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Typical and Atypical Developmental Trajectories of AttentionCognitive Neuroscience, Development, and Psychopathology unites scholars sharing         common interests in the development of attention and related areas of functioning         with different perspectives and methodologies. The volume does not impose a single         framework for...

Sub-Types And Democratic PerformanceRobert Elgie examines the relationship between semi-presidentialism and democratic        performance. There are over 50 countries with a semi-presidential constitution. This        book shows that the president-parliamentary sub-type is more likely to be associated        with a poorer democratic performance...

Volume II: Rights, Duties, and StatusIn   Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory. Resuming her development of non- consequentialist ethical theory and its application to practical ethical problems, she explores the distinction between killing and...

Coclanis here charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, his study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effect of various factors on the region's...

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Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S., and Japan since World War II. Using detailed historical and interview based contemporary analysis, the book looks at how national industrial actors in each sector try to compete in global markets....