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Fredric Jameson

Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism

By: Sean Homer

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Fredric Jameson

Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism

By: Sean Homer

Fredric Jameson has been described as "probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today" and he is widely acknowledged as the foremost proponent for the tradition of critical theory known as Western Marxism.Yet his work has not been given the systematic review like other contemporary thinkers like Fooucault and Derrida. Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism is a thoroughly up-to-date, detailed review and analysis of the work of this influential intellectual. Covering Jameson's work and thought from his early projects of form and history to his more recent engagements with postmodernism and cultural politics, this synthesis offers a balanced assessment of his ideas, their development and their continuing influence.

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1136679766

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Against the Spiritual Turn

Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

By: Sean Creaven

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Against the Spiritual Turn

Marxism, Realism, and Critical Theory

By: Sean Creaven

The argument presented in this book is that the recent ‘spiritual’ trajectory of Roy Bhaskar’s work, upon which he first embarked with the publication of his From East to West, undermines the fundamental achievements of his earlier work. The problem with Bhaskar’s new philosophical system (Transcendental Dialectical Critical Realism or simply Meta-Reality), from the critical-realist Marxist perspective endorsed here, is that it marks both a departure from and a negation of the earlier concerns of Bhaskar to develop a realist philosophy of science and under-labour for an emancipatory materialist socio-historical science. The end-result is a meta-philosophy which is irrealist, speculative, under-theorized, internally self-contradictory, and which cannot provide philosophical guidance to liberatory social practices. In opposition to theist ontological logics more generally (including the rather more rational theism presented by Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier and Doug Porpora), the argument of this book is that the earth-bound materialist dialectics of the classical Marxist tradition, and the naturalistic humanism these dialectics under-labour on the terrain of socio-historical being, offer a much more promising way forward for critical realist theory and for liberatory politics and ethics.

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1134009143

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The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters

33 Thrilling Experiments Based on History's Greatest Blunders

By: Sean Connolly

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The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters

33 Thrilling Experiments Based on History's Greatest Blunders

By: Sean Connolly

It’s hands-on science with a capital “E”—for engineering. Beginning with the toppling of the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, to the destructive, laserlike sunbeams bouncing off London’s infamous “Fryscraper” in 2013, here is an illustrated tour of the greatest engineering disasters in history, from the bestselling author of The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science. Each engineering disaster includes a simple, exciting experiment or two using everyday household items to explain the underlying science and put learning into action. Understand the Titanic’s demise by sinking an ice-cube-tray ocean liner in the bathtub. Stomp on a tube of toothpaste to demonstrate what happens to non-Newtonian fluids under pressure—and how a ruptured tank sent a tsunami of molasses through the streets of Boston in 1919. From why the Leaning Tower of Pisa leans to the fatal design flaw in the Sherman tank, here’s a book of science at its most riveting.

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Hachette+ORM

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1523501952

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Dictionary of the Ponca People

By: Louis V. Headman,Sean O'Neill

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Dictionary of the Ponca People

By: Louis V. Headman,Sean O'Neill

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Dictionary of the Ponca People presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Until relatively recently, the Ponca language had been passed down solely as part of an oral tradition in which children learned the language at home by listening to their elders. Almost every family on the southern Ponca reservation in Oklahoma spoke the language fluently until the 1940s, when English began to replace the Ponca language as children entered government boarding schools and were forced to learn English. In response to demand, Ponca language classes are now being offered to children and adults as people seek to gain knowledge of this important link to tradition and culture. The approximately five thousand words in this volume encompass the main artery of the language heard and spoken by the parents and grandparents of the Ponca Council of Elders. Additional words are included, such as those related to modern devices and technology. This dictionary has been compiled at a time when the southern Poncas are initiating a new syntactic structure to the language, as few can speak a full sentence. This dictionary is not intended to recover a cultural period or practice but rather as a reference to the spoken language of the people.

