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Book SynopsisDuring the reign of Emperor Ch'ien-lung, mass hysteria broke out among the common people, who feared that sorcerers were roaming the land and clipping the ends of men's braids in order to steal their souls. In his chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecutions that ensued, Kuhn opens a window on eighteenth-century China.Trade ReviewA masterful study by one of the West’s premier Chinese historians. -- Frederic Wakeman, Jr. * New York Review of Books *Kuhn’s fascinating particulars demonstrate how in any society provincial panic can become a national witch-hunt. * New Yorker *A subtle, powerful, and still relevant inquiry into the dynamics of autocratic rule. -- From the Joseph Levenson Book Prize citationTable of Contents* Introduction * A Time of Turmoil * Model Rulers * Reforming into Collapse * The Song in the South * Three Doctrines * Education and Examination * Life Cycle Rituals * Exploring the World Within and Without * Transforming the Capitals * A Changing World of Production * Money and Taxes * Private Lives in the Public Sphere * Conclusion * Dynastic Rulers * Measures * Pronunciation Guide * Notes * Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisUnlike traditional Japanese literature, with its rich tradition of comedy, modern Japanese literature is commonly associated with high seriousness. Cohn analyzes works by three writersIbuse Masuji (18981993), Dazai Osamu (19091948), and Inoue Hisashi (1934 )that assault the notion that comedy cannot be part of serious literature.Trade ReviewDespite the flourish of Western studies of Japanese literature in the past few decades, the comic spirit in modern Japanese fiction has been largely overlooked, and Joel Cohn in this pioneering project has undertaken the challenging task of identifying the source of laughter...Hopefully this book will inspire many to search for laughter, to the gentle comic spirit, in modern Japanese literature as well as its connection to the past. -- Angela Yiu * Journal of Japanese Studies *This is a book for the educated devotee of Japanese fiction, or the catholic literary scholar, or the enthusiastic plunger with a penchant for the deep end. To categorise it as one for the expert might be off-putting. It may be a case of caviare to the general. The author's understanding of the depths and subtleties of the Japanese language compels admiration. His ability to relate the work of his subjects, Ibuse Masuji, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi, to the wider and more distant literary contexts of Aristophanes, Rabelais, Molière and Bergson is not showmanship, but scholarship. -- Sidney Giffard * Japan Society *

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Book SynopsisThis study of the policy-making process in China during the Sino-French controversy of 1880–1885 illuminates China's response to the West in the 19th century. The threat of French efforts to extend control into northern Vietnam was the catalyst in Chinese policy decisions; Eastman traces the process by which the problem was eventually resolved.

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Book SynopsisIn this study, Kunio Odaka discusses the complex attitudes of Japanese workers toward management, unions, work, and leisure. The results of his scholarly surveys indicate a trend toward the democratization of Japanese industrial management. In part, the book is a presentation of Odaka's belief in the necessity for greater worker participation in the decisions that affect their working lives, a belief that is indeed radical in the Japanese setting.Trade ReviewThese materials are very important to anyone who wishes to understand the structure of Japanese society. Indeed, in this role they are close to unique…Odaka's study makes a basic contribution to comparative industrial sociology at both the descriptive and theoretical levels. -- Alex Inkles

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Book SynopsisIn this enlarged 4th edition Fairbank includes a new Preface and an Epilogue that bring the book up to date through 1982. He has also updated the bibliography and indexes. This book stands almost alone as a history of China, an analysis of Chinese society, and an account of Sino–American relations.Trade ReviewAn indispensable book for thoughtful people. * New York Times Book Review *Fairbank provides a miraculously concise account of Chinese civilization from its foundations to the present day… Maps, photographs, and an 80-page bibliography make this an invaluable reference work. * New Republic *[Fairbank’s] ability to transcend the academic to write a highly readable, authoritative, information-packed, perceptive and analytical account of the Chinese is unsurpassed. This is must reading for all Asiaphiles. * Asia Mail *Still flashes with brilliance in its latest (fourth) incarnation… With this latest edition of what is arguably the best guide to China in any language, American and other non-Chinese readers may finally catch a glimpse of the ‘very complex’ Chinese way of life. * Asiaweek Literary Review *As useful and timely as when it first appeared in 1948. Written by America’s foremost China scholar, John Fairbank, the book addresses a popular, not the academic, audience. It offers a sweeping view of the Chinese polity from ancient times up to the recent, convoluted period of Western contact, spiced by the wit and insight into detail of a geographer who drew the maps himself… Yet the book offers much to the specialist as well as the layman. To the historian, a state-of-the-art review of the latest historical analysis of modern China… To the student, a cogent guide to the field… For the diplomat and businessman, the work explores that most intangible but also most influential area of human feeling between the two countries that has launched ventures and derailed them. * China Business Review *The best general introduction to the Chinese political system… A book of love and great learning. * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword by Edwin o. Reischauer Preface, 1983, by John K. Fairbank Introduction 1. The Chinese Scene The Contrast of North and South China's Origins The Harmony of Man and Nature PART 1: THE OLD ORDER 2. The Nature of Chinese Society Social Structure The Peasant: Family and Kinship The Market Community Early China as an "Oriental" Society The Medieval Flowering The Gentry Class The Chinese Written Language--The Scholar Chinese Writing The Scholar Class Nondevelopment of Capitalism--The Merchant 3. The Confucian Pattern Confucian Principles Government by Moral Prestige Early Achievements in Bureaucratic Administration The Classical Orthodoxy Neo-Confucianism Chinese Militarism Individualism, Chinese Style The Nondevelopment of Science 4. Alien Rule and Dynastic Cycles Nomad Conquest The First Sino-Foreign Empires The Manchu Achievement The Nature of Chinese Nationalism The Dynastic Cycle 5. The Political Tradition Bureaucracy Central Controls Government as Organized "Corruption" Law Religion Taoism Buddhism Chinese Humanism Folk Sects and Peasant Rebellion PART 2: THE REVOLUTIONARY PROCESSS 6. The Western Invasion European versus Chinese Expansion The Arab Role The Ming Explorations Early Maritime Contact The Jesuit Success China's Impact on Europe The Tribute System The Canton System and Its Collapse The Treaty System Extraterritoriality The Demographic Disaster 7. Rebellion and restoration The White Lotus as a Prototype The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom The Taiping Religion Taiping Communism The Nien and Other Rebels The Restoration of Confucian Government "China's Response to the West" in Retrospect 8. Reform and revolution The Self-Strengthening Movement Imperialism and Reform in 1898 Revolutionaries versus Reformers Sun Yat-sen Liang Ch'i-ch'ao Dynastic Reform and Republican Revolution The New Nationalism The Revolutionary Leadership 9. The rise of the Kuomintang The Search for a New Order The Collapse of Parliamentary Democracy The Republic's Decline into Warlordism The Growth of Urban Nationalism The May Fourth Movement The Student Movement and New Literature The Nationalist Revolution The Kuomintang-Communist Alliance The Nationalist Accession to Power 10. The nanking goverment Political Development Party Dictatorship Rights Recovery The Rise of Chiang Kai-shek Echoes of Confucianism Roots of Totalitarianism Progress toward Industrialization Transportation Industry Banking and Fiscal Policy Public Finance Local Government The Rural Problem 11. The Rise of the Communist Party Vicissitudes of the First Decade The Attractions of Communism The Comintern's Difficulties The Rise of Mao Tse-tung The Maoist Strategy Yenan and Wartime Expansion Organization of Popular Support Wartime Ideological Development The New Democracy Liberation PART 3:THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 12. Our Inherited China Policy American Expansion and Britain's Empire America's Role within Britain's Informal Empire The American Ambivalence about China The Evolution of the Open Door The Integrity of China The Nature of the American Interest America's Contribution and the Fate of Liberalism 13. United States Policy and the Nationalist Defeat American Aid and Mediation The Nationalist Debacle The "Loss of China" in America Our Ally Taiwan 14. The People's Republic: Establishing the New Order Political Control Coalition Government The Party, Government, and Army Structures The Mass Organizations Law and Security Economic Reconstruction Land Reform Social Reorganization Thought Reform Communism and Confucianism Criticism, Literary and Political The Korean War and Soviet Aid 15. The Struggle for Socialist Transformation Collectivization of Agriculture The First Five-Year Plan The Struggles with Intellectuals and with Cadres China in the World Scene The Great Leap Forward The Communes 16. The Second Revolution Mao and His Opponents The Two Approaches to China's Revolution The Sino-Soviet Split The Growth of Bureaucratic Evils Cadre Life Mao Revives the Revolution: The Socialist Education Movement Repoliticizing the Army The Cultural Revolution The Aftermath Mao Tse-tung's Monument 17. Perspectives: China and Ourselves Our China Policy and the Wars in Korea and Vietnam New Perspectives of the 1970s China Today in the Light of Her Past Echoes of the Dynastic Cycle Processes of Modernization Problems of the New Order Epilogue, 1983 Suggested Reading 1983 Addenda to Suggested Reading Index to Suggested Reading General Index Credits for Illustrations

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Book SynopsisAnna Andreeva challenges the twentieth-century narrative of Shinto as an unbroken, monolithic tradition. By studying how and why religious practitioners affiliated with different religious institutions responded to esoteric Buddhism’s teachings, this book demonstrates that kami worship in medieval Japan was a result of complex negotiations.

