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This study explains how and why western architecture was exported in the 19th century to colonies in the East, and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles in turn impacted on the West. It also explores the influence of the East on writers such as Ruskin.

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The volume contains twenty-one essays by leading authorities on aspects of contemporary mathematical logic, including set theory, model theory, constructive mathematics and applications of computer science. It includes several excellent expository papers, including in particular the first thorough expositions of applications of 0-minimal structures in field theory.

As Buddhism is assimilated into the West, it is imperative that women reshape its patriarchal structures and carve out a fully legitimate, empowering position for themselves. Marianne Dresser brings together the likes of Pema Chodron, Tsultrim Allione, and bell hooks, 30 women in all, who are doing just that. Writers, nuns, scholars, priests--even a martial arts master and a private investigator--discuss women in Buddhism in a range of essays....

The contributions to this book are the invited lectures (tutorial and general) presented at the XXV General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science in Belgium, August 1995. They are surveys of current and likely future developments in a diverse range of subjects under the umbrella of Radio Science.

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The Wigner symposia gather forefront researchers in the many branches of mathematical physics initiated or influenced by the work of Eugene P Wigner, who died this year. It is a group-theoretic view of Nature encompassing particle, nuclear and molecular physics, quantum optics, random matrices, and the study of groups themselves.

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This work probes the philosophical presuppositions that underpin Jacques Maritain's political theory, particularly his theory that democracy and Christianity are inexorably linked. It is particularly relevant today with the rise of "bourgeois liberal democracy" in the US and Western Europe.

Empire Building is a study of how and why western architecture was exported to the East and how Islamic and Byzantine architectural ideas and styles impacted on the West.

Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', Neil Smith explores the interconnections of urban policy, eviction and homelessness.

A comprehensive exploration of what constitutes a lesbian and gay artist and what differentiates them from their audience.

This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment.

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This guidebook, now thoroughly updated and revised in its second edition, gives comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing valid data for water quality assessments in all types of

This biography defies the conventional portrait of Frieda Lawrence as "love goddess" and "Earth mother", depicting instead a strong-willed, independent-minded, creative woman who broke every social and sexual taboo of her time.

This text provides a clear treatment of Fourier series, Fourier tranforms, and FFTs. The sofware included with the book and updated for this edition enables you to generate images of Fourier analysis described in the text. Topics include applications to vibrating strings (including computer animation), heat conduction, removal of noise and frequency detection, filtering of Fourier series and improvement of convergence, electron diffraction, im...

The Severans analyses the colorful decline of the Roman empire during the reign of the severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learning and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and the remarkable personalities of the imperial family.