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Explains how the Senate managed to satisfy its lawmaking role during the 19th and early 20th century, when it lacked essential formal rules for governing debate. This book argues that in a system where filibusters played out as wars of attrition, the threat of rule changes prevented the institution from devolving into parliamentary chaos.

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Robert T. Eberwein uses a hypothesis from psychoanalytic theory to explore the frequently noticed similarity between dreaming and watching a film. His comprehensive study of the relationship between films and dreams explains the film screen as a psychic structure. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on

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Sergei Eisenstein's greatness lies not only in his films, such as Potemkin or Ivan the Terrible, or his contributions to the technique and art of the cinema but also in his contributions as a theoretician and philosopher of the art. This edition includes a new translation of Eisenstein's essay on Orozco. Originally published in 1982. The Princeto

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Since the opening of the Ottoman Archives, research on the history of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1800 has resulted primarily in the publication of individual financial and administrative records, sometimes with analysis. Dr. Shaw's study is the first effort to use all the available records concerning an individual province, synthesizing them into

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Analyzes the views on the crises and on the reform of the international financial architecture. This book is suitable for researchers, policymakers, and students.

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This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997. Retracing the story of Asia's "Crisis Five"--Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand--Padma Desai argues that the region's imp

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Financial econometrics is a great success story in economics. Intended for professionals and advanced graduate students pursuing expertise in econometric modeling, this guide focuses on methods related to foregoing research and those modeling techniques that seem relevant to future advances.

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Financial econometrics is a great success story in economics. Intended for professionals and advanced graduate students pursuing expertise in econometric modeling, this guide focuses on methods related to foregoing research and those modeling techniques that seem relevant to future advances.

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Presents the social and cultural history of the rise of consumer credit in America. This book focuses on the years between 1890 and 1940, when the legal, institutional, and moral bases of consumer credit were established. It challenges the idea that consumer credit has eroded traditional values.

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Presents an account of the first 27 years of a astonishing trajectory in a life made difficult by depression, but sustained throughout by a love of books and learning. This book depicts the formative years of a man nourished by lifelong learning, whose rise from humble beginnings to heights of achievement serves as a model for generations to come.

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Combines algebra and geometry to discuss the three-dimensional area where vectors can be plotted. This book provides introduction to linear algebra, a branch of mathematics that studies vectors and vector spaces.

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Applies model theoretic methods to the study of certain finite permutation groups, the automorphism groups of structures for a fixed finite language with a bounded number of orbits on 4-tuples. This book treats the general case by developing analogs of the model theoretic methods of geometric stability theory.

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These seventeen essay, written between 1922 and 1953, are among Roheim's most significant published writings and are collected here for the first time to introduce a new generation of folklorists and anthropologists to his unique interpretations of myths, folktales, and legends.

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Evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing. This book includes the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, American firewalking, one of the more spectacular activities of New Age psychology.

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This work investigates a moment in evolution when development was at its most basic - the moment when signalling between cells began. Using slime mould as an example, the author seeks to analyze development at a primitive stage and gain an insight into how early multicellular development began.