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Book SynopsisBrian Steininger revisits Japan’s mid-Heian court of the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, where literary Chinese was not only the basis of official administration, but also a medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of celebration.

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Book SynopsisCuba has long been a social policy pioneer, with ambitious policies to address health care, education, employment, the environment, and social inequalities. Yet facing severe economic challenges, the government may look to learn from its Latin American neighbors. Social Policies and Decentralization in Cuba analyzes these issues in depth.

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Book SynopsisThe roster of Muslim superheroes in the comic book medium has grown over the years, as has the complexity of their depictions. Muslim Superheroes tracks the initial absence, reluctant inclusion, tokenistic employment, and then nuanced scripting of Islamic protagonists in the American superhero comic book market and beyond.Trade ReviewThe editors of this volume have gathered a team of scholars to examine the images of Muslims in American comics but also the powerful work emerging in Egypt, India and Kuwait. -- Matthew Reisz * Times Higher Education *This timely and fascinating collection of essays edited by A. David Lewis and Martin Lund explores the universal through the specific—focusing on Islam and Muslim fictional characters to illuminate the modern fault lines of identity, race, religion, national security, and politics. -- Wajahat AliThe anthology is not only a great academic contribution to this field but also a treat to read for anyone with an interest in comics or in the present tensions between Islamic and American cultures. -- Susanne OlssonA nuanced and compelling analysis of the ways Muslim superheroes reflect and actualize the cultural and political tensions within and between the United States and the Muslim world. Essential reading for Islamic studies scholars, religious studies scholars, journalists, and policymakers. -- Todd Green

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Book SynopsisYoon Sun Yang argues that the first literary iterations of the Korean individual were female figures in late nineteenth century domestic novels. This study disrupts the canonical account of a non-gendered, linear progress toward modern Korean selfhood and examines translation’s impact on Korea’s construction of modern gender roles.Trade ReviewFrom Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men is a brilliant account of the uneven emergence of the modern subject in Korean literary fiction, immersing us in the historical circumstances of colonialism, censorship, and the transition to modernity that shaped authors and readers alike in early colonial Korea. Taking a neglected but crucial corpus of novels known as New Fiction that flourished after the Protectorate Treaty in 1905, the book argues that the same circumstances that made the political novel impossible created a genre of domestic fiction where the traumas of transition to a modern society were thrashed out. By returning us to these complex and ambivalent literary figures who served as the unacknowledged earliest iterations of the modern individual, Yoon Sun Yang’s book makes a compelling case for the importance of this genre in understanding early colonial Korea. Written in beautiful, measured prose, this book apprises us of the costs of longing for individuality, modernity, and civilization. A work of comparative literature at its finest. -- Ruth Barraclough, Australian National UniversityYang’s important study challenges hegemonic, male-centered historical narratives of intellectual and literary modernity that are both Korean and universal. The book vouches strongly for the embodied nature of the individual subject, which is never transcendent but is always marked by gender, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation. Emerging from Yang’s clear, precise, and always insightful prose are thus many of the suppressed Others of Enlightenment rationality—insane women, queer couples, sensitive men, female ghosts, and more. An admirable example of feminist literary scholarship, this book will become a must read for scholars and students of Korean and East Asian literature, comparative literature, gender studies, and postcolonial studies. -- Sunyoung Park, University of Southern CaliforniaYoon Sun Yang’s From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men is revisionary scholarship of the best and highest order that will also reach beyond the growing field of Korean literary studies to attract scholars of other national literatures. -- Janet Poole, University of Toronto

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Book SynopsisNo nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to power than Japan. The price paid to end the most intrusive reconstruction of a nation in modern history was a cold war alliance with the U.S. that ensured American dominance in the region. Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of this relationship at a time when the alliance is changing.Trade ReviewA brilliant, elegantly written work destined to become one of the essential books on United States–Japan relations. It reflects Pyle’s broad knowledge and lifelong effort to bring coherence to the grand strategy of the United States since its rise as a dominant power in Asia and the consequences of that strategy for both nations. -- Ezra F. Vogel, author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaThis is a fine book, intelligent and necessary. Pyle, a distinguished historian of modern Japan, writes in a subtle and supple way, with an unerring sense of balance. His careful linking of the unconditional surrender demand by the U.S. to the character of the Japanese postwar settlement is fresh and provocative. I hope those who make American policy toward Japan read what he has to say. -- Andrew Barshay, author of The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956In a book that devotes equal space to the view from Japan and the U.S., [Pyle] shows equal discernment in recounting the ways in which each country came to collide and then cohabit with the other over the last hundred years. On each side Pyle uncovers things missed by a regiment of prior historians. -- Edward Luttwak * London Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisGive and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society. Maren Ehlers explores how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other as they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMarvellous Thieves, which draws on hitherto neglected sources, is a brilliant, fluent, and original work of literary scholarship. -- Robert Irwin * Literary Review *Paulo Horta has uncovered a mass of fresh evidence about key figures in the making of the Arabian Nights and communicates his startling findings with a storyteller’s verve, raising many fascinating issues about the interplay of invention, imitation, translation, and plagiarism, and probing the vexed effects of the imperial gaze and the acquisition of local expertise and languages. In Marvellous Thieves, Paulo Horta has written a highly entertaining, attentive, and scholarly work of literary detection. -- Marina Warner, author of Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsThis fine book…cogently probes an influential period in the knotted and at times sordid history of the Arabian Nights, serving as a fine example to those unraveling this promiscuous and forever malleable set of stories. -- Charles Shafaieh * Wall Street Journal *A nimble study of the Arabian Nights and its provenance. -- Anthony Lane * New Yorker *[A] vivid, intellectually lively and revelatory book…The real point about this clever book is that many of the things we think about modernity—let alone postmodernity—have already happened. Postmodernism says that the book is always fluid; no text shows this as clearly as Arabian Nights. There can be no perfect version. It shows that authors are also collaborators, translators, plagiarists, elusive. -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *Intelligent and engrossing…The great merit of Horta’s book is that its interest always lies in the story of the story, in mapping out the complex network of the translators, editors and travellers behind the Arabian Nights, in ways that enrich our sense of this remarkable text. -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *Drawing on resources that include the Vatican Library, [Marvellous Thieves] offers some fascinating revelations about the translation efforts that turned the Arabian Nights—also known as One Thousand and One Nights—into the world’s inheritance…Horta’s book has come out at a time when geopolitical developments give it added poignancy. The election of Donald Trump, the vote for Brexit, and the rise of far­-right parties in Europe have signaled a surging antipathy towards the idea of an interconnected world…In this context, reading Marvellous Thieves is a reminder of the blessings that can come from global commerce and communion. -- Celia Wren * Commonweal *In writing a biography of 200 years of Nights’ translation, with its multiplicity of voices, sources, contexts and prejudices, Horta has breathed life into another great story to emerge from the Thousand and One Nights. -- Clare Dight * The National *A fascinating work of cultural and literary history…An insightful examination of a significant literary work and the fraught complexities of translation. * Kirkus Reviews *In this enchanting work, Horta focuses on the European translations of The Arabian Nights that brought these Middle Eastern tales to a wide western audience…His fascinating search for the origins of The Arabian Nights as it exists today reveals a multitude of storytellers nearly as colorful as Sinbad or Aladdin. * Publishers Weekly *[In] this well-researched and highly engaging work, readers will uncover the origins of the Arabian Nights as it exists today in the West. This work is a major contribution to the study of the complexities inherent in translating such a masterpiece. -- Ali Houissa * Library Journal (starred review) *Horta takes the reader across empires and trade routes to discover the hidden networks of textual transmission which produced the Arabian Nights…Horta's multi-lingual research and his rich narrative style make for exciting reading. -- Sujaan Mukherjee * The Telegraph (Calcutta) *A work of meticulous cultural and literary history…This is a fascinating story of the many voices that narrated, authored, retold, embellished and translated the stories of Scheherazade; it is also an exploration into how stories travel. -- Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta * The Hindu *

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Book SynopsisMuch medieval Persianate artwork—including books illustrated with exquisite miniature paintings—was disassembled and dispersed as isolated art objects. In The Arts of Iran in Istanbul and Anatolia, a literary historian and six art historians trace the journey from the destructive dispersal of fragments to the joys of restoration.

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Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BC–ca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.

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Book SynopsisIn his seventeen-book Geography, Strabo (ca. 64 BCca. AD 25) discusses geographical method, stresses the value of geography, and draws attention to the physical, political, and historical details of separate regions. Geography is a vital source for ancient geography and informative about ancient geographers.

