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The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This book deals with these questions.

Covers the fundamental concepts and twenty-first-century applications of six major areas of classical physics that every masters- or PhD-level physicist should be exposed to, but often isn't: statistical physics, optics (waves of all sorts), elastodynamics, fluid mechanics, plasma physics, and special and general relativity and cosmology.

Focuses on declassified records of federal employee loyalty program created in response to fears that Communists were infiltrating the US government to reveal how disloyalty charges were used to silence these New Dealers and discredit their policies. This title demonstrates how the Second Red Scare undermined the reform potential of the New Deal.

Offers a narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. This title reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples.

Offers an account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of the ordinary families who lived in booming Sunbelt metropolises such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Richmond.

When Barack Obama became president, many Americans embraced him as a transformational leader who would fundamentally change the politics and policy of the country. This book shows that the president's frustrations were predictable and the inevitable result of misunderstanding the nature of presidential power.

Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, this book examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis in the era between Alexander and Augustus.

Examining theories of human evolution and of prenatal hormonal determination of "gender-role" behavior, of sex differences in cognition, and of sexual orientation, the author shows how assumptions laden with social values affect the description, presentation, and interpretation of data.

Uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into an emblem of action and contemplation, a symbol of vanity and lust, a model of perfect penance, and the embodiment of hope and salvation.

Presents an account of two pillars of the techniques of nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory: stable and chaotic behavior. This title discusses cases in which N-body motions are stable, covering topics such as Hamiltonian systems, the (Moser) twist theorem, and aspects of Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theory.

Suitable for students who have completed at least two years of college Chinese, this title includes topics that are relevant to contemporary Chinese society, such as the increasing divisions between the rich and poor, the conflict between economic development and environmental protection, and changing attitudes toward sex and marriage.

The life of Nikos Kazantzakis - the author of "Zorba the Greek" and "The Last Temptation of Christ" - was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly than in his letters. This title offers a comprehensive selection of Kazantzakis' letters that touches on various aspects of Kazantzakis' life.

Provides students with essential lessons for advancing their Chinese language skills, and also introduces important aspects of contemporary Chinese society and culture. It incorporates suggestions from years of student and teacher feedback, and includes lessons as well as vocabulary glosses, grammar explanations, and exercises.

Translation of: Kafka, die Jahre der Erkenntnis.

It is impossible to understand Palestine today without a careful reading of its distant and past. This book offers a detailed interpretation of this critical region's evolution. Starting with the prebiblical and biblical roots of Palestine, it examines the meanings ascribed to the land in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions.

New Jersey provides some of the most varied birding in North America, and more than 450 species have been recorded in the state. This guide for the birds of New Jersey includes various species known to the state from historical times to the present, featuring over 200 color photos of rarities and regular species.

Andrea Carandini's archaeological discoveries and controversial theories about ancient Rome have made international headlines over the past few decades. This book presents his important findings and ideas, including the argument that there really was a Romulus - a first king of Rome - who founded the city in the mid-eighth century BC.

Islam is frequently characterized as a 'religion of the book,' and yet Muslims take an almost entirely oral approach to their scripture. This book presents a semantic analysis of its self-awareness, arguing that the Qur'an understands itself not so much as a completed book, but as an ongoing process of divine 'writing' and 're-writing'.

Presents a study of a controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. This book explains how England's rulers failed to understand and respond to the initial evidence of erosion in their country's industrial, financial, naval, and military power.

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, the author reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. It shows that the theorem, although attributed to Pythagoras, was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years earlier.

Describes the author's conception of Zen and its historical evolution. This title connects Zen to the philosophy of the samurai, and portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. It is suitable for those wishing to understand the concept of Zen in the context of Japanese life.

Offering a comprehensive social history of the Bon Marche, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, this title explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the emporia so vividly dramatized.

A new international maritime order was forged in the early modern age, yet histories of the period have dealt almost exclusively with the Atlantic and Indian oceans. This book brings the Mediterranean and Catholic piracy into the broader context of early modern history, and focuses on commerce and the struggle for power in this volatile age.

Focuses on a largely neglected period, 1640 to 1750, and moves beyond portrayals that often view the relationships between indigenous people and Europeans solely in terms of repression, opposition, or accommodation. This book explores the notions of reformation and correction that fueled the extirpating process in the central Andes.