Cambridge University Press: 13178 books
Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters
Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and Charles Dickens all worked as parliamentary reporters, but their experiences in the press gallery have not received much scrutiny. Nikki Hessell's study is the first work to consider all four of these canonical writers as gallery reporters,...
by Professor Emily Dalgarno
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages - mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of translation within...
An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning
Numbers, Sets and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic ideas of mathematical proof to students embarking on university mathematics. The emphasis is on helping the reader in understanding and constructing proofs and writing clear mathematics. This is achieved by exploring set theory, combinatorics and...
An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction
Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
How does the literature and culture of early Victorian Britain look different if viewed from below? Exploring the interplay between canonical social problem novels and the journalism and fiction appearing in the periodical press associated with working-class protest movements, Gregory Vargo challenges...
Communication Across Cultures
Mutual Understanding in a Global World
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2007
Communication Across Cultures is an academic reference for university students and interdisciplinary researchers who have no specialised knowledge of linguistics. Key concepts relevant to an understanding of language issues in intercultural communication are drawn from the research area of pragmatics,...
by Thomas M. Izbicki
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Thomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The medieval Church believed Christ's glorified body was present in the Eucharist, the most central of the seven sacraments, and the Real Presence...
by David Alexander Brannan
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Mathematical Analysis (often called Advanced Calculus) is generally found by students to be one of their hardest courses in Mathematics. This text uses the so-called sequential approach to continuity, differentiability and integration to make it easier to understand the subject.Topics that are generally...
Second Language Speech
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has become crucial for effective language teaching. In addition to this important 'applied' function, research into second language...
The Confluence of Law and Religion
Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Work of Norman Doe
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Since the early 1990s, politicians, policymakers, the media and academics have increasingly focused on religion, noting the significant increase in the number of cases involving religion. As a result, law and religion has become a specific area of study. The work of Professor Norman Doe at Cardiff...
A First Course in Differential Geometry
Surfaces in Euclidean Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Differential geometry is the study of curved spaces using the techniques of calculus. It is a mainstay of undergraduate mathematics education and a cornerstone of modern geometry. It is also the language used by Einstein to express general relativity, and so is an essential tool for astronomers and...
by Susy Frankel
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
International commitments may sit uneasily with national pressures in the best of times. This age of economic uncertainty brings these tensions into sharper relief. This volume draws together thirteen analyses of this tension in a wide array of contexts, including each of the three main pillars of...
by Patrick J. McGrath, Steven P. Roose
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This Clinical Handbook for the Management of Mood Disorders will equip clinicians with the knowledge to refine their diagnostic skills and implement treatment plans for mood disorders based on the most up-to-date evidence on interventions that work. Covering the widest range of treatments and techniques,...
Looking into the Earth
An Introduction to Geological Geophysics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2000
Looking Into the Earth comprehensively describes the principles and applications of both 'global' and 'exploration' geophysics on all scales. It forms an introduction to geophysics suitable for those who do not necessarily intend to become professional geophysicists, including geologists, civil engineers,...
Trauma and Grief Component Therapy for Adolescents
A Modular Approach to Treating Traumatized and Bereaved Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Developed by experts in trauma psychiatry and psychology and grounded in adolescent developmental theory, this is a modular, assessment-driven treatment that addresses the needs of adolescents facing trauma, bereavement, and accompanying developmental disruption. Created by the developers of the University...