary Practice (Book)

William Borden

ISBN:9780231147019

For social work practice to be successfully informed by theory, practitioners need to understand how to select and incorporate contemporary theories into their work. Yet if theory is marginalized in the teaching of applied skills...more details
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Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh (Book)

Professor Elora Shehabuddin

ISBN:9780231141567

Through extensive field research, Elora Shehabuddin explores the profound implications of women's political and social mobilization for reshaping Islam. Specifically...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:285

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Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities (Book)

Karen M Staller

ISBN:9780231146142

St. Mary County is a small, rural midwestern enclave with a unique approach to handling accusations of child sexual abuse. Hoping to spare children the trauma of lengthy court appearances and probing interrogations...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:357

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Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice (Book)

Richard C Friedman

ISBN:9780231120579

-- Stephen B. Levine, M. D., Archives of Sexual Behavior...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:352

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Social Conventions: From Language to Law (Book)

Andrei Marmor

ISBN:9780691140902

Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them...more details
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Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Book)

Amy B Zegart

ISBN:9780691141039

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:317

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Stability and Stabilization: An Introduction (Book)

William J Terrell

ISBN:9780691134444

"Stability and Stabilization" is the first intermediate-level textbook that covers stability and stabilization of equilibria for both linear and nonlinear time-invariant systems of ordinary differential equations. Designed for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the sciences...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:457

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Stellar Spectral Classification (Book)

Richard O Gray

ISBN:9780691125114

Written by leading experts in the field, "Stellar Spectral Classification" is the only book to comprehensively discuss both the foundations and most up-to-date techniques of MK and other spectral classification systems. Definitive and encyclopedic...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:592

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Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Book)

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

ISBN:9780231146326

Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:256

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Substance Use Disorders in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients (Book)

Sandra Anderson

ISBN:9780231142755

The incidence of substance abuse among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals is estimated to be twenty-five percent higher than that of the general population. Internalized homophobia...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:284

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Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic: Democratic Practice in South India (Book)

Bernard Bate

ISBN:9780231147569

Though Tamil oratory is a relatively new practice in south India, the Dravidian (or Tamil nationalist) style employs archaic forms of Tamil that suggest an ancient mode of speech. Beginning with the advent of mass democratic politics in the 1940s...more details
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The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics (Book)

Charles Hirschkind

ISBN:9780231138192

Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form& mdash;the cassette sermon& mdash;has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival...more details
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The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (Book)

Guobin Yang

ISBN:9780231144209

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Despite efforts to control these activities...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:302

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The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy (Book)

Bruce Gilley

ISBN:9780231138727

Popular perceptions of a state's legitimacy are inextricably bound to its ability to rule. Vast military and material reserves cannot counter the power of a citizen's belief...more details
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The Rise and Fall of the Shah: Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule (Book)

Amin Saikal

ISBN:9780691140407

On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages...more details
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The Strategic President: Persuasion and Opportunity in Presidential Leadership (Book)

George C Edwards

ISBN:9780691139470

How do presidents lead? If presidential power is the power to persuade, why is there a lack of evidence of presidential persuasion? George Edwards...more details
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Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy (Book)

Richard D Kahlenberg

ISBN:9780231134972

In Woody Allen's 1973 film, Sleeper, a character wakes up in the future to learn that civilization was destroyed when "a man by the name of Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead." Shanker was condemned by many when he shut down the New York City school system in the bitter strikes of 1967 and 1968...more details
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Yaddo: Making American Culture (Book)

Micki McGee

ISBN:9780231147361

Established by a pair of philanthropists who believed adamantly in the power of creativity, Yaddo has hosted some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:169

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Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth: A Brief History and Philosophy (Book)

Stephen Phillips

ISBN:9780231144841

Yoga has become wildly popular in the modern world, and many have made the discipline an essential part of their routine. For serious practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:358

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Zongmi on Chan (Book)

Jeffrey Lyle Broughton

ISBN:9780231143929

Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning ( gakumon) in Buddhism and personal experience ( taiken) in Zen are separate, but the career and writings of the Chinese Tang dynasty Chan master Guifeng Zongmi (780-841) undermine this division. For the first time in English...more details
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