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Ranging in topic from premodern Buddhist, narrative, and ink painting in Japan and East Asia to modern and contemporary Japanese painting, prints, and popular visual images, this title includes essays containing research which draws attention to the works of Japanese art and their historical contexts and modern interpretations.

In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates

Original publication and copyright date: 2009.

Intends to provide insight into how American social attitudes and behaviors have changed since the 1970s. Drawing on the General Social Survey - a social science project that has tracked demographic and attitudinal trends in the United States since 1972 , this title offers fresh perspective on how Americans view their lives and their society.

Camille Saint-Sans - perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music - is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his importance. This book deconstructs the multiple realities behind the man and his music.

Jack becomes a trickster who must deliver England from the hands of three ogres after a failed government inquiry. In this book, the tales expose social anxieties, political corruption, predatory economic behavior, and destructive appetites even as they express hope for a better world.

Drawing on the General Social Survey - a social science project that has tracked demographic and attitudinal trends in the United States since 1972, this title offers a window into diverse facets of American life, from intergroup relations to political views and orientations, social affiliations, and perceived well-being.

Discusses Einstein" 's geometric theory of gravity. This book explains the understanding of the link between gravitation and inertia in Einstein's theory, from the origin of inertia in some cosmological models of the universe, to the interpretation of the initial value formulation of Einstein's standard geometrodynamics.

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.

Includes documents that appears in the language in which it was written, and presents the English translations of select portions of non-English materials.

In April 1922, we find Einstein lecturing in Paris, engaged in reestablishing ties among scientists in former enemy nations. This title recounts in poetic prose the hectic schedule on land, the contemplative rest at sea, and his musings on science, philosophy, and art during his first encounter with the Far East, Palestine, and Spain.

Offers surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics. This book explains mathematical aspects of origami foldings; discusses the frequency and distribution of the prime numbers; ponders whether mathematics is invented or discovered; and describes what is special about a ball in five dimensions.

Can secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the secular view simply affirm a dog-eat-dog universe? At a time when the issues of religion, evolution, atheism, fundamentalism, Darwin, and science fill headlines and invoke controversy, The Joy of Secularism provides a balanced and thoughtful approach for understanding

Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. This title focuses on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents but also to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the past.

Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. This title focuses on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts, and demonstrates how fear universally binds us to particular presents but also to a broad spectrum of memories, stories, and states in the past.

Gives insight into the methods of behavioral research, and highlight how this knowledge might influence the implementation of public policy for the improvement of society. This title illuminates the relationship between behavioral findings and economic analyses. It examines policy relevance of behavioral science to our social and political lives.

Suitable for researchers and students looking to understand this emerging field in economics, this title surveys the major theories, evidence, and methods used in the field. It displays the topics in organizational economics, including the roles of individuals and groups in organizations, organizational structures and processes, and more.

Presents the story of the adventures and misadventures of the people of Israel in the land of Egypt the years shrouded in the mists of biblical history under the Pharaohs; the strange intermezzo of the Jewish mercenary detachment on the island of Elephantine on the upper Nile. This title probes a turning point in Western civilization.

A manual on how to plan and prepare a book, approach a publisher, secure a contract, and build a reliable author-publisher relationship. It features developments in the world of electronic publishing, clarifying what can and cannot be achieved with word processors. It is intended for academics in various fields.

Fairy tales, often said to be "timeless" and fundamentally "oral," have a long written history. This book argues that however a vital part of this history has fallen by the wayside. It refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. It examines the evolution of the "Anglo-American" fairy tale and its place in this variegated history.

Features the lives of people - from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to Turkish 'guest' workers, from young hoodlums to middle-class mothers. This book shows how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture.

When did the Indo-Europeans enter the lands that they occupied during historical times? And, more specifically, when did the Greeks come to Greece? This title brings together the evidence - historical, linguistic, and archaeological - to tackle these important questions.

A collection of essays that seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a picture of ancient sexuality. This title applies feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature, history, law, and political oratory.

From the famous siege of Constantinople in 1453 through the numerous other campaigns that securely established the Ottoman Empire, this title covers various events in the life of the emperor Mehmed II.

Interweaves biographical information about 5 renowned French artists - Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. This book presents over 260 illustrations, and explores drawing as a site of reflection, the space between the idea of a painted image and its realization on canvas.

The wave of ethnic conflict has led many political observers to fear that these conflicts are contagious. This work argues that ethnic conflict is not caused directly by intergroup differences or centuries-old feuds. The contributors include Timur Kuran, Stuart Hill, Donald Rothchild, Colin Cameron, Will H Moore, and others.

Suitable for students, scholars, and poets on various aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more, this book reflects changes in literary and cultural studies, providing coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry.

Catalogs more than four hundred decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, jewelry, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating from the late seventh century to the twentieth century.

Offers an overview of the sophisticated culture of pastoral nomadic populations who lived on the territory of Kazakhstan from roughly the middle of the first millennium BCE to the early centuries CE. This title explores the conditions of mobile life ways that resulted from ecological conditions in the steppes and high valleys of Inner Eurasia.