One of a series of pocketbooks designed to provide assimilable information on common medical issues. The concise texts are enhanced by tables and diagrams summarizing the essential information. This p
Robot calibration is the process of enhancing the accuracy of a robot by modifying its control software. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the theory and implementation of robot calibrat
This volume focuses on "critique genetique" - or genetic criticism, a form of criticism which favours a return to the text, meaning not just the printed text of classical philology but also the manusc
Because it appears in a relatively clean and dated version in the Folio, Twelfth Night seems to be exempt from arguments for variant texts - but there are significant and persistent variations represe
Athens and Sparta were the two leading powers in the Classical Greek world. They represented entirely different systems of social organization: oligarchic conservatism at Sparta versus radical democra
Literature and Gender combines an introduction to and an anthology of literary texts which powerfully demonstrate the relevance of gender issues to the study of literature. The volume covers all three
These unrivalled guides, The Buildings of Scotland, give the scholarly reader insights into every significant Scottish building, from prehistoric brochs to medieval castles, classical country houses,
In recent years, the classical theory of stochastic integration and stochastic differential equations has been extended to a non-commutative set-up to develop models for quantum noises. The author, a
This dictionary describes the etymology of 1500 central words in the Russian vocabulary. A typical entry gives the present meaning of the word, the dates of its first appearance in the language, and d
This edition based on the hieroglyphic texts of the Ramesses Age of Ancient Egypt (c.1300-1100 BC) presents a modern English translation of the vast majority of historical sources for this important e
Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this book looks at the Spanish-American "modernista" poets. The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and underg
Electric Words delves first into the philosophical background of the study of meaning, specifically word meaning, then into the early work on treating dictionaries as texts, the first serious efforts
This new book contains the most up-to-date and focused description of the applications of Clifford algebras in analysis, particularly classical harmonic analysis. It is the first single volume devoted
Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and oth
John Trevisa (ca.1342-1402), perhaps the greatest of Middle English prose translators of Latin texts into English, was almost an exact contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer. Trevisa was born in Cornwall, s
In this book, Robert Hariman demonstrates how matters of style—of diction, manners, sensibility, decor, and charisma—influence politics.In critical studies of classic texts, Hariman identifies four do
This book offers new readings of several prominent early modern texts, examining the connection between melancholia, narcissism, sexual difference, and literary form in works by Tasso, Marvell, Shakes
In the Image of God: A Feminist Commentary on the Torah is a unique blend of traditional Judaism and radical feminism.Using classical Jewish sources as well as supplementary material from history, ant
Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount the Homeric legend of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons and the Wooden Ho
How did the classical Greek city come into being? What role did religion play in its formation? Athens, with its ancient citadel and central religious cult, has traditionally been the model for the em
Schuler provides a comprehensive explication of Snyder's two major long poems, Myths & Texts and Mountains and Rivers Without End , focusing on Snyder's concept of "original mind," that state of mi
Xenophon and the History of his Times examines Xenophon's longer historical works, the Hellenica and the Anabasis. Dillery considers how far these texts reflect the Greek intellectual world of the fou
This book discusses the nature of exogeneity, a central concept in standard econometrics texts, and shows how to test for it through numerous substantive empirical examples from around the world, incl
A college-level introduction to ethics which covers several topics unusual to such texts, such as projectivism and quasirealism, feminist ethics, and communitarianism, in addition to the standard ethi
A thoroughly modern, comprehensive treatment of the probability and statistical foundations of econometrics with special emphasis on the linear regression model. The standard introductory texts to m
Jedidiah Morse - clergyman, geographer, and father of the painter and inventor Samuel Morse - was a significant figure in post-Revolutionary New England. Through his popular geography texts, he descri
A reissue of the classic 1948 work on power-system stability for power-system engineers and graduate students, the first offering in the IEEE series of reprinted texts in power system engineering. Pro
This unique Latin reader consists of 67 passages drawn from ancient, medieval, and early modern works on medical subjects. The texts are equipped with introductory comments in English with a visible v
From the Mendelssohn archive in Berlin come these sixteen never-before-published Romantic lieder by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. These inspired compositions have the balanced legato of the classical comp
This is the first to appear of the projected volumes of commentary to accompany the texts and translations on Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, edited by W
A collection of unpublished papers by Alan Hall, a leading authority on the history and epigraphy of classical Asia Minor, supported by contributions by scholars associated with him. Subjects include
?motions is an innovative reader featuring 15 mini-texts organized around the theme of emotion. The stories and poems are accompanied by a variety of pre-and post-reading activities. The text's "Read
The body as erotic object pervades Western literature. This volume examines a variety of textual incarnations of the sacred and mystical body in French texts of the Medieval and Early Modern period. A
A dozen studies review the current models of how animals learn and how they can be conditioned. The topics include classical Pavlovian conditioning, the neural basis of learning, space and time, anima
This volume includes the full texts of "In Memoriam James Joyce," "Three Hymns to Lenin," and "The Kind of Poetry I Want." Included are long poems and intense lyrics.
Fate whisked Ruby from a simple life in the Louisiana Bayou. But her new riches bring more treachery than happiness... Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's
Photius was a ninth-century patriarch of Constantinople who compiled summaries of 280 books he had read, known at the Bibliotheca. It deals with Attic, Hellenistic, Roman imperial and Byzantine source
In Game Theory and the Social Contract, Ken Binmore argues that game theory provides a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. His reinterpretation of classical social contract ideas withi
Consider a work from Shakespeare. Imagine, as you read it, being able to call up instantly the Elizabethan usage of a particular word, variant texts for any part of the work, critical commentary, hist
"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on the backs of black slaves." The great classical blues
