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    - Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World
    by Loring M. Danforth
    £36.49

    Examines the Macedonian conflict in light of theoretical work on the construction of national identities and cultures and the invention of tradition. This book analyzes two issues: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the independent Republic of Macedonia.

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    - Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730
    by Joyce D. Goodfriend
    £43.99

    From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. This title paints a portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America.

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    - The Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Biology
    by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
    £73.99

    Offers a historical reconstruction of the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. This book argues that the evolutionary synthesis was part of a larger process of unifying the biological sciences. It suggests that the drive to unify the sciences of evolution and biology was part of a global philosophical movement toward unifying knowledge.

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    - Abortion and Buddhism in Japan
    by William R. LaFleur
    £33.99

    Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? This title examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan.

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    - Cracking the Bell Curve Myth
    by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Ann Swidler, et al.
    £39.99

    Challenges arguments that expanding inequality is the natural, perhaps necessary, accompaniment of economic growth. This book stresses that economic fortune depends more on social circumstances than on IQ, which is itself a product of society.

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    - Religion and Ritual in Gayo Society
    by John R. Bowen
    £47.49

    Presents an account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia. This book describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be - as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship. It analyzes the tension between the local and universal in everyday life.

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    - The Foreign Aid Regime, 1949-1989
    by David Halloran Lumsdaine
    £47.49

    Can moral vision influence the dynamics of the world system? This inquiry into the evolving foreign aid policies of eighteen developed democracies challenges conventional international relations theory and offers a framework of testable hypotheses about the ways ethical commitments can help structure global politics.

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    by Daniel S. Hamermesh
    £54.99

    Provides a comprehensive picture of the disparate field of labor demand. This book reviews both the static and dynamic theories of labor demand, and uses theory and evidence to establish a generalized framework for analyzing the impact of policies such as minimum wages, payroll taxes, job- security measures, unemployment insurance, and others.

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    - A Discussion between a Chief Engineer and an Oceanographer about the Machinery of the Ocean Circulation
    by Henry M. Stommel
    £28.49

    The description for this book, A View of the Sea: A Discussion between a Chief Engineer and an Oceanographer about the Machinery of the Ocean Circulation, will be forthcoming.

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    - The Scientific Contributions of H. A. Kramers
    by D. ter Haar
    £81.49

    The Dutch scientist Hendrik Kramers (1894-1952) was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the twentieth century. This work presents a comprehensive discussion of Kramers' scientific work, and reprints twelve of his most important papers.

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    - A Study of Heroic Individualism
    by Leslie Paul Thiele
    £32.49

    Presents an essay on the Nietzsche's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. This book offers a conversation with Nietzsche rather than a consideration of the secondary literature.

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    - The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy
    by Thomas Risse-Kappen
    £45.99

    Demonstrates that European influence on decision-making processes in Washington during the Cold War worked through three mechanisms: norms prescribing consultations among the allies; use of domestic pressures for leverage in trans-atlantic interactions; and, trans-national and trans-governmental coalitions among societal and bureaucratic actors.

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    by Masaru Kohno
    £39.99

    Presents a systematic reexamination of the evolution of party politics in Japan since the end of the second World War. This study provides a set of interpretations based on a microanalytic approach that highlights the incentive and bargaining power of individual political actors, and their competitive and strategic behavior.

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    by Ann Lauterbach
    £20.99

    Before Recollection.

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    - Contemporary Poetry and Its Traditions
    by Robert Pinsky
    £24.99

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    - Poems by Robert Pinsky
    by Robert Pinsky
    £17.49

    Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky.

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    - The Gladiator and the Monster
    by Carlin A. Barton
    £38.49

    An inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans that speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. This title makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance.

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    - Racial Gerrymandering and Minority Interests in Congress
    by David Lublin
    £32.49

    Offers an analysis of rigorous, empirical evidence that exposes the central paradox of racial representation. Using data on representatives elected to Congress between 1972 and 1994, this work examines the link between the racial composition of a congressional district and its representative's race as well as ideology.

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    - Moving Feminist Protest inside the Church and Military
    by Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
    £36.49

    Riots and demonstrations, the lifeblood of American social and political protest in the 1960's, are now largely a historical memory. This book argues that the protest has not disappeared - it has simply moved off the streets into the country's core institutions.

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    - An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology - Second Edition
    by Michael Williams
    £39.99

    Launches an all-out attack on what it calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. This book states that the wider-than-normal usage of the term "phenomenalism" is to call attention to important continuities of thought between theories often thought to be competitors.

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    - A Social History
    by Priscilla Smith Robertson
    £38.49

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    - Moral Choice in History
    by Bronwyn Rebekah McFarland-Icke
    £66.49

    Tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945.

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    - The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security
    by Jacob S. Hacker
    £36.49

    Investigates how managed competition became the Bill Clinton's reform framework, but also illuminates how issues and policies emerge. This book follows Clinton's policy ideas from their initial formulation by policy experts through their endorsement by medical industry leaders and politicians to their inclusion in the proposal itself.

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    - The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade
    by Robert H. Bates
    £38.49

    Coffee is traded in one of the few international markets ever subject to effective political regulation. This work explores the origins, the operations, and the collapse of the International Coffee Organization, an international "government of coffee" that was formed in the 1960s. It is aimed at those interested in "the new institutionalism".

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    by Michelangelo
    £28.49

    The description for this book, Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, will be forthcoming.

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    - Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties
    by Laura McEnaney
    £58.99

    Demonstrates that the creation of a civil defense program produced dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against threats. This book uncovers responses to the militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age.

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    - 13 November 1802 to 3 March 1803
    by Thomas Jefferson
    £109.49

    A title that opens on 13 November 1802, when the Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 3 March 1803, the final day of his second year as president. The central issue of these months is the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, an act that threatens the economic wellbeing of Westerners.

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    - 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816
    by Thomas Jefferson
    £109.49

    Documenting Thomas Jefferson's last year's, this title presents 523 documents from 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816. In this period, Jefferson makes three trips to Poplar Forest.

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    - Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society
    by Mark Liechty
    £36.49

    Traces the growth of a middle class in Kathmandu as urban Nepalis harness the modern cultural resources of mass media and consumer goods to build modern identities and pioneer a new socio-cultural space in one of the world's 'least developed countries'.

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    - Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton
    by David Quint
    £43.99

    Explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. This book covers Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the "Aeneid" itself, Camoes's "Lusiadas", Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata") and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty.

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