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Book SynopsisEvolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for understanding the structure of ecological communities and the dynamics of natural selection that shape the evolution of the species inhabiting them. All species engage in interactions with many other species, and these interactions regulate their abundance, define their trajectories ofTrade Review"Uniting the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology, Evolutionary Community Ecology is a landmark book. McPeek synthesizes niche theory and the adaptive landscape, and he integrates topics as disparate as paleontology, biogeography, phylogenetics, speciation, and invasion biology to provide a compelling research agenda for evolutionary ecology in the twenty-first century."—Jonathan Losos, coeditor of How Evolution Shapes Our Lives"In Evolutionary Community Ecology, McPeek's unmistakable message is that the tape of evolution plays out in an ecological theater, entwining both sets of dynamics. He has produced an invaluable roadmap to understanding how these two perspectives feed back on one another to generate and structure the biodiversity around us."—Edmund Brodie III, University of Virginia"One of the most important intellectual tasks in biology today is the fusing of evolutionary and ecological perspectives into a seamless whole. Evolutionary Community Ecology makes a valuable and timely step toward this end. Crafting a synthetic understanding of ecological communities, this book is full of insights and excellent examples. It bridges fundamental community ecology, microevolutionary dynamics, and speciation and macroevolution within a single volume."—Robert D. Holt, University of Florida"I am very impressed with this broad and scholarly book."—Trevor Price, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisDescribes the diverse histories and the processes of Greek Jews that worked to make them emerge as a Greek collective. This book follows the Jews as they left Greece - as deportees to Auschwitz or emigres to Palestine/Israel and New York's Lower East Side.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Prix Alberto Benveniste Winner of the 2009 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council Honorable Mention for the 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association "With this innovative, soundly researched work Professor K. E. Fleming has filled a long-standing need for the story of Greek Jewry to be told fully."--Jewish Book World "What is a Greek Jew? Fleming pursues this question through various Jewish experiences (Romaniot and Sephardi) during the stages of the emerging modern Greek national identity. Her well-written, gripping story argues that 'Greek Jew' is actually a phantom term that emerged formally only in 1920 with governmental recognition of the Salonika community, and developed among young Jews during the 1930s, later concretizing in the Nazi concentration camps and the Jewish Diasporas to Palestine and the U.S."--S. Bowman, Choice "This book is an excellent effort to explain the quandary of the Jews of Greece during the country's turbulent 200-year history."--Jay Levinson, Jewish Tribune "This is not a 'religious book' meant to inspire. It is the very well told story of a once flourish Jewish community whose history must never be forgotten."--Jay Levinson, Jewish Magazine "K. E. Fleming has produced an insightful historical overview of the Jewish presence in Greece from the establishment of the Greek state in the early nineteenth century to the post-Holocaust era... [U]ntil the appearance of Fleming's work there was no overarching account of the Jewish experience in modern Greece, and this book fills that lacuna extremely well."--Alexander Kitroeff, American Historical Review "This fascinating book examines the concepts of identity and nationality as experienced by Jews, while paying tribute to those who were lost in World War II and to the righteous gentiles who saved the remnants of the community. Professor Fleming has written an important work on a little-known subject. It belongs in all academic Judaic collections."--Barbara M. Bibel, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter "This volume, which displays solid scholarly standards, is also highly interesting as it follows the multiple destinies of these Jewish groups and demonstrates how complex Jewish history is--how diverse and how difficult to categorize. Fleming has succeeded in escaping preconceived attitudes and in treating the object of her investigation with detachment but also with the empathy required for all genuinely good research projects."--Esther Benbassa, Journal of Modern History "[A]n absorbing story, well told and referenced, and a worthy winner of [the] Runciman Award."--Michael Llewellyn Smith, Hellenic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1 PART I: Independence and Expansion 13 CHAPTER 2: After Independence: "Old Greece" 15 CHAPTER 3: "New Greece": Greek Territorial Expansion 32 PART II: The "Sephardic Republic": Salonika to 1923 49 CHAPTER 4: Salonika to 1912 51 CHAPTER 5: Becoming Greek: Salonika, 1912-23 67 PART III: Normalization to Destruction 89 CHAPTER 6: Interwar Greece: Jews under Venize'los and Metaxas 91 CHAPTER 7: Occupation and Deportation: 1941-44 110 PART IV "The Greeks": Greek Jews beyond Greece 145 CHAPTER 8: Auschwitz-Birkenau 147 CHAPTER 9: Trying to Find Home: Jews in Postwar Greece 166 CHAPTER 10: Hellenized at Last: Greek Jews in Palestine/Israel 190 CHAPTER 11: Conclusion: Greek Jewish History--Greek or Jewish? 205 Notes 215 Index 265

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Book SynopsisPresents an account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939 - the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 "David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr., hope that their new book will increase technological literacy among college students. But this well-written and nicely illustrated volume may also reach a broader audiences. Power, Speed, and Form will introduce engineering students to eminent predecessors from whom there is still much to learn, especially about the use of numerical language. This book will also help students in other disciplines appreciate engineering approaches to problem solving."--Thomas P. Hughes, American Scientist "The authors discuss eight transformative inventions ... within their sociocultural context. They also examine the lives of the inventors as well as the cumulative process of invention. The superb figures ... and many photos nicely illustrate the Billingtons' overriding themes: the importance of technological literacy and the fact that original engineering is based on simple ideas."--Library Journal "The book is a sequel to The Innovators (1996), which covered American engineering from 1776 to 1883; the two books together explain the principal engineering ideas that helped transform the U.S. from an agrarian society in the eighteenth century to the industrial civilization it became in the twentieth century."--George Cohen, Booklist "[A] coherent and appealing approach, introducing engineering as a historical sequence of ideas and events, part of a canon of great ideas... [A]n engaging narrative that explores the work of key innovators... For the Billingtons, design is the primary function of engineering, one that distinguishes it from science."--Robin Tatu, ASEE Prism "The authors ... discuss the development of each [innovation] in a way that is readily accessible to building engineers and non-engineers--their ultimate purpose... The book, then, was meant to serve as a text for introductory engineering courses, especially those designed to help liberal arts students satisfy technical literacy requirements. Such courses can also excite engineering students by explaining how many innovations sprang from ideas that though novel were relatively simple."--Ray Bert, Civil Engineering "By introducing the fundamental theories upon which various significant technological achievements are based, Billington Sr... and Billington Jr... shed light on the unseen foundations of invention... A remarkable accomplishment of this book is that it presents these theories and equations in a manner that is understandable to general readers, rather than accessible only to engineers or scientists. Thus, it fills a much-needed role in helping to enhance technological literacy and understanding among the general public... Highly recommended."--Choice "Power, Speed, and Form is physically an extraordinary volume...chock full of the most extraordinary photos... Yet this is not a picture book. It is a serious history of the development of American technology in the period between the year 1876...and 1939... [W]hat is unique, and what, along with the illustrations, makes this book something of a treasure, is the inclusion of more than forty sidebars, each a full-page explication in words, numerical formulas, and splendidly clear diagrams, of the historic innovations discussed in the text."--Samuel C. Florman, Technology and CultureTable of ContentsList of Sidebars ix List of Figures xi Preface xv Acknowledgments xxi Chapter One: The World's Fairs of 1876 and 1939 1 Chapter Two: Edison, Westinghouse, and Electric Power 13 Chapter Three: Bell and the Telephone 35 Chapter Four: Burton, Houdry, and the Refining of Oil 57 Chapter Five: Ford, Sloan, and the Automobile 79 Chapter Six: The Wright Brothers and the Airplane 103 Chapter Seven: Radio: From Hertz to Armstrong 129 Chapter Eight: Ammann and the George Washington Bridge 155 Chapter Nine: Eastwood, Tedesko, and Reinforced Concrete 176 Chapter Ten: Streamlining: Chrysler and Douglas 199 Appendix: The Edison Dynamo and the Parallel Circuit 220 Notes 223 Index 257

