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Americans agree about government arts funding in the way the women in the old joke agree about the food at the wedding: it's terrible - and such small portions. This book argues why the US way of funding the arts results not in the terrible and the small but in Good and Plenty - and how it could result in even more and better.

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Many policymakers, journalists, and scholars insist that US hegemony is essential for warding off global chaos. This book argues that hegemony is a fiction propagated to support a large defense establishment, justify American claims to world leadership, and buttress the self-esteem of voters.

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Why doesn't your home page appear on the first page of search results, even when you query your own name How do other web pages always appear at the top What creates these powerful rankings And how This book about the science of web page rankings supplies the answers to these and other questions.

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In recent years, the study of American political history has experienced a remarkable renaissance. In this book, one of the leaders of the resurgence in American political history, assesses its revival and demonstrates how this work not only illuminates the past but also helps us better understand American politics today.

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Should governments save people from themselves Do governments have the right to influence citizens' behavior related to smoking tobacco, eating too much, not saving enough, drinking alcohol, or taking marijuana--or does this create a nanny state, leading to infantilization, demotivation, and breaches in individual autonomy Looking at examples fro

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Plato's "Republic", Hobbes' "Leviathan", and Marx's "Communist Manifesto" are universally acknowledged classics of Western political thought. But how strong are the core arguments on which they base their visions of the good society that they want to bring into being This book shows where and why they fail.

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"A history of the ways in which ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional warfare, drawing on myth, science, and history and told Mayor's scrupulous, yet entertaining style"--

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A work about the rich holdings of Greek manuscripts and miniatures in Princeton, New Jersey, housed in the Firestone Library and the art museum of Princeton University, in the Scheide Library, and in Princeton Theological Seminary. It features key monuments in the history of Byzantine illumination.

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Provides an ethnographic portrait of two political campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, who both ran for Congress in 2008. This title examines how American political operatives use "personalized political communication" to engage with the electorate.

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Explains how poorly designed government guarantees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac led to the debacle of mortgage finance in the United States, weighs different reform proposals, and provides practical recommendations. This book unravels the dizzyingly immense, highly interconnected businesses of Fannie and Freddie.

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For the first time in human history, there is food in abundance throughout the world. More people than ever before are now freed of the struggle for daily survival, yet few of us are aware of how food lands on our plates. Behind every meal you eat, there is a story. Hamburgers in Paradise explains how. In this wise and passionate book, Louise Fres

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Traces the uses of "Hamlet" in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. This title identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic "Hamlet".

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Meta-analysis is a powerful statistical methodology for synthesizing research evidence across independent studies. This is the first comprehensive handbook of meta-analysis written specifically for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, and it provides an invaluable introduction for beginners as well as an up-to-date guide for experienced meta-ana

First published: London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

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Based on lectures given at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and Johns Hopkins University, this book introduces eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds. It shows that there is quantum ergodicity of eigenfunctions if the geodesic flow is ergodic.

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Based on lectures given at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, and Johns Hopkins University, this book introduces eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds. It shows that there is quantum ergodicity of eigenfunctions if the geodesic flow is ergodic.