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The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Reddy, William M., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The Navigation of Feeling critiques recent psychological and anthropological research on emotions. William M. Reddy offers a new theory of emotions and historical change, drawing on research from many academic disciplines. This new theory makes it possible to see how emotions change over time, how emotions have a very important impact on the shape of history, and how different social orders either facilitate emotional life or make it more difficult. This theory is fully explored in a case study of the French Revolution.

Rhetoric

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Richards, Jennifer, PUBLISHER: Routledge, The term 'rhetoric' describes the effective use of language, usually to persuade or influence. Frequently set up in opposition to 'truth' or 'plain speech', it has attracted much critical debate from ancient philosophy to current literary theory. Examining both the practice and theory of this controversial concept, Jennifer Richards looks at: historical and contemporary definitions of the term 'rhetoric' uses of rhetoric in literature, by authors such as William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley and James Joyce classical traditions of rhetoric, as seen in the work of Plato, Aristotle and Cicero the rebirth of rhetoric in the Renaissance and its return to the contemporary academy through Composition and Literature courses the current position and way forward for rhetoric in literary and critical theory, as envisaged by critics such as Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida and Kenneth Burke. This insightful volume offers an honest and accessible account of this debatable yet unavoidable term, making this book invaluable reading for students of literature, philosophy and cultural studies.

Optimization and Dynamical Systems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moore, John B. / Brockett, R. / Helmke, Uwe, PUBLISHER: Springer, This study addresses both classical and previously unsolved optimization tasks in linear algebra, linear systems theory, control theory and signal processing. Exploiting developments in Computation such as Parallel Computing and Neural Networks, it gives a dynamical systems approach for tackling a wide class of constrained optimization tasks. Optimization and Dynamical Systems will be of interest to engineers and mathematicians. Engineers will learn the mathematics and the technical approach necessary to solve a wide class of constrained optimization tasks. Mathematicians will see how techniques from global analysis and differential geometry can be developed to achieve useful construction procedures for optimization on manifolds.

The Fields of Electronics: Understanding Electronics Using

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morrison, Ralph, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Interscience, A practical new approach that brings together circuit theory and field theory for the practicing engineer To put it frankly, the traditional education of most engineers and scientists leaves them often unprepared to handle many of the practical problems they encounter. The Fields of Electronics: Understanding Electronics Using Basic Physics offers a highly original correction to this state of affairs. Most engineers learn circuit theory and field theory separately. Electromagnetic field theory is an important part of basic physics, but because it is a very mathematical subject, the connection to everyday problems is not emphasized. Circuit theory, on the other hand, is by its nature very practical. However, circuit theory cannot describe the nature of a facility, the interconnection of many pieces of hardware, or the power grid that interfaces each piece of hardware. The Fields of Electronics offers a unique approach that brings the physics and the circuit theory together into a seamless whole for today's practicing engineers. With a clear focus on the real-world problems confronting the practitioner in the field, the book thoroughly details the principles that apply to: * Capacitors, inductors, resistors, and transformers * Utility power and circuit concepts * Grounding and shielding * Radiation * Analog and digital signals * Facilities and sites Written with very little mathematics, and requiring only some background in electronics, this book provides an eminently useful new way to understand the subject of electronics that will simplify the work of every novice, experienced engineer, and scientist. Acquista Ora

Imagery and Text A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Allan Paivio Mark Sadoski, PUBLISHER: Taylor & amp amp Francis Group, NA

Fundamentals of Physics, a Student's Companion E-Book to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Walker, Jearl / Resnick, Robert / Halliday, David, PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, No other book on the market today can match the success of Halliday, Resnick and Walker's Fundamentals of Physics In a breezy, easy-to-understand style the book offers a solid understanding of fundamental physics concepts, and helps readers apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving. The extended edition provides coverage of developments in Physics in the last 100 years, including: Einstein and Relativity, Bohr and others and Quantum Theory, and the more recent theoretical developments like String Theory. This book offers a unique combination of authoritative content and stimulating applications.

Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Methods: Algorithms, Analysis,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hesthaven, Jan S. / Warburton, Tim, PUBLISHER: Springer, This book offers an introduction to the key ideas, basic analysis, and efficient implementation of discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DG-FEM) for the solution of partial differential equations. It covers all key theoretical results, including an overview of relevant results from approximation theory, convergence theory for numerical PDE's, and orthogonal polynomials. Through embedded Matlab codes, coverage discusses and implements the algorithms for a number of classic systems of PDE's: Maxwell's equations, Euler equations, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and Poisson- and Helmholtz equations.

Work, Status, and Self-Esteem: A Theory of Selective Self

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Faunce, William A., PUBLISHER: University Press of America, The book presents a theory explaining variations in the extent to which work affects self-esteem. The conventional wisdom is that work necessarily influences self-esteem, but the research evidence presented in the text indicates that this is not the case. There is, in fact, considerable variation in the extent of this relationship. A systematic theory relating attributes of the self and characteristics of status assignment systems to the self-investment process is presented.

Instructor's Edition Organizational Theory: A Strategic

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lester, Donald / Parnell, John A., PUBLISHER: Atomic Dog Publishing, In Organizational Theory: A Strategic Perspective, authors Donald Lester and John Parnell present the major theoretical perspectives that have contributed to our understanding of organizations in a clear, engaging style. The text presents the concepts of organizational theory from a strategic perspective. These concepts are not only the foundation for understanding organizations, they are also the basis for managing them effectively. Current examples appear throughout the text, and the ?Best Practice? features in each chapter highlight specific companies and show how they strategically manage key concepts of organizational theory. The authors also provide students with ?real world? applications in the ?Career Points? features. Seven cases are included at the end of the text for in-depth study.

Abstract Algebra and Solution by Radicals

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Maxfield, John E. / Maxfield, Margaret W., PUBLISHER: Dover Publications, "The American Mathematical Monthly" recommended this advanced undergraduate-level text for teacher education. It starts with groups, rings, fields, and polynomials and advances to Galois theory, radicals and roots of unity, and solution by radicals. Numerous examples, illustrations, commentaries, and exercises enhance the text, along with 13 appendices. edition.

Nber Macroeconomics Annual

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fischer, Stanley / Blanchard, Oliver Jean / Blanchard, Olivier J., PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), This is the eighth in a series of annuals from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are designed to stimulate research on problems in applied economics, to bring frontier theoretical developments to a wider audience, and to accelerate the interaction between analytical and empirical research in macroeconomics. Olivier Blanchard and Stanley Fischer are both Professors of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Contents: U.S. "Commercial Banking. Trends, Cycles, and Policy, "John Boyd and Mark Gertler. "The Effects of Government Purchases: Theory and Evidence, "Anton Braun and Ellen McGrattan. "Macroeconomic Growth with Microeconomic Empirics, "Ricardo Caballero and Adam Jaffe. "The Chinese and East European Routes to Reform, "Alan Gelb, Gary Jefferson, and Inderjit Singh. "Waiting and the Option to Invest. Theory and Evidence, "Robert Pindyck and Andres Solimano. "Unemployment in Europe, "Gilles Saint Paul.

Game Theory and National Security

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Brams, Steven / Kilgour, D. Marc, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell, In this path-breaking theoretical work, political scientist Steven Brams and mathematician Mark Kilgour show how game theory can be applied to the rigorous development and thoughtful analysis of several critical problems that afflict the security of nations, from the deterrence of foes who might launch attacks, to the stabilization of crises that could explode into wars. In addition, they analyze a variety of related questions, including the interlocking preferences that fuel arms races, the strategic impact that Star Wars may have on nuclear deterrence, and optimal strategies for verifying arms control treaties. Of interest to students on international relations and foreign policy as well as those concerned with the formal analysis of conflict, Game Theory and National Security provides new foundations for understanding the rational basis of international conflict.

