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The Roots of Partisan Warfare in CongressIn The Gingrich Senators, noted political scientist Sean Theriault documents how former House members, who learned politics at the knee of Newt Gingrich, have been behind the transformation of the U.S. Senate from the venerated chamber of the 1950s into the partisan battleground that is regularly the scorn...

Culture, Power, and Connections, 580-800A comparative history that reconsiders China's relations with the rest of Eurasia, Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges the notion that inhabitants of medieval China and Mongolia were irreconcilably different from each other....

A Nonasymptotic Theory of IndependenceAn accessible account of the rich theory surrounding concentration inequalities in probability theory, with applications from machine learning and statistics to high-dimensional geometry. This book introduces key ideas and presents a detailed summary of the state-of-the-art in the area, making it ideal for...

Matthew Stuart offers a fresh interpretation of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the work's profound contribution to metaphysics. He presents new readings of Locke's accounts of personal identity and the primary/secondary quality distinction, and explores Locke's case against materialism and his...

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The Construction and De-construction of Social Trust in the US, UK, Sweden and DenmarkThe book explores the ways in which social cohesion can be established and undermined. It examines the US and UK, where social cohesion declined in the latter part of the 20th century, and Sweden and Denmark, where social cohesion increased, and puts forward a...