Oxford University Press

Based on a pioneering research programme on the evolution of top incomes, this        volume brings together studies from 10 OECD countries. This rapidly growing field of        economic research investigates the top segment of the income distribution by using        data from income tax records over the past century. As well as describing the...

From Nanomechanics to Quantum Superconducting CircuitsThe book provides a unifying insight into a broad range of phenomena displayed by        vibrational systems of current interest. The chapters complement each other to give        an account of the major fundamental results and applications in quantum information,        condensed matter...

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This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter....

Examines the association of love and death in medieval French and Occitan courtly literature using an approach informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis and Jacques Derrida. Offers new readings of canonical authors and texts, including Bernart de Ventadorn, Jaufre Rudel, Chretien de Troyes, Thomas's    Tristan, the Prose   Lancelot, the Tristan en...

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