George Kelly

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fransella, Fay, PUBLISHER: Sage Publications (CA), George Kelly's personal construct theory, first published in , is as radical today as it was then. Describing how each one of us goes about our daily life trying to make sense of the events around us, it maintains that we are in charge of what we do in the world, that we do not merely react to events. This book reveals that George Kelly was a man of enormous intellect, of many talents and of great complexity. Fay Fransella outlines how his views have influenced the theory and practice of psychotherapy, and illustrates how his training in physics and mathematics influenced his theory and led to the development of one of his methods of measurement - the repertory grid. The book also describes Kelly's phil

Handbook of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Second

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Polyanin, Andrei D. / Zaitsev, Valentin F. / Pol'ianin, A. D., PUBLISHER: CRC Press, Updated and expanded, this popular handbook provides a catalog of nonlinear PDEs and their solutions. With nearly 400 pages of new and updated material, this edition contains over 500 nonlinear PDEs with solutions and many new nonlinear systems of PDEs with solutions. In the first half of the book, numerous new and nonlinear systems of PDEs are described with a focus on equations containing one or more arbitrary parameters. The authors cover equations that arise in heat transfer, wave theory, nonlinear mechanics, hydrodynamics, gas dynamics, plasticity theory, nonlinear optics, theoretical physics, differential geometry, control theory, biology, and other fields. The second half of the book presents the exact methods used for solving these types of equations. The authors explore classical methods and some recent developments, along with examples that illustrate applications of the methods.

Responsible Management of Information Systems

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stahl, Bernd Carsten, PUBLISHER: IGI Global, Responsible Management of Information Systems discusses the question how can information systems be used and managed in a responsible manner. It does so by first defining the central concepts of information systems as the business use of information technology and the underlying concepts of ethics and morality. The term responsibility is introduced as a mediation of ethics and morality and a promising approach to normative questions. After demonstrating that the traditional notion of responsibility runs into many problems when applied to information systems the book develops a new, a reflective theory of responsibility. This theory that emphasizes the central characteristics of responsibility, namely openness, consequentialism, and teleology, is then applied to normative problems in information systems. It is shown that with the use of this theory the central moral and legal problems of information systems such as privacy or intellectual property can be successfully addressed.

Algorithmic Learning Theory - Alt '92: Third Workshop, Alt

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Doshita, Shuji / Furukawa, Koichi / Jantke, Klaus P., PUBLISHER: Springer, This volume contains the papers that were presented at the Third Workshop onAlgorithmic Learning Theory, held in Tokyo in October . In addition to 3invited papers, the volume contains 19 papers accepted for presentation, selected from 29 submitted extended abstracts. The ALT workshops have been held annually since and are organized and sponsored by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. The main objective of these workshops is to provide an open forum for discussions and exchanges of ideasbetween researchers from various backgrounds in this emerging, interdisciplinary field of learning theory. The volume is organized into parts on learning via query, neural networks, inductive inference, analogical reasoning, and approximate learning.

Stable Adaptive Control and Estimation for Nonlinear

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Spooner, Jeffrey T. / Maggiore, Manfredi / Ordó Ñ EZ, Raú L., PUBLISHER: Wiley-Interscience, Includes a solution manual for problems. Provides MATLAB code for examples and solutions. Deals with robust systems in both theory and practice.

Adorno's Negative Dialectic: Philosophy and the Possibility

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: O'Connor, Brian, PUBLISHER: MIT Press (MA), The purely philosophical concerns of Theodor W. Adorno's negative dialectic would seem to be far removed from the concreteness of critical theory; Adorno's philosophy considers perhaps the most traditional subject of "pure" philosophy, the structure of experience, whereas critical theory examines specific aspects of society. But, as Brian O'Connor demonstrates in this highly original interpretation of Adorno's philosophy, the negative dialectic can be seen as the theoretical foundation of the reflexivity or critical rationality required by critical theory. Adorno, O'Connor argues, is committed to the "concretion" of philosophy: his thesis of nonidentity attempts to show that reality is not reducible to appearances. This lays the foundation for the applied "concrete" critique of appearances that is essential to the possibility of critical theory. To explicate the context in which Adorno's philosophy operates--the tradition of modern German philosophy, from Kant to Heidegger--O'Connor examines in detail the ideas of these philosophers as well as Adorno's self-defining differences with them. O'Connor discusses Georg Lukacs and the influence of his "protocritical theory" on Adorno's thought; the elements of Kant's and Hegel's German idealism appropriated by Adorno for his theory of subject-object mediation; the priority of the object and the agency of the subject in Adorno's epistemology; and Adorno's important critiques of Kant and the phenomenology of Heidegger and Husserl, critiques that both illuminate Adorno's key concepts and reveal his construction of critical theory through an engagement with the problems of philosophy.

