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Offers readers a voyage to the world of sea creatures, with a look at their habitats, their beauty and, yes, even their sex lives. This title takes us to oceans across the world to experience the lives of their inhabitants, from the horribly grotesque to the exquisitely beautiful.

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Debates public sphere, a concept introduced by Jurgen Habermas that has led theorists to grapple with such polarities as public and private, polity and personality, citizenship and subjection. This work sets out to challenge the Enlightenment opposition of reason and sentiment as the fundamental grid for understanding American political culture.

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Offers a definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time. This book demonstrates the crisis of our dominant idea of history and its dissolution in the rhythmic time of postmodernism. It discusses several crises of cultural identity: the crisis of the object, the crisis of the subject, and the crisis of the sign.

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Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), arguably the popular composer of the twentieth century, led a life of triumph and tragedy. This book probes beneath the surface of his career and contextualizes his contributions to music on both sides of the nascent Cold War divide.

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Here is the first major study of domestic service in France from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, describing its transformation from a male-oriented occupation, aristocratic in style and often geared to public display, to one that was female, middle-class, and centered on the household. Originally published in 1984. T

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Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States Drawing on the findings of a project that examined data from France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and the United States, this work argues that Europe's 25 million "missing" jobs can be attributed almost entirely to its relative lack of service jobs.

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Drawing from his ethnographic work in the former East Germany and with select comparisons to East-Central European states, the author examines the construction of categories of criminality. He argues against the claims that economic growth, liberal democracy, or acts of reconciliation are means to legitimate the transformed East bloc states.

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Translation of selections from Comedier.

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Suitable for students and those who want to take their technical skills for instructors who want a text for second methods course, this title teaches social scientists how to get out of their technical skills and tools, providing a resource that describes strategies and concepts no researcher or student of human behavior can do without.

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Was there a continuity between the "vigorous art and the seminal science" of the seventeenth century How did they affect one another Which, if either, was dominant Four distinguished scholars explore the relation between seventeenth century science and the creative arts in a series of four essays: Introduction, by Stephen E. Toulmin of Columbia;

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There was a special year devoted to the topic of several complex variables at the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and this volume contains the resulting survey papers and research papers. The work covers a broad spectrum of developments in this field. The contributors include H. Alexander; F. Almgren; E. Almar; M. Andersson; E. Bedfo

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Beginning with an interpretation of the Third Reich's sexual politics and ending with the revisions of Germany's past facilitated by communism's collapse, this book examines the intertwined histories of capitalism and communism, pleasure and state policies, religious renewal and secularizing trends.

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Synthesizes the literature on sex allocation, providing a conceptual framework and demonstrating how sex-allocation studies can answer broader questions in evolutionary and behavioral biology.

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How do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases This book uses economic analysis to consider this question, comparing abortion to a form of insurance. It includes an analysis which suggests that the manner in which individuals change their behavior depends on the extent to which abortion is accessible.

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