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The Black Hole of Empire
History of a Global Practice of Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta"...
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward...
How Round Is Your Circle?
Where Engineering and Mathematics Meet
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
How do you draw a straight line? How do you determine if a circle is really round? These may sound like simple or even trivial mathematical problems, but to an engineer the answers can mean the difference between success and failure. How Round Is Your Circle? invites readers to explore many of the...
The Mathematical Mechanic
Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up their ideas. But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics? Mark Levi...
Heavenly Mathematics
The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Spherical trigonometry was at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia. The discipline was a mainstay of mathematics education for centuries, and it was a standard subject in high schools until the 1950s. Today, however, it is rarely taught. Heavenly Mathematics traces the...
Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt
And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
What does quilting have to do with electric circuit theory? The answer is just one of the fascinating ways that best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin illustrates the deep interplay of math and physics in the world around us in his latest book of challenging mathematical puzzles, Mrs. Perkins's...
by Detlef Müller, Isroil A. Ikromov
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
This is the first book to present a complete characterization of Stein-Tomas type Fourier restriction estimates for large classes of smooth hypersurfaces in three dimensions, including all real-analytic hypersurfaces. The range of Lebesgue spaces for which these estimates are valid is described in...
The Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages,...
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2
The Age of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date.
As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy...
The Liberty of Servants
Berlusconi's Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Italy is a country of free political institutions, yet it has become a nation of servile courtesans, with Silvio Berlusconi as their prince. This is the controversial argument that Italian political philosopher and noted Machiavelli biographer Maurizio Viroli puts forward in The Liberty of Servants....
Utopian Generations
The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally...
Corrupted into Song
The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
According to Harold Bloom, "The best of Alvin Feinman's poetry is as good as anything by a twentieth-century American. His work achieves the greatness of the American sublime." Yet, in part because he published so sparsely, Feinman remained little-read and largely unknown when he died in...
Tales of the Narts
Ancient Myths and Legends of the Ossetians
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. Tales of the Narts presents a wide selection of fascinating tales preserved as a living tradition among the peoples of Ossetia in southern Russia, a region where ethnic identities have been maintained for thousands...
At Lake Scugog
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by the New York Times as a "snappy, entertaining book." A triumphant follow-up to that acclaimed debut, At Lake Scugog demonstrates...