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Through an exploration of women authors' engagements with copyright and married women's property laws, American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869, revises nineteenth-century American literary history, making women's authorship and copyright law central. ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:39 | In the United States today, the use or possession of many drugs is a criminal offense. Can these criminal laws be justified? What are the best reasons to punish or not to punish drug users? These are the fundamental issues debated in this book by two prominent philos... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | The wool market was extremely important to the English medieval economy and wool dominated the English export trade from the late thirteenth century to its decline in the late fifteenth century. Wool was at the forefront of the establishment of England as a European ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell's study, first published in 2007, comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historic... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | This beautifully illustrated 2007 volume describes the entire flora and fauna of the famous Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil - one of the world's most important fossil deposits, exhibiting exceptional preservation. A wide range of invertebrates and vertebra... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, if grateful. In influential European societies of the past, it was in fact a process that continued long after... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | This book proposes a selection model for explaining cross-national variation in economic voting: Rational voters condition the economic vote on whether incumbents are responsible for economic outcomes, because this is the optimal way to identify and elect competent e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | The world is going through an exceptional commodity boom triggered by a global demand shock largely caused by the sudden emergence of China and India as sizeable raw material importers. Prices of numerous commodities tripled between 2003 and 2006, resulting in huge w... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:40 | Long considered marginal in early modern culture, women writers were actually central to the development of a Protestant literary tradition in England. Kimberly Anne Coles explores their contribution to this tradition through thorough archival research in publication... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:41 | Property (T) is a rigidity property for topological groups, first formulated by D. Kazhdan in the mid 1960's with the aim of demonstrating that a large class of lattices are finitely generated. Later developments have shown that Property (T) plays an important role i... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:41 | In early modern England, religious sorrow was seen as a form of spiritual dialogue between the soul and God, expressing how divine grace operates at the level of human emotion. Through close readings of both Protestant and Catholic poetry, Kuchar explains how the dis... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | In Wealth into Power, Bruce Dickson challenges the notion that economic development is leading to political change in China, or that China's private entrepreneurs are helping to promote democratization. Instead, they have become partners with the ruling Chinese Commu... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural south and in the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Throughout its history, America has been the scene of multiple encounters between communities speaking different languages. Literature has long sought to represent these encounters in various ways, from James Fenimore Cooper's frontier fictions to the Jewish-American... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:42 | Stalking has moved from being a novel area for study to become a core area of concern for mental health professionals, lawyers and other members of the criminal justice system. It has emerged as a significant social problem which not only commands considerable public... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | After his earlier book Discourse and Context, also published by Cambridge University Press, Teun A. van Dijk in this study presents the second part of his new multidisciplinary theory of context. The main thesis of this theory is that the influence of society on disc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:43 | Based around a theme of the construction of a game engine, this textbook is for final year undergraduate and graduate students, emphasising formal methods in writing robust code quickly. This book takes an unusual, engineering-inspired approach to illuminate the crea... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | This book provides a comprehensive account of the principles and practices of fiscal federalism based on the currently accepted theoretical framework and best practices. The traditional topics of assignment of responsibilities, intergovernmental fiscal arrangements, ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | In this comparative study of the contemporary politics of deportation in Germany and the United States, Antje Ellermann analyzes the capacity of the liberal democratic state to control individuals within its borders. The book grapples with the question of why, in the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | Legal formularies are books of model legal documents compiled by early medieval scribes for their own use and that of their pupils. A major source for the history of early medieval Europe, they document social relations beyond the narrow world of the political elite.... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | Clarity, readability and rigor combine in the second edition of this widely-used textbook to provide the first step into general relativity for undergraduate students with a minimal background in mathematics. Topics within relativity that fascinate astrophysical rese... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:44 | Improve design efficiency and reduce costs with this practical guide to formal and simulation-based functional verification. Giving you a theoretical and practical understanding of the key issues involved, expert authors including Wayne Wolf and Dan Gajski explain bo... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:45 | The rise of China and India is the story of our times. The unprecedented expansion of their economic and power capabilities raises profound questions for scholars and policymakers. What forces propelled these two Asian giants into global pacesetters, and what does 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 | Biospeleology, the study of organisms that live in caves, has a tremendous potential to inform many aspects of modern biology; yet this area of knowledge remains largely anchored in neo-Lamarckian views of the natural world in both its approaches and jargon. Written ... Полное описание |
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