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The Personal President: Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled
Theodore J. Lowi
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• Author(s): Theodore J. Lowi • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American Government - Executive BranchLooks at how the office of the presidency has changed, argues that the president has ...
View full detailsPraying for Justice
Carol J. Greenhouse
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• Author(s): Carol J. Greenhouse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Violence in SocietyAnthropologist Carol J. Greenhouse offers an ethnographic study of attitudes toward conflict and law ...
View full detailsHeidegger: The Makings of Anthropology
Christopher Fynsk
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• Author(s): Christopher Fynsk • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernChristopher Fynsk here offers a sustained critical reading of texts written by Martin Heideg...
View full detailsEssays in International Economic Theory, Volume 1: The Theory of Commercial Policy
Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Robert C. Feenstra
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• Author(s): Jagdish N. Bhagwati | Robert C. Feenstra • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThese two volumes contain seventy essays chosen largely for theoriginality of their contributions.The first vo...
View full detailsActors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems
Gul Agha
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• Author(s): Gul Agha • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Computer ScienceThe transition from sequential to parallel computation is an area of critical concern in today's computer technology, particularly in architectur...
View full detailsResearch Guide to the Russian and Soviet Censuses
Ralph S. Clem
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• Author(s): Ralph S. Clem • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: DemographyTaken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the larg...
View full detailsThe Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1845-1847
Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth
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• Author(s): Margaret Fuller | Robert N. Hudspeth • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LettersFrom 1844 to 1847 Margaret Fuller served as review editor for Horace Greeley's New-York Herald T...
View full detailsAsymmetries In Time: Problems in the Philosophy of Science
Paul Horwich
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• Author(s): Paul Horwich • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsTime is generally thought to be one of the more mysterious ingredients of the universe. In this intriguing book, Paul Horwich ...
View full detailsTheory of Recursive Functions and Effective Computability
Hartley Rogers
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• Author(s): Hartley Rogers • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Logic
The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives
Beryl Rawson
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• Author(s): Beryl Rawson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - RomeLittle has been published on the Roman family, a subject of central importance to political as well as social his...
View full detailsBritish Politics in the 1930s and 1940s
Paul Adelman
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• Author(s): Paul Adelman • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General
Hymenoptera. Opiinae III
Maximilian Fischer
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• Author(s): Maximilian Fischer • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Hymenoptera. Opiinae III" verfügbar.
Archidamian War
Donald Kagan
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• Author(s): Donald Kagan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis book, the second volume in Donald Kagan's tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War, is a provocative and tigh...
View full detailsKnowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science
Joseph Rouse
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• Author(s): Joseph Rouse • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsThis lucidly written book examines the social and political significance of the natural sciences...
View full detailsChange and Continuity in British Society, 1800 1850
Richard Brown, Richard Brown, Christopher Daniels
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• Author(s): Richard Brown | Richard Brown | Christopher Daniels • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & Humanities
Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, Swoc, and the United Steelworkers
Paul F. Clark, Peter Gottlieb, Donald Kennedy
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• Author(s): Paul F. Clark | Peter Gottlieb | Donald Kennedy • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralMore than any other labor victory of the 1930s, the emergence of the Steel Worke...
View full detailsDemeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth
Nancy Bookidis, Ronald S. Stroud
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• Author(s): Nancy Bookidis | Ronald S. Stroud • Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athen • Publisher Imprint: American School of Classical Studies at Athen • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologyWhen the Roman tourist Pausanias vi...
View full detailsG. B. Shaw: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings about Him, 1931-1956
Elsie B. Adams, Donald C. Haberman
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• Author(s): Elsie B. Adams | Donald C. Haberman • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes
Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest
Robert Edelman
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• Author(s): Robert Edelman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn this book, conceived and written for the general reader as well as the specialist, Rob...
View full detailsThe Invisible Link: Japan's Sogo Shosha and the Organization of Trade
Thomas B. Lifson, Michael Y. Yoshino
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• Author(s): Thomas B. Lifson | Michael Y. Yoshino • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralA sogo shosha is like no other type of company. The Invisible Link provides a systematic and well-balanced descri...
