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The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
To many, Thomas Carlyle's put-down of economics as "the dismal science" is as fitting now as it was
"Conus" of the Southeastern United States and Caribbean
Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subt
The School of the French Revolution: A Documentary History of the College of Louis-le-Grand and its Director, Jean-Francois Champagne, 1762-1814
The College of Louis-le-Grand, now the premier lycee of France, is the only school with a connected
Asset Pricing Theory
Asset Pricing Theory is an advanced textbook for doctoral students and researchers that offers a mod
Econometric Modeling: A Likelihood Approach
Econometric Modeling provides a new and stimulating introduction to econometrics, focusing on modeli
Lending to the Borrower from Hell: Debt, Taxes, and Default in the Age of Philip II
Why do lenders time and again loan money to sovereign borrowers who promptly go bankrupt? When can t
The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750-1850
American literature is typically seen as something that inspired its own conception and that sprang
Moving Crucifixes in Modern Spain
Why are religious visions believed only in certain times and places? In this book William Christian
National Imaginaries, American Identities: The Cultural Work of American Iconography
From the American Revolution to the present, the United States has enjoyed a rich and persuasive vis
Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990
Reading Rape examines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latt
Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response
Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer A
Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance
In Ruthless Democracy, Timothy Powell reimagines the canonical origins of "American" identity by jux
Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk
Posing a major challenge to economic orthodoxy, Imperfect Knowledge Economics asserts that exact mod
The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth Century America
The Syntax of Class explores the literary expression of the crisis of social classification that occ
Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction
Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best unde
American Archives: Gender, Race and Class in Visual Culture
Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Sha
Introduction to Harmonic Analysis on Reductive P-Adic Groups. (MN-23): Based on Lectures by Harish-Chandra at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1971-73
Introduction to Harmonic Analysis on Reductive P-Adic Groups. (MN-23): Based on Lectures by Harish-C
The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser
In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the p
Exoplanet Atmospheres: Physical Processes
Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbi
Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J.Simpson
The black man suffering at the hands of whites, the white woman sexually threatened by the black man
Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State
In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets h
Colour: Why the World Isn't Grey
Discusses the colors of the natural world, the mechanism of color vision, uses of color in technolo
Representation Theory of Semisimple Groups: An Overview Based on Examples
In this classic work, Anthony W. Knapp offers a survey of representation theory of semisimple Lie gr
Theoretical Global Seismology
After every major earthquake, the Earth rings like a bell for several days. These free oscillations
Spectra and Pseudospectra: The Behavior of Nonnormal Matrices and Operators
Pure and applied mathematicians, physicists, scientists, and engineers use matrices and operators an