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Uses a unified framework based on the notion of fitness landscapes introduced by Sewall Wright in 1932, generalizing this notion to explore the consequences of the huge dimensionality of fitness landscapes that correspond to biological systems.

Assesses the intellectual revolution in the social sciences. This collection of 20 essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. It is suitable for those interested in how changing trends in scholarship shape the understanding of our social worlds.

Explores how diverse ethical traditions understand the political and property rights reflected in territorial and jurisdictional boundaries. This book features cross-chapter dialogue and a conclusion that draw out similarities and differences among the traditions represented including Christianity, Confucianism, Islam, and Judaism.

Explores how the changing positions of the United States in the world economy and in the international political order have shaped US political institutions and domestic politics. This book demonstrates the central role that efforts to contend with foreign military and economic competition played in forming the major institutions of US government.

Defines a transnational literary "zone" that shaped the development of the modern novel. This book rethinks the genre's evolution as marking the power and limits of modern cultural nationalism. It is suitable for readers interested in the novel's development, British and French cultural history, and extra-national patterns of cultural exchange.

Presents the ideas of seventeen international specialists, providing the reader not only with an overview, but also with discussions of the salient questions pertaining to the field and prescriptions for avenues of research. This book is divided into three main sections: population dynamics, population diversity, and population applications.

Presents a reassessment of the German history. This work deals with the period of nationalism and imperialism, from the abortive attempt of popular forces to find a liberal national state and Bismarck's German unification through the Prussian military monarchy to the expansionist programs of the age of William II and Hitler's world conquest.

Offers an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary public life. The essays in this volume suggest that two different shifts have altered the balance between the competing obligations of citizenship and faith: the growth of religious pluralism and the calls of religious groups for some measure of autonomy from democratic majorities.

As rancorous debates over Confederate symbols continue, this work explores how the rebel flag gained its enormous power to inspire and repel. In the process, it shows how the Confederacy sustained itself for as long as it did by cultivating the allegiances of countless ordinary citizens.

Attempts to recover the voices of women in antiquity from various perspectives: how they spoke, where they could be heard, and how their speech was adopted in literature and public discourse. This book reveals the interrelation between women's speech and the realm of literary production, religion, and oratory.

Presents detailed evidence about women's and men's various circumstances in eight of the former communist countries, exploring the intersection of politics and the life cycle, the differential effects of economic restructuring, and women's public and political participation.

Follows "The Pilgrim's Progress" as it circulates through multiple contexts - and into some 200 languages - focusing on Africa, where 80 of the translations occurred. This book accounts for how "The Pilgrim's Progress" traveled abroad with the Protestant mission movement, and was adapted and reworked by the societies into which it traveled.

Features a different to the study of groups, and argues that we should judge associations not only by what they do for civic virtue, but also by what they do for individual members. This book shows that groups of various kinds fill psychological and moral needs. It concludes that American democracy should permit expansive freedom of association.

Presents a challenge to realist theories of crisis bargaining. This book tests the proposition that normative standards of behavior influence state actions in security-related conflicts. It examines the construction of bilateral norms as the settlements of the security-related disputes and the effects these settlements have.

A collection of essays, which examine the genealogy of various fields including English, sociology, economics, psychology, and quantum physics. It challenges the story of disciplinary formation as solely one of consolidation, constraint, and ideological justification.

Considers the problems confronting political life by reviewing, assessing, and expanding on the ideas of Sheldon Wolin. This book consists of three sections linked by the underlying theme of Wolin's monumental effort to define "the political" and the conditions of democratic life.

Re-evaluates theories of state, property, race, and economics against Latin American experiences. This book seeks to deepen our understanding of Latin America and the problems it faces. It tests social science paradigms against a variety of cases, and attempts to pursue a generalizable map of the social world.

Combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. This book examines the milieu of the jute-mill workers and the way it influenced their capacity for class solidarity and "revolutionary" ' action from 1890 to 1940.

Explores how four disciplines in the social sciences and humanities - political science, economics, philosophy, and literary studies - have been transformed. This book places academic developments in their intellectual and socio-political contexts, revealing the internal dynamics of disciplinary change.

Explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom. Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association, this book includes essays on individual rights of association and civic values of association.

Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to structuralist to postmodernist. This title examines the role of his ideas in the post-Stalinist revival of the Russian literary profession.

Provides a view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. This title demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural.

Brings together leading researchers from biological disciplines to outline the potential conflicts and discuss how they are resolved. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of the theoretical and empirical research in evolutionary biology.

States that Americans have never been more religious than they are at the dawn of the twenty-first century. This book features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture.

Argues that Kant and Adam Smith think of liberty as a matter of acting on our capacity for judgment, thereby differing both from those who tie it to the satisfaction of our desires and those who translate it as action in accordance with reason or 'will'. This book shows how different acting on one's best judgment is from acting on one's desires.

Reassesses state-society relations and state power at the dawn of the twenty-first century. This book also assesses the extent to which international social forces affect states, and the capacity of states to adapt in specific issue areas.

Assessing the accomplishments and failings of literary theory, this work defends the methods and goals of a theoretical commitment tempered by the wisdom of common sense. It is organized not by school of thought but around seven central questions: literariness, the author, the world, the reader, style, history, and value.

Focuses on the ways in which animals search and compete for food in groups. This book identifies social foraging as an economic interaction between the actions of individuals and those of other foragers. It is of interest to researchers and graduate students in such areas as behavioral ecology, population ecology, and wildlife management.

Examines women's films and filmgoing in the 1910s, a period when female patronage was energetically courted by the industry for the first time. This title looks closely at how women were invited to participate in movie culture, the films they were offered, and the visual pleasures they enjoyed.

In this book, Janet Kourany offers an antidote to the pervasive and pernicious strains in Western philosophy that discount women. This book demonstrates that feminist philosophy is not a separate area of philosophy that can safely be ignored by philosophers not "in" it.