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U of Nebraska Press

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149620574X

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

By: Sean Sheehan

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Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

By: Sean Sheehan

Describes the rise to power of Ancient Greece, its glorious empire, its civilization, and its eventual decline.

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Getty Publications

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0892366672

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Lectures on the Geometry of Quantization

By: Sean Bates,Alan Weinstein

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Lectures on the Geometry of Quantization

By: Sean Bates,Alan Weinstein

These notes are based on a course entitled ``Symplectic Geometry and Geometric Quantization'' taught by Alan Weinstein at the University of California, Berkeley (fall 1992) and at the Centre Emile Borel (spring 1994). The only prerequisite for the course needed is a knowledge of the basic notions from the theory of differentiable manifolds (differential forms, vector fields, transversality, etc.). The aim is to give students an introduction to the ideas of microlocal analysis and the related symplectic geometry, with an emphasis on the role these ideas play in formalizing the transition between the mathematics of classical dynamics (hamiltonian flows on symplectic manifolds) and quantum mechanics (unitary flows on Hilbert spaces). These notes are meant to function as a guide to the literature. The authors refer to other sources for many details that are omitted and can be bypassed on a first reading.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821807986

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Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research

A New Approach

By: Sean Wallis

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Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research

A New Approach

By: Sean Wallis

Traditional approaches focused on significance tests have often been difficult for linguistics researchers to visualise. Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Research: A New Approach breaks these significance tests down for researchers in corpus linguistics and linguistic analysis, promoting a visual approach to understanding the performance of tests with real data, and demonstrating how to derive new intervals and tests. Accessibly written, this book discusses the ‘why’ behind the statistical model, allowing readers a greater facility for choosing their own methodologies. Accessibly written for those with little to no mathematical or statistical background, it explains the mathematical fundamentals of simple significance tests by relating them to confidence intervals. With sample datasets and easy-to-read visuals, this book focuses on practical issues, such as how to: • pose research questions in terms of choice and constraint; • employ confidence intervals correctly (including in graph plots); • select optimal significance tests (and what results mean); • measure the size of the effect of one variable on another; • estimate the similarity of distribution patterns; and • evaluate whether the results of two experiments significantly differ. Appropriate for anyone from the student just beginning their career to the seasoned researcher, this book is both a practical overview and valuable resource.

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Routledge

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0429958668

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War and Society in Medieval Wales 633-1283

Welsh Military Institutions

By: Sean Davies

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War and Society in Medieval Wales 633-1283

Welsh Military Institutions

By: Sean Davies

The story of Wales from the end of the Roman period to the conquest by Edward I in 1283 is unknown to most, but recent historiography has opened up the source material and allowed for a modern, critical reappraisal. The development of the country is traced within the context of the rest of post-Roman western Europe in a study that is a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in military history and the history of Wales in relation to its neighbours in Britain and on the continent.

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University of Wales Press

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178316140X

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Emergentist Marxism

Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

By: Sean Creaven

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Emergentist Marxism

Dialectical Philosophy and Social Theory

By: Sean Creaven

In tackling emergentist Marxism in depth, this well-written volume demonstrates that critical realism and materialist dialectics are indispensable to theorizing the functioning of complex social and physical systems. Author Sean Creaven investigates Marx’s dialectics of being and consciousness, forces and relations of production, base and superstructure, class structure and class conflict, and demonstrates how they allow the social analyst to conceptualize geo-history as embodying a tendential evolutionary directionality, rather than as simply random or indeterminate in terms of its outcomes. For those interested in social and political theory, Marxism and communism and contemporary social theory, this outstanding volume is an in important read and a valuable resource.

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1136013423

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Hiking Kentucky's Red River Gorge

Your Definitive Guide to the Jewel of the Southeast

By: Sean Patrick Hill

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Hiking Kentucky's Red River Gorge

Your Definitive Guide to the Jewel of the Southeast

By: Sean Patrick Hill

Hiking Kentucky's Red River Gorge is the definitive guide to trails in the Red River Gorge Geologic Area, Natural Bridge State Park, and Clifty Wilderness. The book showcases 25 of the best hikes in the Gorge, as well as a back-of-book bonus on nearby trails. Distinguished from other Red River Gorge guides, this book provides readers not only with detailed maps, sharp photos, and individual-trail details, THIS guidebook outlines definitive hikes--ways to explore the area and enjoy its flora, fauna, and history. The easy-to-use layout treats each hike distinctly, as its own adventure. Because of this, the routes are detailed with photographs, maps, trail gradient information and, most importantly, ratings for key elements that make a trail appealing to a wide variety of people. This allows the reader to make informed decisions about which trails they will want to hike, which ones will be appropriate for children, and so on. Further, readers will discover how to combine trails and routes for a great hiking day or backpacking trip. This book is ideal for people who've never been to the Gorge, or even beginner hikers. The book simply looks great and is easy to read, and designed for planning hikes as well as while on the trail.

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Menasha Ridge Press

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0897329627

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Exploring Natural Language

Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English

By: Gerald Nelson,Sean Wallis,Bas Aarts

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Exploring Natural Language

Working with the British Component of the International Corpus of English

By: Gerald Nelson,Sean Wallis,Bas Aarts

ICE-GB is a 1 million-word corpus of contemporary British English. It is fully parsed, and contains over 83,000 syntactic trees. Together with the dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP, ICE-GB is an unprecedented resource for the study of English syntax.Exploring Natural Language is a comprehensive guide to both corpus and software. It contains a full reference for ICE-GB. The chapters on ICECUP provide complete instructions on the use of the many features of the software, including concordancing, lexical and grammatical searches, sociolinguistic queries, random sampling, and searching for syntactic structures using ICECUP's Fuzzy Tree Fragment models. Special attention is given to the principles of experimental design in a parsed corpus.Six case studies provide step-by-step illustrations of how the corpus and software can be used to explore real linguistic issues, from simple lexical studies to more complex syntactic topics, such as noun phrase structure, verb transitivity, and voice.

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1588112713

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Advances in Web-Age Information Management

Second International Conference, WAIM 2001, Xi'an, China, July 9-11, 2001. Proceedings

By: Sean Wang,Ge Yu

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Advances in Web-Age Information Management

Second International Conference, WAIM 2001, Xi'an, China, July 9-11, 2001. Proceedings

By: Sean Wang,Ge Yu

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2001, held in Xi'an, China, in July 2001. The 21 revised full papers and 12 short papers presented together with 4 research experience papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia databases and high-dimensional indexing, information retrieval and text indexing, data mining, semistructured data management, data warehousing and federated databases, Web information management and e-commerce, spatio-temporal and high-dimensional information management, data mining and constraint management, data integration and filtering, and workflow and adaptive systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540422986

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Straight Acting

Popular Gay Drama from Wilde to Rattigan

By: Sean O'Connor

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Straight Acting

Popular Gay Drama from Wilde to Rattigan

By: Sean O'Connor

Between the trials of Oscar Wilde in the 1890s and the beginnings of legal reforms in the 1960s, the West End stage was dominated by the work of gay playwrights. Many of their plays, such as Private Lives, Blithe Spirit and The Deep Blue Sea are established classics and continue to inform our culture. In this fascinating book, covering both familiar and lesser-known works, Sean O'Connor examines the legacy of Wilde as a playwright and as a gay man, and explores in the works of Somerset Maugham, Noel Coward and Terence Rattigan the resonance of Wilde's agenda for tolerance and his creed of individuality. O'Connor contextualises these plays against the enormous social and historical changes of the twentieth century. He also examines the legal restrictions which regulated the personal lives of these writers and required them to evolve sophisticated strategies in order to express on stage, albeit obliquely, their dilemmas as gay men. From the delicate homoerotic frissons of Rattigan's early comedies to Coward's defiantly pro-sex stance, Straight Acting is a provocative and witty insight into the subtly subversive tactics of gay writers working in that apparently most conservative of forms, the 'well-made play'.

