Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology (Studies in Classics)

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This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these notions become explicated and reconfigured by the upper and mostly non-political classes of Italy and Rome. The chronic turmoil experienced in the late republic shaped the values and program of the imperial system; it molded the comprehensive and authoritative accounts of Roman tradition and history in a way that allowed the system to appear both traditional and historical. This book also examines how shifts in rhetorical and historiographical practices facilitated the spreading and assimilation of shared ideas that allowed the empire to cohere.

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Contemporary Topics in In Situ Testing, Analysis, and Reliability of Foundations (Geotechnical Special Publication)

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Speechreading by Humans and Machines: Models, Systems, and Applications (NATO ASI Series / Computer and Systems Sciences)

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This is the first comprehensive book on the interdisciplinary study of speechreading (lipreading) -- production, perception and learning -- by both humans and machines. It is the product of the largest-ever gathering of scientists devoted to the subject, at a NATO workshop held in France in 1995. The research presented explores and promotes the incorporation of visual information into automatic speech recognizers for improved recognition accuracy (especially in noisy environments), and draws on and further elucidates knowledge of the psychology of speechreading by humans. The book is a milestone along the path to more accurate speech based interfaces, as well as to deeper understanding of fundamental mechanisms of human perception and speech recognition.

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The Adaptive Seascape: The Mechanism of Evolution

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Modern evolutionary theory, also known as the modern synthesis, has lately become the subject of much criticism-and yet, David Merrell observes, its critics all too often display an incomplete understanding of the theory and its provenance. In this book, Merrell provides a lucid exposition and critique of the modern synthetic theory of evolution-its history, its present difficulties, and its future-from the perspective of ecological genetics. Based on observational and experimental data, in natural populations of plants and animals studied in the field and in the laboratory, this perspective unravels the hidden and often poorly founded assumptions underlying some of the more troublesome controversies in evolutionary biology today. Evolution, Merrell suggests, occurs through many mechanisms, and this pluralism informs his approach to evolutionary problems, which usually have been discussed in extreme, generally unjustifiable dichotomies. Thus, although much of evolution, in accordance with the Darwinian model, is slow and gradual, Merrell makes the case for rapid, even instantaneous large change as well. He also demonstrates the importance of genes of major effect, especially dominant genes, in bringing about evolutionary change, contrary to the widely held belief that such change only results from the accumulation of numerous genes of small effect. Using these concepts, Merrell interprets the evolution of industrial melanism, DDT resistance, and mimicry. In the treatment of the nature and origins of species, Merrell proposes an "adaptive seascape" to replace Sewall Wright's well-known "adaptive landscape" as a metaphor for the adaptive surface, where the physical and biological environment is constantly changing. Expert yet accessible, Merrell's depiction of this seascape will clarify the state of evolutionary theory both for specialists and for general readers with an interest in science.

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Adult Leukemia (ACS ATLAS OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY)

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Adult Leukemia summarizes advances in leukemia biology and treatment. It discusses the most successful treatments currently available and examines the remaining obstacles to a cure. Dr. Wiernik's team at New York Medical College has done seminal work in clinical investigation as well as patient management in the leukemias. The subject lends itself particularly well to color illustrations, a key feature of the American Cancer Society Atlas of Clinical Oncology series. This book is an essential reference tool for medical and radiation oncologists and for hematologists.

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Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII (No.8)

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The Eighth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics was held on the campus of the University of Rochester during the period June 13-16, 2001. This volume contains the proceedings of the meeting. This Conference differed from the previous seven in the CQO series in several ways, the most important of which was the absence of Leonard Mandel. A special memorial symposium in his honor was held at the end of the conference. The presentations from that symposium are included in this proceedings volume. An innovation in this meeting was the inclusion of a series of invited lectures chaired by CQO founder Emil Wolf, reviewing the history of the fields of coherence and quantum optics before about 1970. These were given by three prominent participants in the development of the field, C. Cohen-Tannoudji, J.F. Clauser, and R.J. Glauber. Their lectures are included in the proceedings and should provide a valuable resource for historians of science.

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Exercises In Elementary Counterpoint

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Applications Graph Theory Topology in Inorganic Cluster Coordination Chemistry

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Applications of Graph Theory and Topology in Inorganic Cluster and Coordination Chemistry is a text-reference that provides inorganic chemists with a rudimentary knowledge of topology, graph theory, and related mathematical disciplines. The book emphasizes the application of these topics to metal clusters and coordination compounds.

The book's initial chapters present background information in topology, graph theory, and group theory, explaining how these topics relate to the properties of atomic orbitals and are applied to coordination polyhedra. Subsequent chapters apply these ideas to the structure and chemical bonding in diverse types of inorganic compounds, including boron cages, metal clusters, solid state materials, metal oxide derivatives, superconductors, icosahedral phases, and carbon cages (fullerenes). The book's final chapter introduces the application of topology and graph theory for studying the dynamics of rearrangements in coordination and cluster polyhedra.

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Introduction to Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry

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This book will be particularly valuable to the American student because it covers material that is not available in any other textbooks or monographs. The subject of the book is not restricted to commutative algebra developed as a pure discipline for its own sake, nor is it aimed only at algebraic geometry where the intrinsic geometry of a general n-dimensional variety plays the central role. Instead, this book is developed around the vital theme that certain areas of both subjects are best understood together. This link between the two subjects, forged in the nineteenth century, built further by Krull and Zariski, remains as active as ever. In this book, the reader will find as the same time a leisurely and clear exposition of the basic definitions and results in both algebra and geometry, as well as an cxposition of the important recent progress fue to Quillen-Suslin, Evans-Eisenbud, Szpiro, Mohan Kumar and others. The ample exercises are another excellent feature. Professor Kunz has filled a longstanding need for an introduction to commutative algebra and algebraic geometry that emphasizes the concrete elementary nature of objects with which both subjects began.

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In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage

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Anne Bolin illuminates the array of social, psychological and physical changes experienced by a group of people in the process of changing gender.

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