Theory category: 79975 books
The Theory Toolbox
Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.
Nealon and Searls Giroux...
Shakespeare in French Theory
King of Shadows
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the first half looks at how French theorists such as Bourdieu, Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault were themselves...
by Francisco Marcos de Assis, Elloá B. Guedes, Rex A. C. Medeiros
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book aims at presenting the field of Quantum Information Theory in an intuitive, didactic and self-contained way, taking into account several multidisciplinary aspects. Therefore, this books is particularly suited to students and researchers willing to grasp fundamental concepts in Quantum Computation...
by Todd F. Davis, Professor Kenneth Womack
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
This invaluable guide by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack offers an accessible introduction to two important movements in the history of twentieth-century literary theory. A complementary text to the Palgrave volume Postmodern Narrative Theory by Mark Currie, this new title addresses a host of theoretical...
Engaging Nature
Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Essays that put noted political thinkers of the past—including Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Wollstonecraft, Marx, and Confucius—in dialogue with current environmental political theory.
Contemporary environmental political theory considers the implications of the environmental crisis for...
Topics in Modern Physics
Theoretical Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
While the two previous books entitled Introduction to Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations and Advanced Modern Physics: Theoretical Foundations exposed the reader to the foundations and frontiers of today's physics, the goal of this third volume is to cover in some detail several topics omitted...
David Hume's Political Theory
Law, Commerce and the Constitution of Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation. A less familiar side of his intellectual output is his work on legal and political theory. David Hume's Political Theory brings together Hume's diverse writings on law and government,...
by G. Browning
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Global theory represents an influential and popular means of understanding contemporary social and political phenomena. Human identity and social responsibilities are considered in a global context and in the light of a global human condition. A global perspective is assumed to be new and to supersede...
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences
The state of the art
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
For the past two decades, ‘complexity’ has informed a range of work across the social sciences. There are diverse schools of complexity thinking, and authors have used these ideas in a multiplicity of ways, from health inequalities to the organization of large scale firms. Some understand complexity...
The Future of Trauma Theory
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This collection analyses the future of ‘trauma theory’, a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections.
Part one, History and Culture, begins...
by Nicole Silvester
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is arguably one of the most important works of scientific writing ever to be published. Science today recognizes that the principles of natural selection Darwin described are the primary driving forces behind the evolution of new...
Algebraic Theory of Numbers
Translated from the French by Allan J. Silberger
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Algebraic number theory introduces students not only to new algebraic notions but also to related concepts: groups, rings, fields, ideals, quotient rings and quotient fields, homomorphisms and isomorphisms, modules, and vector spaces. Author Pierre Samuel notes that students benefit from their studies...
by Giancarlo Travaglini
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The study of geometric discrepancy, which provides a framework for quantifying the quality of a distribution of a finite set of points, has experienced significant growth in recent decades. This book provides a self-contained course in number theory, Fourier analysis and geometric discrepancy theory,...
The Way We Argue Now
A Study in the Cultures of Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life? Are concepts of character and ethos pertinent to our understanding of academic debate? In this book, Amanda Anderson analyzes arguments in literary, cultural, and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which...