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1474288286

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Introduction to Corporate Finance

By: Laurence Booth,W. Sean Cleary,Ian Rakita

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Introduction to Corporate Finance

By: Laurence Booth,W. Sean Cleary,Ian Rakita

The fifth edition of Introduction to Corporate Finance is a student friendly and engaging course that provides the most thorough, accessible, accurate, and current coverage of the theory and application of corporate finance within a uniquely Canadian context. Introduction to Corporate Finance will provide students with the skills they need to succeed not only in the course, but in their future careers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119561582

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Dissent Events

Protest, the Media, and the Political Gimmick in Australia

By: Sean Scalmer

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Dissent Events

Protest, the Media, and the Political Gimmick in Australia

By: Sean Scalmer

Dissent Events: Protest, the Media and the Political Gimmick in Australia offers a contemporary history of collective action in Australia over the last four decades, from the halting experiments of the early sixties, to more recent actions involving Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, the quest for reconciliation, and the anti-corporate campaigners of the S11 Alliance. It tells the story of these performances, develops a set of concepts to analyse their changing form and illuminates the larger story of social and political change in recent Australian life."--BOOK JACKET.

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UNSW Press

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0868406511

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Text Data Management and Analysis

A Practical Introduction to Information Retrieval and Text Mining

By: ChengXiang Zhai,Sean Massung

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Text Data Management and Analysis

A Practical Introduction to Information Retrieval and Text Mining

By: ChengXiang Zhai,Sean Massung

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth of natural language text data, including web pages, news articles, scientific literature, emails, enterprise documents, and social media such as blog articles, forum posts, product reviews, and tweets. This has led to an increasing demand for powerful software tools to help people analyze and manage vast amounts of text data effectively and efficiently. Unlike data generated by a computer system or sensors, text data are usually generated directly by humans, and are accompanied by semantically rich content. As such, text data are especially valuable for discovering knowledge about human opinions and preferences, in addition to many other kinds of knowledge that we encode in text. In contrast to structured data, which conform to well-defined schemas (thus are relatively easy for computers to handle), text has less explicit structure, requiring computer processing toward understanding of the content encoded in text. The current technology of natural language processing has not yet reached a point to enable a computer to precisely understand natural language text, but a wide range of statistical and heuristic approaches to analysis and management of text data have been developed over the past few decades. They are usually very robust and can be applied to analyze and manage text data in any natural language, and about any topic. This book provides a systematic introduction to all these approaches, with an emphasis on covering the most useful knowledge and skills required to build a variety of practically useful text information systems. The focus is on text mining applications that can help users analyze patterns in text data to extract and reveal useful knowledge. Information retrieval systems, including search engines and recommender systems, are also covered as supporting technology for text mining applications. The book covers the major concepts, techniques, and ideas in text data mining and information retrieval from a practical viewpoint, and includes many hands-on exercises designed with a companion software toolkit (i.e., MeTA) to help readers learn how to apply techniques of text mining and information retrieval to real-world text data and how to experiment with and improve some of the algorithms for interesting application tasks. The book can be used as a textbook for a computer science undergraduate course or a reference book for practitioners working on relevant problems in analyzing and managing text data.

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Morgan & Claypool

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1970001178

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Crisis and Class War in Egypt

Social Reproduction, Factional Realignments and the Global Political Economy

By: Sean F. McMahon

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Crisis and Class War in Egypt

Social Reproduction, Factional Realignments and the Global Political Economy

By: Sean F. McMahon

In 2011, capital’s crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the working class was – and is increasingly so – devalued and disempowered. In Crisis and Class War in Egypt, Sean F. McMahon critically analyses Egypt's recent political history. He argues that the so-called 'revolution' was the appearance of capital's destruction of the value of the Egyptian working class and an existential crisis for capital. In response, productive capital in the form of the military used, disposed of and replaced its junior partners in governing; first the predatory capital of the Mubarak state with the commodity capital of the Muslim Brotherhood, and then commodity capital with the finance capital of the Gulf Cooperation Council. These reconfigurations have been expressed in all manner of reactionary governmental arrangements including constitutions, legislation and currency reform. Extending today's analysis into the near future, McMahon sees the war of Egyptian society intensifying, and increasingly violent lives for Egyptian workers.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1783605057