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Book SynopsisMathematics in Ancient Egypt traces the development of Egyptian mathematics, from the end of the fourth millennium BC--and the earliest hints of writing and number notation--to the end of the pharaonic period in Greco-Roman times. Drawing from mathematical texts, architectural drawings, administrative documents, and other sources, Annette ImhausenTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 "Imhausen's book is a superb introduction into the field of mathematics in ancient Egypt. She has an incredible mastery of the source material and writes it in an objective way... A fascinating introduction to Egyptian mathematics ... and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the history of mathematics, egyptology, or Egyptian culture."--Alex Criddle, Ancient History Encyclopedia "The book is well written and informative, with copious references to direct readers in further study of this fascinating area of mathematics history."--ChoiceTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1.The Invention of Writing and Number Notation, pg. 11*2. The Egyptian Number System, pg. 18*3. Uses of Numbers and their Contexts in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Times, pg. 22*4. Summary, pg. 29*5. The Cultural Context of Egyptian Mathematics in the Old Kingdom, pg. 31*6. Metrological Systems, pg. 41*7. Notation of Fractions, pg. 52*8. Summary, pg. 55*9. Mathematical Texts (I): The Mathematical Training of Scribes, pg. 57*10. Foundation of Mathematics, pg. 84*11. Mathematics in Practice and Beyond, pg. 102*12. New Kingdom Mathematical Texts: Ostraca Senmut 153 and Turin 57170, pg. 127*13. Two Examples of Administrative Texts, pg. 133*14. Mathematics in Literature, pg. 143*15. Further Aspects of Mathematics from New Kingdom Sources, pg. 157*16. Summary, pg. 177*17. Mathematical Texts (II): Tradition, Transmission, Development, pg. 179*18. Conclusion: Egyptian Mathematics in Historical Perspective, pg. 205*Bibliography, pg. 209*Subject Index, pg. 225*Egyptian Words and Phrases Index, pg. 231*Index of Mathematical Texts, pg. 233

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Book SynopsisJosephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, she shaped the founding legislation of the U.S. welfare state and generated the national conversation about health-care policy that Americans are still having today. In this gTrade Review"Muncy offers readers a biography of Progressive woman reformer-entrepreneur Josephine Roche, who has been largely overlooked by historians for her many contributions throughout the 20th century ... [A] fine book."--Choice "Relentless Reformer is a very necessary addition to the reading list of any student of the history of the United States of America. For those of a non-academic nature it is a jolly good read. It takes a worthy place in the comprehensive series Politics and Society in Twentieth-century America."--Don Vincent, Open History Journal "In her exemplary biography, Muncy never flinches from telling us the bad along with the good, drawing a portrait of a whole human being with profound lessons to teach."--Alice Kessler-Harris, Women's Review of Books "A model of biography as social and political history, Relentless Reformer tells the compelling story of one life as it shaped and exemplified a larger public life."--Barbara Melosh, Journal of American History "Muncy set out to return Roche to the prominence she deserves, while at the same time demonstrating how and why women's contributions are often ignored and or forgotten... She succeeded in accomplishing this, while writing an engaging and comprehensive biography."--Katherine G. Aiken, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX INTRODUCTION 1 PART I FIRST BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE'S APPRENTICESHIP, 1886-1918 1 Childhood in the West, Education in the East, 1886-1908 13 2 Aspiring Feminist and Social Science Progressive, 1908-1912 26 3 Emergence as a Public Leader, 1912-1913 42 4 Seeking Fundamentals: The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914 64 5 "Part of It All One Must Become": Progressive in Wartime, 1915-1918 79 PART II FIRST TEMPORARY REVERSAL OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE'S NEW DEPARTURES, 1919-1932 6 Work and Love in a Progressive Ebb Tide, 1919-1927 97 7 Migrating to a "Totally New Planet": Roche Takes Over Rocky Mountain Fuel, 1927-1928 110 8 "Prophet of a New and Wiser Social Order," 1929-1932 126 PART III SECOND BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: HEIGHT OF ROCHE'S RENOWN, 1933-1948 9 Working with the New Deal from Colorado, 1933-1934 143 10 At the Center of Power: Roche in the New Deal Government, 1934-1939 162 11 Generating a National Debate about Federal Health Policy, 1935-1939 177 12 Unmoored during Wartime, 1939-1945 193 13 Becoming a Cold War Liberal, 1945-1948 211 PART IV SECOND TEMPORARY REVERSAL OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE BUILDS A PRIVATE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE COALFIELDS, 1948-1963 14 Creating "New Values, New Realities" in the Coalfields, 1948-1956 227 15 Democratic Denials and Dissent at the Miners' Welfare Fund, 1957-1963 247 PART V THIRD BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE RECLAIMS THE FULL PROGRESSIVE AGENDA, 1960-1976 16 Challenged and Redeemed by the New Progressivism, 1960-1972 265 17 Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment 289 ABBREVIATIONS 297 NOTES 299 SELECT PRIMARY SOURCES 375 INDEX 379

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Book SynopsisIn a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This work traces the history of this debate from Darwin. It aims to bring to life the people, the issues, and the passions that have surrounded the altruism debate.Trade Review"If evolution involves a competition for survival, then how can we explain altruism? Biologist Lee Dugatkin splendidly narrates a fast-paced tale of scientific breakthrough, genius and intellectual history as he examines the lives of seven scientists ... whose groundbreaking work attempts to answer this question... This superb tale of scientific discovery is required reading for everyone interested in the nature of human morality."--Publishers Weekly "Exhilerating... [This] is an engaging book with devoted enthusiasm for the ideas of the main protagonist, William Hamilton... Dugatkin's ... account offers much to think about."--Caroline Ash, Science "Dugatkin's biographical sketches ... are entertaining and insightful... [T]here is little doubt that efforts to explain altruism and morality in formal scientific terms are heavily influenced by the cultures and personal histories of their proponents."--David Sloan Wilson, American Scientist "Dugatkin tells the story ... with clear prose and poise. In doing so he celebrates the internal consistencies of science and the beauty of clear thinking. Written for a general audience, this book provides vignettes featuring the lives of key thinkers, which foster an understanding of how the social context of the times influences the advance of scientific understanding."--Choice "The Altruism Equation is very well written and extremely informative. Dugatkin's immense enthusiasm shines through every page... Because the scientific concepts are explained so clearly, concisely and engagingly, newcomers to sociobiology will find The Altruism Equation an enlightening read. At the same time, it will be of interest to connoisseurs of the literature who wish to gain a panoramic view of the altruism debate... The Altruism Equation is a splendid book."--David Livingstone Smith, Evolutionary Psychology "This is a tale not only about the majesty of science, but also about the hubris of scientism. One of the greatest projects of modernity is to explain to the public where science does and does not matter, and altruism is a valuable example."--Oren Harman, The New Republic "The Altruism Equation is a pleasure to read. Dugatkin's explanation of the relevant science is clear and comprehensible. He also blends the scientific views of these seven scientists with their personal and professional lives in a way that enhances our understanding of both."--David L. Hull, Isis "This book could he an especially interesting read for recent generations, who may see themselves as standing on the shoulders of their intellectual predecessors... The material is carefully researched and written, and problematic issues are few."--Daniel J. Kruger, Quarterly Review of Biology "The Altruism Equation is very good popular scientific history. It provides the non-scientist with a digestible overview of a lengthy and sometimes complex development, and offers ample leads to pursue. Most importantly, it brings science to life by showing the personalities of scientists involved as well as the background beliefs which motivated their pursuits. For those interested in jumping into this area of inquiry, there is probably no better book with which to start."--Marc Baer. PhD, Metapsychology Online ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter One: A Special Difficulty That Might Prove Fatal 1 Chapter Two: Darwin's Bulldog versus the Prince of Evolution 12 Chapter Three: The Greatest Word from Science since Darwin 37 Chapter Four: J.B.S.: The Last Man Who Might Know All There Was to Be Known 61 Chapter Five: Hamilton's Rule 86 Chapter Six: The Price of Kinship 107 Chapter Seven: Spreading the Word 115 Chapter Eight: Keepers of the Flame 123 Chapter Nine: Curator of Mathematical Models 142 Notes 151 Index 185

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 32nd D. B. Hardeman Prize, LBJ Foundation""Winner of the V.O. Key Award, Southern Political Science Association"

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Book SynopsisOffers a philosophical meditation on the problem of evil. This title uses the Genesis story of the Fall as the starting point for a profound articulation of the human condition. It shows us that evil expresses the rage of a subject who knows both that he is an image of an infinite God and that he must die.Trade Review"A book which begins with the sentence 'Evil makes us Human' must surely compel attention. This is no ordinary account of what is usually meant by the problem of evil... Instead, Paul W. Kahn's aim is to explore the nature of evil itself... A rich and fascinating book full of unusual conjunctions and insights."--John Habgood, Times Literary Supplement "Kahn makes a powerful case for the reality of good (which he calls 'love') as a form of self-sacrifice, and of its opposite, evil, which constitutes a denial of one's finitude."--Whitley R. P. Kaufman, Philosophy in Review "Brilliant and essential... [Kahn] establishes an enormously clarifying political theology of modernity, one that investigates the limits of our contemporary imagination."--Igor Webb, Common Review "In Out of Eden, Paul W. Kahn ... argues that the human condition--rather than political or social conditions--is the locus of evil. Using the lenses of political and cultural theory, law, and philosophy, Kahn takes a hard look at modern forms of evil, namely slavery, torture, and genocide. Evil, Kahn posits, in an existential problem."--Yale Law ReportTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Study of Evil 1 Chapter 1: A Preliminary Meditation on Oedipus and Adam 16 Chapter 2: Evil and the Image of the Sacred 53 Chapter 3: Love and Evil 106 Chapter 4: Political Evil: Slavery and the Shame of Nature 143 Chapter 5: Political Evil: Killing, Sacrifice, and the Image of God 174 Conclusion: Tragedy, Comedy, and the Banality of Evil 211 Index 223

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Book SynopsisUses techniques to put beginning learners of Mandarin Chinese on the path toward mastery. This book aims to lead students to adopt Chinese as one of their own languages and not to regard it as an object of study and translation. It features texts in traditional and simplified Chinese characters, and includes a Chinese introduction for teachers.

