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Presents a study of an important genre of Ming-dynasty Chinese painting in which landscapes are actually disguised portraits that celebrate an individual and his achievements, ambitions, and tastes in an open effort to win recognition, support, and social status.

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This is the first book to help general readers recognize 200 common mosses of the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains. With just this field guide, a hand lens, and a spray bottle--no microscopes necessary--readers will be able to identify and name many of the common species of mosses growing in the region's backyards, parks, forests, wetlands,

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Why do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high winds And why does a spore ejected into air at seventy miles per hour travel only a fraction of an inch Comparative Biomechanics is the first and only textbook that takes a comprehensive look at the mechanical aspects of life--covering animal

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Throughout the world, the rule against price fixing is competition law's most important and least controversial prohibition. Yet there is far less consensus than meets the eye on what constitutes price fixing, and prevalent understandings conflict with the teachings of oligopoly theory that supposedly underlie modern competition policy. Competition

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Provides an introduction to successful business methods applied to a variety of real-world situations. This work develops the intellectual tools and insights needed to confront many marketplace problems. It emphasizes cooperation, pricing, litigation, and antitrust as vital to a firm's competitive posture.

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Econometric models are widely used in the creation and evaluation of economic policy in the public and private sectors. This book addresses the critical earlier stage of model development, the point at which potential models are inherently incomplete.

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This book introduces the theory of complex surfaces through a comprehensive look at finite covers of the projective plane branched along line arrangements. Paula Tretkoff emphasizes those finite covers that are free quotients of the complex two-dimensional ball. Tretkoff also includes background on the classical Gauss hypergeometric function of one

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Designed to help move from verbal to mathematical to computational representations in economic modeling, this book is organized around economic topics as macroeconomics, microeconomics, and finance. It employs software systems, including MATLAB, Mathematica, GAMS, the nonlinear programming solver in Excel, and the database systems in Access.

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Political Islam has often been compared to ideological movements of the past such as fascism or Christian theocracy. But are such analogies valid How should the Western world today respond to the challenges of political Islam Taking an original approach to answer this question, Confronting Political Islam compares Islamism's struggle with secular

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Since the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. This title examines and reconstructs both Confucian political thought and liberal democratic institutions, blending them to form a Confucian political philosophy.

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From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion.

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Examines the "constitutional faith" that has, since 1788, been a central component of American "civil religion". By taking the parallel between wholehearted acceptance of the Constitution and religious faith, this book opens up a host of intriguing questions about what it means to be American.

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