What Ails France?
As evidenced by the yellow vests protest movement that began in France in 2018, the state of the French nation inspires gloom among many of its citizens. Brigitte Granville views this malaise as a peculiarly French symptom of the difficulties expe...
Remembering Inflation
Today's global economy, with most developed nations experiencing very low inflation, seems a world apart from the "Great Inflation" that spanned the late 1960s to early 1980s. Yet, in this book, Brigitte Granville makes the case that mon...
Computational Methods Of Linear Algebra (3rd Edition)
This book presents methods for the computational solution of some important problems of linear algebra: linear systems, linear least squares problems, eigenvalue problems, and linear programming problems. The book also includes a chapter on the fa...
Prime Suspects
An outrageous graphic novel that investigates key concepts in mathematics Integers and permutations-two of the most basic mathematical objects-are born of different fields and analyzed with separate techniques. Yet when the Mathematical Sciences I...
Number Theory Revealed
Number Theory Revealed: A Masterclass acquaints enthusiastic students with the ""Queen of Mathematics''. The text offers a fresh take on congruences, power residues, quadratic residues, primes, and Diophantine equations and presents hot ...
The New Articulate Executive: Look, Act and Sound Like a Leader
The New Articulate Executive: Look, Act and Sound Like a Leader
Art Education and Contemporary Culture
Art Education and Contemporary Culture
Granville Barker Plays: 1
No one in Barker's generation did more to change British Theatre In The Voysey Inheritance, a young man deals with the discovery that the inheritence due to him has been mismanaged by his own parents; A Waste (banned by the Lord Chamberlain) deals...
Mineral and the Visual
Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones prompted sophisticated reflections on the power of nature and the experience of mineralized beings. Beyond a vi...
Kant's Early Critics
This book, first published in 2000, offers translations of the initial (1781-89) critical reactions to Kant's philosophy. Also included is a selection of writings by Kant's contemporaries who took on the task of defending the critical philosophy a...
Marianne von Werefkin
Marianne von Werefkin was not only a talented artist but also a shrewd free thinker and hostess: at the beginning of the twentieth century famous artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Alfred Kubin, Adolf Erbslöh, Erma Bossi, Franz ...
War Amongst the Clouds
This is a personal account written by a man reflecting on his time as a young pilot with the Royal Flying Corps in France during the First World War, who eventually became an ace. It is a story of survival against the odds at a time when the condu...
Casting Handbook
Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are often overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the casting process from beginning to end and covers e...
Key to Arnold's Latin Prose Composition
Thomas K. Arnold's Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition was first published in 1839, and was later edited and revised by George Granville Bradley (1821-1903) of University College, Oxford. This graduated and systematic approach to ele...
Ekoparkens sagovärld
EKOPARKENS SAGOVÄRLD - SommarSätt dig på marken och se länge på ett träd. Lyssna noga så börjar kanske trädet att tala med dig, säger Naturmannen i Talande Trädet. I Skåne, tre mil söder om Kristianstad, finns Ekoparken i Degebergas vackra Hembygd...
Live Fast
Winner of the Prix Goncourt¿ A powerful autobiographical novel of loss, the incandescent love that remains, and the small decisions that define the course of fate Paced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud's ...
Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism
Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism is a detailed guide to transnational reporting, a cutting-edge journalistic strategy. In the twenty-first century, the most pressing political and social issues, such as financial crises, wealth inequality, mi...
Österreich-Ungarn und die nordischen Neutralen 1914-1917
Als sterreich-Ungarn 1914 seine Kriegserkl rungen aussprach, brach die Doppelmonarchie damit auch die diplomatischen Beziehungen zu den Kriegsgegnern im Ersten Weltkrieg ab. Daher kam den Vertretungen von Drittstaaten erh hte Bedeutung zu. Die der neutralen skandinavischen K nigreiche waren als Vermittler von Informationen und Importwaren aus dem feindlichen Ausland im Wiener Au enamt willkommen, sp ter auch als Adressaten von vorsichtigen Friedensbem hungen. Die in den folgenden Jahren verfassten Berichte, Telegramme, Briefe aus den nordischen Metropolen nach Wien sowie Instruktionen und Direktiven des Wiener Au enamtes an die Diplomaten in den skandinavischen Hauptst dten bieten in ihren tagesaktuellen oder grunds tzlichen Schriftst cken zu Kriegsereignissen, Handelsbeziehungen, Sympathien oder m glichen Kriegseintritten auf Seiten der Mittelm chte viele engagierte, witzige, ber hrende, aber auch befremdende pers nliche Stellungnahmen der Diplomaten. Auf dieser Grundlage entsteht in
Ugglemasken
Professorn i teoretisk fysik, Antoinin från Kamerun, har fått Nobelpriset för sin upptäckt av "förhållandet mellan de kosmiska krafterna". Tillsammans med sin unga hustru Màdoumà kommer han till Stockholm för att ta emot priset. <...
Particle Metaphysics
Metaphysics, with which, as fate would have it, I have fallen in love but from which I can boast of only a few favours, o?ers two kinds of advantage. The ?rst is this: it can solve the problems thrown up by the enquiry of mind, when it uses reason...
