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Used in undergraduate classrooms across the USA, this is a clearly written, rigorous introduction to differential equations and their applications. Fully understandable to students who have had one year of calculus, this book distinguishes itself from other differential equations texts through its engaging application of the subject matter to interesting scenarios. This fourth edition incorporates earlier introductory material on bifurcation t...

The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the spring and Autumn Period (roughly 771 to 476 BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu (also known as Master Sun), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to a distinct aspect of warfare and how that applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1, 500 years it was the lead text in an anthology that would be formali...

The Metamorphosis is a novel written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. It is the story of a young man, Gregor Samsa, who transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, and a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing -- though absurdly comic -- meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place...

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Well-written, concise and comprehensive.... should be welcomed with gratitude by everyone interested in drafting a better understanding of the role of judicial review in the American political system". -- Law Books in Review This is the first reference series that makes understanding civil liberties and constitutional law completely accessible to the layperson. The author expertly guides readers through actual cases decided by the Supreme Cour...

Beginning amid the decadent glamour of China in the 1930s and ending in the 1980s in Hong Kong, this brilliant novel, which formed the basis for the award-winning movie, is the passionate story of an opera student who falls in love with his best friend, and the beautiful woman who comes between them.

Now completely revised and expanded, this comprehensive general history of the Middle Ages centers on medieval culture and religion rather than on political history, and retains the powerful narrative flow that made the earlier edition so accessible and exciting.

Leonard H. Lesko is Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology and Chair, Department of Egyptology, Brown University.

We talk not only of enjoying music, but of understanding it. Music is often taken to have expressive import--and in that sense to have meaning. But what does music mean, and how does it mean?Stephen Davies addresses these questions in this sophisticated and knowledgeable overview of current theories in the philosophy of music. Reviewing and criticizing the aesthetic positions of recent years, he offers a spirited explanation of his own position.

So you've decided to give in to the Devil, " said the priest. John Vianney started back in dismay--"No, Father!" "But you just told me you were giving up your studies for the priesthood, " responded Father Balley. This book tells what took place next, along with the many adventures that met young St. John Vianney and his fights with the Devil when he set out to become a priest, and ended up one of the Church's most glorious saints.

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Das Buch behandelt die Entwicklung von Datenstrukturen und Algorithmen für Listen, Bäume und Graphen mittels objektorientierter Verfahren. Es führt seine Leser in den Umgang mit Listen, Bäumen und Graphen sowie in deren wichtigste Anwendungen ein und macht mit objektorientierten Entwurfs- und Programmierverfahren vertraut. Der hier verwendete objektorientierte Ansatz wird in der Literatur zur Entwicklung von Datenstrukturen und Algorithmen bi...

Examines the character, use and social meaning of the formalised rhetoric which pervades the "Babylonian Talmud". This title explores how the editors of the "Talmud" employ a consistent and highly laconic code of formalised linguistic terms and literary patterns to create the "Talmud's" renowned dialectical, analytic 'essays'.

The theme that emerges from this book is the contemporary battle of post-communist countries with time. Most chapters deal with newly-democratized governments which are rapidly switching from command to market. Others re-examine the transition to capitalism in the 17th to 19th centuries.