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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) has a reputation as one of the leading composers of the twentieth century. This work expands the traditional purview of Shostakovich's world, exploring the composer's creativity and art in terms of the expectations - historical, cultural, and political - that forged them.

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Seeks to unify disparate theories and methodologies connected with risk analysis for health, environmental, and technological problems. This book addresses specific problems, including order-of-magnitude estimation, dose-response calculations, exposure assessment, extrapolations and forecasts, fault-tree analysis, and more.

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In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. This title provides an investigation into silence as a distinctive and meaningful phenomenon in archaic and classical Greece.

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Presents an argument that the process of collecting information on public preferences through surveys may bias our picture of several preferences. This book focuses on the many respondents who say they "don't know" when asked for their views on the political issues of the day.

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Simple games are mathematical structures inspired by voting systems in which a single alternative, such as a bill, is pitted against the status quo. This mathematical study of the subject as a subfield in finite combinatorics blends new theorems with some of the results from threshold logic.

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This book evaluates the Simulated International Processer (SIPER) model of the international political system, which was derived from the Inter-Nation Simulation model created at Northwestern University. Stuart Bremer makes a significant advance by programming all aspects of the basic theory so that it more completely and accurately reflects the co

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Although John Calvin often likened sacramental confession to butchery, the Council of Trent declared that for those who approached it worthily, it was made easy by its "great benefits and consolations." Thomas Tentler describes and evaluates the effectiveness of sacramental confession as a functioning institution designed "to cause guilt as well as

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Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. This book tells the story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity.

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Singular integrals are among the most interesting and important objects of study in analysis, one of the three main branches of mathematics. They deal with real and complex numbers and their functions. This book deals with this aspect, and serves as a mathematics text.

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The description for this book, Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces. (AM-61), will be forthcoming.

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What happens if the two most powerful partners in the Communist world cannot agree on basic issues of principle and policy Donald S. Zagoria, who was from 1951 to 1961 an analyst of Communist Bloc politics for the U.S. Government, traces the development of serious conflict between the U.S.S.R. and China from the 20th Party Congress in 1956 to the

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Sir Walter Raleigh was truly the Renaissance man of Elizabethan England: soldier and diplomat serving in the wars between Spain and England, courtier and Captain of the Queen's Guard in Elizabeth's flamboyant court, explorer of a New World and colonizer of Virginia, member of Parliament and devotee of science, musician and literary patron, historia

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It has long been argued that opera is all about sex. This work explores the impact of this sexual obsession, and of the power relations that come with it, on the music, words, and staging of opera. It combines readings of specific scenes with efforts to situate these musical moments within the observed historical contexts.

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Here is the first translation into English of the Basava Purana, a fascinating collection of tales that sums up and characterizes one of the most important and most radical religious groups of South India. The ideas of the Virasaivas, or militant Saivas, are represented in those tales by an intriguing mix of outrageous excess and traditional conser

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