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This book discusses the social and economic problems currently faced by Brazil as one of the largest "emerging countries". It examines the prospects of Brazilian development from an interdisciplina...

Combining statistical analyses and personal interviews, this book examines the phenomenon of adult children in the United States who have returned to living with their parents in the family home. I...

This volume provides an extensive survey on a topic which has been largely neglected by musicological research until now. The study analyses possible implications of a dedication of musical scores,...

From Surge to Downturn and Beyond

This book discusses early-modern collective identities related to territory, language, cultural milieu, state, and alleged "ethnic" origins in the border and multilingual areas of Friuli and the Co...

by W. J. Freeman These two volumes on "Brain Oscillations" appear at a most opportune time. As the "Decade of the Brain" draws to its close, brain science is coming to terms with its ultimate probl...

This work is for comparative linguists and celticists who are keen to study Breton but may be too daunted to undertake such a venture by the wide variety of orthographical conventions which exist i...

Global Theory from Within and Without is a critical examination of the concept of globalization. There are in sociological theory many definitions of globalization. Sociological theory constructs a...

Biomedical research in the first decade of the 21st century has been marked by a rapidly growing interest in epigenetics. The reasons for this are numerous, but primarily it stems from the mounting...

"The editors have assembled an outstanding group of scholars in this very welcome addition to our understanding of Latin American external relations and British foreign policy towards the region in...

convenes a dialogue between one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, the philosophical fabulist Jorge Luis Borges, and one of the most important writers and producers of the tw...

The Galton-Watson branching process has its roots in the problem of extinction of family names which was given a precise formulation by F. Galton as problem 4001 in the Educational Times (17, 1873)...

Imperial and Post-Imperial Connections

Der niederländische Visionär Hieronymus Bosch schuf fantastische Szenarien, in denen die schlimmsten Fantasien des Menschen von Qual, Folter und Tod groteske Gestalt annahmen. Diese umfassende Mono...

From Surge to Downturn and Beyond