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This book examines the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 5, a seminal event in world history.

This book makes available to students and other nonspecialists a varied collection of over three hundred translated texts and more than fifty illustrations relating to women's lives in Greek and Roman Egypt. These are accompanied by an introductory chapter and full explanatory notes. It makes accessible to all those interested in social history, and in particular the lives of women, an extraordinarily rich body of material from the ancient world.

This work gives an 'inside' view of Chinese theatre and the actor in performance.

This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship.

This book compares the consequences of electoral rules and cultural modernization for many dimensions of political representations and voting behavior. It includes patterns of party competition, the strength of social cleavages and party loyalties, levels of turnout, the gender and ethnic diversity of parliaments, and the provisions of constituency service. The study covers elections held from 1996 to 2002 in newer as well as established democ...

In this ground-breaking work, Norman Yoffee shatters the prevailing myths underpinning our understanding of the evolution of early civilisations. He counters the emphasis in traditional scholarship on the rule of 'godly' and despotic male leaders and challenges the conventional view that early states were uniformly constituted bureaucratic and regional entities. Instead, by illuminating the role of slaves and soldiers, priests and priestesses,...

A broad introduction to the subject of dynamical systems, suitable for a one-year graduate course.

Examines Plato's critique of the notions and embodiments of manliness prevalent in his culture.

Although the fields of organization theory and social movement theory have long been viewed as belonging to different worlds, recent events have intervened, reminding us that organizations are becoming more movement-like and volatile and politicized while movements are more likely to borrow strategies from organizations. Topics covered in this volume range from globalization and transnational social movement organizations to community recyclin...

The first compilation of work by leading international scholars who have adopted a structural approach to the study of business.

The successful "500" series shines a spotlight on today's most breathtaking ceramic sculptures. Selected from more than 8, 000 entries by the distinguished art critic, historian, and professor Glen R. Brown--an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics in Geneva--these exquisite works will inspire both beginning and professional ceramists, as well as collectors and enthusiasts. They include Esther Shimazu's hand-built, Asian-infl...

This book deals with a non-traditional exposition of dimensional analysis, physical similarity theory and general theory of scaling phenomena.

This elementary textbook provides a step-by-step account of English grammar for all students needing a short descriptive overview of the structure of English.

Kant’, s Critique of Judgment has often been interpreted by scholars as comprising separate treatments of three uneasily connected topics: beauty, biology, and empirical knowledge. Rachel Zuckert’, s book is the first to interpret the Critique as a unified argument concerning all three domains. She argues that on Kant’, s view, human beings demonstrate a distinctive cognitive ability in appreciating beauty and understanding orga...

An innovative 2005 study exploring what economics can tell us about interpersonal relationships.

Offers evaluations of Karl Barth's significance for contemporary Christian theology.

This volume brings together nine essays on King Lear by distinguished scholars, all of which were first published in Shakespeare Survey

Aspects of Hamlet brings together authoritative articles by distinguished Shakespeare scholars.

Argues that institutions and culture serve as important elements of international legal order.

The book aims to illuminate the importance of special relativity in the examination of dynamics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism.