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Concise and authoritative, this penetrating and lucid guide looks at every important aspect of Mozart's works for piano, including the sonatas, concertos, duets, two-piano works, and variations. It examines their historical background and their aesthetic content, discusses aspects of performance, and provides detailed analyses of selected works....

This is a key study into whether 'climate change refugees' are protected by international law. It examines the reasons why people do or do not move; how far climate change is a trigger for movement; and whether traditional international responses, such as creating new treaties and new institutions, are appropriate solutions in this context....

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This is the first book-length study of its kind to analyse the effects of electoral systems on the representative activities of elected parliamentary representatives. It will be of great interest to comparative legislative studies scholars and electoral systems specialists....

The short story has a long rich history in Brazil, and this anthology collects the best examples from the last 125 years. The collection is edited by a leading authority in the field who has provided a critical introduction....

A Cross-Linguistic TypologyThis book is a cross-linguistic examination of the grammatical means languages        employ to represent a set of semantic relations between clauses. Professor Dixon's        opening discussion is followed by fourteen case studies of languages ranging from        Korean and Kham to Iquito and Ojibwe. The book's...