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Book SynopsisEarthquake and Volcano Deformation is the first textbook to present the mechanical models of earthquake and volcanic processes, emphasizing earth-surface deformations that can be compared with observations from Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, Interferometric Radar (InSAR), and borehole strain- and tiltmeters. Paul Segall provides the physical and mathematical fundamentals for the models used to interpret deformation measurements near active faults and volcanic centers.Segall highlights analytical methods of continuum mechanics applied to problems of active crustal deformation. Topics include elastic dislocation theory in homogeneous and layered half-spaces, crack models of faults and planar intrusions, elastic fields due to pressurized spherical and ellipsoidal magma chambers, time-dependent deformation resulting from faulting in an elastic layer overlying a viscoelastic half-space and related earthquake cycle models, poroelastic effects due to faulting and magma chamber inflation in a fluid-saturated crust, and the effects of gravity on deformation. He also explains changes in the gravitational field due to faulting and magmatic intrusion, effects of irregular surface topography and earth curvature, and modern concepts in rate- and state-dependent fault friction. This textbook presents sample calculations and compares model predictions against field data from seismic and volcanic settings from around the world.Earthquake and Volcano Deformation requires working knowledge of stress and strain, and advanced calculus. It is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in geophysics, geology, and engineering.Professors: A supplementary Instructor''s Manual is available for this book. It is restricted to teachers using the text in courses. For information on how to obtain a copy, refer to: https://press.princeton.edu/class_use/solutions.htmlTrade Review"The book is the first to focus on the models used to relate subsurface fault and magma motion to surface deformation. Based on a course taught by the author at Stanford University at the upper undergraduate to graduate level, the book has been more than a decade in the making. For years, faculty at various institutions (myself included) have begged for incomplete drafts of the manuscript to use as a reference when teaching, so it is satisfying to see the complete work now available to all. It is clearly written and the content is logically presented, as one might expect from material that has been taught to hundreds of students by an excellent teacher... In summary, this is a timely and well-written book that introduces the mathematical tools needed to interpret the onslaught of new surface-deformation data. To find the same material covered in this textbook, a scientist would have to dig through hundreds of scientific papers and books, and even then would not find the topics as clearly presented or accompanied by new advances in the field."--Nature Geoscience "This excellent advanced textbook will most positively impact graduate education and basic and applied research into the science of crustal deformation."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xv Origins xvii Chapter 1: Deformation, Stress, and Conservation Laws 1 1.1 Strain 2 1.1.1 Strains in Curvilinear Coordinates 7 1.2 Rotation 9 1.3 Stress 13 1.4 Coordinate Transformations 16 1.5 Principal Strains and Stresses 18 1.6 Compatibility Equations 21 1.7 Conservation Laws 21 1.7.1 Equilibrium Equations in Curvilinear Coordinates 24 1.8 Constitutive Laws 24 1.9 Reciprocal Theorem 27 1.10 Problems 28 1.11 References 30 Chapter 2: Dislocation Models of Strike-Slip Faults 32 2.1 Full-Space Solution 32 2.2 Half-Space Solution 37 2.2.1 Coseismic Faulting 38 2.2.2 Interseismic Deformation 39 2.2.3 Postseismic Slip 42 2.3 Distributed Slip 43 2.4 Application to the San Andreas and Other Strike-Slip Faults 44 2.5 Displacement at Depth 47 2.6 Summary and Perspective 49 2.7 Problems 50 2.8 References 50 Chapter 3: Dip-Slip Faults and Dislocations in Three Dimensions 51 3.1 Volterra's Formula 52 3.1.1 Body Force Equivalents andMoment Tensors 54 3.2 Screw Dislocations 59 3.3 Two-Dimensional Edge Dislocations 60 3.3.1 Dipping Fault 63 3.4 Coseismic Deformation Associated with Dipping Faults 67 3.5 Displacements and Stresses Due to Edge Dislocation at Depth 71 3.6 Dislocations in Three Dimensions 75 3.6.1 Full-Space Green's Functions 75 3.6.2 Half-Space Green's Functions 77 3.6.3 Point-Source Dislocations 78 3.6.4 Finite Rectangular Dislocations 80 3.6.5 Examples 82 3.6.6 Distributed Slip 84 3.7 Strain Energy Change Due to Faulting 86 3.8 Summary and Perspective 87 3.9 Problems 87 3.10 References 90 Chapter 4: Crack Models of Faults 92 4.1 Boundary Integral Method 92 4.1.1 Inversion of the Integral Equation 97 4.2 Displacement on the Earth's Surface 98 4.3 A Brief Introduction to Fracture Mechanics 99 4.4 Nonsingular Stress Distributions 105 4.5 Comparison of Slip Distributions and Surface Displacements 107 4.6 Boundary ElementMethods 110 4.7 Fourier TransformMethods 111 4.8 Some Three-Dimensional Crack Results 113 4.9 Summary and Perspective 114 4.10 Problems 115 4.11 References 117 Chapter 5: Elastic Heterogeneity 118 5.1 Long Strike-Slip Fault Bounding Two Media 118 5.2 Strike-Slip Fault within a Compliant Fault Zone 120 5.3 Strike-Slip Fault beneath a Layer 125 5.4 Strike-Slip within a Layer over Half-Space 129 5.5 Propagator Matrix Methods 131 5.5.1 The Propagator Matrix for Antiplane Deformation 135 5.5.2 Vertical Fault in a Homogeneous Half-Space 136 5.5.3 Vertical Fault within Half-Space beneath a Layer 138 5.5.4 Vertical Fault in Layer over Half-Space 139 5.5.5 General Solution for an Arbitrary Number of Layers 141 5.5.6 Displacements and Stresses at Depth 143 5.5.7 PropagatorMethods for Plane Strain 143 5.6 Propagator Solutions in Three Dimensions 150 5.7 Approximate Solutions for Arbitrary Variations in Properties 154 5.7.1 Variations in Shear Modulus 157 5.7.2 Screw Dislocation 158 5.7.3 Edge Dislocation 159 5.8 Summary and Perspective 159 5.9 Problems 162 5.10 References 164 Chapter 6: Postseismic Relaxation 166 6.1 Elastic Layer over Viscous Channel 169 6.2 Viscoelasticity 172 6.2.1 Correspondence Principle 175 6.3 Strike-Slip Fault in an Elastic Plate Overlying a Viscoelastic Half-Space 176 6.3.1 Stress in Plate and Half-Space 181 6.4 Strike-Slip Fault in Elastic Layer Overlying a Viscoelastic Channel 182 6.5 Dip-Slip Faulting 187 6.5.1 Examples 190 6.6 Three-Dimensional Calculations 191 6.7 Summary and Perspective 193 6.8 Problems 197 6.9 References 198 Chapter 7: Volcano Deformation 200 7.1 Spherical Magma Chamber 203 7.1.1 Center of Dilatation 208 7.1.2 Volume of the Uplift, Magma Chamber, and Magma 212 7.2 EllipsoidalMagma Chambers 214 7.3 Magmatic Pipes and Conduits 225 7.4 Dikes and Sills 229 7.4.1 Crack Models of Dikes and Sills 231 7.4.2 Surface Fracturing and Dike Intrusion 236 7.5 Other Magma Chamber Geometries 237 7.6 Viscoelastic Relaxation around Magma Chambers 240 7.7 Summary and Perspective 248 7.8 Problems 249 7.9 References 252 Chapter 8: Topography and Earth Curvature 255 8.1 Scaling Considerations 259 8.2 Implementation Considerations 260 8.3 Center of Dilatation beneath a Volcano 260 8.4 Earth's Sphericity 261 8.5 Summary and Perspective 263 8.6 Problems 265 8.7 References 265 Chapter 9: Gravitational Effects 267 9.1 Nondimensional Formof Equilibrium Equations 270 9.2 Inclusion in Propagator Matrix Formulation 273 9.3 Surface Gravity Approximation 275 9.4 Gravitational Effects in Viscoelastic Solutions 276 9.4.1 Incompressible Half-Space 277 9.4.2 No-Buoyancy Approximation 278 9.4.3 Wang Approach 279 9.4.4 Comparison of Different Viscoelastic Models 280 9.4.5 Relaxed Viscoelastic Response 282 9.5 Changes in Gravity Induced by Deformation 283 9.5.1 Gravity Changes and Volcano Deformation 289 9.5.2 An Example from Long Valley Caldera, California 292 9.6 Summary and Perspective 292 9.7 Problems 294 9.8 References 295 Chapter 10: Poroelastic Effects 297 10.1 Constitutive Laws 300 10.1.1 Macroscopic Description 300 10.1.2 Micromechanical Description 303 10.2 Field Equations 305 10.3 Analogy to Thermoelasticity 308 10.4 One-Dimensional Deformation 309 10.4.1 Step Load on the Free Surface 310 10.4.2 Time-Varying Fluid Load on the Free Surface 312 10.5 Dislocations in Two Dimensions 313 10.6 Inflating Magma Chamber in a Poroelastic Half-Plane 315 10.7 Cumulative Poroelastic Deformation in Three Dimensions 321 10.8 Specified Pore Pressure Change 324 10.9 Summary and Perspective 328 10.10 Problems 329 10.11 References 330 Chapter 11: Fault Friction 332 11.1 Slip-Weakening Friction 333 11.2 Velocity-Weakening Friction 335 11.3 Rate and State Friction 336 11.3.1 Linearized Stability Analysis 344 11.4 Implications for Earthquake Nucleation 347 11.5 Nonlinear Stability Analysis 357 11.6 Afterslip 360 11.7 Transient Slip Events 366 11.8 Summary and Perspective 367 11.9 Problems 368 11.10 References 369 Chapter 12: Interseismic Deformation and Plate Boundary Cycle Models 372 12.1 Elastic Dislocation Models 372 12.1.1 Dip-Slip Faults 373 12.2 Plate Motions 376 12.3 Elastic BlockModels 378 12.4 Viscoelastic CycleModels 380 12.4.1 Viscoelastic Strike-Slip Earthquake Cycle Models 380 12.4.2 Comparison to Data from San Andreas Fault 386 12.4.3 Viscoelastic Models with Stress-Driven Deep-Fault Creep 389 12.4.4 Viscoelastic CycleModels for Dipping Faults 394 12.5 Rate-State Friction Earthquake CycleModels 407 12.6 Summary and Perspective 409 12.7 Problems 412 12.8 References 413 APPENDIX A: Integral Transforms 415 A.1 Fourier Transforms 415 A.2 Laplace Transforms 416 A.3 References 419 APPENDIX B: A Solution of the Diffusion Equation 420 APPENDIX C: Displacements Due to Crack Model of Strike-Slip Fault by Contour Integration 423 Index 425

