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Chronicles bureaucratic control over everything from the press to people's clothing in wartime Japan. This diary traces the gradual disintegration of Japan's war effort and the looming certainty of defeat.

Reveals millennialism as simultaneously a poetics, a rhetoric, a physics, an approach to history, a course of training, a gnosis, and an ethics.

What is the exact nature of the consumption function? Can this term be defined so that it will be consistent with empirical evidence and a valid instrument in the hands of future economic researchers and policy makers? This book presents a theory of the consumption function, and tests it against extensive statistical material.

This collection brings together papers by mathematicians exploring the research frontiers of topology. The book covers a wide range of topological specialities.

Considers how ethical traditions, such as libertarianism, critical theory, feminism, liberal egalitarianism, natural law, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Confucianism define civil society. This book considers the extent to which these traditions agree or disagree on how to define civil society's limits and how to evaluate its benefits and harms.

Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with theoretical argument, this title examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. It explores a range of practices in nineteenth-century British culture, including methods of objectivity in social science.

Focuses on the way individuals form opinions about culture through the mediation of critics. This book shows that it is the extent to which critics shape the reception of an art form that determines its place in the cultural hierarchy. It supports this argument through an inquiry into the performing arts, focusing on the Edinburgh Fringe.

Present an account of the distinct and important role of state constitutions in American life. This book explains how state constitutions differ from the national Constitution in treating not only matters of high principle but also such mundane subjects as ski trails and motor vehicle revenues.

Discusses string theory and the future of particle physics. This book describes the search for neutrino oscillations. It anticipates a new generation of particle accelerators. It reviews classical gravitation and the high-precision experiments. It also examines the breakthroughs in observational cosmology.

Includes fifteen articles which focus on the developments in complex analysis. This work covers a spectrum of research using the methods of partial differential equations as well as differential and algebraic geometry. It covers topics that include invariants of manifolds, the complex Neumann problem, complex dynamics, Ricci flows, and more.

Goran Sonnevi is one of Sweden's most celebrated, respected, and prolific poets. This book presents the works of Sonnevi written between 1971 and 1989.

An anthology of sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America. From praying in an early American synagogue to performing Mormon healing rituals to debating cremation, this work explores faith through action in the 19th- and 20th-centuries. The documents and essays consider the religious practices of average people.

Bela Bartok, who died in New York, is one of the most frequently performed twentieth-century composers. He is also the subject of a growing critical and analytical literature. Divided into three parts, this volume aims to provide insights into the life and reception of this musician, especially in Hungary.

An anthology of sources with accompanying essays that examines religious behavior in America, this work explores faith through action from Colonial times through the 19th-century. It offers a sampling of religious perspectives in order to approximate the living texture of popular religious thought and practice in the United States.

Bringing together the poems written by Auden between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one (1922-1928), this book gives us a detailed look at the literary personality, development, and preoccupations of a major poet. It also describes crucial unknown aspects of his youth during his years at Gresham's School and at Christ Church, Oxford.

Brings together the work of thirty scholars of the religions of India in an anthology designed to reshape the ways in which the religious traditions of India are understood. This book contains translations of forty-five works which highlight types of discourse (especially ritual manuals, folktales, and oral narratives).

Major league baseball, like professional football, basketball, and hockey, is now big business with the potential to bring millions of dollars in profits to owners. This title presents historical material including team ownership histories and data on attendance, TV revenue, stadium and arena contracts, and revenues and costs.

Drawing on such varied texts and visual media as daguerrotypes, political cartoons, tourist posters, and religious artifacts, these essays explore how pictures and words combine to illuminate the psyche of the American nation.

Presents material on the young Einstein. In addition to Einstein's known correspondence and other writings from this period, this volume includes the relevant portions of third-party letters and other contemporary documents that provide additional information.

Organized into four sections, this supplementary volume sets forth the key concepts and writings of Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, and Zhuangzi - providing insight into their beliefs and literary styles. It offers the students of Chinese a glimpse into the fountainhead of China's intellectual tradition.

Applying a theoretical framework, this work explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes.

Tracing the activities of nearly 300 abolitionists and their descendants, this title reveals that some played a crucial role in the establishment of schools and colleges for southern blacks, while others formed the vanguard of liberals who founded the NAACP in 1910.

The nineteenth-century French novel has been seen as the production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. This book argues that to understand how literary codes respond to material factors, it is imperative to see how such factors take shape within the literary field and the society.

Every document in "The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein" appears in the language in which it was written. This title presents the English translations of those non-English materials.

Based on the "Hermann Weyl Lectures" given at the Institute for Advanced Study in January 1986. This title outlines some of what is known about irreducible unitary representations of real reductive groups, providing definitions and references, and sketches of most proofs.

The purpose of this book is to describe a certain number of results involving the study of non-linear analytic dependence of some functionals arising naturally in P.D.E. or operator theory.

This book contains accounts of talks held at a symposium in honor of John C. Moore in October 1983 at Princeton University, The work includes papers in classical homotopy theory, homological algebra, rational homotopy theory, algebraic K-theory of spaces, and other subjects.

Group theory and topology are closely related. The region of their interaction, combining the logical clarity of algebra with the depths of geometric intuition, is the subject of Combinatorial Group Theory and Topology. The work includes papers from a conference held in July 1984 at Alta Lodge, Utah.Contributors to the book include Roger Alperin, Hyman Bass, Max Benson, Joan S. Birman, Andrew J. Casson, Marshall Cohen, Donald J. Collins, Robert Craggs, Michael Dyer, Beno Eckmann, Stephen M. Gersten, Jane Gilman, Robert H. Gilman, Narain D. Gupta, John Hempel, James Howie, Roger Lyndon, Martin Lustig, Lee P. Neuwirth, Andrew J. Nicas, N. Patterson, John G. Ratcliffe, Frank Rimlinger, Caroline Series, John R. Stallings, C. W. Stark, and A. Royce Wolf.

The description for this book, Topics in Transcendental Algebraic Geometry. (AM-106), will be forthcoming.

The description for this book, Seminar On Minimal Submanifolds. (AM-103), will be forthcoming.