Theory category: 79975 books
by Andrei Smilga
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
This book gives an intermediate level treatment of quantum field theory, appropriate to a reader with a first degree in physics and a working knowledge of special relativity and quantum mechanics. It aims to give the reader some understanding of what QFT is all about, without delving deep into actual...
Relativistic Many-Body Theory
A New Field-Theoretical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
This book gives a comprehensive account of relativistic many-body perturbation theory, based upon field theory. After some introductory chapters about time-independent and time dependent many-body perturbation theory (MBPT), the standard techniques of S-matrix and Green’s functions are reviewed....
Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 93, August 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
The book is based on the lectures delivered at the XCIII Session of the École de Physique des Houches, held in August, 2009. The aim of the event was to familiarize the new generation of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows with the principles and methods of modern lattice field theory, which aims...
Medieval Theory of Authorship
Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now...
by Kim Solga, Susan Bennett, Kim Solga
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Space: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre scholars understand space and place in performance?...
Towards a Global Music Theory
Practical Concepts and Methods for the Analysis of Music Across Human Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the cross-pollenization of world musical materials and practices has accelerated precipitously, due in large part to advances in higher-speed communications and travel. We live now in a world of global musical practice that will only continue to blossom...
by Dr. Bethel Ann Powers, RN, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
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by Robert Garner
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
This book is designed to help guide a beginning music theory dialogue between instructor and student in private one-on-one lessons. Six areas of beginning music theory are covered. The major scale, the natural minor scale, intervals, triads, seventh chords and harmonized major and minor scales. Fingerings,...
Tropologies
Ethics and Invention in England, c.1350-1600
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative”...
by Tania Ferfolja, Criss Jones Diaz, Jacqueline Ullman
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Understanding Sociological Theory for Educational Practices introduces readers to the contemporary classroom through the lens of sociological theory. By compelling readers to think critically and reflexively this book helps future teachers create a welcoming and equitable learning environment for...
by Ed Roseman, Peter Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Music theory need not be dreary! Edly's Music Theory for Practical People Level 2 is the second in a two-part e-series of the well-loved paperback, picking up where Level 1 leaves off, with a bit of review for good measure. Its clear and friendly writing and wry humor, coupled with fun illustrations...
Accounting for Value in Marx's Capital
The Invisible Hand
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Many scholars discuss Marx’s Capital from many perspectives, but Accounting for Value uniquely advances and defends an ‘accounting interpretation’ of his theory of value, that he used it to explain capitalists’ accounts. It confirms and builds on the Temporal Single-System Interpretation’s...
Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory
Thinking the Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The past 20 years have seen increasingly bold claims emanating from the field of neuroscience. Advances in medical imaging, brain modelling, and interdisciplinary cognitive science have forced us to reconsider the nature of social, cultural, and political activities. This collection of essays is the...
by George Heussenstamm
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
(Music Instruction). George Heussenstamm, composer of more than 85 published works and author of The Norton Manual of Music Notation , taught college-level theory for several decades. Unable to find what he considered a suitable text, he wrote his own, honing it through practical classroom experience....