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Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Sean Sheehan

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Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Sean Sheehan

One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Žižek's work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Žižek: A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available for readers struggling to master the ideas of this hugely influential thinker. Unpacking the philosophical references that fill Žižek's writings, the book explores his influences, including Lacan, Kant, Hegel and Marx. From there, a chapter on 'Reading Žižek' guides the reader through the ways that he applies these core theoretical concepts in key texts like Tarrying With the Negative, The Ticklish Subject and The Parrallax View and in his books about popular culture like Looking Awry and Enjoy Your Symptom! Major secondary writings and films featuring Žižek are also covered.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441172475

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9781441172471

Comic Book Fanthropology

By: Sean Kleefeld

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Comic Book Fanthropology

By: Sean Kleefeld

Whether you've spent your entire life reading comics books or you've just met someone who does, you're sure to notice that the average comic book fan is somewhat different than everybody else. Why do they insist on arguing if Superman is stronger than Captain Marvel? Why do they talk as if they own the rights to Judge Dredd? Why do they keep drawing chibi versions of themselves? The only way to find out all the answers is to study comic book fandom to discover what makes fans tick. Comic Book Fanthropology does exactly that in a casual, narrative manner.

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Lulu.com

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0615336205

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Complex Analysis on Infinite Dimensional Spaces

By: Sean Dineen

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Complex Analysis on Infinite Dimensional Spaces

By: Sean Dineen

Infinite dimensional holomorphy is the study of holomorphic or analytic func tions over complex topological vector spaces. The terms in this description are easily stated and explained and allow the subject to project itself ini tially, and innocently, as a compact theory with well defined boundaries. However, a comprehensive study would include delving into, and interacting with, not only the obvious topics of topology, several complex variables theory and functional analysis but also, differential geometry, Jordan algebras, Lie groups, operator theory, logic, differential equations and fixed point theory. This diversity leads to a dynamic synthesis of ideas and to an appreciation of a remarkable feature of mathematics - its unity. Unity requires synthesis while synthesis leads to unity. It is necessary to stand back every so often, to take an overall look at one's subject and ask "How has it developed over the last ten, twenty, fifty years? Where is it going? What am I doing?" I was asking these questions during the spring of 1993 as I prepared a short course to be given at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro during the following July. The abundance of suit able material made the selection of topics difficult. For some time I hesitated between two very different aspects of infinite dimensional holomorphy, the geometric-algebraic theory associated with bounded symmetric domains and Jordan triple systems and the topological theory which forms the subject of the present book.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447108698

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Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf

By: Sean Duffy

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Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf

By: Sean Duffy

Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. This book proposes a far-reaching reassessment of Brian Boru and Clontarf. By examining Brian's family history and tracing his career from its earliest days, it uncovers the origins of Brian's greatness and explains precisely how he changed Irish political life forever. Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf offers a new interpretation of the role of the Vikings in Irish affairs and explains how Brian emerged from obscurity to attain the high-kingship of Ireland because of his exploitation of the Viking presence. And it concludes that Clontarf was deemed a triumph, despite Brian's death, because of what he averted – a major new Viking offensive in Ireland – on that fateful day.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717157768

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Cameroon

By: Sean Sheehan,Josie Elias,Debbie Nevins

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Cameroon

By: Sean Sheehan,Josie Elias,Debbie Nevins

Cameroon is an African nation with a vast history. Its rich geology includes volcanoes, tropical areas, coastal waters, hot springs, plateaus, mountains, and rain forests. Take your readers on a journey that visits both Cameroon's history and its current state. Readers learn of its struggles, triumphs, and political culture. Cameroon's economy, environmental policies, conservation efforts, and variety of wildlife are examined. Readers will experience a rich presentation of this country's lifestyles, religious practices, festivals, and culinary offerings.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1502650711

