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This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and sc

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In a meditation on Siva - based on original Sanskrit texts, many heretofore not translated - Stella Kramrisch ponders the metaphysics, ontology, and myths of Siva from the Vedas to the Puranas.

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For all persons seriously concerned about the destruction of natural environments in the contemporary world, this book presents a comprehensive rationale for preserving wild species and ecosystems. Bryan G. Norton appeals most centrally to "transformative value," the power of human contacts with wild species to transform and uplift the human spirit

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Traces the dwindling of public trust in the news and shows how people pay less attention to it than they once did. The author argues that the news media's influence over public opinion has decreased considerably as a result, and so has the president's ability to influence the public through the news media.

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Brings together some of the top American historians to offer a look at one of the most controversial US presidencies. This book examines the successes as well as the failures, covering different major aspect of Bush's two terms in office.

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Fred I Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. This book provides an account of the presidential qualities that have served well and poorly in the Oval Office, beginning with Franklin D Roosevelt's first hundred days.

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Intends to give the reader an appreciation for how our economy works and the wondrous role that the price of everything plays in everyday life. This book presents a story about economic growth and the unseen forces that create and sustain economic harmony all around us.

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Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immi

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Documents the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. This book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of describing themselves in racial terms.

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The description for this book, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, will be forthcoming.

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Provides the context needed for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond. This volume focuses on the origins and evolution of Islamic political ideas and related subjects, covering central terms, concepts, personalities, movements, places, and schools of thought across Islamic history.

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Celebrates the centennial of the Graduate School's founding and looks forward to its continued importance in the twenty-first century.

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Provides a survey of the poetic history and practice in major national literatures or cultural traditions in the world. This book gives coverage of Indo-European poetries, the ancient middle Eastern poetries, subcontinental Indian poetries, Asian and Pacific poetries, continental American poetries, and African poetries.

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This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be encountered in many different areas of literary study. The book includes detailed discussions of poetic forms, prosody, rhetoric, genre, and topics such as theor

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This compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be encountered in many different areas of literary study. The book includes detailed discussions of poetic forms, prosody, rhetoric, genre, and topics such as theor