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When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive. This book presents Nash's contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to mathematics - from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations - in which he commands greater acclaim among academics.

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With an epigraph from Freud comparing the mind to a landscape in which all that ever was still persists, this title offers eloquent testimony to the struggle to make sense of the present through conversation with the past.

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Although there have been other studies of elite administrators in France, Great Britain, Germany, and Russia, John Armstrong has made the first systematic comparison of their roles, especially their inclination to participate in economic development. Drawing on role theory and theories of socialization and recruitment, he analyzes the influences th

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Puts forward a defense of Western civilization and the gifts it has bequeathed to the world - in particular, human rights and constitutional democracy - at a time when many around the globe equate the West with hubris and thinly veiled imperialism. This book traces the development and implications of this idea from antiquity onwards.

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Argues that shame is a dominant temperament in twentieth-century literature, and the key to understanding the ethics and aesthetics of the contemporary world. This title states that the practices of postcolonial literature depend upon and repeat the same structures of thought and perception that made colonialism possible in the first place.

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Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these sometimes dishonest This book probes such question by reviewing the empirical data and game theory models available, and by asking how well theory matches data.

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How is it that an egg turns into an elaborate adult How is it that a bacterium, given many millions of years, could have evolved into an elephant The author argues that we can understand this progression in terms of natural selection, but that in order to do so we must consider the role of development in evolutionary change.

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More than fifty illustrations highlight a provocative study tracing the origins of culture as man now knows it back to the early biological evolution of animals.

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Synthesizing studies of parental care in a wide variety of animals, this book provides general answers to the following important questions: Why does the extent of parental care vary so widely between species Why do only females care for eggs and young in some animals, only males in others, and both parents in a few

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In France between 1641 and 1782 the romance developed into the novel. Mr. Showalter's intensive study of the novel, particularly during the critical period 1700-1720, shows that an important movement toward nineteenth century realism was taking place. To trace this development the author has selected five phenomena--time, space, names, money, and t

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Do rich industrial nations underestimate the threat to their economic stability posed by demands for a new international economic order Are the developing countries wrong to assume that their economic advancement depends on a transfer of wealth from the richer nations Sir W. Arthur Lewis's provocative analysis of the present economic order and it

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This volume not only offers an intellectual biography of one of the most important biologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century but also illuminates the development of evolutionary studies in Russia and in the West. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975), a creator of the "evolutionary synthesis" and the author of its first modern statement,

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Offers an alternative view of the workings of foreign exchange markets. This title explains why large exchange-rate changes and volatility clustering occur. It analyzes the effects of official interventions in the foreign exchange market. It is suitable for analysts in foreign exchange markets and students of international finance and economics.

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