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Challenges the conventional view, as well as post-structuralist scholarship that minimizes state power.

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Robin Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species, whose social system is one of the most complex among the primates. His work illustrates the value of an approach that views social behavior as being ultimately concerned with reproduction and with the maximizing of an indi

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How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy This book attempts to answer this fundamental question through a study of international debt across three centuries. It explains how governments acquire reputations in the eyes of investors, and argues that concerns about reputation sustain international lending and repayment.

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The US Food and Drug Administration is the most powerful regulatory agency in the world. How did the FDA become so influential This book traces the history of FDA regulation of pharmaceuticals, revealing how the agency's organizational reputation has been the primary source of its power, yet also one of its ultimate constraints.

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The eighteenth-century "Hongloumeng", known in English as "Dream of the Red Chamber" or "The Story of the Stone", is generally considered to be the greatest of Chinese novels. This title goes beyond the customary view of "Hongloumeng" as a reflection of late imperial Chinese culture by examining the novel as a story about fictive representation.

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"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be certain of much about them. I suppose they reflect a self with only a tenuous grip on its surroundings, threatened by their (and its own) continuous vanishing. The poems respond with a helplessness, fitful control, and not a littl

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Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. This title examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four Jewish thinkers, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer.

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Why didn't the protectionist spiral of the 1920s reappear in the 1970s in light of similar economic and political realities This title analyzes the growth of international economic interdependence and its effects on trade policy in the United States and France.

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Intellectual power and subtlety are as important to a definition of Marvell's style as grace of feeling, says the author of this highly original study, which illuminates the philosophical character of the poetry by exploring the ways of Marvell's imagination. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-dema

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How should an ecosystem be conceptualized to blend its biotic and biophysical components How should evolutionary ecological principles be used to derive an operational understanding of complex, adaptive ecosystems This book addresses the critical questions of contemporary ecology.

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Describes the five major strategies of growth for terrestrial plants, and details how plants succeed when resources are scarce. This book explains how plants attain available nutrients, withstand the immense stresses of drying soils, and flourish in the race for light.

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What rational justification is there for conceiving of all living things as possessing inherent worth This title draws on biology, moral philosophy, and environmental science to defend a biocentric environmental ethic in which all life has value.

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Amendments are, among other things, recognitions of the imperfection of existing schemes of government. This book brings together essays on a range of questions from whether the US Constitution is subject to amendment by procedures other than those authorized by Article V to how change is conceptualized within classical rabbinic Judaism.

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A study of the economic and social changes which shaped the movement for German unification. The author emphasizes the effect of industrialism on urban life, traces the decline of manorialism in agriculture and seeks to show that the political movements of these years were profoundly influenced by the economic transition from agrarianism to capitalism.