This investigation of America's preoccupation with war is concerned primarily with the domestic forces that shape United States foreign policy

Slavery in the South: First-Hand Accounts of the Antebellum American Southland from Northern and Southern Whites, Negroes and Foreign Observers290 pp. A selection of first-hand accounts from former slaves and northern abolitionists.Keywords: AMERICAN...

The investigation of three problems, perfect numbers, periodic decimals, and Pythagorean numbers, has given rise to much of elementary number theory. In this book, Daniel Shanks, past editor of Mathematics of Computation, shows how each result leads to...

Volume 1 only. Owner name and date written on first end page. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

"It was sheer chance that I encountered David Bohm's writing in 1958 ... I knew nothing about him. What struck me about his work and prompted my initial letter was his underlying effort to seek for some larger sense of reality, which seemed a very...

Published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition, this exceptional catalogue features the paintings, prints, and drawings that most clearly convey Francisco Goya's engagement with enlightenment. 310 illustrations, 130 duotones, 80 in color.

In part a response to Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form, The Origin of Perspective is much more. In France it is considered one of the most important works of art history to have appeared in the last twenty years. With the exception of Michel...

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Foundations of Set Theory discusses the reconstruction undergone by set theory in the hands of Brouwer, Russell, and Zermelo. Only in the axiomatic foundations, however, have there been such extensive, almost revolutionary, developments. This book tries...

A Nobel Laureate offers impressions and recollections of the development of modern physics. Rather than a chronological approach, Segrè emphasizes interesting, complex personalities who often appear only in footnotes. Readers will find that this book...

The catalogue for an exhibition of collaged photographs by Robert Rauschenberg, held at the PaceWildenstein Gallery, January 11 - February 16, 2008. Three statements by the artist. 46 pages; 18 full-page color plates; 11.25 x 9.25 inches. List of plates.

Bridget Riley: Recent paintings, September 24-October 23, 2004 Paperback – Import, 2004 by Bridget Riley (Author)