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A reading of the Comedy in the context of thirteenth-century psychology and philosophy.

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This book sheds light on state and society relations in China under the Nationalist and Communist regimes.

Wulf Gaertner provides a comprehensive account of an important and complex issue within social choice theory: how to establish a social welfare function while restricting the spectrum of individual preferences in a sensible way. Gaertner's starting point is K. J. Arrow's famous 'Impossibility Theorem', which showed that no welfare function could exist if an unrestricted domain of preferences is to be satisfied together with some other appealin...

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This is a full-length study of the representation of deceit and lies in classical Athens. Dr Hesk traces the ways in which Athenian drama, democratic oratory and elite prose-writing construct and theorize a relationship between dishonesty and civic identity. He focuses on the ideology of military trickery, notions of the 'noble lie' and the developing associations of rhetorical language with deceptive communication. Deception and Democracy in ...

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Presents some of the more recent developments in nonlinear time series, including Bayesian analysis and cointegration tests.

The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Starting with Butler's Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes Augustan satire as a movement away from the 'controversial disputation' of the seventeenth century to a general satire which ridicules Protestant, Anglican and Catholic in equal measure, as well as the poetic traditions that supported them. Once the domina...

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How do marriages become unhappy? How do marriages change? What are the theories and methods that can best illuminate our understanding of marital development? This volume comprehensively explores how marriages develop and deteriorate, and in doing so, brings together leading scholars to present research on the longitudinal course of marriage. The chapters share a common focus on the early phases of marriage but address a diverse array of topic...

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To be known, and to know others, is critical to all social relationships. This topic of disclosure processes not only pertains to people s disclosure of daily thoughts and emotions, but to their disclosure of many controversial problems in contemporary society, such as divorce, AIDS and sexual abuse. The bulk of research has focused on disclosure processes in adults and relatively little attention has been given to that phenomena in children a...

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A comprehensive study of the OBERIU group of avant-garde Soviet writers.

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A couple married forty-five years offer insights on becoming Spiritual Partners. Learn how taking one hundred percent responsibility for a relationship leads to joy, happiness and an inner-sense of well-being.

Caryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov.