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Business papers are in a triumphant mood, buoyed by a conviction that the economic stagnation of the last quarter century has vanished in favor of a new age of robust growth. This book challenges the economic orthodoxies of the political right and center, popularized by such economists as Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman.

Chronicles the Queen's decision making throughout her reign. This book talks about Elizabeth's many mythic images and the steps of Elizabethan policy-makers as they grappled with the most crucial political problems of their day. It investigates how Elizabeth and her ministers governed in the years between the Armada of 1588 and her death in 1603.

Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, this title offers a vision of the central role that language and the arts of language can play in the great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind.

Looks at how campaigns actually work, from the framing of issues to media coverage to voters' decisions. Examining contested US Senate races between 1988 and 1992, this work challenges the common wisdom that campaigns are a noisy, symbolic aspect of electoral politics, in which the outcomes are determined mainly by presidential popularity.

Presents a social and political history of German communism from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1990. This book describes the emergence of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) against the background of Imperial and Weimar Germany.

Reimagines the origins of "American" identity by juxtaposing authors such as Hawthorne, Melville, and Thoreau with Native American, African American, and women authors. This book identifies an unresolvable conflict between America's multicultural history and its violent will to monoculturalism.

Combines field research with historical inquiry to produce a study of a minority people in Russia, the Khanty (Ostiak) of Northwest Siberia. This book shows that processes of acquiring ethnic identity can involve transcending victimhood. It brings Khanty views of their history and life into focus, revealing multiple levels of cultural activism.

Written by four experienced teachers of beginning Chinese, this introductory textbook includes lessons that are relevant to everyday life. The features include: concentrated training of ear and tongue in the sound system of Chinese; grammar notes with attention to mistakes English-speakers are likely to make; and a sequenced character workbook.

Traces the emergence of the 'New Woman' by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. This book tracks how US women exploited the freedom offered by the nation's periodical press columns to engage in debate with each other and with men over matters of mutual concern.

Presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. This book shows that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities.

An exploration of how foreign trade policy is made in democratic regimes. Constructing a general theory in which existing theories (rent-seeking, median voting, state autonomy) function as partial explanations, it shows that trade institutions are not fixed entities but products of political competition.

"A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people, After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the individuals and communities who are working together to heal historical wounds-and reveals how much we have to gain by learning from our history instead of denying it. Jacobs traces the brutal legacy of systemic racial injustice to Indigenous people that has endured since the nation's founding. Explaining how early attempts at reconciliation succeeded only in robbing tribal nations of their land and forcing their children into abusive boarding schools, she shows that true reconciliation must emerge through Indigenous leadership and sustained relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people that are rooted in specific places and histories. In the absence of an official apology and a federal Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ordinary people are creating a movement for transformative reconciliation that puts Indigenous land rights, sovereignty, and values at the forefront. With historical sensitivity and an eye to the future, Jacobs urges us to face our past and learn from it, and once we have done so, to redress past abuses. Drawing on dozens of interviews, After One Hundred Winters reveals how Indigenous people and settlers in America today, despite their troubled history, are finding unexpected gifts in reconciliation"--

In a lucid history of what used to be termed "e;the Dark Ages,"e; Judith Herrin outlines the origins of Europe from the end of late antiquity to the coronation of Charlemagne. She shows that the clash between nascent Islam and stubburn Byzantium was the central contest that allowed "e;Europe"e; to develop, and she thereby places the rise of the West in its true Mediterranean context. Her inquiry centers on the notion of "e;Christendom."e; Instead of taking medieval beliefs for granted or separating theology from politics, she treats the faith as a material force. In a path-breaking account of the arguments over Christian doctrine, she shows how the northern sphere of the Roman world divided into two distinct and self-conscious imperial units, as the Arabs swept through the southern regions.One of the most interesting strands of the author's argument concerns religious art and iconoclasm. Her book shows how the impact of Islam's Judaic ban on graven images precipitated both the iconoclast crisis in Constantinople and the West's unique commitment to pictorial narrative, as justified by Pope Gregory the Great.

Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world.

Using shells to explore major areas of biology, the author of this celebration of the shell examines such issues as the evolution of shells and their function. He demonstrates how shells provide insight into the lives of animals of this era, as well as those of the distant past.