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Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionatedefense of Victorian literatureโs enduring impact andimportance for readers interested in the ...
The Biography of a Novelist
Biography of George Eliot (1819-1880, born as Mary Anne Evans), British writer and poet. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, an...
Winner of the 1983 National Book Award! "...a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what ma...
A Writer's Life
Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost nov...
Reading George Eliot's work was described by one Victorian critic as like the feeling of entering the confessional in which the novelist sees and hear...
A remarkable feature of the period since 1970 has been the patterns of rapid and turbulent change in financing behavior and financial structure in man...
Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why,not by instruction or prescription, but by emotion and exploration. ...
Presents general information about meteorology, weather, and climate and includes more than thirty activities to help study these topics, including ma...
One of the most important recent developments in financial markets is the institutionalization of saving associated with the growth of pension funds, ...
This is the classic introduction for the educated lay reader to the richly diverse world of mathematics: its history, philosophy, principles, and pers...
Intermediate-level survey covers remainder theory, convergence theorems, and uniform and best approximation. Other topics include least square approxi...
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This volume presents original case-histories of readers to delve into just what reading is and how it works. Each chapter begins with a poem or excerp...
Discusses the life and work of William James, a founder of the study of psychology. William James (1842-1910) was elder brother to the novelist Henry ...
Methods of Numerical Integration, Second Edition describes the theoretical and practical aspects of major methods of numerical integration. Numerical ...
The Literary Agenda
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state...
Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers ...
The World According to Mathematics
These provocative essays take a modern look at the 17th-century thinker's dream, examining the influences of mathematics on society, particularly in l...
This book is a mathematical potpourri. Its material originated in classroom presentations, formal lectures, sections of earlier books, book reviews, o...
The Mind of the Heart
A collaborative book on the works of Charles Dickens that takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors. The literary conversation prioritizes ...
In this charming memoir, a renowned mathematician and winner of the American Book Award traces his career in mathematics from early lessons in horse r...
First published in 1991. This book is written with the intent to reach serious readers in and outside a university through joint mental contact with s...
A memoir of mathematician Philip Davis's life and encounters, some actual and some imaginary, with a number of mathematicians and historical figures. ...
A Study of Johnson the Rambler
The original and imaginative portrait of Dr Johnson--the man and the writer--gets behind his public face and uncovers the human struggle out of which ...
Economics, Scripture, and the Global Financial Crisis
The ongoing global financial crisis was not simply the fault of the financial sector. Bankers, households, and governments had all entered a spiral of...
An Investigation of Sectoral Balance Sheets in the G-7
Cross-country comparisons of sectoral balance sheets offer crucial indications of differences in overall financial structure, which in turn underlie c...
Retirement-income Security and Capital Markets : an International Perspective
In this context, this book assesses the major economic issues raised by occupational pension funds, as they have arisen in twelve OECD countries - the...
Its Little People and Big Problems
The Shaping of Shakespeare's Creative Thought
'His mind and hand went together' said Hemings and Condell of the speed of Shakespeare. But the conceptual language of literary criticism, be it moral...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is i...
The Case of Banking
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millenni...
In Seven Simple Steps