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The description for this book, Lectures on Vector Bundles over Riemann Surfaces. (MN-6), will be forthcoming.

For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. This book reveals that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as a branch of physical science but as an important literary genre.

Starts with Dirac's analysis showing that gauge theories are constrained Hamiltonian systems. This book is a systematic study of the classical and quantum theories of gauge systems. It discusses reducible gauge systems, and explains the relationship between BRST cohomology and gauge invariance.

For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. This book examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism. It also questions the assumptions of 'Easterners'.

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. This title demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African- American politics.

Draws from many diverse fields of theoretical physics to present problems in which the answer differs from what our intuition had led us to expect. This book is suitable for both graduate students and their teachers.

Through use of the models Professor Horn has devised, plant ecologists, foresters, and botanists will be able to predict the growth and productivity of a forest, the invading and senile species in a forest, the effect of shade tolerance on forest succession, and similar questions.

The description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.

Examining the development of the process of presidential selection, this book contends that many of the major purposes of the selection system as it was formerly understood have been ignored by reformers and modern scholars. It identifies a set of criteria for a selection system and analyzes and evaluates the changes in the selection process.

Traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. This book dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations.

An examination of death rituals in early Japan that finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 AD). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts, it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes.

Offers an approach to music as an instrument of philosophical inquiry, seeking not so much a philosophy of music as a philosophy through music.

Looks at the history of Japanese literature, identifies major authors and their works, and discusses literary terms, theater, and criticism.

Supports the libertarian socialist tradition by presenting a model of how producers and consumers could democratically plan their interconnected activities. This book explains why hierarchical production, inegalitarian consumption, central planning, and market allocations are incompatible with 'classlessness.'

Investigating the enormous contribution made by female textile workers to early industrialization in Meiji Japan, this title documents not only their hardships but also their triumphs. It shows that these 'factory girls' developed an identity that played a crucial role in the history of the Japanese working class.

Deals with the history of the sea trade of the Arabs in the Indian Ocean from its obscure origins many centuries before Christ to the time of its full extension to China and East Africa in the ninth and tenth centuries. This title comprises a brief but masterly historical account that has never been superseded.

"Written under the auspices of the Center for International and Strategic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles."