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Brings together articles from the publication that helped revolutionize the way "Wall Street" does business. This work is aimed at stimulating dialogue between academic economists wishing to understand the real-world problems of finance and investment professionals wanting to bring the most advanced theoretical work to bear on commerce.

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By integrating class-based factors with racial and ethnic factors, this book shows what motivates African-Americans, Latinos, and Anglos to mobilize and participate in politics. It examines whether the diverse theoretical approaches generally used to explain individual participation in politics are supported for the groups under consideration.

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The purpose of this book is to acquaint the geoscientist with issues associated with the debate over orientation and magnitude of stress in the lithosphere. Terry Engelder provides a broad understanding of the topic, while touching some of the specific details involved in the interpretation of stress data generated by the most commonly used measure

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More than seventy years since the Bolsheviks came to power, there is still no comprehensive study of workers' activism in history's first successful workers' revolution. Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 is the first effort in any language to explore this issue in both quantitative and qualitative terms and to relate strikes to the broader pro

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Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an attack is in progress Is the Bush Doctrine of aggressive preventive action a justified and legal recourse against threats posed by terrorists and rogue states This book includes responses by political theorists Richard Tuck and Jeffrey McMahan.

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Shows that concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. Developing theories of cooperation and escalation in territorial disputes, this book explains China's willingness to either compromise or use force.

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Demonstrates that the ownership structure of large U S firms owes its distinctive character as much to politics as to economics and technology. This title addresses issues facing American businesses as they compete in the new international marketplace.

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Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world. Vaccines offer hope for controlling these diseases and could improve health in poor countries. But developers have little incentive to undertake the costly research to develop vaccines. This book details how these legally binding commitments would work.

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This book deals with specific problems in Colombia as a means of exploring interrelated theoretical themes in the development process. Demographic and political as well as specifically economic variables arc given consideration in the authors' analysis of the constraints on the growth of Colombia's modern sector. Originally published in 1971. The

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With the development of nuclear physics the theory of the stellar interior entered a new phase. Many new investigations have been conducted and the results published in a variety of specialized media. This book brings these results together in a single volume and summarizes the present status of the theory of stellar evolution. Originally publishe

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This book outlines a new approach to the analysis of decision making based on "cognitive maps." A cognitive map is a graphic representation intended to capture the structure of a decision maker's stated beliefs about a particular problem. Following introductory chapters that develop the theory and techniques of cognitive mapping, a set of five empi

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This book sets forth a clear and systematic approach to Marx's thought that finally makes possible a coherent interpretation of all of his published works. Although Marx's philosophy is usually regarded as one of the most influential ever written, its seeming ambiguities and contradictions have long puzzled readers. By uncovering the framework that

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Traces the diplomatic maneuverings and political drama of national unification in nineteenth-century Germany and Italy. This book demonstrates that Germany's and Italy's 'founding fathers' were constrained by two different pre-unification patterns of institutional development. It offers a broader theory of federalism's origins.