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In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book, first published in 2007, analyses the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | This book examines contemporary jihad as a cult of violence and power. All jihadi groups, whether Shiite or Sunni, Arab or not, are characterized by a similar bloodlust. Murawiec characterizes this belief structure as identical to that of Europe's medieval millenaria... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Financial Products provides a step-by-step guide to some of the most important ideas in financial mathematics. It describes and explains interest rates, discounting, arbitrage, risk neutral probabilities, forward contracts, futures, bonds, FRA and swaps. It shows how... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | The flow of granular materials such as sand, snow, coal, and catalyst particles is common occurrence in natural and industrial settings. The mechanics of these materials is not well understood. They are important since a large fraction of the materials handled and pr... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | This book is a critique of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the perspective of cognitive science - it seeks to examine what we have learned about human cognition from AI successes and failures. The book's goal is to separate those 'AI dreams' that either have been o... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | This book opens the debate about German history in the long term - about how ideas and political forms are traceable across what historians have taken to be the sharp breaks of German history. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | This title provides the reader with immediate access to understanding the world of international arbitration. Arbitration has become the dispute resolution method of choice in international transactions. This book explains how and why arbitration works. It provides t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | An SAT and ACT vocabulary-building program in the lively form of a mystery novel. Now students who take these entrance exams can learn more than 1,300 vocabulary words, improve reading comprehension, and enjoy a good story all at the same time. Includes exercises, gl... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | What is the source of rights? Rights have been grounded in divine agency, human nature, and morally justified claims, and have been used to assess the moral status of legal and customary social practices. The orthodoxy is that some of our rights are a species of unre... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | To what extent do the justices on the Supreme Court behave strategically? In Strategy on the United States Supreme Court, Saul Brenner and Joseph M. Whitmeyer investigate the answers to this question and reveal that justices are substantially less strategic than many... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a republic - fit together and deepen our understanding of Kant's philo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | Physical and biological systems driven out of equilibrium may spontaneously evolve to form spatial structures. In some systems molecular constituents may self-assemble to produce complex ordered structures. This book describes how such pattern formation processes occ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | Through interviews with many of the most noteworthy authors in law and society, Conducting Law and Society Research takes students and scholars behind the scenes of empirical scholarship, showing the messy reality of research methods. The challenges and the uncertain... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | Emphasising the fundamentals of transport phenomena, this book provides researchers and practitioners with the technical background they need to understand laser-induced microfabrication and materials processing at small scales. It clarifies the laser/materials coupl... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | This book presents a theoretical treatment of nonlinear behaviour of solids and structures in such a way that it is suitable for numerical computation, typically using the Finite Element Method. Starting out from elementary concepts, the author systematically uses th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | In Social Mobility in Late Antique Gaul, Allen Jones explores the situation of the non-elite living in Gaul during the late fifth and sixth centuries. Drawing especially on evidence from Gregory of Tours' writings, he formulates a social model based on people of all ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | The modern view of causation can be traced back to the mechanistic science of Descartes, whose rejection of Aristotelian physics, with its concept of substantial forms, in favor of mechanical explanations was a turning-point in the history of philosophy. However the ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | How was it possible for problems in one relatively small sector in the global financial system - the American sub-prime mortgage market - to lead to the most serious economic crisis in living memory? In this book, Alistair Milne untangles the complex world of modern ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | Interactions between waves and mean flows play a crucial role in understanding the long-term aspects of atmospheric and oceanographic modelling. Indeed, our ability to predict climate change hinges on our ability to model waves accurately. This book gives a modern ac... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | Child labour remains a widespread problem around the world. Over 200 million children can be regarded as child labourers, and about 10 million children are involved in producing either agricultural or manufactured products for export. Franziska Humbert explores the s... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | Learn the core theory and explore real-world networking issues with this richly illustrated example-based textbook. It provides an accurate view of modern networks through detailed coverage of the most relevant networking technologies, with no unnecessary extras. Car... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures in the Greek and Roman world. It considers the procedures for adopt... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:46 | Going public to gain support, especially through reliance on national addresses and the national news media, has been a central tactic for modern presidential public leadership. In Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age, Jeffrey E. Cohen argue... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:46 | In every democratic polity there exist individuals and groups who hold some but not all of the essential elements of citizenship. Scholars who study citizenship routinely grasp for shared concepts and language that identify forms of membership held by migrants, child... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:46 | Ocean Engineering Mechanics provides an introduction to water waves and wave-structure interactions for fixed and floating bodies. Linear and nonlinear regular waves are thoroughly discussed, and the methods of determining the averaged properties of random waves are ... Полное описание |
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