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View book details for Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America

Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development
Ben Ross Schneider
Cambridge University Press
This book argues that Latin America has a distinctive, enduring form of hierarchical capitalism characterized by multinational corporations, diversified business groups, low skills and segmented labor markets. Over time, institutional complementarities knit features of corporate governance and labor markets together …
Joel Beinin
Cambridge University Press
Joel Beinin's survey of subaltern history in the Middle East demonstrates lucidly and compellingly how the lives, experiences and culture of working people can inform our historical understanding. Beginning in the middle of the eighteenth century, the book charts the …
Anna Siewierska
Cambridge University Press
This textbook deals with the grammatical category of person, which covers the first person, the second person, and the third person. Drawing on data from over 700 languages, Anna Siewierska compares the use of person within and across different languages, …
Forrest G. Robinson
Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion …

View book details for Political Topographies of the African State

Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice
Catherine Boone
Cambridge University Press
This 2003 study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African countries, as in territorially diverse …
Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn
Cambridge University Press
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and …
Joseph O'Rourke
Cambridge University Press
This is the revised and expanded 1998 edition of a popular introduction to the design and implementation of geometry algorithms arising in areas such as computer graphics, robotics, and engineering design. The basic techniques used in computational geometry are all …

View book details for Making our Way through the World

Human Reflexivity and Social Mobility
Margaret S. Archer
Cambridge University Press
How do we reflect upon ourselves and our concerns in relation to society, and vice versa? Human reflexivity works through 'internal conversations' using language, but also emotions, sensations and images. Most people acknowledge this 'inner-dialogue' and can report upon it. …

View book details for The Everyday Lives of Young Children

Culture, Class, and Child Rearing in Diverse Societies
Jonathan Tudge
Cambridge University Press
Where do young children spend their time? What activities are they involved in and who do they interact with? How do these activities and interactions vary across different societies and cultural groups? This book provides answers to these questions, by …

View book details for Teaching Medical Professionalism

Supporting the Development of a Professional Identity
Richard L. Cruess, Sylvia R. Cruess, Yvonne Steinert
Cambridge University Press
This book presents ideas, evidence and guidance for those interested in using the most recent advances in knowledge about learning and human development to enhance medical education's ability to form competent, caring and publicly responsible physicians. It does this by …
Jacqueline P. Leighton, Mark J. Gierl
Cambridge University Press
There is mounting hope in the United States that federal legislation in the form of No Child Left Behind will improve educational outcomes. As titanic as the challenge appears to be, however, the solution could be at our fingertips. This …
Peter J. Olver
Cambridge University Press
Drawing on a wide range of mathematical disciplines, including geometry, analysis, applied mathematics and algebra, this book presents an innovative synthesis of methods used to study problems of equivalence and symmetry which arise in a variety of mathematical fields and …

View book details for The Domestic Cat

The Biology of its Behaviour
Dennis C. Turner, Patrick Bateson
Cambridge University Press
The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - either loved or hated for …

View book details for Reflexive Language

Reported Speech and Metapragmatics
John A. Lucy
Cambridge University Press
This volume examines the nature and significance of the reflexive aspect of natural language, its capacity to represent its own structure and use through reported speech and explicit statements about language-use (metapragmatics). It adopts a truly interdisciplinary approach. Part I …
M. Shifman
Cambridge University Press
Since the advent of YangMills theories and supersymmetry in the 1970s, quantum field theory - the basis of the modern description of physical phenomena at the fundamental level - has undergone revolutionary developments. This is the first systematic and comprehensive …
Avijit Gupta
Cambridge University Press
Although similar geomorphic processes take place in other regions, in the tropics these processes operate at different rates and with varying intensities. Tropical geomorphology therefore provides many new discoveries regarding geomorphic processes. This textbook describes both the humid and arid …
Andrew Moore
Cambridge University Press
The question of realism - that is, whether God exists independently of human beings - is central to much contemporary theology and church life. It is also an important topic in the philosophy of religion. This book discusses the relationship …

View book details for What Makes Biology Unique?

Considerations on the Autonomy of a Scientific Discipline
Ernst Mayr
Cambridge University Press
This book, a collection of essays written by the most eminent evolutionary biologist of the twentieth century, explores biology as an autonomous science, offers insights on the history of evolutionary thought, critiques the contributions of philosophy to the science of …
Craig A. Evans
Cambridge University Press
This book is a verse-by-verse analysis of the New Testament Gospel of Matthew. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the Gospel, which describes the world of Jesus and his first followers. This commentary explores the historical, social and religious contexts …

View book details for Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome

Key Sources, with Text, Translation, and Commentary
J. Bert Lott
Cambridge University Press
The founding of the Roman Principate was a time of great turmoil. This book brings together a set of important Latin inscriptions, including the recently discovered documents concerning the death of Germanicus and trial of Cn. Piso, in order to …
Mark Lundstrom
Cambridge University Press
Fundamentals of Carrier Transport is an accessible introduction to the behaviour of charged carriers in semiconductors and semiconductor devices. It is written specifically for engineers and students without an extensive background in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics. This second edition …
Patrick Manning
Cambridge University Press
This edition of Patrick Manning's established text includes two new chapters that discuss developments in the region since 1985, emphasising the democratisation movements of the 1980s and 1990s, the Francophone movement, and the crises in Rwanda and Burundi. Focusing on …
Vincent F. Hendricks
Cambridge University Press
Mainstream and Formal Epistemology provides the first, easily accessible, yet erudite and original analysis of the meeting point between mainstream and formal theories of knowledge. These two strands of thinking have traditionally proceeded in isolation from one another, but in …
Klaus Lux, Herbert Pahlings
Cambridge University Press
The representation theory of finite groups has seen rapid growth in recent years with the development of efficient algorithms and computer algebra systems. This is the first book to provide an introduction to the ordinary and modular representation theory of …

View book details for Fitting In, Standing Out

Navigating the Social Challenges of High School to Get an Education
Robert Crosnoe
Cambridge University Press
In American high schools, teenagers must navigate complex youth cultures that often prize being 'real' while punishing difference. Adults may view such social turbulence as a timeless, ultimately harmless rite of passage, but changes in American society are intensifying this …
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