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Epic and Empire in Vespasianic Rome offers a new interpretation of Valerius        Flaccus' Argonautica, a Latin epic poem written during the reign of the emperor        Vespasian (70-79 AD). Recounting the famous voyage of Jason and the Argonauts as        they set off to retrieve the Golden Fleece, the poem depicts a narrative of high        epic...

Bao presents a theory of tone which supports the typological distinction between African-type tone languages and Asian-type tone languages. He argues for a novel structure of tone, and supports it with data from Chinese dialects and other Asian languages. It will be of interest to phonologists and linguists interested in Chinese....

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The Origins of the Cold War in AsiaTracing the origins of the cold war in Asia to the postwar occupation of Japan by U.S. troops, Schaller's intriguing account demonstrates that the reconstruction of postwar Japan shaped not only the future of that country but also the future of U.S. policy throughout postwar Asia. It explores how the U.S.'s...

Over 15 million children live in families subsisting below the federal poverty        level, and there are nearly 4 million more children living in poverty today than in        the turn of the 21st century. When compared to their more affluent counterparts,        children living in fragile circumstances-including homeless children, children...

The study of varieties of capitalism is moving on from analysis of static national types to embrace local and sectoral diversity, and systems in the process of major change. This volume addresses the issue by examining four localised sectors, comparing a German case with one in another European country, including the UK, Sweden, and Hungary....