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Describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century - fueled by coal and steam engines - redrew the economic, social, and geopolitical map of Europe and the world.

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Presents an account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939 - the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete.

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Proposes that the origins of modernism movement can be traced well into the nineteenth century. This book contends that several cultural developments after the Civil War set the stage for modernism.

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Millions of Americans--including many experienced politicians--viewed Barack Obama through a prism of high expectations, based on a belief in the power of presidential persuasion. Yet many who were inspired by candidate Obama were disappointed in what he was able to accomplish once in the White House. They could not understand why he often was unab

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In this beautifully illustrated book, eminent art historian John Rosenfield explores the life and art of the Japanese Buddhist monk Hozan Tankai (1629-1716). Through a close examination of sculptures, paintings, ritual implements, and primary documents, the book demonstrates how the Shingon prelate's artistic activities were central to his importan

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OThis timely book examines the impact of presidential leadership on the emergence and endurance of American global primacy. Nye is judicious, makes a plausible argument about each president he considers, and cuts through confusion and partisanship . . . "--John M. Owen IV, author of "The Clash of Ideas in World Politics."

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This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics of their choices. Joseph Nye, who was ranked as one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Top Global Thinkers, reveals how some presidents trie

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Demonstrates that every Republican president since Dwight D Eisenhower worked to build his party into a more durable political organization while every Democratic president refused to do the same. This book offers insights into presidential behavior, party organizational change, and modern American political development.

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The United States witnessed an unprecedented failure of its political system in the mid-nineteenth century, resulting in a disastrous civil war that claimed the lives of an estimated 750,000 Americans. In his other acclaimed books about the American presidency, Fred Greenstein assesses the personal strengths and weaknesses of presidents from George

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Provides a simple framework to organize the debate on what we should do for the future. This title outlines the basic theory of the discount rate and the various arguments that favor using a smaller discount rate for more distant cash flows. It offers a suitable framework for dynamic problems and decision making.

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Investigates America's changing attitudes toward medieval art around the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of Princeton University and its role as a major patron of Gothic Revival art and architecture.

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An anthology of key primary texts that offer an introduction to Islamist political thought since the early twentieth century.

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Suitable for graduate students studying the interaction of optical fields with atoms, this book provides an introduction to the prototypical problems of radiation fields interacting with two- and three- level atomic systems.

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Reveals how international institutions have played a seminal role in the development, diffusion, and implementation of pension reforms that are transforming the postwar social contract in more than thirty countries worldwide, including the United States.