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A study of the role of the city of Thebes in Books 3 and 4 of Ovid's     Metamorphoses. Micaela Janan uses the psychoanalytic theory of Freud and Lacan to argue that the strangely fantastical way in which it is presented shows Ovid posing questions that ultimately relate to the concept of collective identity....

The mid-1990s saw the rise of an important movement: a recognition that organizational knowledge, in its various forms and attributes, could be an important source of competitive advantage in the marketplace. Knowledge management has become one of the core competencies in today's competitive environment, where so much value in companies resides in...

In this paperback reprint of a book originally published in 1993, Carl Cranor argues that the scientific and statistical criteria usually used to determine whether substances are toxic are too rigorous and time-consuming for evidentiary purposes in tort cases and for regulation. This results in the underregulation of toxic substances and the...

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A fresh addition to an enormous body of scholarship, this will be required reading for academics interested in the relationship between politics and non-political systems of thoughts and beliefs, the transnational circulation of ideas, social movements, and the intellectual and social history of psychoanalysis....

Local, National, and Transnational PerspectivesThe inaugural volume in the OUP/National History center series, Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars promises to be the most up-to-date book on the changing interpretations of the wars in Vietnam. Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley have assembled a superb cast of eleven scholars and writers, spanning the...