View full detailsUpscaling Downtown
Brett Williams
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• Author(s): Brett Williams • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn Upscaling Downtown, anthropologist Brett Williams provides an ethnography of a changing urban neighborhoo...
View full detailsRule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830 1914
Patrick Brantlinger
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• Author(s): Patrick Brantlinger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshA major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of D...
View full detailsThe Travel Diary of Peter Tolstoi
Peter Tolstoi
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• Author(s): Peter Tolstoi • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: General
Revolution and Culture
Zenovia A. Sochor
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• Author(s): Zenovia A. Sochor • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionZenovia A. Sochor here assesses one of the most important debates within the Bolshevik...
View full detailsWork on Myth
Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace
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• Author(s): Hans Blumenberg | Robert M. Wallace • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of t...
View full detailsCharles I
Christopher W. Daniels, John Morrill
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• Author(s): Christopher W. Daniels | John Morrill • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesCharles I's accession to the throne in 1625 was probabl...
View full detailsIntensional Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality
Edward Zalta
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• Author(s): Edward Zalta • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsIn this book, Edward N. Zalta tackles the issues that arise in connection with intensional logic and intentional states.In this book, Edward N. Za...
View full detailsA Storyteller and a City: Sherwood Anderson's Chicago
Kenny Williams
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• Author(s): Kenny Williams • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: General
A Practical Guide to Subcontracting
R. Jones
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• Author(s): R. Jones • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialConcise review of the rules and regulations for employing labour directly, labour-only subcontractors or supply an...
View full detailsMarkets for Power: An Analysis of Electric Utility Deregulation
Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee
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• Author(s): Paul L. Joskow | Richard Schmalensee • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: ElectricityThis timely study evaluates four generic proposals for allowing free market forces to replace government regulation in the...
View full detailsThe Witness and the Other World
Mary Baine Campbell
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• Author(s): Mary Baine Campbell • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - African AmericanSurveying exotic travel writing in Europe from late antiquity to the age of discover, The Wi...
View full detailsEssays on Moral Realism
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
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• Author(s): Geoffrey Sayre-McCord • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyFor the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschew...
View full detailsPossible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences: Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65
Allén Sture
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• Author(s): Allén Sture • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: GeneralNo detailed description available for "Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences".
With Stalin Against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism
Ivo Banac
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• Author(s): Ivo Banac • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralIn 1948 in a series of moves that culminated in the famous Cominform Resolution, Stalin struck at the Comm...
View full detailsSoutheast Asian Ephemeris
J. C. Eade
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• Author(s): J. C. Eade • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: AlmanacsEade has checked the dates of more than 250 inscriptions from Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. ...
View full detailsTelling the American Story: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling
Livia Polanyi
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• Author(s): Livia Polanyi • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyStories reflect culture, and American stories reflect American culture is Livia Polanyi's provocative thesis in Telling the American...
View full detailsWhat Is to Be Done?
Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Michael R. Katz, William G. Wagner
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• Author(s): Nikolai Chernyshevsky | Michael R. Katz | William G. Wagner • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: ClassicsNo work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's...
View full detailsBrisante Wörter von Agitation bis Zeitgeist
Gerhard Strauß, Ulrike Haß, Gisela Harras
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• Author(s): Gerhard Strauß | Ulrike Haß | Gisela Harras • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralKeine ausf�hrliche Beschreibung f�r "Brisante W�rter von Agitation bis Zeitgeist" verf�gbar.
Public Property and Private Power: The Corporation of the City of New York in American Law, 1730 1870
Hendrik A. Hartog
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• Author(s): Hendrik A. Hartog • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil Procedure
Realism and Revolution: Balzac, Stendhal, Zola and the Performances of History
Sandy Petrey
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• Author(s): Sandy Petrey • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchSandy Petrey here looks at the emergence of nineteenth-century French realism in the light of the concept of s...
