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Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social        policy, relatively little has been written to analyse the possible interaction        between the two. Scholars interested in social citizenship have indirectly dealt        with the interaction between national identity and social programs such as the        British...

Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society; its practices are seen as fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. This book showcases some of the pioneering work that has persuasively explained to what extent economic life is constituted through the calculative practices of accounting....

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World War II Americans and the Age of Big GovernmentAlthough common wisdom and much scholarship assume that "e;big government"e; gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized...

Charlotte Bronte's letters are our most direct source of information        about the Bronts and the life of the novelist. Vivid and passionate, they        describe her inmost feelings as well as the world around her in Haworth, Belgium,        and London. They offer insights into her novels and the development of her literary        style....

Stewart Shapiro presents a distinctive original view of the foundations of mathematics, arguing that second-order logic has a central role to play in laying these foundations. He gives an accessible account of second-order and higher-order logic, paying special attention to philosophical and historical issues.     Foundations without...