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This Element presents the ?-generalized distribution, a statistical model tailored for the analysis of income distribution. Developed over years of collaborative, multidisciplinary research, it clarifies the statistical properties of the model, assesses its empirical validity and compares its effectiveness with other parametric models.

This book studies the intersection of neoliberalism and right-wing Hindu nationalism through smart city projects which are often advertised as solutions for sustainable development.

The first full-length treatment of the concept of parameter and its development through the various phases of Generative Grammar. Providing step-by-step, detailed explanations, it offers a full account of parametric theory and the development of Chomsky's framework for researchers and advanced students in syntactic theory and language acquisition.

This book introduces stochastic thermodynamics, including fluctuation theorems and the thermodynamic uncertainty relation with representative applications. It is essential reading for graduate students and researchers from physics and physical chemistry with an interest in non-equilibrium phenomena.

Ten leading international Wagner scholars discuss analytical or theoretical questions posed by Wagner's music. Addressing the works from Die Feen through Parsifal, they combine a variety of music-analytical methods with approaches to dramaturgy, hermeneutics, reception history, and discursive analysis of sexuality and ideology.

This volume chronicles important formal and theoretical innovations in Latinx literature during a period when Latinx writers received increasing acclaim while Latinx communities became targets of hostility. The essays in this collection show how Latinx writers confront this contradiction during a period of rapid change and transformation.

Realism and the Novel will be of interest to anyone who has found themselves absorbed in the world of a novel, analysing the form's ability to transport its readers to different times and places and describing distinct novelist traditions and the cultures as it travels across the globe.

Despite the Mycenaean Linear B script having been deciphered some seventy years ago, much has remained uncertain regarding the ritual ideology of Mycenaean society. This book explores this problem by investigating a new range of sources from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

A detailed and accessible reconstruction of the Stoic philosophical doctrine that our cosmos is periodically destroyed and restored. Explains its uniqueness compared to earlier cosmologies and refers to central questions in the interpretation of Stoicism, such as the role of the Stoic god in cosmology.

This book shows how advocates for women's rights, in the absence of their "own" history, used the antislavery movement as a historical reference point and model. It will be of interest to cultural and literary historians of nineteenth-century abolition, the abolitionist movement, women's history, and transatlantic reform culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

The authors start with definitions and classification of a depressed conscious state and proceed to detail practical tips in the initial assessment of patients with coma, focussing on the history and examination.

This Element covers the common presentations and epidemiology of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, progressing through the approach to investigation and management of this condition in the acute, sub-acute and more chronic timeframes.

Highlights the importance of the Soviet Union and the socialist world in shaping the rise of the international political economy we know today. Sanchez-Sibony documents how the Soviets succeeded in helping bring about financialization and international market practices in Europe.

Combining history and biography with astute philosophical analysis, Nicolas de Warren explores and reinterprets the intellectual trajectories of ten German philosophers as they reacted to and experienced the First World War. His book will enhance our understanding of the intimate and invariably complicated relationship between philosophy and war.