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Selected from the pages of The Studio, the legendary London publication that promoted the Art Nouveau style, these vintage illustrations played a tremendous role in influencing American artists and il
A canonical quantization approach to classical field theory, this text is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. It is addressed to mathematicians interested in theoretical physic
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Geometers value basic results as much as they do the methods of projective and non-Euclidean geometry. This book emphasizes that fact, taking a non-traditional approach. Topics include the projective
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Long regarded as a masterpiece in content and form, this work defines the concept of surface curvature and presents the important theorem stating that the "Gauss curvature" is invariant under arbitrar
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Beethoven's symphonies have remained at the center of the classical repertoire for 200 years, and they rank among the most important works of art in any medium. Reproduced from the authoritative editi
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Appropriate for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this volume addresses the fundamental concepts of martingales, stochastic integrals, and estimation. Written by an engineer for engine
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Colorists of all ages are invited to create their own versions of artist Claude Monet's lovely landscapes, seascapes, and graceful figures. Thirty ready-to-color drawings, with identifying captions, d
Johnson's Dictionary first appeared in 1755 and it served as the standard dictionary for more than 150 years. This modern version reduces the original 2,300 pages of definitions to a more manageable l
Detailed, accurate renderings of lilies, violets, orchids, dogwood, and other floral varieties — shown individually, framed, and in sprays. A versatile source of design inspiration for graphic artists
Everything in the universe rotates: the meteors, the asteroids, the planets and their satellites, the sun, the stars, the clusters and nebulae, even the galaxies themselves. The problem of the shape o
One of the most important schools for architecture, design, and art in the 20th century, the Weimar Bauhaus included in its distinguished membership Moholy-Nagy. This book, a valuable introduction to
The inventor who established America's first clock factory and developed clock-making techniques that are still in use more than 200 years later, Willard was a master among craftsmen. This unique biog
Typical mathematical techniques of operations research and systems engineering are developed in this text, which applies these methods to the design and operation of civil engineering systems. Its pro
This graduate-level text describes inelastic light scattering by crystals and its use in the investigation of solid-sate excitation. Hayes (U. of Oxford) and Loudon (U. of Essex) cover the basic featu
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This text begins with a discussion of general lemmas and advances to an investigation of Waring's problem, including explorations of singular series, the contribution of the basic intervals, and an es
These much-studied and frequently performed comedies by the great Elizabethan playwright satirize the greed, mendacity, gullibility, and pretension that Jonson saw rampant in 17h-century London socie
These three essays by an eminent scientist explore the nature, origin, and development of our concepts of space from the points of view of the senses, history, and physics. They examine the subject fr
Created especially for graduate students, this introductory treatise on differential geometry has been a highly successful textbook for many years. Its unusually detailed and concrete approach includ
