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The description for this book, The First World Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Ancient Assyrians, will be forthcoming.

A guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today. It features more than 150 authoritative and accessible articles by an international team of leading experts in history, politics, literature, anthropology, and philosophy.

Explains how and why Margaret Mead became the best-known anthropologist and female public intellectual in twentieth-century America. Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, this title explores the ways in which Mead became an American cultural heroine.

"This important, impressive, and well-crafted book presents the theory and many diverse applications of Benford's law. The contributors cover a rich and fascinating selection of topics that will appeal to people with an interest in mathematics and statistics as well as experts in a broad range of disciplines."--Iddo Ben-Ari, University of Connecticut"Benford's law has been underappreciated by academics and scholars since its appearance, and a book of this kind has long been needed. It offers a well-organized, unified presentation of Benford's law from both a theoretical point of view and an applications standpoint."--Marco Corazza, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)

Offers W H Auden's prose that provides a fresh picture of this legendary writer's mind and art when he was at the height of his powers, from 1956 through 1962, including the years when he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

Shows that the end of the Religious Right doesn't signal the decline of evangelical Christianity but rather its disentanglement from a political machine that sold it out to a narrow electoral agenda of such causes as opposition to gay marriage and abortion.

Documents Albert Einstein's visible public persona in his correspondence, honors and prizes, lectures and travels, articles, and the many solicitations asking him to join public initiatives.

The handbook of experimental economics v. 2.

Introduces the concept of indifference pricing in models of discrete time and finite state spaces where duality theory can be exploited readily. This book also discusses utility indifference pricing for diffusion models, and addresses problems of optimal design of derivatives.

In post-socialist countries, corporate finance and transition economics scholars have often done little more than convey the received theory to transition policymakers. This volume focuses on the reverse concern: what, if anything, do the reform experiences of transition countries teach about corporate governance theory more generally?

Includes Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death that presents 516 documents from 11 March to 27 November 1813. This volume records the most intense period of correspondence between Jefferson and John Adams during their retirement.

"A superb guide to the conduct and interpretation of meta-analysis, from an exceptional team of international experts. This comprehensive manual covers essential concepts, steps, and standards for rigorous research synthesis in ecology and evolutionary biology. Its clear prose, helpful illustrations, and worked examples will be useful for beginners and experts alike. Highly recommended for use as a textbook or for self-study."--Julia Littell, Bryn Mawr College, coauthor of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis"This is a well-written and valuable book, one that is unique within biology. The use of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution has reached the point where there is a need for a comprehensive, single-volume text such as this."--Samuel M. Scheiner, coeditor of The Theory of Ecology"This book provides readers with a complete picture of the state of meta-analysis in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology today. It will help to raise the bar on the quality of meta-analytical research in the field, as well as improving research synthesis in general. This is the first book on the subject written for ecologists and environmental scientists."--Michael Dietze, Boston University

"A superb guide to the conduct and interpretation of meta-analysis, from an exceptional team of international experts. This comprehensive manual covers essential concepts, steps, and standards for rigorous research synthesis in ecology and evolutionary biology. Its clear prose, helpful illustrations, and worked examples will be useful for beginners and experts alike. Highly recommended for use as a textbook or for self-study."--Julia Littell, Bryn Mawr College, coauthor of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis"This is a well-written and valuable book, one that is unique within biology. The use of meta-analysis in ecology and evolution has reached the point where there is a need for a comprehensive, single-volume text such as this."--Samuel M. Scheiner, coeditor of The Theory of Ecology"This book provides readers with a complete picture of the state of meta-analysis in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology today. It will help to raise the bar on the quality of meta-analytical research in the field, as well as improving research synthesis in general. This is the first book on the subject written for ecologists and environmental scientists."--Michael Dietze, Boston University

Covers the works of David Coffin who was a leading authority on Renaissance architecture. This work features essays that span the range of Coffin's work, from Italian Renaissance architecture, garden design, sculpture, and drawings to English gardens and landscape designers of the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries.

Offering an analysis of the Supreme Court's most important task - shaping the law, this book analyzes the Court's interpretation or treatment of the precedents it has set in the past. It shows that while precedent can operate as a constraint on the justices' decisions, it also represents an opportunity to foster preferred societal outcomes.

In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. This book provides historical awareness that stories of Satanic atrocities are both inventions of the mind and perennial phenomena, not authentic criminal events.

Longtime activist, author, and antifeminist leader Phyllis Schlafly is for many the symbol of the conservative movement in America. This book sheds light on her life and on the unappreciated role her grassroots activism played in transforming America's political landscape.