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The Symbolism of Prestige: an Archaeological Example from the Royal Cemetery of Ur (Iraq).
(1983)
This work is an archaeologically-based study concerned with the use of material goods as symbolic expressions of prestige in hierarchically organized societies. Mortuary data from the Royal Cemetery of Ur in southern ...
Residential Solar Energy Use in Michigan.
(1987)
During the past decade, solar energy has received considerable attention as an alternative means of reducing conventional fuel consumption. For residential use, this has meant the installation of various types of solar ...
Two Essays in the Analysis of a Demographic System: France 1740-1909.
(1980)
This thesis consists of two interrelated essays based in time series analysis of French vital events for the period 1740-1909. Classical time series analysis decomposes the variance of a series into fluctuations, cycles ...
Royal Patronage and Seventeenth Century Science: L'academie De Physique De Caen, 1662-1672 (France).
(1983)
This dissertation presents the institutional history of the Academie de physique de Caen (1662-1672). Although this academy was a short-lived institution, its history offers an important case study in the early-modern ...
Sir Thomas Wyatt and the progress of Mannerism in Renaissance English lyric.
(1988)
Sir Thomas Wyatt's poetry reads less easily than most, and we must either dismiss it or explain it. The fact that few literary critics have dismissed Wyatt testifies to his success as a poet. Yet well into the twentieth-century ...
Managing the Soviet Labor Market: Politics and Policymaking Under Brezhnev. (Volumes I and II).
(1984)
Western scholars often equate genuine economic reform in the Soviet Union with decentralization and deregulation. The most common reasons offered to explain the lack of reform emphasize the economic roles and institutional ...