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This new edition of the leading book on the regulation of financial market infrastructure provides timely analysis of the new UK and EU regimes as well as coverage of international securities markets and clearing systems....

An exploration of autobiographical identity in a group of late medieval 'prison texts'. Despite the seminal nature of Boethius'    Consolation of Philosophy during the Middle Ages, the legacy of the figure of the writer in prison has not been examined before. The book discusses the interrelation of subjectivity, historicity, autobiography, and...

Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940A penetrating analysis of how women shaped public and private spaces in Boston - and how space shaped women's lives in turn - during a period of dramatic change in America's cities....

The phrase "e;popular music revolution"e; may instantly bring to mind such twentieth-century musical movements as jazz and rock 'n' roll. In Sounds of the Metropolis, however, Derek Scott argues that the first popular music revolution actually occurred in the nineteenth century, illustrating how a distinct group of popular styles first...

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...