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Book SynopsisWritten from the perspective of a foreign student who has just arrived in China, this title provides the lessons and learning materials about the changing face of China. It includes lessons on daily life, such as doing laundry and getting a haircut, as well as visiting the zoo, night markets, and the Great Wall.

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Book SynopsisSuitable for advanced beginners or 'heritage learners' who already speak some Chinese but require instruction in reading and writing fundamentals before moving to the intermediate level, this title contains lessons, grammar notes, and exercises. It offers foundations in pronunciation, characters, and grammar.

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Book SynopsisSuitable for students who have completed at least two years of college Chinese, this title includes topics that are relevant to contemporary Chinese society, such as the increasing divisions between the rich and poor, the conflict between economic development and environmental protection, and changing attitudes toward sex and marriage.

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Book SynopsisCovers topics that are essential to understanding contemporary Chinese society, including changing attitudes toward women and marriage, the one-child policy, economic development, China's ethnic minorities, and debates surrounding Taiwan and Hong Kong.

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Book SynopsisThe Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities?Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011: Top 25 Books "The Law is a White Dog is both philosophically breathtaking and politically relevant. Dayan's disrobing of personhood is not simply an exposure of injustice, but an argument. She beckons us to a conception of the law that considers emotion and ethics as relevant as reason."--Imani Perry, American Literary History "[A] breath-taking tour through legal and cultural contexts richly and passionately portrayed... Dayan aspires to do more than debunk the 'rationality' of law; she cries out against the injustice and violence that law's word-twisting makes both possible and invisible. Her descriptions and account of civil death, force-feeding, mind-killing solitary confinement, and slavery and its inheritors, should be required reading."--Linda Ross Meyer, Law, Culture and Humanities "Dayan succeeds mightily in her dismal project. The tale is told via death-row chain gangs, cell-extraction with dogs, rape by 'correctional officers', a rare first-hand report on the horrors of supermax prisons, and much else besides: the entombment of the living that made an end to the death penalty possible--but only because a fate worse than death had been found... The book is defined by three extraordinary strengths. First, its moral force is as direct as that of Charles Dickens, emile Zola or Henry Mayhew. Its controlled anger reminded me of No Logo, Naomi Klein's great critique of international capitalism. Second, I have never read a better use made of case law: Dayan knows the importance of legal decisions but is not bound by them, and is always aware that their hinterland matters much more than their formal prose... Third and best, the book takes the margins and makes them central...these features help to make it a triumph of style as well as of substance."--Conor Gearty, Times Higher Education "Interdisciplinary scholar Colin Dayan's most recent book, The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons, presents a postmodern blend of anthropology, social critique, and legal history that deconstructs the Enlightenment rationality generally associated with law. Dayan examines some of the ways in which the mechanisms of our legal system perpetuate 'violence and oppression' (p. xvii) alongside progress and modernity. Going beyond traditional histories and examinations of the law, her book explores how larger socio-legal processes, like marginalization, the creation of social outcasts, and the justification of brutal penal practices, shape our present-day society. Dayan, who serves simultaneously as anthropologist, social critic, and poet, depicts the darker side of American society and the often repressive character of our law... Written by an author well known for previous interdisciplinary work in cultural studies and law, this book is a must-have for both general academic libraries and academic law libraries. The writing is crisp, and the way in which Dayan assembles a wide array of topics that are rarely grouped together is thought-provoking and engaging. The book addresses important social questions and reveals the subtle ways that idiosyncratic legal reasoning works to rationalize harsh social processes. Dayan's deconstruction highlights the law as a key mechanism for social control, rather than a narrow area of professional discourse or an administrative or procedural system that touches only a small segment of society. Ultimately, The Law Is a White Dog will prove valuable for anyone who seeks a comprehensive, critical understanding of our society and the role played in it by the law."--Law Library Journal "[T]his work by Dayan is one of the most valuable contemporary books on law and society to come out in quite some time... The Law is a White Dog is an innovative, highly intellectual book."--Choice "A cumulative masterpiece of probing, relevant erudition... More concerned with conceptual structures than local specifics, Dayan breaks rich new critical ground on the well-trodden path from plantation to prison. [A] stunningly insightful yet painstaking inquiry into the very real effects of the ongoing legal and cultural project of defining the boundaries of personhood."--American Literature "Colin Dayan has written a challenging and ambitious book... Its interest for social and political philosophers and philosophers of law will be primarily its engagement with the question of how personhood is defined and materially shaped via the practice of law... The Law is a White Dog offers much, perhaps at exactly the points it frustrates expectation. It would be appropriately read in upper-level undergraduate classes, particularly in philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, and animal studies."--Alexis Shotwell, Philosophy in Review "Colin Dayan's The Law is a White Dog is the most imaginative and passionate (mainly about prison conditions in the US) that I have come across for a long while."--Conor Gearty, LSE Review of Books "Law is the major character in this philosophical narrative. Analyzing how the law sometimes alters and disfigures human persons ... reducing people to bare human materials, biologically alive but legally dead. Dayan summons a remarkable range of philosophical tales, including Voodoo, Greek tragedy, medieval law, Human Rights Watch reports, magic, and medicine. But eclectic as this selection is, these discourses tell a rigorous story about how humans are turned into non-humans, how animals become humans, how things are endowed with intention."--Branka Arsic, Leviathan "The Law is a White Dog is a vivid exploration of literature, history, and law. It asks hard yet stimulating questions about the systemically entrenched racial, colonial, and ideological inequalities of the Anglo-American legal system. As a text concerned with the role of law in the (un)making of legal identity, this book makes a very valuable contribution to the field of socio-legal studies as it forces one to think about the violence of law and to trouble the assumptions made about the rule of law in modern liberal democratic societies... As a present-day political project, this effort identifies the everyday consequences of remaining silent to systemic injustices."--Socialist Studies/Etudes socialistes "This provocative and rigorous analysis makes a significant contribution both to legal scholarship and contemporary discussions about criminalization, national security and racism... An innovative engagement with a range of legal areas and eras, Dayan's work helps us trace the role legal reasoning has played in producing a slave society, and a prison society, in which structures of racial violence appear inevitable, justifiable, rational and natural."--Journal of Legal Studies "Colin Dayan's The Law is a White Dog is a tour de force of interdisciplinary legal scholarship... Employing an approach that emphasizes the power of legal rhetoric, the persistence of modes of categorizing entities on the margins, and the magical thinking that conjures and parries otherness when it comes into contact with law, Dayan gives us a history replete with stunningly fresh insights into the transformational violence law inflicts and legitimizes on those it regulates and controls."--Law and Society Review "Dayan's work is engrossing, imaginative, and erudite. It will appeal to wide audiences, including historians, anthropologists, and sociologists of slavery, scholars interested in the history of punishment, and academics and activists concerned with both human and animal rights."--Mindie Lazarus-Black, New West Indian GuideTable of ContentsPreface xi Chapter 1: Holy Dogs, Hecuba's Bark 1 Chapter 2: Civil Death 39 Chapter 3: Punishing the Residue 71 Chapter 4: Taxonomies 113 Chapter 5: A Legal Ethnography 138 Chapter 6: Who Gets to Be Wanton? 177 Chapter 7: Skin of the Dog 209 Acknowledgments 253 Notes 259 Bibliography 303 Index 325

