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This study seeks to explore Brian Patten's position in relation to his fellow "Liverpool Poets" and to contemporary poetry more widely.

Introduction to Computational Science" was developed over a period of two years at the University of Utah Department of Computer Science in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Undergraduate Computation in Engineering Science (UCES) program. Each chapter begins by introducing a problem and then guiding the student through its solution. The computational techniques needed to solve the problem are developed as necassary, making ...

John Searle is the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in 2002 and the National Humanities Medal in 2004.

_ -Dr. Israel Tribble, Jr., President, Florida Education Fund

Many of the tales of the Arabian Nights-- featuring powerful kings and princes, magical genies, and wicked magicians-- are retold for children in this volume.

New edition, published alongside Woolf's "Selected Letters" and "Diaries" in Vintage Classics this month. Introduction and notes by Hermione Lee.

Knot theory is a rapidly developing field of research with many applications, not only for mathematics. The present volume, written by a well-known specialist, gives a complete survey of this theory from its very beginnings to today's most recent research results. An indispensable book for everyone concerned with knot theory.

Chris Given-Wilson provides an authoritative and vivid reconstruction of the true nature of political society in late medieval England. He looks at the social structure of the time, discussing what contemporaries meant when they talked of the nobility, always emphasizing the close relationship between social status and political influence. He describes the noble household and council, and examines the territorial and familial policies of local...

We live in a society with ever changing needs and expectations, with education practitioners and policy-makers facing the challenges of new economic, social and technological conditions in their work."Opening Education" examines the relationship between government and organizational policies, and the work of practitioners in open and distance learning, by exploring a selection of international examples. The authors, many of them recognized exp...

This study is the first full analysis of the Qumran wisdom texts. New translations and a full explanation of the background and context of wisdom literature introduce the reader to an important and hitherto little discussed part of the Dead Sea Scrolls.After surveying biblical and extrabiblical wisdom books, the author considers the best and most fully preserved wisdom texts from Qumran. The centrepiece of the book is a discussion of the large...

First published in 1973 by Pelican Books, "Natural Symbols" has been revised and given a new and thoroughly updated instorduction. As a classic, it represents a work of anthropology in its widest sense, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural symbols and the image of the body in society. This work focuses on the ways in which cultures selectnatural symbols from the body, and how every natural symbol carries a social meaning. B...

Housing Policy in Europe provides a comprehensive introduction to the economic, political and social issues of housing across the continent. The changing policy and practice of housing in fifteen countries from across Northern, Western, Southern and Central Europe are described, analyzed and compared. The book explains why different systems of tenure are dominant in different groups of countries, and the extent to which housing policies within...

Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline."Popularizing Anthropology" unearths a submerged tradition within anthropology and reveals that, from the beginning, anthropologists have looked beyond the boundaries of the academy for their listeners. It aims to establish the popularization of the discipline as an illuminating topic of investigation in its own right, arguing that it is not an irrelevan...

Includes proceedings of RILEM TC-PRC third conference. This title covers such topics as: prevention and cracking assessment, choice and design of overlay systems, practical implementation, and case histories and long term performance.

The technique of ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy is one of the most flexible tools available to the analytical chemist, with numerous practical applications across a wide range of fields. This book provides an introduction to the technique which will give newcomers to the field a good understanding of the basic principles, and a wealth of practical information. The reader is first carefully introduced to the basics of the technique, and s...

Molecular Chemistry of the Transition Elements An Introductory Course François Mathey Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France and Alain Sevin Université Paris VI, France Molecular Chemistry of the Transition Elements combines a description of the experimental facts with theory, using the frontier orbital approach. After a brief history of organometallic chemistry and an introduction to the fundamental concepts of transition metal chemistry, the...

Eric Carle is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator of books for very young children including his most well-known title The Very Hungry Caterpillar. With his late wife, Barbara, Eric Carle co-founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Massachusetts in 2002.Eric Carle divides his time between the Florida Keys and the hills of North Carolina.

Fourth in the series of new age ranged stories to read aloud whether at bedtime or at school. The new versions of the stories for ages five to seven are also available. Readership level: 8+ years.

In the modern world our lifestyle helps to define our attitudes and values as well as show our wealth and social position. This clearly written introduction to the concept of lifestyle offers a concise guide to how the term is used in sociological accounts to refer to this modern social form. Lifestyles explores* how we should classify lifestyles* why they have become more important* what precisely constitutes a lifestyle.By reviewing a wide r...

Sub-Riemannian geometry (also known as Carnot geometry in France, and non-holonomic Riemannian geometry in Russia) has been a full research domain for fifteen years, with motivations and ramifications in several parts of pure and applied mathematics, namely: . control theory . classical mechanics . Riemannian geometry (of which sub-Riemannian geometry constitutes a natural generalization, and where sub-Riemannian metrics may appear as limit ca...