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Mathematicians tend to think of themselves as scientists investigating the features of real mathematical things, and the wildly successful application of mathematics in the physical sciences reinforces this picture of mathematics as an objective study. For philosophers, however, this realism about mathematics raises serious questions: What are mathematical things? Where are they? How do we know about them? Offering a scrupulously fair treatmen...

This is the first feminist critique of Lord Byron's depiction of women. The heroines of his narrative and dramatic verse are considered in the light of the early 19th century debate on the role of woman in society and are compared with the heroines of Byron's contemporaries.

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for SA, piano duet or ensembleSettings of great variety of five nonsense poems by Edward Lear which reflect the quirky, humorous quality of Lear's poetic imagination.

How has the world coped with past energy crises? In this volume, Marcus reveals both the shortcomings and failures and the surprising successes of past efforts. With the decline of the Cold War, energy policy issues are among the most important factors in world politics. Energy policies provide a new context for the evolution of other internationally significant policies, namely, global trade, new Eastern European economies and emerging enviro...

The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre.This volume of papers written by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country relationship.

Recent second language acquisition research is used here to present a language teaching programme based on the use of 'prefabricated language'. The authors show that the unit of language they term the 'lexical phrase' can serve as an effective basis for both second and foreign language learning.

Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturity, and transition, "Atlantic American Societies traces the history of European expansion in the Americas. Suggesting a shift in the traditional analysis of history away from nationally defined boundaries, Alan Karras and John McNeill treat the Atlantic world as a whole, encouraging the reader to see the larger inter-imperial issues which governed behavior in both the new world and the ...

L systems are language-theoretic models for developmental biology. They wereintroduced in 1968 by Aristid Lindenmayer (1925-1989) and have proved to be among the most beautiful examples of interdisciplinary science, where work in one area induces fruitful ideas and results in other areas. L systemsare based on relational and set-theoretic concepts, which are more suitable for the discrete and combinatorial structures of biology than ma...

Der vorliegende Band der Reihe "Informatik Aktuell" beinhaltet die Beitrage der Ol-Fachtagung "Hypertext und Hypermedia 1992 - Konzepte und Anwendungen auf dem Weg in die Praxis". Diese Fachtagung, die von der Fachgruppe 4. 9. 1 der 01 "Hypertextsysteme" in Zusamamenarbeit mit der Deutschen Informatik Akademie und unter Mitarbeit der Fachgruppe 4. 9. 2 "Multimediale Elektron­ ische Dokumente" durchgefUhrt wird, bildet die konsequente FortfUhru...

Bereits 1990, als erstmals Mustererkenner aus den ostlichen Bundeslandern in grOBerer Anzahl das DAGM-Symposiumbesuchten, hat die Tragerversammlungder DAGM den vielfachen Wunsch diskutiert, das Symposium alsbald in diesen Liindern stattfinden zu lassen, urn damit die gegenseitige Integration zu fOrdern. Die Tragerversammlung anililllich des 13. DAGM-Symposiums wahlte dann, durchaus bewuBt der noch schwierigen Bedingungen in der Infrastruktur, ...

for SATB chorus and chamber orchestraThis is one of the composer's few mature works which does not include vocal soloists, making it an ideal concert opener. It is an attractive and accessible work, the vocal lines are not overdemanding, and the piece is short enough for liturgical as well as concert use.All material is available on hire.

Understanding Vision" brings together leading researchers from the different disciplines. The contributors attempt to provide a state-of-the-art review of work being carried out in their field, together with a discussion of how this work fits in to the broader perspective of vision research.

viewed as a distinctive strategy for recognizing, isolating, and articulating the fundamental role which narrative plays in our response to the world as a whole.

The Road From Coorain is the beautifully written narrative of Jill Ker Conway's journey from girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College).

Addresses the accommodation of social equity with cultural diversity in educational terms. The book seeks to find the pathways to a less selfish and parochial response to the problem with new approaches and policies.

The women's sensation novel of the 1860s and the New Woman fiction of the 1890s were two major examples of a perceived feminine invasion of fiction which caused a critical furore in their day. Both genres, with their shocking, fast' heroines, fired the popular imagination by putting female sexuality on the literary agenda and undermining the proper feminine' ideal to which nineteenth-century women and fictional heroines were supposed to aspire...

Within the chronological framework of implantation, maturity and transition, this book provides the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of slavery.

Gives a comprehensive view of youthful involvement with drinking, smoking, illicit drug use and sexual activity, providing a challenging assessment of health education for young people.

A study of literary Naturalism in Spain (1860-1890).