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Northeast Utilities Company adopted a new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s. Curtailing outlays on nuclear operations meant high risk that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would close the plants because of prolonged outages. This is just what happened in 1996. This book describes ten years of corporate performance preceding the shutdown.

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Explores the affinities between Socratic philosophy and Athenian democratic culture as a way to think about issues of politics and education, both ancient and modern. Drawing on Aristophanes' "Clouds", Sophocles' "Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannos", and Plato's "Apology of Socrates", this work develops a view of democratic political education.

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Do there exist Lorentzian manifolds all of whose light-like geodesics are periodic A surprising fact is that such manifolds exist in abundance in (2 + 1)-dimensions (though in higher dimensions they are quite rare). This book deals with the deformation theory of M2,1 (which furnishes almost all the known examples of these objects).

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With this translation, one of the classics of German historical literature becomes available in English. In Weltburgertum und Nationalstaat the eminent historian Friedrich Meinecke attempted to trace the transition in Germany from eighteenth-century cosmopolitanism to nineteenth-century nationalism, and to clarify the genetic history of the German

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Donald Horowitz presents a case study of an attempted military coup in Sri Lanka. On the basis of interviews with twenty-three participants in this attempted coup--a mine of information rarely available for a study like this--he provides first-hand evidence of the way officers' motives interact with social and political conditions to foster coup at

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Grimmelshausen's enduring fame as Germany's greatest satirical novelist has rested mainly on The Adventerous Simplicissimus, the first of four novels comprising the Simplician cycle. Less well known, though of equal interest for their penetrating and satiric insight into seventeenth-century beliefs and superstitions, are the two Simplician tales no

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The seventeenth-century English collaborative authors Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were not only the most popular playwrights of their day but also literary figures highly esteemed by the great critics of the age, Jonson and Dryden. Concentrating on the passions of the royalty and high nobility in a courtly atmosphere, their dramas are now us

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Courts of Appeals were designed to be a unifying force in American law and politics, but they also contribute to decentralization and regionalization of federal law. Woodford Howard studies three aspects of this problem: first, what binds the highly decentralized federal courts into a judicial system; second, what controls the discretion of judges

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Gives insight into the operations of the courts, this work demonstrates the use of 'social sciences' in analyzing a legal problem. It is of interest to the lawyer, anthropologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher.

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Intends to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse into Jewish thought. This book presents a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition.

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Examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other.

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Admissions and financial aid policies at liberal arts colleges have changed dramatically since 1955. Through the 1950s, most colleges in the United States enrolled fewer than 1000 students, nearly all of whom were white. Few colleges were truly selective in their admissions; they accepted most students who applied. In the 1960s, as the children of

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The American racial order - the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities - is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. This title takes a look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected.

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Presents a social and political history of German communism from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1990. This book describes the emergence of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) against the background of Imperial and Weimar Germany.