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Roman baroque sculpture is usually thought of in terms of large-scale statues in marble and bronze, tombs, or portrait busts. Smaller bronze statuettes are overlooked, and the extensive production of sculptural silver--much of which is now lost but can be studied from drawings--is omitted from the

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The 171 extant plays of the Yuan period (1279-1368) are the oldest and most brilliant examples of Chinese dramatic literature. In this first comprehensive study, Chung-wen Shih systematically explores the riches of Yuan drama, from its unexcelled lyric poetry to its colorful characterization. After tracing the popular genres that contributed to the

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Gary McDonogh combines ethnology and history to analyze the organization, reproduction, and decline of an urban industrial elite. Using Barcelona as the foundation for more general consideration of power-holding groups, he tells the story of the Good Families," those few hundred lineages who have dominated the city in the nineteenth and twentieth c

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Many policymakers, journalists, and scholars insist that US hegemony is essential for warding off global chaos. This book argues that hegemony is a fiction propagated to support a large defense establishment, justify American claims to world leadership, and buttress the self-esteem of voters.

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How should we live What do we owe to other people This book explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions.

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Exploring changes in governance across several policy areas (such as tourism, trade, finance, and fiscal and monetary policy), this work demonstrates that globalization changes the policy preferences of some actors, increases the bargaining power of others, and opens new institutional options for yet others.

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In recent years, the study of American political history has experienced a remarkable renaissance. After decades during which the subject fell out of fashion and disappeared from public view, it has returned to prominence as the study of American history has shifted its focus back to politics broadly defined. In this book, one of the leaders of the

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Commander Leighton is a psychiatrist and anthropologist who was assigned to go to the Japanese Relocation Center at Poston, Arizona, and "apply the methods of social science" to that community-find out in terms of human relationships what was working well and why, what was going wrong and why, and attempt to draw general principles from that experi

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Examining the fifty-two years from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of the Great Depression, this book shows that the "first New Federalism" was created during this era from dozens of policy initiatives enacted by a modernizing Congress.

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Reviews the debate about industrial policy in East and Southeast Asia and chronicles the changing fortunes of these economies over the 1990s. This title extends the argument to explain the boom of the first half of the decade and the crash of the second, stressing the links between corporations, banks, governments, and others.

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Shows what the Badger State did and how it was done. Wisconsin's welfare reform was the most radical in the country, and it began far earlier than that in most other states. It was the achievement of legislators and administrators who were unusually high-minded and effective by national standards.

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Since World War II six risk-sharing institutions to stimulate foreign investment have been established by the U.S. government and several international organizations. These are thoroughly studied. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print b

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Focusing on graph theoretic methods for the analysis and synthesis of dynamic multiagent networks, this book presents a powerful formalism and set of tools for networked systems. It covers topics such as formation control, coverage, distributed estimation, social networks, and games over networks.

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Plotting humankind's efforts to visualize data, this book discusses atheoretical plotting of data to reveal suggestive patterns. It includes chapters illustrating the uses and abuses of this invention (plotting), from a murder trial in Connecticut to the Vietnam War's effect on college admissions.