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Aimed at research students and academic algebraists and group theorists, the central concept in this book is that of a soluble group - a group which is built up from abelian groups by repeatedly forming group extensions. This monograph covers all the major areas including finitely generated soluble groups, soluble groups of finite rank, modules...

This book presents a comprehensive theory of ellipsis that supports the formal, cross-lingusitic description of elliptical phenomena. In contrast to earlier work, this study focuses on the interconnected factors that determine whether ellipsis should or should not be used in a given context....

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The scientific study of networks, including computer networks, social networks,        and biological networks, has received an enormous amount of interest in the last few        years. The rise of the Internet and the wide availability of inexpensive computers        have made it possible to gather and analyze network data on a large scale, and...

Should politicians tell the public how to behave? Is it best for public health people to work with, or against, industrial interests? These are debates which still echo today. This book examines the way in which public health policy has changed and developed since the Second World War. It explains how public health began to focus on 'lifestyle'...