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By: Mark Denny
ISBN: 9780691094946
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Life is a chancy proposition: from the movement of molecules to the age at which we die, chance plays a key role in the natural world. This book helps readers to apply the probability theory needed to make sense of chance events - using examples from ocean waves to spiderwebs, in fields ranging from molecular mechanics to evolution.
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By: David Eli Lilienthal
ISBN: 9780691624402
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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For thirteen years, since his resignation from the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission, Mr. Lilienthal has kept silent on the atom, turning his energies and talents to the field of international development. Now the first chairman of the AEC speaks out on the vital question of disarmament, on the role of the atom in modern life, and on the
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By: David Eli Lilienthal
ISBN: 9780691651002
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Hellmut Wilhelm
ISBN: 9780691656496
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Hellmut Wilhelm
ISBN: 9780691619224
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Ramsay MacMullen
ISBN: 9780691656663
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Ramsay MacMullen
ISBN: 9780691655246
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Annabel S. Brett
ISBN: 9780691162416
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Deals with the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. This book takes an approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them.
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By: Sarah E. Mendelson
ISBN: 9780691602806
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Soviet foreign policy changed dramatically in the 1980s. The shift, bitterly resisted by the country's foreign policy traditionalists, ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In Changing Course, Sarah Mendelson demonstrates that interpretations that stress the impact of the international system, and p
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By: Sarah E. Mendelson
ISBN: 9780691632254
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Valerie Hansen
ISBN: 9780691637051
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Valerie Hansen
ISBN: 9780691608631
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill or bring rain. As the econom
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By: Marius B. Jansen
ISBN: 9780691621937
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The results of the process of modernization which started in Japan in the 19th century and continues today are remarkable in history. This volume contains essays by leading scholars on Japan, including two important studies on the impact of modernization on the life of the country. It is the first in a series of five volumes that stems from the Ass
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By: Marius B. Jansen
ISBN: 9780691648767
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Murray Roston
ISBN: 9780691632483
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Murray Roston
ISBN: 9780691603049
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Continuing with the theme of his work Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts, Murray Roston applies to a later period the same critical principle: that for each generation there exists a central complex of inherited ideas and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist and writer responds in his or her own way. Ro
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By: John MacDonald
ISBN: 9780691234434
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John R. Howe
ISBN: 9780691648842
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John R. Howe
ISBN: 9780691622019
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The quality of the American character, the structure of American society, and the meaning of America's historical experience all had important implications for John Adams' political thought. Professor Howe explores the relationships that developed between the satisfactions of Adam's life and Adams' outlook on American society. He concludes that as
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By: Miriam Silverberg
ISBN: 9780691655253
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Miriam Silverberg
ISBN: 9780691656670
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Alan Dawley
ISBN: 9780691122359
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Focusing on world-historical events of empire, revolution, war, and peace, this work shows how American reformers invented a new politics built around progressive internationalism. It retrieves the progressive tradition in American politics and makes it available to contemporary debates.
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By: James T. Hamilton
ISBN: 9780691070247
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents a theoretical and empirical examination of the market for television violence. This book approaches television violence as an example of market failure. It argues that television violence generates negative externalities, defined as costs borne by others than those involved in the production activity.
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By: Emil Simiu
ISBN: 9780691144344
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The classical Melnikov method provides information on the behavior of deterministic planar systems that may exhibit transitions, that is it escapes from and captures into preferred regions of phase space. This book develops a unified treatment of deterministic and stochastic systems.
