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  • - Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
    av Garth Fowden
    449

    Presents an approach to late antiquity that shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen 'world empires'.

  • - Domestic Politics and International Relations
    av Helen V. Milner
    765

    Lays out a developed theory of domestic politics, showing how domestic politics affects international outcomes. In developing this rational-choice theory, this book argues that any explanation that treats states as unitary actors is ultimately misleading. It examines the central factors that influence the strategic game of domestic politics.

  • av John L. Campbell
    495

    Tells about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. This book confronts several important problems in institutional analysis, and offers conceptual, methodological, and theoretical tools for resolving them.

  • - Induction and Analogy in Mathematics
    av G. Polya
    535,-

    Explains how to become a 'good guesser'. This work explores techniques of guessing, inductive reasoning, and reasoning by analogy, and the role they play in the most rigorous of deductive disciplines.

  • - The Planck-Bose-Einstein Theory of Heat Capacity
    av Donald W. Rogers
    969

    Einstein's theories of relativity piqued public curiosity more than any other mathematical concepts since the time of Isaac Newton. This book addresses his other great theory, that of heat capacity and the Bose-Einstein condensate. It traces the history of radiation and heat capacity theory from the mid-19th century.

  • - Secularism and Public Life in Turkey
    av Yael Navaro-Yashin
    695

    A study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. It brings poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political. It focuses on the conflict over secularism in the aftermath of an Islamist victory in the city's municipalities.

  • - Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter
    av Carl Kerenyi
    449

    The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. The author examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature.

  • - A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism
    av Fredric Jameson
    419

    Fredric Jameson's survey of Structuralism and Russian Formalism is, at the same time, a critique of their basic methodology. He lays bare the presuppositions of the two movements, clarifying the relationship between the synchronic methods of Saussurean linguistics and the realities of time and history.

  • - Stalin's First Lieutenant
    av Amy Knight
    539,-

    Lavrentii Beria has long symbolized all the evils of Stalinism, haunting the public imagination both in the West and in the former Soviet Union. This is a biography of Lavrentii Beria, Stalin's notorious police chief and for many years his most powerful lieutenant.

  • av Russell M. Kulsrud
    1 275

    Introduces plasma physics from the ground up, presenting it as a comprehensible field that can be grasped largely on the basis of physical intuition and qualitative reasoning, similar to other fields of physics. This book is intended for graduate students as well as for working astrophysicists.

  • - How Animals Process Energy, Nutrients, and Toxins
    av Carlos Martinez del Rio & William H. Karasov
    1 659

    Presents an overview of the physiological and biochemical principles that shape how animals procure energy and nutrients and free themselves of toxins - and how this relates to broader ecological phenomena. This book reviews the chemical ecology of food, and discusses how animals digest and process food.

  • - The Making of the European Settlement, 1945-1963
    av Marc Trachtenberg
    619

    America and Russia were both willing to live with the status quo in Europe. What then could have generated the kind of conflict that might have led to a nuclear holocaust? This book focuses on the central question of how a stable international system came into being during the Cold War period.

  • - Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
    av Robert Wade
    619

    Reviews the debate about industrial policy in East and Southeast Asia and chronicles the changing fortunes of these economies over the 1990s. This title extends the argument to explain the boom of the first half of the decade and the crash of the second, stressing the links between corporations, banks, governments, and others.

  • - Form, Function, Evolution
    av Robert Dudley
    1 069

    Presents an explanation of how insects fly. This book relates the biomechanics of flight to insect ecology and evolution. It begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics, and explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting.

  • av Robert M May
    969

    What makes populations stabilize? What makes them fluctuate? Are populations in complex ecosystems more stable than populations in simple ecosystems? This text addresses these questions and introduces non-linear mathematical models and the study of deterministic chaos into ecology.

  • av Robert H. MacArthur & Edward O. Wilson
    969

    Develops a general theory to explain the facts of island biogeography which builds on the first principles of population ecology and genetics to explain how distance and area combine to regulate the balance between immigration and extinction in island populations.

  • - Religion and Modernity in India and Britain
    av Peter van der Veer
    555

    Examines the mutual impact of Britain's colonization of India on Indian and British culture. This title shows that national culture in both India and Britain developed in relation to their shared colonial experience and that notions of religion and secularity were crucial in imagining the modern nation in both countries.

  • - Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking
    av Hamid Naficy
    585

    Offers an overview of the filmmaking of postcolonial, Third World, and other displaced individuals living in the West. This book offers global coverage of the genre of Accented cinema while presenting a framework in which to understand its intricacies.

  • - A Phenomenology of Film Experience
    av Vivian Sobchack
    609

    Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. This title challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus.

  • - Family Firms in Italy
    av Sylvia Junko Yanagisako
    585

    Illuminates the cultural processes through which sentiments, desires, and commitments motivate and shape capitalist family firms. This book shows how flexible specialization is produced through the cultural dynamics of capital accumulation, management succession, firm expansion and diversification, and the reproduction and division of firms.

  • av James D. Morrow
    1 079

    Adapting game theory to political analysis, this book uses a minimum of mathematics to teach the essentials of game theory and contains problems and their solutions suitable for graduate students in various branches of political science. It focuses on noncooperative game theory and its application to international relations.

  • - His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite
    av Joseph Warren Dauben
    969

    One of the greatest revolutions in mathematics occurred when Georg Cantor promulgated his theory of transfinite sets. His religious beliefs led him to expect paradoxes in any concept of the infinite. This work shows that these played an integral part in his understanding and defense of set theory.

  • - Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies
    av Ronald Inglehart
    649

    Argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This title provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population.

  • av Julian Lincoln Simon
    1 039

    Presents a concise theory for the observed trends: population growth and increased income put pressure on supplies of resources. This book tackles issues such as the supposed rate of species extinction, the 'vanishing farmland crisis,' and the wastefulness of coercive recycling.

  • - Popular Hinduism and Society in India - Revised and Expanded Edition
    av C. J. Fuller
    585

    Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings - a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. This title combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well.

  • - The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
    av Cormac O Grada
    569

    The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. This title presents the Great Irish Famine from a variety of perspectives. It concentrates on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. It highlights several economic and sociological features.

  • - Implications for Spacecraft Design - Revised and Expanded Edition
    av Alan C. Tribble
    1 039

    The breakup of the Space Shuttle Columbia as it reentered Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003, reminded the public - and NASA - of the grave risks posed to spacecraft by everything from insulating foam to space debris. This title presents an account of environmental effects that can damage or cause poor performance of orbiting spacecraft.

  • - A Primer with Applications to Orbits, Aerospace and Virtual Reality
    av J. B. Kuipers
    1 239

    Introduces quaternions for scientists and engineers, and shows how they can be used in a variety of practical situations. This book is primarily an exposition of the quaternion, a 4-tuple, and its primary application in a rotation operator. It also presents the conventional and familiar 3 x 3 (9-element) matrix rotation operator.

  • - Equality and Diversity in the Global Era
    av Seyla Benhabib
    615

    Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, this book challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. It offers insight to those who strive to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of cultural politics in the twenty-first century.

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