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Book SynopsisA Reflection of Reality is an anthology of modern Chinese short stories designed as an advanced-level textbook for students who have completed at least three years of college-level Chinese. While many advanced-level Chinese language textbooks stress only practical communication, this textbook uses stories from well-known Chinese authors not only toTrade Review"Chinese instruction is not only about teaching linguistic forms and their usages, but also about helping students obtain knowledge of Chinese culture and society. This timely book successfully achieves both of these goals by exposing students to literary works and language materials that are vivid and rich. A Reflection of Reality sets a model for teaching Chinese."—Lening Liu, Columbia University"Consisting of short stories by well-known Chinese authors, this pedagogically sound textbook has strong advantages over other advanced textbooks. With useful sentence structures, vocabulary, and historical and cultural information, the stories give students insight into modern Chinese society and provide them with fruitful topics for conversation and composition. Language programs will find the textbook an attractive addition to their curricula." —Stephanie Divo and Qiuyun Teng, Cornell University

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Book SynopsisIn this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable social security system. Horst Siebert spells out theTrade Review"Anyone looking for a thorough description of Germany's economic system and a detailed analysis of its current and foreseeable economic problems--low growth and high unemployment rates top the list--will find it here."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface vii Chapter One: Basic Features of the German Economy 1 Chapter Two: The Social Market Economy 24 Chapter Three: The Weak Growth Performance 38 Chapter Four: The Labor Market: High and Sticky Unemployment 69 Chapter Five: The Social Security System under Strain 114 Chapter Six: Ageing as a Challenge over the Next Forty Years 154 Chapter Seven: Germany: an Immigration Country 166 Chapter Eight: Regulation of Product Markets 181 Chapter Nine: Environmental Protection: a German Topic 203 Chapter Ten: The Capital Market and Corporate Governance 213 Chapter Eleven: Human Capital and Technology Policy 244 Chapter Twelve: The Fiscal Policy Stance 261 Chapter Thirteen: Germany in the European Union: Economic Policy under Ceded Sovereignty 292 Chapter Fourteen: The System of Governance in Germany's Social Market Economy 325 Chapter Fifteen: The Need for a Renaissance of the Market Economy 365 References 378 Index 393

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is to be hoped that . . . generations of geophysicists will derive great benefit from this book."---K. Alan Shore, Contemporary PhysicsTable of ContentsPreface ix 1 Mathematical Preliminaries 1 1.1 Vectors, Indicial Notation, and Vector Operators 1 1.2 Cylindrical and Spherical Geometry 6 1.3 Theorems of Gauss, Green, and Stokes 10 1.4 Rotation and Matrix Representation 11 1.5 Tensors, Eigenvalues, and Eigenvectors 15 1.6 Ramp, Heaviside, and Dirac delta Functions 19 1.7 Exercises 20 2 Ordinary Differential Equations 23 2.1 Linear First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 25 2.2 Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 30 2.2.1 Linear Second-Order Differential Equations 33 2.2.2 Green's Functions 34 2.2.3 LRC Circuits and Visco-Elastic Solids 38 2.2.4 Driven Oscillators, Resonance, and Variation of Constants 39 2.2.5 JWKB Method, Riccati Equation, and Adiabatic Invariants 43 2.2.6 Nonlinearity and Perturbation Theory 47 2.3 Special Functions, Laplacians, and Separation of Variables 52 2.3.1 Cartesian Coordinates and Separation of Variables 53 2.3.2 Polar and Cylindrical Coordinates and Separation of Variables; Bessel and Generating Functions 54 2.3.3 Spherical Coordinates and Separation of Variables; Green's and Generating Function; Spherical Harmonics 59 2.4 Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations 69 2.4.1 Bullard's Homopolar Dynamo 69 2.4.2 Poincare-Bendixson Theorem and the Van der Pol Oscillator 71 2.4.3 Lorenz Attractor, Perturbation Theory, and Chaos 74 2.4.4 Fractals 78 2.4.5 Maps and Period Doubling 82 2.5 Exercises 89 3 Evaluation of Integrals and Integral Transform Methods 96 3.1 Integration Methods, Approximations, and Special Cases 97 3.1.1 Elementary Methods and Asymptotic Methods 97 3.1.2 Steepest Descent Methods 101 3.1.3 Special Problems in Geophysics; Elliptic Integrals 103 3.2 Complex Analysis and Elementary Contour Integration 104 3.3 Fourier Transforms and Analysis Methods 113 3.3.1 Fourier Series, Transforms, and Convolutions 113 3.3.2 Illustrative Examples of Fourier Transform Pairs 115 3.3.3 Multidimensional and Other Fourier Transform Pairs 119 3.3.4 Sampling Theorem, Aliasing, and Approximation Methods 126 3.3.5 Fast Fourier Transform 131 3.4 Inverse Theory, Calculus of Variations, and Integral Equations 134 3.4.1 Linear Inverse Theory 135 3.4.2 Abel Transform 136 3.4.3 Radon Transform 138 3.4.4 Calculus of Variations 139 3.4.5 Herglotz-Wiechert Travel-Time Transform 140 3.5 Exercises 146 4 Partial Differential Equations of Mathematical Geophysics 151 4.1 Introduction to Partial Differential Equations 151 4.1.1 Classification of Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Condition Types 151 4.1.2 Wave Equation in One Dimension 155 4.1.3 Elements of Fluid Flow 159 4.2 Three-Dimensional Applications 164 4.2.1 Diffusion Equation in Three Dimensions 165 4.2.2 Wave Equation in Three Dimensions 166 4.2.3 Gravitational Potential and Green's Function Methods 170 4.3 Diffusion, Dispersion, Perturbation Methods, and Nonlinearity 172 4.3.1 Diffusion and Dispersion 172 4.3.2 Sound Waves and Perturbation Theory 180 4.3.3 Burgers's Equation and Solitary Waves 182 4.3.4 Korteweg-de Vries Equation and Solitons 184 4.3.5 Self-Similarity, Scaling, and Kolmogorov Turbulence 191 4.4 Exercises 193 5 Probability, Statistics, and Computational Methods 202 5.1 Binomial, Poisson, and Gaussian Distributions 203 5.1.1 Binomial Distribution 208 5.1.2 Poisson Distribution 209 5.1.3 Normal Distribution 211 5.2 Central Limit Theorem 214 5.3 Randomness in Data and in Simulations 217 5.3.1 Regression and Fitting of Experimental Data 217 5.3.2 Random Number Generation and Monte Carlo Simulation 219 5.4 Computational Geophysics 221 5.4.1 Computation, Round-off Error, and Seminumerical Algorithms 221 5.4.2 Roots of Equations 223 5.4.3 Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations 226 5.4.4 General Issues in the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations 233 5.4.5 Numerical Solution of Parabolic Partial Differential Equations 234 5.4.6 Numerical Solution of Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations 236 5.5 Exercises 238 References 241 Index 247

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association""Honorable Mention, Charles Taylor Book Award, American Political Science Association""Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association""Kim’s argument adds a valuable dimension and a perspective from the colonies most affected in a period which has been less written about by historians. . . . [Kim] adds to our understanding of howfundamental changes in response to the consumption of opiates came about."---Virginia Berridge, Addiction"Empires of Vice is well researched, with sources ranging from government records and meeting minutes to personal papers from state and private archives. It is written in an accessible style and will be of value to scholars of Southeast Asia, drugs history, and colonialism."---Eric Colvard, Journal of British Studies"Empires of Vice is an important book that underscores the critical role of low-level bureaucrats in transforming the state. . . . [Diana Kim's] work is deeply rooted in the central contributions and concerns of a broad set of literatures,but also, by shifting the object of empirical analysis to a different region, a later time period than predominant literature, and by looking closely at the anxieties of overlooked actors, Empires of Vice grows its own wings."---Katrina Quisumbing King, American Journal of Sociology"An original account of the shift towards opium prohibition that occurred across colonial South East Asia . . . . Kim’s work will be of interest to scholars of drug history, the history and politics of South East Asia and those interested in the development of the colonial state."---Ashley Wright, South East Asia Research"Deeply researched and closely argued. . . . Empires of Vice makes important contributions to the historiography of opium regulation, the comparative history of empire, and the development of state making and governance in Southeast Asia."---Andrew J. Rotter, American Historical Review"[Empires of Vice] present[s] an engaging study that disproves the notion of monolithic colonial regimes and adds welcome nuances to our understanding of narcotics control in Southeast Asia.—Joyce A. Madancy, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for the previous edition: "The subject matter of the lessons is not only fascinating (the selections with humor and sarcasm will really appeal to American students!), but it is up to date--no other reader on the market offers the sociological perspective on China that one finds in this text."--James M. Hargett, State University of New York, Albany

