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This book examines whether and how the Office of the Solicitor General influences the United States Supreme Court. Combining archival data with recent innovations in the areas of matching and causal inference, the book finds that the Solicitor General influences every aspect of the Court's decision-making process.

Mark Copelovitch demonstrates how the politics and policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have evolved in response to fundamental changes in patterns of financial globalization. Combining statistical analysis with detailed case studies, Copelovitch offers an original explanation of the IMF's responses to financial crises over the last three decades.

In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching and how they are teaching it. This title provides readers an argument for why curricula and teaching based on controversial issues are truly crucial.

This study accounts for the similarities and differences between Ancient Greek and Latin by tracing their (mostly) prehistoric evolution from their common ancestor, Proto-Indo-European. The features of Proto-Indo-European itself are explained and justified on the basis of comparative linguistics.

Narayan presents 21 stories learned and told orally by one woman, Urmila Devi, in Kangra, North India. Included are stories told for worship and stories told for entertainment. It offers arguments about oral traditions and performance, as well as about North Indian families and folklore.

A unique and vivid study of American civic life which shows how citizens talk politics in private, while avoiding politics in public. Nina Eliasoph challenges received ideas about culture, power, and democracy and exposes the hard work of producing political apathy.

An introduction to developments in chaos and related topics in nonlinear dynamics, including the detection and quantification of chaos in experimental data, fractals, and complex systems. The author assumes only an elementary knowledge of calculus.

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In 1833 Alexander Pushkin began to consider the topic of madness, a subject little explored in Russian literature before then. This text illustrates the surprising glorification of madness in the prose novella ""The Queen of Spades"" and the lyric ""God Grant That I Not Lose My Mind"".