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Language at the Intersection of Competence and PerformanceThis book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when there is so much irregularity in their use and complexity when there is such regularity in linguistic phenomena. It offers new...

The Nature of ScienceIn Systematicity, Paul Hoyningen-Huene answers the question "e;What is science?"e; by proposing that scientific knowledge is primarily distinguished from other forms of knowledge, especially from everyday knowledge, by being more systematic. "e;Science"e; is here understood in the broadest possible sense,...

Mass Civil Injury and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims CommissionLitigating War offers an in-depth examination of the Claims Commission of the Eritrea-Ethiopia War, which was tasked with deciding, through binding arbitration, claims for losses, damages, and injuries resulting from the war. After providing an overview of the war, the authors describe how...

The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church DesegregationThroughout the South, the Civil Rights Movement inched along over a period of years, making segregated facilities and discriminatory practices the focus of attention and conflict. In The Memphis Kneel-Ins, Stephen Haynes brings to life a dramatic, yet little studied, tactic...

The Limits of Electoral Reform examines a variety of reforms, including campaign finance, direct democracy, legislative term limits, and changes to the electoral system itself. This study finds electoral reforms have limited, and in many cases, no effects. The findings here suggest there are hard limits to effects of electoral reform....

How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban AmericaBlack Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's The Philadelphia Negro over the twentieth century. Hunter's analysis demonstrates that black Philadelphians were by not mere victims of large scale socio-economic and political change such as...