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9781502650719

CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students, Blue Hardcover

By: Sean McDowell,CSB Bibles by Holman

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CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students, Blue Hardcover

By: Sean McDowell,CSB Bibles by Holman

Now updated with even more material, the CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students anchors young Christians in the truths of Scripture and equips them with thoughtful responses when the core issues of their faith are challenged. The resources in this student Bible were curated by general editor Dr. Sean McDowell, and the core materials in the Bible explore over 130 of the top questions students are asking today. This student study Bible is updated with new articles and extensive apologetics study material from today's most popular youth leaders and apologists to reflect relevant apologetics issues and questions of today. This student Bible is uniquely created to encourage students to ask tough questions, get straight answers, and see their faith strengthened as they engage in Bible study and with others around them. The features in this study Bible Include: Presentation page, Book introductions, Study notes, Articles from popular youth leaders and Christian apologetics leaders (including editor Sean McDowell), Sixty "Twisted Scripture" explanations for commonly misunderstood passages, Fifty "Bones & Dirt" entries (archaeology meets apologetics), Fifty "Notable Quotes," Twenty-five "Tactics" against common anti-Christian arguments, Twenty "Personal Stories" of how God has worked in real lives, Twenty "Top Five" lists to help remember key apologetics topics, Two-color design-intensive interior, Two-column text, 9.75-point type, Smyth-sewn binding, Ribbon marker, Full-color maps, and more. The CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible(R) (CSB). The CSB translation used in this apologetics Bible stays as literal as possible to the Bible's original meaning without sacrificing clarity, making it easier to engage with Scripture's life-transforming message and to share it with others.

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CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students, Black/Tan LeatherTouch

By: Sean McDowell,CSB Bibles by Holman

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CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students, Black/Tan LeatherTouch

By: Sean McDowell,CSB Bibles by Holman

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CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students, Gray/Navy LeatherTouch, Indexed

By: Sean McDowell,CSB Bibles by Holman

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CSB Apologetics Study Bible for Students, Gray/Navy LeatherTouch, Indexed

By: Sean McDowell,CSB Bibles by Holman

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Business and Society

Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments

By: Cynthia E. Clark,Kabrina K. Chang,Sean P. Melvin

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Business and Society

Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments

By: Cynthia E. Clark,Kabrina K. Chang,Sean P. Melvin

Business and Society: Ethical, Legal, and Digital Environments prepares students for the modern workplace by exploring the opportunities and challenges they will face in today′s interconnected, global economy.

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SAGE Publications

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1506388116

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Introduction to Genetic Analysis (Loose-Leaf)

By: Anthony J.F. Griffiths,Susan R. Wessler,Richard C. Lewontin,Sean B. Carroll

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Introduction to Genetic Analysis (Loose-Leaf)

By: Anthony J.F. Griffiths,Susan R. Wessler,Richard C. Lewontin,Sean B. Carroll

The author team welcomes a new coauthor, Sean B. Carroll, a recognized leader in the field of evolutionary development, to this new edition of Introduction to Genetic Analysis (IGA). The authors’ ambitious new plans for this edition focus on showing how genetics is practiced today. In particular, the new edition renews its emphasis on how genetic analysis can be a powerful tool for answering biological questions of all types. Special Preview available.

