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Princeton University Press Monetary Economics and Policy
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Princeton University Press Promised Lands
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Princeton University Press In Asian Waters Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama
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Princeton University Press Human Forms The Novel in the Age of Evolution
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Princeton University Press Social Conventions From Language to Law
Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions a
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Princeton University Press Virtuous Bankers
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Princeton University Press The Implementation of Prolog
A semantically well-defined programming language widely used in artificial intelligence, Prolog has greatly influenced other programming languages since its introduction in the late 1970s. A user may find Prolog deceptively easy, however, and there are a number of different implementations. In this book Patrice Boizumault draws from his extensive e
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Princeton University Press ManDevil
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Princeton University Press Introduction to Ramsey Spaces
Ramsey theory is an area of combinatorics with deep connections to other fields of mathematics such as topological dynamics, ergodic theory, mathematical logic, and algebra. This book presents a method for building higher-dimensional Ramsey spaces from basic one-dimensional principles.
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Princeton University Press The Symptom and the Subject The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece
The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional
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Princeton University Press Without Authority
A volume of five short works that in various ways deals with the concept and practice of authority, including: "Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays" (1849), "An Upbuilding Discourse" (1850), and "Two Discourses at the Communion on Fridays" (1851).
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Princeton University Press Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws
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Princeton University Press The Planet Remade How Geoengineering Could Change the World
First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2015.
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Princeton University Press The Mind in Exile
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Princeton University Press Citizenship under Fire
Examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, this work seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of the most harmful of these changes.
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Princeton University Press The Ecological Detective Confronting Models with Data
How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? This book answers these questions. It makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models.
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Princeton University Press From Prague After Munich Diplomatic Papers 19381940
Author's name appears on cover as George Frost Kennan.
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Princeton University Press Quantum Philosophy
Reviews the history and development of mathematics, logic, and the physical sciences. This book offers an account of the developments in science and the philosophy of knowledge from the pre-Socratic era to the nineteenth century.
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Princeton University Press Deep Roots
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Princeton University Press Functional Operators Volume 2 The Geometry of Orthogonal Spaces
Measures and integrals
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Princeton University Press Civilizations of Ancient Iraq
Tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century. With illustrations of important works of art and architecture in every chapter, this title traces the rise and fall of successive civilizations and people in Iraq over the course of millennia.
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Princeton University Press Doing the Right Thing
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Princeton University Press Waves and Grains
Offers a tour of the world of light. This book explores theoretical, experimental, and historical themes, and covers such questions as how it is possible to achieve magnifications of a millionfold without a single lens or mirror. It also covers various elements of physical optics, including propagation, reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
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Princeton University Press The Best Writing on Mathematics 2013
Offers a panoramic view of mathematics in contemporary society; Terence Tao discusses aspects of universal mathematical laws in complex systems; Ian Stewart explains how in mathematics everything arises out of nothing; and Erin Maloney and Sian Beilock consider the mathematical anxiety experienced by many students and suggest effective remedies.
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Princeton University Press Mathematical Methods in Elasticity Imaging
This book is the first to comprehensively explore elasticity imaging and examines recent, important developments in asymptotic imaging, modeling, and analysis of deterministic and stochastic elastic wave propagation phenomena. It derives the best possible functional images for small inclusions and cracks within the context of stability and resoluti
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Princeton University Press What the Thunder Said
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Princeton University Press Leibniz in His World
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Princeton University Press In the Shadow of Olympus
In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, this title offers to specialists and lay readers alike an account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history.
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Princeton University Press The Ecology of DeepSea Hydrothermal Vents
Explains what is known about hydrothermal systems in terms of their deep-sea environment and their geological and chemical makeup. This book explores the possibility that life originated at hydrothermal vents, a hypothesis that has had impact on our ideas about the potential for life on other planets or planetary bodies in our solar system.
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Princeton University Press The Geographic Spread of Infectious Diseases
Offers an introduction to mathematical models in epidemiology and shows how they can be used to predict and control the geographic spread of major infectious diseases. This work explains the key concepts in infectious disease modeling, guides readers from simple mathematical models to more complex ones, and explores their strengths and weaknesses.
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Princeton University Press Barriers to Democracy
Investigates the role of civic associations in promoting democratic attitudes and behavioral patterns in contexts that are less than democratic. This work argues that, in state-centralized environments, associations can just as easily promote civic qualities vital to authoritarian citizenship - such as support for the regime in power.
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Princeton University Press Conservation
Traces the historical roots of modern conservation thought and practice, and explores current perspectives from evolutionary and community ecology, conservation biology, anthropology, political ecology, economics, and policy.
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Princeton University Press The Passion of AlHallaj Mystic and Martyr of I The Life of AlHallaj
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Princeton University Press Braids Links and Mapping Class Groups
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Princeton University Press Tiberius and His Age
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Princeton University Press Muscles Reflexes and Locomotion
This is the first book-length treatment of mathematical models of muscle functions. Although physiologists, biophysicists, and bioengineers often mention these models, particularly the important Huxley models, Thomas A. McMahon is the first completely to explain them.
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Princeton University Press Thermodynamics A Dynamical Systems Approach
Places thermodynamics on a system-theoretic foundation so as to harmonize it with classical mechanics. This book suggests that many physicists and engineers who have developed the theory of thermodynamics seem to have forgotten that mathematics, when used rigorously, is the irrefutable pathway to truth.
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Princeton University Press Foundations of Social Evolution
Treats one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. This book tackles the problem with an original combination of approaches: game theory, classical models of natural selection, quantitative genetics, and kin selection.
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Princeton University Press The Complete Birds of the World
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Princeton University Press Moral Agents and Their Deserts
Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if he failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such necessities? This book presents a study of Mu'tazilite ethics.
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Princeton University Press The Structure and Confirmation of Evolutionary Theory
Traditionally a scientific theory is viewed as based on universal laws of nature that serve as axioms for logical deduction. In analyzing the logical structure of evolutionary biology, this title argues that the semantic account is an appropriate. It is of interest to biologists and philosophers alike.
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Princeton University Press Arions Lyre
Examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. This book looks at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibycus, Anacreon, and Simonides was preserved, edited, and read by Hellenistic scholars and poets.
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Princeton University Press The Politics of Institutional Choice The Formation of the Russian State Duma
Provides a theoretically grounded examination of the early development of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Federation's parliament created by the 1993 constitution. This book offers an integrated account of the choices made by the elected members of the Duma in establishing basic operating arrangements.
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Princeton University Press The Composition of Keplers Astronomia nova
Drawing on Kepler's correspondence and manuscripts, this book reveals that the style of Kepler's magnum opus, "Astronomia nova" (1609), has been traditionally misinterpreted. Kepler laid forth the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in this work.
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Princeton University Press Parasitoids Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology
Providing an introduction to parasitoid natural history and taxonomy, this book asks how a consideration of evolutionary biology can help us understand the behavior, ecology, and diversity of the approximately one to two million species of parasitoid found on earth. It also discusses the theoretical background to the subject.
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Princeton University Press Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders
Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. This work aims to take the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Weaving social and intellectual history, it brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. It challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.
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Princeton University Press The Shiis of Iraq
Provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. This title challenges the belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism, pointing to the strong Arab attributes of Iraqi Shi'ism.
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Princeton University Press Saving Americas Wildlife Ecology and the American Mind 18501990
Through an account of evolving ideas about wolves and coyotes, this title shows how American attitudes toward animals have changed.
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