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Among the many differences between classical and p-adic objects, those related to differential equations occupy a special place. This book aims to show that every smooth p-adic analytic space is provided with a sheaf of functions that includes analytic ones and satisfies a uniqueness property. It is aimed at graduate students and mathematicians.

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In this comprehensive study of Voltaire's intellectual development, he provides the first full treatment of the effect of the English experience on Voltaire, the diversity of activity at Cirey, and the relation of Voltaire's thought to 17th- and 18th-century philosophy. By devoting considerable attention to the movements, the personal relationships

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Generally known for its advanced, often radical suggestions of reform in politics, religion, morality, and human behavior, the Greek Enlightenment has long been studied in terms of its doctrines and theories. To understand the environment in which the new ideas flourished and their impact, Friedrich Solmsen explores the novel intellectual methods t

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With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O. Wade turns now to Voltaire's milieu and begins an account of the French Enlightenment which will explain its genesis, its nature and coherence, and its diffusion in the modern world. To understand the movement of ideas that produced t

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Attempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.

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Offers theoretical foundations for a rule-based approach to monetary policy for a world of communications and efficient financial markets. This book examines the foundations of monetary economics, showing how interest-rate policy can be used to achieve an inflation target in the absence of either commodity control of a monetary aggregate.

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This book shows that governmental efforts to expand corporatism in the major occupational associations intensified conflict in and between socioeconomic sectors, encouraged militancy from disaffected group leaders, and promoted polarization between pluralist and corporatist associations. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library

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Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman are widely acclaimed for their pioneering theoretical studies of how special interest groups seek to influence the policymaking process in democratic societies. This collection of eight of their articles is a companion to their monograph, "Special Interest Politics".

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The author examines both structurally and functionally the General Confederation of Italian Industry, Italian Catholic Action, the Christian Democrats, the Italian Liberal Party, the monarchist Italian Republican Party, the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement, and many more interest groups. The book is based on several years of field research in It

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The field of financial mathematics has developed over the years, and the underlying models that have taken shape in interest rate markets and bond markets, being richer in structure than equity-derivative models, are fascinating and complex. This book introduces the tools required for the arbitrage-free modelling of the dynamics of these markets.

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Lays out a developed theory of domestic politics, showing how domestic politics affects international outcomes. In developing this rational-choice theory, this book argues that any explanation that treats states as unitary actors is ultimately misleading. It examines the central factors that influence the strategic game of domestic politics.

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To understand why people migrate during periods of modernization, Barbara Anderson contends that one must study the place of origin, since the persons at the origin are the potential migrant population. Using data from the 1897 Imperial Russian Census, the author examines two types of migration: that to an already settled, relatively modern area, s

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