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Considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. This book argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of live singing, playing, and staging. It explores a spectrum of attitudes towards musical performance.

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The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. This work is a series of country studies guided by that research. It sheds light on some of the important growth puzzles such as how did China grow so rapidly despite the absence of full-fledged private property rights.

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Drawing on work with Indian and Japanese patients, this title explores inner worlds that are markedly different from the Western psyche. It features case studies that illustrate this argument: the 'familial self', rooted in the subtle emotional hierarchical relationships of the family and group, predominates in Indian and Japanese psyches.

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Documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. This book describes Russian Westernization - which emphasized German as well as Anglo-US economics. It raises questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.

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Challenging the widespread 'separatist imagination' behind partition, this book demonstrates the ways in which works of Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and instead display configurations of identity that emphasize the presence of alterity within the self - the Jew within the Arab, and the Arab within the Jew.

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A collection of essays, addressing the core subjects of political philosophy such as justice, liberty, and equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself.

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One of the most persistent controversies of modern science has dealt with human visual perception. It erupted in Germany during the 1860s as a dispute between physiologists Hermann von Helmholtz, Ewald Hering, and their schools. Well into the twentieth century these groups warred over the origins of our capacity to perceive space, over the retinal

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Develops a theory of organizational leadership and governance to explain why some organizations expand their scope of action in ways that do not benefit their members directly. This title reveals how activist labor unions expand the community of fate and provoke preferences that transcend the private interests of individual members.

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Describes the author's experience of the bombing trials in a Manhattan federal court in 2001. This book looks at the investigation leading up to the trial, encounters with some of the FBI's leading terrorism investigators, and moments of drama from the proceedings themselves.

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Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, and others have written much on the history of reading in the Old Regime, but this is the first broad study of reading to focus on the period after 1800. How and why did people understand texts as they did in modern France In answering this question, James Allen moves easily from one interpretive framework to anothe

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An ethnography that focuses on Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze.

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Suggests that understanding the impact of the illness lies not in identifying deficiencies, but in appreciating how family members carry on with their lives in the face of the disease's intrusion. This book focuses on the lives of those who live in the shadow of chronic illness: the parents and well siblings of children who have cystic fibrosis.

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Robert Powell argues for the usefulness of formal models in studying international conflict and for the necessity of greater dialogue between modelling and empirical analysis.

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Narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists - J Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A Bethe - came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. This work tells the story of modern physics, the development of atomic weapons, and the Cold War.

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Aaron Friedberg argues that anti-statist inclinations prevented Cold War anxieties from transforming the United States into the garrison state it might have become in their absence.