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This book treats optimal problems for systems described by ordinary and partial differential equations, using an approach that unifies finite dimensional and infinite dimensional nonlinear programming. Problems include control and state constraints and target conditions.

This work explains the patterns behind financial crises, examines international financial architecture, makes recommendations for avoiding the dangers of crises (and managing them better when they do occur), and shows how official efforts to strengthen the international financial system may have made life more difficult for the poorest countries.

This is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period, that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It analyzes the responses of the world's economic powers, and explains how new monetary policies set the stage for the monetary systems presently in place.

Presents a collection of the author's seminal essays on Gottlob Frege, who has a strong claim to be seen as the founder of modern analytic philosophy, and whose work remains at the centre of philosophical debate. This book is useful for historians of modern philosophy, and for those working on philosophy of language or philosophical logic.

This lively study of Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval Spain confronts questions of community relations, politics, trade and government, through a study of the common people of the era. It focuses on the evolution of an independent Islamic society into one living under Christian political domination.

Two leading political scientists present the best of their research, focusing on how to build and test a social science of law and courts. Written for a broad, scholarly audience, the book is also recommended for use in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in law and the social sciences.

Since the 1970s Gary Watson has published a series of brilliant and highly influential essays on human action, examining such questions as: in what ways are we free and not free, rational and irrational, responsible or not for what we do? Moral philosophers and philosophers of action will welcome this collection, representing one of the most important bodies of work in the field.

It is argued that Hume's early philosophy can be seen as both an essay in the theory of meaning as well as an inquiry into the nature of truth and evidence. Pears examines the application of Hume's theories to the questions of causation, identity and perception.

This book offers a theory of how human conceptual life begins, and shows how perceptual information becomes transformed into concepts. Drawing on extensive research, Mandler describes the development of preverbal concept formation, inductive inference, and recall, and explains how these processes form the conceptual basis for language and adult thought.

Naturalism in Mathematics investigates how the most fundamental assumptions of mathematics can be justified. One prevalent philosophical approach to the problem-realism-is examined and rejected in favour of another approach-naturalism. Penelope Maddy defines naturalism, explains the motivation for it, and shows how it can be successfully applied in set theory.

A systematic and comprehensive study of 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies, including those of Western Europe, Australia, Canada, the USA, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan and New Zealand. - for 384 national, legislative and European Parliament elections between 1945 and 1990.

Nelson Polsby argues that among other things, from the 50s to the 90s, Congress evolved. In short, Polsby argues that air conditioning altered the demography of the Southern States, which in turn changed the political parties of the South, which transformed the composition and in due course the performance of the US House of Representatives.

Power and Purity explores the place of cathar heresy in the life of a medieval Italian town. Based on archival research, it details the social makeup of the cathar community and argues that cathar beliefs about the body addressed questions about sexual difference and the structure of authority that were central to medieval Italian life.

Under the guidance of Professors Dyhre Trolle and Preben Plum of the Uni versity Hospital in Copenhagen, the investigation was expanded to deal with prenatal and perinatal factors of importance for the development of the infant.

A study of the Guadalupe, California, oil spill and what it reveals about society's disinclination to respond to chronic, festering environmental problems.

This comprehensive treatment of network information theory and its applications provides the first unified coverage of both classical and recent results. With an approach that balances the introduction of new models and new coding techniques, readers are guided through Shannon's point-to-point information theory, single-hop networks, multihop networks, and extensions to distributed computing, secrecy, wireless communication, and networking. Elementary mathematical tools and techniques are used throughout, requiring only basic knowledge of probability, whilst unified proofs of coding theorems are based on a few simple lemmas, making the text accessible to newcomers. Key topics covered include successive cancellation and superposition coding, MIMO wireless communication, network coding, and cooperative relaying. Also covered are feedback and interactive communication, capacity approximations and scaling laws, and asynchronous and random access channels. This book is ideal for use in the classroom, for self-study, and as a reference for researchers and engineers in industry and academia.

This book shows how the widespread circulation of a specific set of ideals and values associated with the Roman emperor not only generated ideological unification throughout the Roman empire, but also reinforced the political power of the Roman imperial state and the authority of local aristocrats in the western provinces.