View full detailsHistory and Power in the Study of Law
June Starr, Jane F. Collier
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• Author(s): June Starr | Jane F. Collier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialBuilding on earlier work in the anthropology of law and taking a critical s...
View full detailsRussian Literary Politics and the Pushkin Celebration of 1880
Marcus C. Levitt
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• Author(s): Marcus C. Levitt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionIn an event acknowledged to be a watershed in modern Russian cultural history, the elite o...
View full detailsThe Unification of Germany
Michael Gorman
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• Author(s): Michael Gorman • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesThe author considers the various factors which helped to forge German unity: t...
View full detailsMoscow and Greek Communism, 1944-1949
Peter J. Stavrakis
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• Author(s): Peter J. Stavrakis • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralMoscow and Greek Communism is the first comprehensive analysis of Soviet conduct in Gree...
View full detailsTechnology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric
John M. Staudenmaier
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• Author(s): John M. Staudenmaier • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralTechnology's Storytellers documents the emergence of the history of technology as a coherent intellectual discipline. Based on an analysis of ...
View full detailsEye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War I
John Ellis
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• Author(s): John Ellis • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IMillions of men lived in the trenches during World War I. More than six million die...
View full detailsPsychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in the Philosophy of Mind
Jerry A. Fodor
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• Author(s): Jerry A. Fodor • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Mind & BodyPsychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the ...
View full detailsSelf-Consciousness and Self-Determination
Ernst Tugendhat, Paul Stern
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• Author(s): Ernst Tugendhat | Paul Stern • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: GeneralA unique synthesis of the contemporary, Anglo-American philosophical approach with an abiding concern for classical philosophical prob...
View full detailsA Commentary On Heidegger's Being and Time
Michael Gelven
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• Author(s): Michael Gelven • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsThis thoroughly revised commentary uses the most recent insights in Heidegger studies to lead ...
View full detailsMeta-Programming in Logic Programming
Harvey Abramson, M. H. Rogers
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• Author(s): Harvey Abramson | M. H. Rogers • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - GeneralA comprehensive survey of the theory and applications of meta-programming, covering problems of representa...
View full detailsNicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
W. Bruce Lincoln
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• Author(s): W. Bruce Lincoln • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionThe Indiana U. Press edition (1978) is cited in BCL3 . A scholarly ...
View full detailsRealizing Rawls
Thomas Pogge
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• Author(s): Thomas Pogge • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political
First World War Photographers
Jane Carmichael
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• Author(s): Jane Carmichael • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War IExamines the work of the official, press and amateur photographers of WWI, reproducing over 100 photographs from the arc...
View full detailsReading Southeast Asia
Takashi Shiraishi
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• Author(s): Takashi Shiraishi • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaIn this collection, Japanese scholars examine the literature of and about South...
View full detailsA Malay Frontier
Jane Drakard
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• Author(s): Jane Drakard • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe way in which Malays construe ideas about authority and government is the subject...
View full detailsJapanese Relations with Vietnam, 1951-1987
Masaya Shiraishi
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• Author(s): Masaya Shiraishi • Publisher: Southeast Asia Program Publications • Publisher Imprint: Southeast Asia Program Publications • BISAC: GeneralA chronological overview from the end of World War II to 1990. This work gives a broad analysi...
View full detailsBell: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
Robert V. Bruce
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• Author(s): Robert V. Bruce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Science & Technology
Civilized Women
Mary Moran
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• Author(s): Mary Moran • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Africa - WestCivilized Women is concerned with the intersection of cultural constructions of gender and other systems of ranking ...
View full detailsBell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude
Robert V. Bruce
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• Author(s): Robert V. Bruce • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Historical - General
The Politics of Women's Biology
Ruth Hubbard
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• Author(s): Ruth Hubbard • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryFor a range of historical and contemporary issues in eugenics, human evolution, and procreative t...
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