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From a debut author, an intimate, multigenerational narrative of the Russian and Chinese revolutions through the eyes of the Chinese youth who traveled to the Soviet Union and the fate of their blended offspring

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that that the Empire was about adventure and excitement, Auerbach draws on personal accounts to argue that boredom was central to the experience of Empire.

Integrates nutrition and exercise physiology principles, emphasizing scientific reasoning and examining research studies to illuminate the evidence for nutritional recommendations. This book illustrates the connections between exercise, nutrition, and, the goals: optimal performance and health.

Through the Looking Glass examines John Cage's interactions and collaborations with avant-garde filmmakers, and in turn seeks out the implications of the audiovisual experience on Cage's career. The examples chosen highlight moments of rupture within Cage's notions of the audiovisual experience and the medium-specific ontology of a work of art.

Multivariable Calculus is an introductory textbook in the field of multivariable calculus, which utilises interactive 3D graphing software to develop students' understanding.

This book carefully dissects the claims of nudge theory and other forms of paternalism based on behavioral economics. The authors reveal how paternalist normative standards are unjustified and why paternalist policymaking is unlikely to produce desirable results, arguing instead for a more inclusive theory of rationality in economic policymaking.

Whether advertising clothes or technology, dance is staple of advertising today. Consuming Dance offers a clear history and analysis of dance in advertising and demonstrates the ways in which the form articulates with, informs, and reflects U.S. culture.

This book provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to Mediterranean-type ecosystems with the emphasis being on the organisms that dominate these regions although their management, conservation, and restoration will also be considered.

The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses key issues and concerns about a controversial and very hot topic. Written for a curious and intelligent audience interested in the foundations and developments of the industry, the book touches on the history of pornography, landmark legal cases, the latest medical research, and ongoing political debates.

The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 offers a comprehensive history of the INS in the southwestern borderlands, tracing the ways in which local immigration officials both made and enforced the nation's immigration laws.

Why our brains aren't built for media multitasking, and how we can learn to live with technology in a more balanced way.

An original study based on never before seen State Department documents, this book examines reactions around the world to the execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

An analysis of various practices of collaboration in planning and public policy. It presents a theory of collaborative rationality to overcome the challenges of complexity, fragmentation, uncertainty and global processes.

Stancetaking-or speaker positioning-is central to communication. This collected volume explores stancetaking as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, looking at how speakers use language to position themselves and others and exploring how speakers and writers make use of and sometimes transform the meaning of sociolinguistic variables in their acts of stance.

A demonstration of the value of both platonism and anti-platonism in the solution of mathematical problems. The author solves the important problems associated with both of the views, and demonstrates that it is inherently impossible for us to have a valid argument for or against mathematical platonism.

Where do program ideas come from? How are concepts developed into saleable productions? Who do you talk to about getting a show produced? This work addresses these questions, and takes a look at the roles and responsibilities of the electronic media programmer.

Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, the author of this text offers a way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences and desires. She discusses methods for mediating the tensions in feminist perspectives on women's sexuality.

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.