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Macmillan

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1429233230

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Images of the Outcast

The Urban Poor in the Cries of London

By: Sean Shesgreen

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Images of the Outcast

The Urban Poor in the Cries of London

By: Sean Shesgreen

This lavishly illustrated volume, featuring 170 images, offers a comprehensive and original survey of a fascinating collection of images of the lower orders of London. The London Cries is a body of graphic art produced between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries that provided continually changing representations of the tradesmen and street hawkers that roamed London from its beginnings right up to the present. Analyzing prints, drawings, lithographs, and paintings done during this time period, Sean Shesgreen traces portraits of ordinary men and women who made their living on the streets of this bustling city; characters include milkmaids, cheapjacks, beggars, prostitutes, Merry Andrews, religious fanatics, and other colorful figures of their stripe. Images of the Outcast examines the Cries in relationship to the historical actualities of street trading, bourgeois attitudes toward the poor, and other forms of art. Through a lively discussion of the prints, drawings, sketches and oils of artists, from the anonymous craftsmen of the sixteenth century to Theodore Gericault and others, Shesgreen provides an important overview of this significant genre. Many of the riveting images the author discusses have never been published or analyzed before.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813531527

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9780813531526

Derrida and Disinterest

By: Sean Gaston

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Derrida and Disinterest

By: Sean Gaston

Disinterest has been a major concept in Western philosophy since Descartes. Its desirability and importance have been disputed, and its deifinition reworked. by such pivotal figures as Nietzsche, Shaftesbury, Locke and Kant. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gaston looks at the treatment of disinterest in the work of two major modern Continental philosophers: Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas. He identifies both as part of a tradition, obscured since the eighteenth-century, that takes disinterest to be the opposite of self-interest, rather than the absence of all interest. Such a tradition locates disinterest at the centre of thinking about ethics. The book argues that disinterest plays a signifcant role in the philosophy of both thinkers and in the dialogue between their work. In so doing it sheds new light on their respective contributions to moral and political philosophy. Moreover, it traces the history of disinterest in Western philosophy from Descartes to Derrida, taking contributions and in the of major philosopher in both the analytic, Anglo-American and Continental traditions: Locke; Shaftesbury; Hume; Smith; Nietzsche; Kant; Hegel; Heidegger. Derrida and Disinterest offers a new reading of Derrida, a stimulating account of the role and importance of disinterest in the history of Western philosophy and a provocative and original contribution to Continental ethics.

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A&C Black

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1847140637

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The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science

50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists

By: Sean Connolly

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The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science

50 Experiments for Daring Young Scientists

By: Sean Connolly

It’s never been more important to engage a child's scientific curiosity, and Sean Connolly knows just how to do it—with lively, hands-on, seemingly "dangerous" experiments that pop, ooze, crash, and teach! Now, the author of The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science, takes it one step further: He leads kids through the history of science, and then creates amazing yet simple experiments that demonstrate key scientific principles. Tame fire just like a Neanderthal with the Fahrenheit 451 experiment. Round up all your friends and track the spread of "disease" using body glitter with an experiment inspired by Edward Jenner, the vaccination pioneer who's credited with saving more lives than any other person in history. Rediscover the wheel and axle with the ancient Sumerians, and perform an astounding experiment demonstrating the theory of angular momentum. Build a simple telescope—just like Galileo's—and find the four moons he discovered orbiting Jupiter (an act that helped land him in prison). Take a less potentially catastrophic approach to electricity than Ben Franklin did with the Lightning Mouth experiment. Re-create the Hadron Collider in a microwave with marshmallows, calculator, and a ruler—it won't jeopardize Earth with a simulated Big Bang, but will demonstrate the speed of light. And it's tasty! By letting kids stand on the shoulders of Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, the Wright brothers, Marie Curie, Darwin, Watson and Crick, and more, The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science is an uncommonly engaging guide to science, and the great stories of the men and women behind the science.

