Oxford University Press

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems systematically deals with the question of the impact of institutions on political behaviour. It provides comparative data on the micro- and the macro-level to study electoral behaviour empirically across a broad range of institutional contexts....

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Mark Twain towered above the American literary landscape. With a worldwide fame        greater than that of statesmen, scientists, or entertainers, Twain was in his own        words "e;the most conspicuous man on the planet."e; Now, in this wonderful recounting of        his career, Larzer Ziff offers an incisive, illuminating look at one...

Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives the familiar issues of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation a fresh appraisal, with particular reference to Aeschylus'   Seven against Thebes and the  Phoenician Women of Euripides. All Greek quotations are translated....

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The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National ParksMillions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world&'s largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock rising from the Earth&'s interior that traced a 50-mile wide, 500-mile-long path northeastward across Idaho. Generating cataclysmic...