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Thomas Hobbes remains one of the most controversial of early modern philosophers, and debates persist about the interpretation of many of his ideas, particularly his views about natural law and natural right. This book argues that these two concepts are the twin foundations of the entire structure of Hobbes's moral and political thought.

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Provides an introduction to Hodge theory - one of the central and most vibrant areas of contemporary mathematics - from leading specialists on the subject. This book includes topics that range from the basic topology of algebraic varieties to the study of variations of mixed Hodge structure and the Hodge theory of maps.

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Although Hofmannsthal never completed his only novel Andreas, its theme--the quest for self through memory--haunted the Viennese writer and recurs again and again in his poems, libretti, and essays. Analyzing the fragment, David Miles discusses Hofmannsthal's understanding of memory and myth, Andreas' pivotal role in his work, and its place within

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Contents: Poems and Verse Plays; Plays and Libretti; Hofmannsthal's Debt to the English-speaking World Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve th

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Analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. With readings of films like D W Griffith's 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, this book argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema.

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Moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products - even some blockbusters - to be legitimate works of art. This title tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves.

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Composed on the occasion of the poet's near-fatal bout with typhus in 1623, the Devotions contains the essential germ of John Donne's mature thought, embodied in obscurely structured verse/prose divisions. Because of its seeming digressiveness, critics have struggled to understand this most significant of Renaissance texts as a whole. Kate Gartner

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What religion does not serve as a theater of tears This work addresses this universal phenomenon ranging from Mycenaean Greece up through the tragedy of 9/11. It offers essays on specific topics in religious weeping while also considering issues such as gender, memory, physiology, and spontaneity.

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Studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams play. This book examines the relationships between major professional team sports - baseball, basketball, football, and hockey - and the cities that attach their names, their hearts, and their increasing amount of tax dollars to big league teams.

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Originally published in Italian as La traccia del modello, 1984 by Giardini editori estampatori in pisa.

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Addressing a variety of theoretical cosmological problems, and emphasizing a mathematical approach, this volume nicely complements Peebles' Physical Cosmology (Princeton Series in Physics, 1971). Ryan and Shepley have concentrated on the structure of models of the universe. By using a modern terminology that emphasizes the operator nature of vector

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The invasion of algebra had occurred on three fronts through the construction of cohomology theories for groups, Lie algebras, and associative algebras. This book presents a single homology theory that embodies all three.