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies""Rediscovering the Islamic Classics . . . contains fascinating insights, which anyone with even a vague interest in Islam’s intellectual history will enjoy."---Usman Butt, Middle East Monitor"Rediscovering the Islamic Classics is one of the most important books that have been published in Islamic studies in recent years. It skillfully and convincingly tells the story of how the printing press transformed access to 'Islamic classics' in the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries; and in doing so, it fundamentally reshapes our perspective on virtually any field of Islamic scholarship."---Johanna Pink, Die Welt des Islams"Not only a story of how Islamic classics were rediscovered, but also a story that invites us to rethink these Islamic classics and the canonizing forces (read: real people) that have shaped them and continue to do so. This story had to be told, and El Shamsy has done so in a most lucid yet entertaining way. . . . I can only recommend everyone to expose him- or herself to it."---Kristof D'hulster, Global Literary Theory"[An] engaging yet pleasantly thought-out book."---Mehraj Din, Religion & Theology

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Classical Chinese: "Without question a significant contribution to the field. There is no textbook of this kind available. It provides the student with a comprehensive grammar of classical Chinese with clear and readable explanations in both English and modern Chinese. By fully utilizing both languages in one text, the authors of this reader have created a teaching tool that will have wide appeal and applicability. The translations are accurate and felicitous."--Catherine Swatek, University of British Columbia Praise for Classical Chinese: "This reader addresses a huge gap in Chinese language textbook offerings--that is, a basic introduction to classical Chinese. It is far superior to previous such works: the texts reflect a more logical progression from simple structures to more complex ones, and the grammatical explanations are more structured and more detailed. The book also does an excellent job of reinforcing past patterns, and further serves as an introduction to Chinese culture and literature."--Kimberly Besio, Colby CollegeTable of ContentsMap 1: The Spring and Autumn Period iv Map 2: The Warring States Period v A Brief Chronology of China vi Foreword vii Acknowledgements x Bilingual Table of Contents xi Errata to the Texts xv A Quote from Laozi 1 Reading Texts 2 Appendixes: 182 1 List of Exercises 182 2 Exercises 183 3 Source of Text Selections 280 4 A Short List of Grammatical References 282

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A tour de force in helping us to rethink what we know about nation-states."---Andrae M. Marak, World History Connected

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Alice Amsden Book Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics""Winner of the Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association""Co-Winner of the EHS First Monograph Prize, Economic History Society""Co-Winner of the Michael H. Hunt Prize in International History, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations""Honorable Mention for the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations""Finalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize""Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association""The strengths of the book are many, and the originality of the argument and the well-researched chain of events on the micro and meso levels make the book both a page-turner and a real contribution to the discussion on how and why the mixed economy, or the third way, is such a tightrope, both in the Americas and elsewhere."---Martin Andersson, Economic History Review"[A] dazzling, transnational history. . . . [The] insights it provides into the link between decentralized development from 50 years ago and contemporary privatization across the Americas is revelatory."---J. M. Rosenthal, Choice Reviews"Sorting Out the Mixed Economy [is Amy Offner’s] epic and field-changing work."---Quinn Slobodian, Dissent Magazine"In telling the story of Lilienthal and other ex–New Deal officials, Amy C. Offner’s Sorting Out the Mixed Economy remakes a popular understanding of how today’s neoliberalism was built. . . . Offner’s book has left us better equipped to understand this past, and to look ahead toward future turbulence."---Pablo Pryluka, Public Books"Sorting Out the Mixed Economy is an ambitious and thought-provoking study that reframes our understanding of both development and neoliberalism and will shape research in many scholarly fields. . . . In terms of the history of relations between the United States and Latin America, Offner inverts one of the field’s most important narratives."---Margarita Fajardo, H-LatAm"One of the great virtues of Offner’s book is that it eschews a discussion of international development in the sense of a project undertaken by donors in a foreign country, but rather views the US involvement in Colombia from the 1950s to the 1980s, as well the New Deal and War on Poverty in the US, as intertwined projects. It is a conceptual shift that has major implications for how we study development. . . . Offner’s book leaves us wondering if there is such a thing as a history of development to be written separately from the history of political economy."---Journal of Contemporary History, Artemy M. Kalinovsky"Sorting out the Mixed Economy succeeds brilliantly in illuminating the internal contradictions of mid-century development projects and in demonstrating the deep roots of policies such as decentralization, privatization, and fiscal austerity. . . . The book should be required reading for historians of development, state action, and neoliberalism in Latin America and transnational historians of Latin America and the United States."---Andra B. Chastain, Journal of Social History"Amy Offner has written an original and intellectually subversive book that, in the guise of a detailed study of the development politics of Colombia in the mid-twentieth century, mounts a powerful challenge to established methods of studying neoliberal thought and practice. . . . Offner reminds us that we ought to look beyond the [Mont Pelerin Society] in constructing genealogies of neoliberalism and to consider the less formal and more popular languages of economic argument that have also played a role in public-policy debates."---Ben Jackson, Modern Intellectual History"This extensively researched and sophisticated study breaks through conventional origin stories of neoliberalism. . . . This is regional history at its best. Offner shows a command of the institutions, politics, landscapes, and social structure of Colombia, no less than the US. . . . Interviews with early residents of [self-help] housing stands out as a social history gem."---Eileen Boris, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas"Offner’s book is an exceptional contribution to the fields of US history, history of economics, Latin American state-building and US social welfare policy, and of the cataclysm of the final decades of the twentieth century."---Fernanda Conforto de Oliveira, Journal of Latin American Studies"This book is essential reading for historians of development and public policy in the twentieth-century Americas. Agricultural historians will be particularly interested in Offner’s analysis of Colombia’s early 1960s land reform and the questions that this raises about the nature of land reform in other contexts, particularly its often conflicting economic and social aims."---Eve E. Buckley, Agricultural History"[A] profound contribution. . . . It may well be the most compelling appeal yet for historians to abandon the binary straitjacket of ‘First’ and ‘Third’ worlds."---Tore Olsson, Enterprise and Society

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an ambitious and meticulously researched study."—Emily Zobel Marshall, Times Literary Supplement"A lively . . . piece of cultural detective work exploring the history of the tar baby."—Library Journal"A remarkably rich and wide-ranging book that draws on many histories, geographies, and disciplines in exploring one of the nation's—and the world's—most disturbing but strangely elusive racial stories."—Eric J. Sundquist, author of King's Dream"Wagner's tar baby is not one we know; his account opens a wider horizon of persuasions and alignments that interrogate the onset of capitalism and the disorienting experience of early globalization."—Hortense J. Spillers, author of Black, White, and in Color

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Co-Winner of the Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award, Qualitative Methods Section of the American Political Science Association""Honorable Mention, Charles Taylor Book Award, American Political Science Association""Honorable Mention for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association""Kim’s argument adds a valuable dimension and a perspective from the colonies most affected in a period which has been less written about by historians. . . . [Kim] adds to our understanding of howfundamental changes in response to the consumption of opiates came about."---Virginia Berridge, Addiction"Empires of Vice is well researched, with sources ranging from government records and meeting minutes to personal papers from state and private archives. It is written in an accessible style and will be of value to scholars of Southeast Asia, drugs history, and colonialism."---Eric Colvard, Journal of British Studies"Empires of Vice is an important book that underscores the critical role of low-level bureaucrats in transforming the state. . . . [Diana Kim's] work is deeply rooted in the central contributions and concerns of a broad set of literatures,but also, by shifting the object of empirical analysis to a different region, a later time period than predominant literature, and by looking closely at the anxieties of overlooked actors, Empires of Vice grows its own wings."---Katrina Quisumbing King, American Journal of Sociology"An original account of the shift towards opium prohibition that occurred across colonial South East Asia . . . . Kim’s work will be of interest to scholars of drug history, the history and politics of South East Asia and those interested in the development of the colonial state."---Ashley Wright, South East Asia Research"Deeply researched and closely argued. . . . Empires of Vice makes important contributions to the historiography of opium regulation, the comparative history of empire, and the development of state making and governance in Southeast Asia."---Andrew J. Rotter, American Historical Review"[Empires of Vice] present[s] an engaging study that disproves the notion of monolithic colonial regimes and adds welcome nuances to our understanding of narcotics control in Southeast Asia.—Joyce A. Madancy, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

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