The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations: Critical Issues

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hassard, John / Pym, Denis, PUBLISHER: Routledge, "The Theory and Philosophy of Organisations" assesses and analyzes the assumptions upon which our understanding of organizations is based and in doing so aims to redirect the ways in which organizational research is conceived and executed. Contributions to the volume emphasize how all approaches to the study of organizations are influenced by deep metatheoretical assumptions about the nature of science and society. It is argued that these differences create a spectrum of valid perspectives and methods, and the book outlines how conceptual problems in the field have given rise to innovative forms of empirical enquiry such as symbolism, postmodernism, ethnomethodology and structuralism. Criticizing the conservatism which has characterized much of the work in this field, the authors offers this range of methods as a starting point for obtaining richer and more grounded explanations of organizations.

Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Waldinger, Roger David, PUBLISHER: New York University Press, This collection introduces and develops Lacanian thought concerning the relations among language, subjectivity, and society. Lacanian Theory of Discourse provides an account of how language both interacts with and constitutes structures of subjectivity, producing specific attitudes and behaviors as well as significant social effects.

Libri fisica, astrofisica, matematica

Vari libri di fisica, astrofisica, matematica: dalla meccanica alla teoria quantistica dei campi alla relatività generale. Per il prezzo contattatemi dato che alcuni sono libri originali, altri delle ristampe più economiche. Spedisco a carico acquirente, vendo preferibilmente gruppi di libri e non singole unità. NO perditempo. LISTA attuale: Quantum Field Theory in a nutshell A. Zee Lezioni sulla Teoria dell'Integrale Alessandro Fonda Geometrical Methods of mathematical physics B. Schutz Cosmology Steven Weinberg Problems and Solutions on Quantum Mechanics Yung-Kuo Lim Questi invece sono stampe: Group Theory - C. Ludeling (stampa) Quantum and Statistical Field Theory - M Le Bellac (stampa)

Marketing: The Enyclopedic Dictionary

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mercer / Lastmercer / Mercer, David, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell, " Marketing is an international textbook designed for undergraduates and MBA courses. In addition to providing comprehensive coverage of all traditional marketing topics, it also covers applications and issues within the service and non-profit sectors, together with new developments in marketing theory and practice.

Antitrust (Black Letter Series)

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Herbert Hovenkamp, PUBLISHER: West Group, Antitrust Economics; Price Theory and Industrial Organization; Cartels, Tacit Collusion, Joint Ventures and Other Combinations of Competitors; Monopolization, Attempt to Monopolize and Predatory Pricing; Vertical Integration and Vertical Mergers; Tie-Ins, Reciprocity, Exclusive Dealing and the Franchise Contract; Resale Price Maintenance and Vertical Non-Price Restraints; Refusals to Deal; Horizontal Mergers; Conglomerate Mergers; Price Discrimination and Differential Pricing Under the Robinson-Patman Act; Jurisdictional, Public Policy and Regulatory Limitations on the Domain of Antitrust; Enforcement, Procedure and Related Matters.

AutoCAD Success Windows Version

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ethier, Stephen J. / Ethier, Christine A. / Ethier, PUBLISHER: Prentice Hall, Ethier and Ethier offer the perfect blend of theory and application in this comprehensive exploration of 2D drawing, 3D modeling" and solids" using AutoCAD. Coverage interweaves theory and hands-on applications, thoroughly explaining all of the principles behind each of the practices. KEY TOPICS: " Integrates "Insight" and "Mystery--Solution" special-interest boxes offering helpful hints, problem-solving suggestions and tricks of the AutoCAD trade. Reflects the growing interest in and use of 3D modeling by including 8 chapters devoted to the subject--4 of which focus exclusively on solid modeling. Develops essential skills--including problem-solving, troubleshooting and software engineering--that reach beyond CAD operation. Supports explanations with numerous illustrations allowing readers to visualize their progression toward a final product. Acquista Ora

Quantitative Methods Theory and Applications

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: J K Sharma, PUBLISHER: MacMillan, NA

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