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After Charlemagne's death in 814, Italy was ruled by a succession of kings and emperors, all of whom could claim some relation to the Carolingians, some via the female line of succession. This study...

Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries out to be read in terms of...

To understand the foundations of American political institutions, it's necessary to understand the rationale for British colonial institutions that survived the empire. Political institutions in...

In 874 CE, the eleventh Imam died, and the Imami community splintered. The institutions of the Imamate were maintained by the dead Imam's agents, who asserted they were in contact with a hidden...

Why do we see large-scale labor protests and strikes under some IMF programs such as in Greece in 2010 and not in others such as in Ireland in the same year? This Element argues that extensive labor...

Locates Akshay Kumar Datta as one of the foundational figures of intellectual refashioning in nineteenth-century Bengal.Author: Sumit ChakrabartiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date:...

Alan Maley's 50 Creative Activities is a collection of 50 classroom activities designed to promote creative language use. It is based on the premise that one of the major benefits of fostering...

The finite generation theorem is a major achievement of modern algebraic geometry. Based on the minimal model theory, it states that the canonical ring of an algebraic variety defined over a field of...

All The Sonnets Of ShakespeareAuthor: William ShakespearePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 306 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

American Survivors is a fresh and moving historical account of U.S. survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, breaking new ground not only in the study of World War II but also in the...

Amorphous, nano-, micro- and polycrystalline silicon thin films and associated alloys are used in a plethora of applications ranging from active matrix displays and imaging arrays to solar panels...

Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology - 2010Author: Qi WangPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Sep 21, 2010Number of Pages: 498 pagesBinding:...

Among various applications, solar cells for photovoltaic solar energy and thin-film transistors for flat-panel display have been the two major driving forces for research and development of thin-film...

Thin-film silicon materials and their alloys underpin a diverse range of electronic systems, from active matrix flat-panel displays, through solar panels for the 'green-power' generation, to surface...

This Element takes as its remit the production and use of amulets. The focus will be on amulets with no, or minimal, textual content like those comprising found stone, semi-precious gem and/or animal...

This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries,...

Author: C. S. LewisPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Mar 26, 2012Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1107604729ISBN-13: 9781107604728

Experts introduce the tools of GR and relativistic cosmology, guiding advanced students through complete derivations of the results.Author: Jerzy Plebanski, Andrzej KrasinskiPublisher: Cambridge...

Introduces the theory of multivariate generating functions, with new exercises, computational examples, and a conceptual overview chapter.Author: Robin Pemantle, Mark C. Wilson, Stephen...

The taxonomies of narratology have proven valuable tools for the analysis of ancient literature, but, since they were mostly forged in the analysis of modern novels, they have also occluded the...

Ancient South AmericaAuthor: Karen Olsen BruhnsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: May 23, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Ancient Southeast Mesoamerica : Political Economies without the StateAuthor: Patricia A. Urban, Edward M. SchortmanPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Mar 21, 2024Number of Pages:...

Animals, like humans, suffer and die from natural causes. This is particularly true of animals living in the wild, given their high exposure to, and low capacity to cope with, harmful natural...

Animal minds are complex and diverse, making them difficult to study. This Element focuses on a question that has received much attention in the field of comparative cognition: 'Do animals reason...

The crucial role of animal models in biomedical research calls for philosophical investigation of how and whether knowledge about human diseases can be gained by studying other species. This Element...

This Element introduces readers to the problem of anticultism and antireligious movements in France. The first section offers an overview of anticultism in France, including the paradoxical place of...

This Element provides an exploration of antinatalism, the view that assigns a negative value to reproduction. First, the history of Western philosophy as a two-and-a-half millennia reaction to...

Antiracism is a global and historical social movement of resistance and solidarity, yet there have been relatively few books focusing on it as a subject in its own right. After his earlier books on...

This Element is valuable and of interest not only for (Cognitive) Linguistics researchers and linguists, but most importantly, because it is much-needed, to language instructors and professionals...

Bud explores the rise and fall of 'applied science' as a category of thought shaped by scientists and laity alike.Author: Robert BudPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublication Date: Mar 28,...