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Hachette+ORM

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0761189866

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9780761189862

The Book of Ingeniously Daring Chemistry

24 Experiments for Young Scientists

By: Sean Connolly

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The Book of Ingeniously Daring Chemistry

24 Experiments for Young Scientists

By: Sean Connolly

From Sean Connolly, the master of messy and dangerous (and therefore extra-fun) science, a collection of more than 20 hands-on experiments that are like an interactive journey through the periodic table of elements. In this introduction to chemistry for STEM-curious kids ages 9 and up, each chapter of The Book of Ingeniously Daring Chemistry focuses on a single element—its properties, how it was discovered, and even its potential danger level. Easy-to-follow experiments help readers put their newfound knowledge into action. All that’s needed is a sense of adventure and some items from around the house. Make your own fossil with silicon. Use a pinhead and measure 166 feet of string for a mind-boggling insight into how a hydrogen atom is built. Discover oxygen and oxygenation by slicing an apple and seeing what happens an hour later. Harness the power of zinc with a potato clock. And enjoy a special hands-off feature about the “Dirty Dozen”—those nasty elements, from arsenic to plutonium, that can wreak havoc wherever they appear (there are no experiments using these chemicals). Matter really matters, and now you’ll really understand why.

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Workman Publishing

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0761180109

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9780761180104

The Schwarz Lemma

By: Sean Dineen

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The Schwarz Lemma

By: Sean Dineen

Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this self-contained overview covers the classical Schwarz lemma, Poincaré distance on the unit disc, hyperbolic manifolds, holomorphic curvature, and the analytic Radon-Nikodym property. 1989 edition.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486810976

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9780486810973

The Book of Wildly Spectacular Sports Science

54 All-Star Experiments

By: Sean Connolly

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The Book of Wildly Spectacular Sports Science

54 All-Star Experiments

By: Sean Connolly

Why does a knuckleball flutter? Why do belly flops hurt so much? Why would a quarterback prefer a deflated football? Here are 54 all-star experiments that demonstrate the scientific principles powering a wide variety of sports and activities—and offer insights that can help you improve your own athletic skills. How does a black belt karate chop her way through a stack of bricks? Use Popsicle sticks to understand why it’s possible and learn the role played by Newton’s second law of motion. Does LeBron James really float through the air on the way to a dunk? Use a tennis ball, a paperback book, and the help of a friend to understand the science of momentum and the real meaning of hang time. Using common household objects, each project includes step-by-step instructions, tips, and a detailed explanation of how and why the experiment worked. It’s a win-win. The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat—it’s all in the science.

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Workman Publishing

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0761189289

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9780761189282

Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption

Mind of the Easter Rising 1916

By: Sean Farrell Moran

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Patrick Pearse and the Politics of Redemption

Mind of the Easter Rising 1916

By: Sean Farrell Moran

Annotation. An intriguing analysis of Pearse within the context of contemporary Irish politics and culture.

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CUA Press

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0813209129

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9780813209128

OCR Computer Science for GCSE Student Book

By: George Rouse,Sean O'Byrne

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OCR Computer Science for GCSE Student Book

By: George Rouse,Sean O'Byrne

Exam Board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: Computer Science First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2018 Build student confidence and ensure successful progress through GCSE Computer Science. Our expert authors provide insight and guidance to meet the demands of the new OCR specification, with challenging tasks and activities to test the computational skills and knowledge required for success in their exams, and advice for successful completion of the non-examined assessment. - Builds students' knowledge and confidence through detailed topic coverage and explanation of key terms - Develops computational thinking skills with practice exercises and problem-solving tasks - Ensures progression through GCSE with regular assessment questions, that can be developed with supporting Dynamic Learning digital resources - Instils a deeper understanding and awareness of computer science, and its applications and implications in the wider world

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Hodder Education

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1471866165

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9781471866166

Guatemala

By: Sean Sheehan,Magdalene Koh,Alex Tessman

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Guatemala

By: Sean Sheehan,Magdalene Koh,Alex Tessman

A land of extremes, from active volcanic peaks to dense rain forests, Guatemala has sustained great civilizations and attracted foreign conquerors. While shadows of its vicious, decades-long civil war still linger, Guatemala's people work toward peace and stability in the face of corruption and impunity. Illuminating photographs, insightful facts, and informative sidebars help the reader discover what it's like to live in today's Guatemala, its ancient beginnings, dramatic landscape, rich culture, resilient people, and more.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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1502636247

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9781502636249

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