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Equilibrium Thermodynamics gives a comprehensive but concise course in the fundamentals of classical thermodynamics. Although the subject is essentially classical in nature, illustrative material is drawn widely from modern physics and free use is made of microscopic ideas to illuminate it. The overriding objective in writing the book was to achieve a clear exposition: to give an account of the subject that it both stimulating and easy to lear...

Ecological/cognitive approach applied to self-narrative.

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In Cognition and Tool Use, anthropologists Janet and Charles Keller provide an account of human accomplishment based on ethnographic study. Blacksmithing, the transformation of glowing iron into artistic and utilitarian products, is the activity they chose to develop a study of situated learning. This domain, permeated by visual imagery and physical virtuosity rather than verbal logic, appears antithetical to the usual realms of cognitive stud...

This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional ...

CONTENTSCorasmin and The ParrotsWalk to HuayapaThe MozoMarket DayIndians and EntertainmentThe Dance of the Sprouting CornThe Hopi Snake DanceA Little Moonshine with Lemon

How to understand evolution in mathematical terms, i.e. how to model natural selection by game theory.

A Geneology of Modernism is a study of literary transition in the first two decades of this century, a period of extraordinary ferment and great accomplishment, during which the avant-garde gradually consolidated a secure place within English culture. Michael Levenson analyses that complex process by following the successive phases of a literary movement - Impressionist, Imagist, Vorticist, Classicist - as it attempted to formulate the princip...

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The first study in English of church, state and society during the Scandinavian Reformation.

This book is a comprehensive text on the theory of the magnetic recording process.

Critical review and summary of the problems, solutions and future directions for carnivore conservation.

This book presents statistical methods for analysis of the duration of events. The primary focus is on models for single-spell data, events in which individual agents are observed for a single duration. Some attention of also given to multiple-spell data. One of the sections treats graphical and numerical methods of specification testing.

This collection of David Lewis's most recent papers is devoted to his work on philosophical logic from the last twenty-five years.

This classic companion to undergraduate practical work in physics describes the purposeful, critical approach that should be made to all physics experiments. It covers the statistical treatment of data and experimental methods, and gives advice on keeping efficient records, calculations, and scientific writing. The new edition features treatment of the c2 distribution, a section on atomic clocks, worked examples based on spreadsheets, and addi...

This book questions the traditional 'grand narratives' of science and religion in the seventeenth century.

A collection of essays providing a multifaceted introduction to Herman Melville's Billy Budd.

In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot and other canonical writers, as well as that of such writers as Olive Schreiner, Wilkie Collins and H. Rider Haggard, whose work has recently attracted new attention from scholars and students. The collection combines the literary study of the novel as a form with analysis of the material a...

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