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Challenges the assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis. This book recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. It demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a 'nation' (ethnos), and that Athens did encompass the characteristics now used to identify a 'nation.'

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Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystalized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C.

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An introduction to the physics and chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, this book explains the science behind some of the critical environmental controversies. It covers both the chemistry and physics of the atmosphere with an account of relevant aspects of ocean science and treats atmospheric science and the climate as an integrated whole.

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"Originally published in 1961 under the title 'Japan subdued: the atomic bomb and the end of the war in the Pacific,' now revised and made more complete and revealing

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Leon (Judah Aryeh) Modena was a major intellectual figure of the early modern Italian Jewish community - a complex and intriguing personality who was famous among contemporary European Christians as well as Jews. This work contains material about Jewish family life of the period, religion in daily life, the plague of 1630-1631, and crime.

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Frederick Garber studies in a wide range of English, French, German, and American literary texts instances of the struggle for the self's autonomy during the period preceding modernism. In tracing a pattern that changes from the unsettling of bourgeois conditions in Richardson to the collapse of that challenge in the Decadents, he demonstrates that

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Presenting a picture of daily life in the Middle Ages as it was experienced by ordinary people, this book describes how these vulnerable people confronted life, from birth to death, including childhood, marriage, work, sex, food, illness, religion, and the natural world. It describes how they encountered the basic material facts of their lives.

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In the second millennium b.c., Babylonian scribes assembled a vast collection of astrological omens, believed to be signs from the gods concerning the kingdom's political, military, and agricultural fortunes. The importance of these omens was such that from the eighth or seventh until the first century, the scribes observed the heavens nightly and

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The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today. This book demonstrates that nature in fact is not in balance, nor has it ever been at any stage in Earth's history.

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How can relative price and income approaches be reconciled with balance of payments analysis John F. Kyle argues that a model is required which explicity includes a production sector and a complete monetary sectory. The author demonstrates the inadequacy of the traditional method of extending macroeconomic models to deal with trade problems and p

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The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture.

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In exploring the manifestations of human spiritual experience both in the imaginative activities of the individual and in the formation of mythologies and of religious symbolism in various cultures, C G Jung laid the groundwork for a psychology of the spirit. This title illuminates the concept of the unconscious, the central pillar of his work.

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This work explores the background and first two years of the First Carlist War--a conflict that pitted conservative northern peasants against the liberal Madrid government in the largest and most sustained case of armed peasant resistance to modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library use

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