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xv Preface ; Acknowledgments This book was originally written as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto under the direction of two generous and conscientious supervisors, Cheryl Misak and Peter Apostoli. I am also grateful to my reader, Stuart Shanker at York University, for his helpful comments and warm encouragement. Carol Caraway read and commented on an entire draft of the manuscript, for which I am very grateful. I have also been helped by discussions with Peter Baumann and Winston Langley. I thank Suma Rajiva, Zahra Merali, Sharon Kaye, Wendy LeMarquand, and Clare Pain for their friendship and support while I was completing the project. And last, but not least, I thank my undergraduate professors at the University of Massachusetts at Boston— particularly Robert Shope and Nelson Lande—for their fine instruction and early encouragement. xv ...

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