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An Introduction to Gröbner Bases An Introduction to Gröbner Bases Price: $146.25 (more details) As algebra becomes more widely used in a variety of applications and computers are developed to allow efficient calculations in the field, so there becomes a need for new techniques to further this area of research. Gröbner Bases is one topic which has recently become a very popular and important area of modern algebra. This book provides a concrete introduction to commutative algebra through Gröbner Bases. The inclusion of e... |
Readings in African Popular Fiction Readings in African Popular Fiction Price: $32.43 (more details) Readings in African Popular Fiction explores the social, political, and economic contexts of popular narratives by bringing together new and classic essays by important scholars in African literature and eight primary texts. Excerpts from popular magazines, cartoons, novellas, and moral and instructional pamphlets present African popular fiction from all areas of the continent. Selections include essays on Hausa creative writi... |
The Making of Terrorism The Making of Terrorism Price: $55.58 (more details) This classic and now increasingly important book is an exception in the literature on terrorism. Based on complex observations of actual movement participants, Wieviorka's book addresses a broad spectrum of terrorist activity -- from Italian left-wing terrorists to Basque nationalist groups to the international terrorism of the Middle East. The result is an incisive analysis of what terrorists believe and what they hope to achieve through... |
The Mirror and the Lamp; Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition The Mirror and the Lamp; Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition Price: $19.15 (more details) with this book, M.H. Abrams has given us a remarkable study, admirably conceived and executed, a book of quite exceptional and no doubt lasting significance for a number of fields- for the history of ideas and comparative literature as well as for English literary history, criticism and anesthetics.' |
The Art of Kamau Brathwaite The Art of Kamau Brathwaite Price: $22.38 (more details) Kamau Brathwaite won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1994. The Art of Kamau Brathwaite is a ground-breaking book in which leading commentators on Black and Caribbean writing explore and discuss all aspects of Brathwaite's work as poet, historian, and cultural archivist. Brathwaite provides a 'proem' on cultural dislocation, and is the subject of an interview. The international list of contributors includes Gordon Ro... |
Untying the Knot; On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes Untying the Knot; On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes Price: $115.20 (more details) Untying the Knot collects eighteen previous unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hason-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and scholars of religion and literature consider riddling in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. |
Johannes Brahms: An Annotated Bibliography of the Literature from 1982 to 199... Johannes Brahms: An Annotated Bibliography of the Literature from 1982 to 1996 With an Appendix on Brahms and the Internet Price: $110.18 (more details) This volume provides access to literature on Brahms and his works published between 1982 and 1996. |
The Arts, Literature and Society The Arts, Literature and Society Price: $93.60 (more details) The Arts, Literature and Society |
The Holy Kabbalah The Holy Kabbalah Price: $19.46 (more details) This survey of the Jewish Kabbalah presents and comments upon the mystic tradition's fundamental ideas. Author A.E. Waite is among the few to write a sound and sensible book on Kabbalah. He offers an extensive and lucid history that embraces the literature of the Kabbalah, its foremost interpreters, its impact on Christian scholars, and its reputation as 'the secret tradition.' Unbridged republication of the edition originally published by Univ... |
The Book Lover's Cookbook The Book Lover's Cookbook Price: $17.12 (more details) offers recipes inspired by celebrated works of literature and the passages that feature them. |
Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary... Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools Price: $24.33 (more details) Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools |
Checklist of Writings on American Music 1640-1992 Checklist of Writings on American Music 1640-1992 Price: $63.38 (more details) Cumulative index to all three volumes of Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections. |
The Novel and the Nation; Studies in the New Irish Fiction The Novel and the Nation; Studies in the New Irish Fiction Price: $25.70 (more details) Examining the work of leading contemporary Irish writers -- including Roddy Doyle (who is interviewed in the book), Dermot Bolger, Patrick McCabe and Deidre Madden -- Smyth analyses the relevance of post-colonial theory in Irish literature, and the links between literature and wider cultural and political developments. The book looks at the issues which surround the emergence of the Irish novel in the la... |
Stress And Performance: A Review of the Literature and Its Applicability to t... Stress And Performance: A Review of the Literature and Its Applicability to the Military Price: $19.50 (more details) Stress And Performance: A Review of the Literature and Its Applicability to the Military |
Europe - What's in a Name: Geography - Mythos - Arts Europe - What's in a Name: Geography - Mythos - Arts Price: $103.84 (more details) Europe is a word that is almost daily on our lips. But how far do we have to go back in order to find the origins of its name? The first part of this beautiful illustrated book traces the geographical and mythological basis of Europe's name. Who came up with the idea to distinguish the world in continents with proper names? The search will bring the reader back to the early history of mankind. How did the a... |
Irish Writing; An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 Irish Writing; An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 Price: $14.78 (more details) Irish Writing; An Anthology of Irish Literature in English 1789-1939 |
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