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Controversy in Victorian Geology
Secord gives a dazzlingly detailed account of this scientific trench warfare and its social consequences. One ends up with a marvellous feeling for the major taxonomic enterprises …

Coup Theories and Officers' Motives
Donald Horowitz presents a case study of an attempted military coup in Sri Lanka. On the basis of interviews with twenty-three participants in this attempted coup--a mine of …

Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos
In all of his works Blake struggled with the question of how chaos can be assimilated into imaginative order. Blake's own answer changed in the course of his poetic career. …

Organized Social Complexity
One striking feature of modern political and social development has been the construction of social systems encompassing more and more groups. The increase in social complexity, …

Human Resources in Japanese Industrial Development
By focusing on the educational and skill training institutions Japan has developed to generate human resources for modern industry, this book represents a new contribution to the …

Aerodynamic Components of Aircraft at High Speeds
Volume VII of the High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion series. It deals with applications to specific components of the complete aircraft. Sections of the volume include: …

A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume III
This is the third and final volume of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books …

Gathering Rare Ores
This is a comprehensive study of one of the most startling examples of dollar diplomacy--the effort of the United States and the United Kingdom to monopolize the free world's …

The Tale of the Tribe
Michael Andre Bernstein offers a systematic analysis of the tradition of modern epic poetry--its different structural problems and their diverse but inter-related solutions, and …

The Corfu Incident of 1923
The author scrutinizes official documents and unpublished government and private archives to present a day-by-day account of the negotiations among the League's representatives …

The Book of Idols
Here, in the translation and edition of Nabih A. Faris of the American University at Beirut, is the text of the unique Arabic source on the idols and worship of pagan Arabia. The …

Physics of Magmatic Processes
While the chemical aspects of igneous petrology have dominated research for many years, the physical processes associated with the generation, transport, and crystallization of …