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During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word 'politique' and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century.

This book describes a distinctive practice and ethics of individuality through a close examination of epigraphy, architecture, and manuscripts. It shows that a concern for the individual was instrumental to the production and reproduction of empire, family, and social order during Mughal rule and after.

This book on general topology is meant for graduate and senior undergraduate mathematics students. Written in a lucid manner, the text is enriched with examples, exercises, and proofs. Each topic has been explained in detail, and proofs are presented in a stepwise manner, which makes it suitable for self-study.

This book offers the reformist perspective of one of the most persistent and outspoken constitutional reformers in China. Through the analysis of landmark constitutional events in China since the late nineteenth century, it reveals the fatal dilemma faced by constitutional reform and the deadly dangers of any violent revolution that arises out of the frustration with the repeated failures of reform. Although there is no easy way out of such a predicament, the book analyzes available resources in the existing system and suggests possible strategies that might bring success to future constitutional reforms.

"Recently, a rising number of countries have turned away from democracy and human rights and the rule of law has been in retreat. The book defines the rule of law, assesses recent trends in its practice, and offers in-depth analysis of developments in international context and in key countries"--

The Letters and Numbers Workbook, Ready for Letters and Numbers provides further practice to support the learning of letters and numbers. This Letters and Numbers Workbook is for both Ready, Set, Grow! and Ready, Steady, Grow!

This wide-ranging, accessible handbook reveals the vital role plants have played in literature for two thousand years around the world. Its sections cover historical periods of plant literature, specific global regions and diverse literary forms.

First ladies have always received a great deal of attention and are among the most recognizable figures of any presidential administration. They're often treated as celebrities, making them some of the most prominent women of their eras. Yet many of their stories and contributions have been overlooked. Through a collection of thematic essays, The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies provides a thorough and compelling examination of the development of the first lady institution, and the political, social, and cultural influence of the women who've served in this role. Topics covered include the evolution of various first lady roles, such as hostess, campaigner, surrogate, diplomat, social advocate, and trendsetter; how first ladies have been political assets and liabilities; the impact of first ladies' speeches and media usage; first ladies during wartime and presidential deaths; the contributions of first lady stand-ins; how presidential spouses have been represented in films; and how these women are memorialized and remembered-or forgotten.

First ladies have always received a great deal of attention and are among the most recognizable figures of any presidential administration. They're often treated as celebrities, making them some of the most prominent women of their eras. Yet many of their stories and contributions have been overlooked. Through a collection of thematic essays, The Cambridge Companion to US First Ladies provides a thorough and compelling examination of the development of the first lady institution, and the political, social, and cultural influence of the women who've served in this role. Topics covered include the evolution of various first lady roles, such as hostess, campaigner, surrogate, diplomat, social advocate, and trendsetter; how first ladies have been political assets and liabilities; the impact of first ladies' speeches and media usage; first ladies during wartime and presidential deaths; the contributions of first lady stand-ins; how presidential spouses have been represented in films; and how these women are memorialized and remembered-or forgotten.

The Letters and Numbers Workbook, Ready for Letters and Numbers provides further practice to support the learning of letters and numbers. This Letters and Numbers Workbook is for both Ready, Set, Grow! and Ready, Steady, Grow!

The Letters and Numbers Workbook, Ready for Letters and Numbers provides further practice to support the learning of letters and numbers. This Letters and Numbers Workbook is for both Ready, Set, Grow! and Ready, Steady, Grow!

Dethroning the false centrality of certain key texts, this book offers an ambitious, novel perspective on Carl Schmitt and his legal and political thinking by analysing his writings from across his decades-long career. It explores Schmitt's varied and developing thoughts on exceptionalism and societal pluralism.

Aimed at psychiatrists, psychologists, neuroscientists and literary scholars, this study of the doppelganger phenomenon takes an interdisciplinary approach through antiquity, fiction, psychopathology, and neuroscience. It aims to establish the experience of the self, as well as how psychopathology reveals the mechanisms that shape our reality.

The ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, was first composed in Sanskrit and then rendered into Indian vernaculars and other Asian and European languages. This book demonstrates how the epic has shaped the birth of modern politics and thought across India, Europe, Japan, China, Thailand, Iran, and the Arab world. It draws on methodologies of global intellectual and religious history. The contributing authors are specialists on various world-regions. They reveal how kings and peasants, statesmen and revolutionaries, intellectuals, and activists, have invoked the epic to forge their political visions over the past centuries. The epic has thus contributed to state formation, nationalism, as well as the decolonization and democratization of the modern world. This book helps us understand the non-Eurocentric roots of modern political and social ideas, in India and across Asia and Europe. We thereby understand the global origins of contemporary politics, society, and democracy.