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In this richly illustrated study of the relationship of art, drama, and fiction in the nineteenth century, Martin Meisel illuminates the collaboration between storytelling and picturemaking that informed narrative painting, pictorial dramaturgy, and serial illustrated fiction. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the la

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Brings together twenty-three essays on ancient moral philosophy. This book gives an account of many issues and texts in ancient moral psychology and ethical theory, providing a way of reflecting on the fields as they developed from Socrates and Plato through Aristotle to Epicurus and the Stoic philosophers Chrysippus and Posidonius, and beyond.

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This textual and intertextual analysis of the dialogue in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose combines specific close readings of texts with a rich theoretical argument to establish Reason's moral primacy in the poem's economy. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make availabl

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In this book Richard Lester develops an analytical basis for judging sex, race, and age discrimination in professional and executive employment. Originally published in 1980. 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 Un

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Offers a defense of the minimal welfare state substantially independent of any broader commitments, and at the same time better able to withstand challenges from the New Right's moralistic political economy. This defense of the existence of the welfare state is discussed, flanked by criticism of Old Left and New Right arguments.

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Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question 'Why should I be moral' and by doubts about the rational authority of moral virtue. Addressing such topics as the psychology of virtue and the explanation of action, this title is suitable for philosophers interested in ethics, rationality, or the philosophy of mind.

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"One of Princeton University Press's Notable Centenary Titles"--Page 4 of cover.

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We shall study a notion of capacity for compact subsets of complex projective space. Our principal motivation for this comes from a theorem of Sibony and Wong 8 , Let K be a compact circled subset of the unit sphere in C2.

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Historical accounts of Jewish violence - particularly against Christians - have long been explosive material. Some historians have distorted these records for anti-Semitic purposes. This book looks at both the history of Jewish violence since late antiquity and the ways in which generations of historians have grappled with that history.

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Features evidence that recruited athletes 'underperform': they do even less well academically than predicted by their test scores and high school grades. This book examines the forces that drive this process and presents proposals for reform. It argues for re-establishing athletics as a means of fulfilling the educational missions of our colleges.

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Offers an in-depth exploration of the libellus - or little book - of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this book, the author fleshes out the primary importance of this mysterious and idiosyncratic writer.

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The scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was democratic in nature, stressing the role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. The author challenges this view, warning that this trend threatens to become an orthodoxy, and defending that the republic was a Roman, oligarchic and aristocratic political form.

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Topological dynamics and ergodic theory usually have been treated independently. H. Furstenberg, instead, develops the common ground between them by applying the modern theory of dynamical systems to combinatories and number theory. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make

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Demonstrates the analytical benefits acquired when an analysis with a representative consumer is possible, they also characterize the restrictiveness of assumptions under which a representative household justifies a purely aggregative analysis.

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The Soviet-Egyptian relationship after the June War of 1967 was a new one for both countries, and its consequences were of global importance. Drawing on all available Soviet and Arab materials, Alvin Rubinstein develops the concept of influence as an analytical tool and explores in comprehensive fashion the diplomatic, military, political, and econ

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No state has voted Republican more consistently or widely or for longer than Kansas. To understand red state politics, Kansas is the place. It is also the place to understand red state religion. This title tells the story of religiously motivated political activism in Kansas from territorial days to the present.