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Includes 65 common academic literacy terms and explores how they relate to genres, writing conventions, and language use. Each entry briefly defines the term, identifies variations and tensions about its use across disciplines, provides examples, and includes reflection questions. An appendix lists further readings for each entry.

Examines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance to the fields of comparative politics, sociology, and feminist and gender studies.

Argues that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are more heavily dependent on foreign supply chains against those that are less dependent on intermediate goods for domestic production.

Offers a scholarly examination of the inscriptional evidence for the Athenian assessment decree of 425 BCE, now located in Athens' Epigraphical Museum. A reading of the inscription is presented, including consideration of difficult readings, drawing in part upon A. Kirchoff's initial publication in IG 1.37.

Complete proofs of both new results and original work on polynomials and Diophantine equations are presented here for the first time in book form. Although the results are technical, they will be of interest to algebraists and those interested in algebraic number theory.

Presents an inquiry into the problem of functions defined by Maclaurin series. Walter Burton Ford introduces his own theorem of asymptotic developments, as well as other mathematical theorems, and applies them to mathematical problems. This book was published with the hope of stimulating further research in the field.

Russian artists and critics attest to the cultural changes emerging since the fall of the Soviet Union

The first scholarly collection to discuss the intersection of feminism and dramatic theory

Creates an Aeneas for our time: an age of liquid modernity, when identities seem fungible and precarious, amid a moment of political conflict and collapsing institutions. This volume gives readers new translations and close readings of important passages, and it restores Aeneas to the centre of Rome's most important poem.

Diverse thoughts on the female body as both anatomical object and cultural construction.

When Martin Esslin published The Theatre of the Absurd in 1961 he caught the pulse of Western drama as it burst into bold and surprising new forms after the Second World War. Around the Absurd is the first book to examine the history, impact, and legacy of that theatre.

The quality of most metal products depends on the condition of their surfaces and on surface change caused by wear. This collection of papers by distinguished authorities examines many of the different processes that result in wear, and it offers a wealth of material on such factors as material composition, environment, and history of the manufacturing operation.

What is Hawthorne's eminent literary reputation - "enduring" or "hypertrophied"? Both views are represented in this collection of seminal 19th- and 20th-century evaluations. Hawthorne's reputation appears secure, yet his work is still the subject of significant critical controversy.

The progression of Epicurean doctrine and rhetoric

Includes a special section on teaching Yeats

Examining the pivotal relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia, as it has changed and endured into the Indo-Pacific Era

Takes a new look at twentieth-century Turkey, asking whether its current condition was inevitable; what it will take for Turkish women and men to regain their lost freedoms; and what the Turkish case means for the prospects of freedom and democracy elsewhere.

Uses new as well as previously under-appreciated documentary evidence to link the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Checkpoint Charlie tank standoff to achieve the impossible - craft a new, thoughtful, original analysis of a political showdown everyone thought they knew everything about.

In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the ""American Negro"" in several southern African-American prisons. This volume asks how the Lomaxes' field recordings contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises.

Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America's post-Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia, Aid Imperium provides the most comprehensive explanation that links US strategic assistance to physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries.