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  • Musical Form

    Harvard University Press Musical Form

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  • Europes Postwar Growth

    Harvard University Press Europes Postwar Growth

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    £999.99

  • Language Conflict and Language Planning

    Harvard University Press Language Conflict and Language Planning

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    Book SynopsisNo detailed description available for Language Conflict and Language Planning.

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    £52.20

  • Essays in Normative Economics

    Harvard University Press Essays in Normative Economics

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  • The Vocal Songs in the Plays of Shakespeare

    Harvard University Press The Vocal Songs in the Plays of Shakespeare

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  • Princeton University Press Bird Brain An Exploration of Avian Intelligence

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    Book Synopsis"This book was conceived, designed and produced by Ivy Press"--Title page verso.Trade Review"One of Forbes.com’s 12 Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2016""Complex ideas are made intelligible with the aid of sharp, and often stunning, design--gorgeous close-up photographs and smart infographics. The lovely depictions of the experiments supporting the science are particularly noteworthy." * Library Journal *"Our understanding of bird brains and behaviour has been revolutionised by recent studies of avian cognition, intelligence, brain anatomy, migration and tool use, and Nathan Emery, primatologist-turned-ornithologist, has been at the forefront of this revolution. He is well placed, therefore, to provide us with this very welcome summary of our current state of knowledge."---Tim Birkhead, Times Higher Education"This book is a fascinating exploration of how birds learn, think and feel. The book looks at the structure of the avian brain and the abilities it provides to our feathered neighbors. It does this without being stuffy or beyond the reach of the general public with an interest in birds. Short essays on each topic allow a person to explore the book in snippets or to skip around the book to read whatever catches your eye." * A Charm of Finches *"The book is beautifully illustrated with high resolution pictures showing the diversity of birds and describing the complex methods birds use to successfully survive in an ever-changing world. The book also focuses on the relationships of birds to other animals and the environment." * NSTA Recommends *"How big is a bird's brain? Big enough has always been my answer. The tiny hummingbird weighs less than an ounce and yet it can remember where every flower in its territory is located and how long it takes to refill with nectar. Big enough. A new book by Dr. Nathan Emery goes well beyond my analysis with interesting, fun and informative presentation on the latest research into avian intelligence. . . . The book is beautifully illustrated and provides an engaging exploration of the avian mind."---Sam Crowe, Birdzilla.com"[Bird Brain] is really great, the best book out there right now on animal intelligence, possibly the best book so far this year on birds. This is the kind of book you want laying around the house or classroom to learn stuff from. If you are writing or teaching about anything in evolution or behavior, this is a great way to key into the current work on bird intelligence." * Greg Laden's Science Blog *"This lovely book combines pictures of bird species, diagrams of experimental situations, and brain anatomy to provide information about bird intelligence. The illustrations are superb! Each short topic is covered in a pair of facing pages, allowing the reader to get clear and simple coverage of the specific subject matter." * Choice *"An in-depth look at recent research and fascinating lab experiments, [Bird Brain] overturns any notion that birds are somehow dumb. Instead, it argues with an overwhelming amount of evidence that a number of bird species should be considered more as ‘feathered apes.'"---Jeremy Hance, The Guardian"This book is well-grounded in the bird science of the past 20 years but at the same time it will be perfectly accessible to curious weekend bird enthusiasts. It is an informative and visually rich book."---Paul Nicholson, London Free Press"Bird Brain, by Nathan Emery, is the best current book on animal intelligence, and one of the best bird books you'll be able to lay your hands on right now." * Greg Laden's Blog *"This fascinating and surprisingly concise book explores the fundamental question of what is intelligence, then moves on to meticulously refute the ‘bird brain' myth. . . . This oversized book is a pleasure to read, and I especially love the richly detailed illustrations and how they highlight the concepts presented."---Forbes.com, a "12 Best books about Birds and Birding in 2016" selection"Emery's authoritative and stunningly illustrated book provides a charming exploration of the avian mind."---Kevin Laland, Trends in Ecology & Evolution

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    £22.50

  • The Freest Speech in Russia

    Princeton University Press The Freest Speech in Russia

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    £31.50

  • The Great Betrayal  The Struggle for Freedom and

    Princeton University Press The Great Betrayal The Struggle for Freedom and

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  • Princeton University Press The Political Economy of Security

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  • Learning in the Fast Lane

    Princeton University Press Learning in the Fast Lane

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    Book SynopsisTrade Review"The most comprehensive book ever on Advanced Placement, the most powerful educational tool in the country. . . . [Finn and Scanlan] add so much to a subject crucial to the future of high schools."---Jay Mathews, Washington Post"Both a history and full-throated defense of the Advanced Placement program."---Jason L. Riley, Wall Street Journal"A fascinating read. . . . Engaging and well researched."---W. S. Miner, Choice

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    £27.00

  • A Republic of Equals

    Princeton University Press A Republic of Equals

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    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Superb."---David Brooks, New York Times"A searching examination of the decline of democratic ideals in the face of inequality—racial, political, and economic. It is also striking on many counts, including its fluency in several branches of the social sciences beyond economics. The author resists easy characterization. There's something to ponder on every page. A sometimes-daunting but essential addition to the discussion of inequality and its remedies." * Kirkus Reviews *"The book contains many surprises documented with scholarly research and statistical analyses. The fact that Rothwell is principal economist at Gallup and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution makes his approach and conclusions even more valuable—even if I don’t always agree with him. I am not sure he will succeed selling the value of free markets to the left or, for that matter, to the right, but his book is well worth reading if one wants to think seriously about equality and inequality."---Pierre Lemieux, EconLib"This book is necessary, interesting, and at times surprising." * Choice *

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  • Policing the Second Amendment

    Princeton University Press Policing the Second Amendment

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    Book Synopsis"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--Trade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association""No one who reads this [book] will doubt that the Second Amendment has particularly deadly dimensions in minority communities." * Kirkus Reviews *"[E]xamines how the National Rifle Association became a driving influence behind American policing for over a century, and emerges with the idea that policing America has not overcome its racially charged beginning."---RJ Young, New York Times Book Review"This book provides a warning to those police scholars who tend to blindly embrace community policing as the panacea of police reform and an answer to racially biased policing."---David E. Barlow, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Chilling and insightful. . . .Carlson succinctly argues that attitudes about race, most specifically attitudes about African Americans, overwhelm rational debates about law gun use, gun ownership, and the 2nd Amendment itself, specifically within the law enforcement community. Importantly, Carlson brings together an academically rigorous analysis with clear and engaging writing accessible to a wide-ranging audience. For those willing to engage in good-faith debates about gun policy, Carlson’s work provides helpful insights and perspectives."---Staci L. Beavers, Law and Politics Book Review

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  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019

    Princeton University Press The Best Writing on Mathematics 2019

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    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Outstanding. . . . [A] rich resource for both the college professor and the high school (or middle school) teacher who is on the lookout for practical applications of mathematics or science."---Tom French, MAA Reviews"The first chapter of the book, which speaks about the motivation and the value of math, makes a point that the kind of people who do math may take us by surprise. And the happy idea that there is a mathematician lurking in most of us."---S. Ananthanarayanan, The Statesman

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    £18.00

  • Ways of Hearing  Reflections on Music in 26

    Princeton University Press Ways of Hearing Reflections on Music in 26

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    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Startling insights on every page."---Henrietta Bredin, Country Life Magazine"A provocative and beautiful collection of twenty-six often deeply personal essays. . . . The works in Ways of Hearing point to the magic in music . . . its ability to enrich and affirm life, to express depths that words cannot reach, to provide hope and healing, and perhaps most importantly, to connect us to other people, near and far, and to all that exists and moves around us. . . . The volume . . . is a pleasure."---Thomas M. Kitts, Popular Music and Society"Across the 26 easily digestible essays that span subjects from Olivier Messiaen to Charles Mingus, this book gives the reader a unique insight into the role music plays in the lives of some of the world’s great artists and thinkers."---Angus McPherson, Limelight Magazine

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    £20.90

  • Firepower

    Princeton University Press Firepower

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    Book SynopsisTrade Review"Firepower is the best scholarly analysis of the National Rifle Association (NRA) yet published …. [Lacombe] effectively argues that the NRA has long been political, but that the form of its politics changed from its "quasi-governmental phase" (pre-1970s) to its "partisan phase" (1970s onward) …. Anyone interested in the NRA and gun politics today should read this book." * Choice *"Lacombe’s book is a worthy read because it provides a new lens through which to view the NRA and the development of the gun rights movement more broadly. Its reorientation of the discussion from material and partisan to psychological processes makes Firepower an important addition to any syllabus on gun politics and interest group politics."---Alexandra Filindra, Perspectives on Politics

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  • Princeton University Press The Gilded Cage Technology Development and State

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  • This Land Is Our Land

    Princeton University Press This Land Is Our Land

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    Book SynopsisA leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.

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    £12.34

  • Princeton University Press The American Presidency

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  • Europes Alpine Flowers

    Princeton University Press Europes Alpine Flowers

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  • Princeton University Press Puerto Rico

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  • Moduli Stacks of Étale  GModules and the

    Princeton University Press Moduli Stacks of Étale GModules and the

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  • Disrupting D.C.

    Princeton University Press Disrupting D.C.

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  • The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower

    Princeton University Press The Midnight Washerwoman and Other Tales of Lower

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    Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book will be fascinating for anyone who has an interest in storytelling and the oral tradition and Professor Wilson has done a fine job of making a potentially obscure heritage of stories available and understandable to a modern audience."---Terry Potter, The Letterpress Project

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  • Bodypedia

    Princeton University Press Bodypedia

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  • The Quotable Kierkegaard

    Princeton University Press The Quotable Kierkegaard

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    £14.24

  • The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources

    Princeton University Press The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources

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    £94.50

  • The Little Book of Weather

    Princeton University Press The Little Book of Weather

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    £12.34

  • How Rabbis Became Experts  Social Circles and

    Princeton University Press How Rabbis Became Experts Social Circles and

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  • Princeton University Press The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden

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  • The Place of Creation

    Princeton University Press The Place of Creation

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  • The Fear of the Feminine

    Princeton University Press The Fear of the Feminine

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  • Princeton University Press Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

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  • The Process of Government under Jefferson

    Princeton University Press The Process of Government under Jefferson

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    Book Synopsis"Based on an exploration of the total mass of executive and legislative records for the years 1801-1809--something no other scholar has attempted--this thoroughly documented account describes the machinery and operation of the presidential office, the Cabinet, the departments, and other offices and commissions in the executive branch. It also explaTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. viii*Preface, pg. ix*I. A New Administration, pg. 1*II. The President as Chief Executive, pg. 27*III. Presidential Decisionmaking, pg. 48*IV. The President's Cabinet, pg. 60*V. The Making of the Annual Message, pg. 72*VI. The Four Departments, pg. 87*VII. The Executive Complement, pg. 134*VIII. Appointments and Removals, pg. 165*IX. Executive-Congressional Relations, pg. 188*X. The Anatomy of Congressional Committees, pg. 214*XI. A Deliberative Body, pg. 253*XII. Parties and Pressures in Congress, pg. 273*XIII. The Process of Petition, pg. 294*XIV. The Jeffersonian Experience, pg. 316*Appendix I, pg. 325*Bibliographical Note, pg. 333*Index, pg. 339

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  • The Invasion from Mars

    Princeton University Press The Invasion from Mars

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    Book SynopsisHadley Cantril's study was launched immediately after the broadcast to give an account of people's reactions and an answer to the question, Why the panic? Originally published by Princeton University Press in 1940, the book explores the latent anxieties that lead to mass hysteria. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses thTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface (1966), pg. vi*Preface (1940), pg. ix*I. "Incredible as it may seem" THE BROADCAST (Script by Howard Koch), pg. 1*II. "It was something terrible" THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE PANIC, pg. 47*III. "It didn't sound like a play" HOW THE STIMULUS WAS EXPERIENCED, pg. 67*IV. " We'd better do something" DESCRIPTION OF REACTIONS, pg. 87*V. "I figured" CRITICAL ABILITY, pg. 111*VI. "I'm so worried" CONDITIONS INHIBITING CRITICAL ABILITY, pg. 127*VII. "Being in a troublesome world" THE HISTORICAL SETTING, pg. 153*VIII. "My background" THE INDIVIDUAL CASE, pg. 167*IX. "Jitters have come to roost" WHY THE PANIC?, pg. 189*Appendix A. Miscellaneous information, pg. 207*Appendix B. Interview schedule, pg. 211*Appendix C. Tables, pg. 221*Index, pg. 223

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  • McClures Magazine and the Muckrakers Princeton

    Princeton University Press McClures Magazine and the Muckrakers Princeton

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    Book SynopsisCurrent date of publication from iPage.IngramContent.com.Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. ix*Chapter I. The Imprint of Abolitionism, pg. 1*Chapter II. An Apprenticeship in the Publishing World, pg. 28*Chapter III. "My Blood Is Like Champagne"62, pg. 48*Chapter IV. The Making of a Magazine, pg. 62*Chapter V. A Magazine of Reporters, pg. 81*Chapter VI. "McClure's Is Edited with Clairvoyance", pg. 104*Chapter VII. The Genesis of Muckraking, pg. 129*Chapter VIII. The Second Decade: The Problem of Lawlessness, pg. 148*Chapter IX. The Great Schism and Afterwards, pg. 168*Chapter X. Government by Magazine, pg. 190*Chapter XI. The State of the State, pg. 210*Chapter XII. The Structuring of Power-The Way Out, pg. 233*Chapter XIII. The Finale of Laissez-Faire, pg. 253*Chapter XIV. "Society the Juggernaut; Man the Devotee?", pg. 284*Chapter XV. "Two Revolts Against Oligarchy", pg. 310*Bibliographical Notes, pg. 323*Index, pg. 331

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  • Mr Justice Murphy A Political Biography 2015

    Princeton University Press Mr Justice Murphy A Political Biography 2015

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    Book SynopsisIn less than a decade Frank Murphy rose from Mayor of depression-torn Detroit to Governor General and High Commissioner of the Philippines, Governor of Michigan, Attorney General of the United States, and one of the most libertarian Supreme Court Justices in American history. Professor Howard bases his biography of this colorful Irish New Dealer exTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xi*1. The Good Old Patriotic Fervor, 1890-1919, pg. 3*2. Dew and Sunshine, 1919-1931, pg. 17*3. The City Is Strapped, 1931-1933, pg. 45*4. A Little New Deal in the Orient, 1933-1935, pg. 60*5. A Monument to the President, 1934-1936, pg. 83*6. The Peaceful Way, 1936-1937, pg. 118*7. Oh, Michigan! 1937-1938, pg. 145*8. A New Broom, 1939, pg. 180*9. So Much to Be Done, 1939-1940, pg. 203*10. The Freshman Member, 1940-1942, pg. 231*11. Freedom to Its Farthest Reaches, 1941-1943, pg. 265*12. The Inescapable Duty, 1943-1945, pg. 300*13. Tempering Justice with Murphy, 1944-1946, pg. 338*14. Humanitarian and Remedial Measures, 1944-1947, pg. 381*15. Not Mentioning the Cardinal, 1946-1949, pg. 424*16. A Militant Faith, pg. 467*Opinions by Justice Murphy, pg. 497*Documentary Footnotes, pg. 503*Index, pg. 559

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  • Rhythmic and Synthetic Processes in Growth

    Princeton University Press Rhythmic and Synthetic Processes in Growth

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    Book SynopsisThis Fifteenth Symposium of the Society for the Study of Development and Growth is divided into three parts. In the first group of chapters T. T. Puck discusses the methods of deriving cultures from single animal cells; R. Dulbecco, problems of virus reproduction; and R. M. Klein, the current status of cultivating plant tissues. D. M. Prescott thenTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*I. The Mammalian Cell as Microorganism, pg. 3*II. The Multiplication of RNA-Containing Animal Viruses, pg. 19*III. Growth and Differentiation of Plant Tissue Cultures, pg. 31*IV. Relations Between Cell Growth and Cell Division, pg. 59*V. An Oscillator Model for Biological Clocks, pg. 75*VI. Endogenous Diurnal Cycles of Activity in Plants, pg. 111*VII. Photosynthesis and the Origin of Life, pg. 127*VIII. On the Origin of Self-Replicating Systems, pg. 155*IX. Some Energy Transduction Problems in Photosynthesis, pg. 171*X. Photosynthesis and Life on Other Planets: A Summary, pg. 201*Index for the Fifteenth Symposium, pg. 207*Cumulative Author Index, pg. 213

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  • Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos

    Princeton University Press Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos

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    Book SynopsisIn all of his works Blake struggled with the question of how chaos can be assimilated into imaginative order. Blake's own answer changed in the course of his poetic career. Christine Gallant contends that during the ten year period of composition of Blake's first comprehensive epic, The Four Zoas, Blake's myth expanded from a closed, static systemTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. xi*Introduction, pg. 1*ONE Myth and Non-Myth, pg. 9*TWO The Balance of Archetypes in The Four Zoas, pg. 48*THREE The Reassumption of Ancient Bliss, pg. 95*FOUR Going Forth to the Vintage of Nations, pg. 116*FIVE Beyond Myth, Beyond Non-Myth, pg. 155*Bibliography, pg. 187*Index, pg. 197

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    £28.50

  • Advertising and a Democratic Press 4409 Princeton Legacy Library

    Princeton University Press Advertising and a Democratic Press 4409 Princeton Legacy Library

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    Trade Review"Advertising and a Democratic Press is an essential book for anyone interested in the structural impact of advertising on American newspapers in particular and the American media in general."--Financial Times "Newspapers, Baker insists, operate mainly as businesses, secondarily as businesses, and occasionally--when they're sounding patriotic and devoted to the public interest--as businesses... The main problem ... is that advertising now accounts for some 65 percent of the average daily newspaper's revenue. In such a fix, he believes, advertisers replace readers and editors in determining editorial content."--Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer "Baker's central concern is the impact of the media's financial dependence on advertising on the substance and distribution of their nonadvertising content... The real contribution of Baker's work is ... the use of economic analyses to show how an apparent benefit of advertising-the subsidizing of the cost of information to the public-can lead, ironically, to a less free and democratic press."--American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction3Ch. IAdvertising: Financial Support and Structural Subversion of a Democratic Press7Ch. IIAdvertising and the Content of a Democratic Press44Ch. IIIEconomic Analysis of Advertising's Effect on the Media71Ch. IVPolicy Proposals83Ch. VThe Constitutionality of Taxation or Regulation of Advertising118Mathematical Appendix139Notes141Index191

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  • From Serf to Russian Soldier

    Princeton University Press From Serf to Russian Soldier

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    £76.00

  • Topics in Dynamics  I Flows

    Princeton University Press Topics in Dynamics I Flows

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    Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. iii*1. Differential Calculus, pg. 1*2. Picard's Method, pg. 13*3. The Local Structure of Vector Fields, pg. 29*4. Sums and Lie Products of Vector Fields, pg. 56*5. Self-adjoint operators on Hilbert space, pg. 60*6. Commutative multiplicity theory, pg. 77*7. Extensions of Hermitean operators, pg. 99*8. Sums and Lie products of self-adjoint operators, pg. 103*Notes and references, pg. 112

    1 in stock

    £67.50

  • Kapwani Kiwanga  Structural Adjustments

    Logan Center Exhibitions Kapwani Kiwanga Structural Adjustments

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  • Friends or Foes  The United States and Soviet

    MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Friends or Foes The United States and Soviet

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    Book SynopsisA work on US-Russian relations over the course of 200 years. This fourth volume provides a comprehensive study that captures the major changes in relations between two nations on the verge of becoming dominant global powers. It examines the rationale for America's failure to recognize the Soviet government through the early 1930s.

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    £53.10

  • Catlins Lament

    MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Catlins Lament

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    Book SynopsisGeorge Catlin gained renown for his nineteenth-century paintings of Indians and their lands. The author argues that, despite his sympathies, Catlin's work embodied the same prevailing sentiment toward Nature that sanctioned Indian removal and thus undercut his own alternate vision for westward expansion.Trade ReviewA clear, coherent, provocative reconsideration of Catlin that challenges readers to reexamine their perceptions of the artist; to explore their understanding of nineteenth-century American attitudes toward expansion, Indians, and nature; and to contemplate how underlying intellectual attitudes and epistemologies may shape and constrain social criticism, including our own. George Miles, coeditor of Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past ""Hausdoerffer's innovative and richly suggestive book leaves no question or controversy surrounding Catlin unexplored. His compelling answers to those questions alone make this rewarding reading for scholars working in environmental studies, environmental ethics, American studies, and ecocriticism."" Joni Adamson, author of American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice and Ecocriticism

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    £41.95

  • Obscenity Rules  Roth v. United States and the

    MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Obscenity Rules Roth v. United States and the

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    £28.45

  • Structuring Poverty in the Windy City  Autonomy

    University Press of Kansas Structuring Poverty in the Windy City Autonomy

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    Book SynopsisThe Great Chicago Fire in 1871 left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In the aftermath the mayor handed all relief duties to the commercial elite at the Chicago Relief and Aid Society. This was, as this study shows, a decision that ensured Chicago's physical rebuilding would be coupled with a rebuilding of the city's poor.Trade ReviewStructuring Poverty in the Windy City is a very important contribution to our knowledge of American, urban, and Chicago history at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries with the socially contested development of poverty law. Chicago and the United States more generally sought to control poverty by defining the autonomy which paid work conveyed; the virtue of women who were wives, housewives, and mothers; and the isolation of the growing African American population. It tried to regulate, if not eliminate, various forms of poverty under a theory developed by social scientists, journalists and public officials. This book should be read by those who care about Chicago history, urban history, and American history but also those who want to understand the development of law, public administration, and public policy."" - Dick Simpson, coauthor of Winning Elections in the 21st Century

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    £31.30

  • The Moderate Imagination  The Political Thought

    University Press of Kansas The Moderate Imagination The Political Thought

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    Book SynopsisTaps archival materials and unread works from John Updike’s college years to offer a clearer view of his acute political thought and ideas. Updike's prescient literary imagination, Fromer shows, sensed the disappointments and alienation of rural white working- and middle-class Americans decades before conservatives sought to exploit them.Trade ReviewJohn Updike has long been acknowledged as one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century, even while his political insights have consistently been underappreciated. Yoav Frome's The Moderate Imagination delivers an important new understanding of Updike's political instincts and vision. This fuller and more rounded picture of Updike's literary intentions and his social and political insights will benefit even the experts." - Cal Jillson, author of The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction"John Updike has long been regarded as one of America's great writers, but one whose domain was largely American domesticity. Fromer's book builds a compelling case for Updike also being one of America's great prescient writers - one who anticipated the current political state of events more than fifty years ago. 'More than anything,' Fromer writes, 'Updike's writings help illustrate the fundamental inability of more and more Americans to grasp, let alone cope with, profound transformations they could neither understand nor control.' This is a smart book that reads at times like the academic equivalent of a 'real page-turner." - James Plath, author of Conversations with John Updike and John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews and R. Forrest Colwell Endowed Chair & Professor of English, Illinois Wesleyan University

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  • University Press of Kansas American by Birth

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    Book SynopsisExplores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States.Trade ReviewWe have long needed a biography of Wong Kim Ark, and American by Birth delivers. It's the history of American citizenship, the tireless efforts of one man and his lawyers to challenge cruel and racist policies, and Wong Kim Ark's continuing legacy today. Nackenoff and Novkov's timely book is a must-read!" - Erika Lee, author of America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States, and director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota"American by Birth tells the compelling story Wong Kim Ark-a Chinese American who was forced to defend his claim to US citizenship-and the landmark Supreme Court case that bares his name. Centering their study around his hard-won battle, Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov deftly trace the multiple origins of birthright citizenship and its sprawling consequences for American society." - Beth Lew-Williams, associate professor of history, Princeton University, and author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

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    £999.99

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