34 results for 'tearoff shank'

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...

An examination of American theater groups and playwrights that experiment with unusual methods of staging and deal with political and social issues includes discussions of the San Francisco Mime...

A Times, Spectator, TLS and BBC Music Magazine Book of the Year A major biography of Ravi Shankar published on the centenary of his birth: the first full portrait of the man and the artist across...

A revelatory exploration of how we can find meaning in the tumult of change, from a renowned cognitive scientist and host of the critically acclaimed podcast A Slight Change of PlansLife has a way of...

A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary—and oftentimes unseen—lives of memorialsMemorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just as...

How migrant workers in contemporary India strive toward, and at times realize, elements of a good life The economic development process in India is one that has induced new difficulties and...

Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank, an assistant...

Physical xi, 301 pages, plan, 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Henry VIII, King of England. Tournai - (Belgium) - History.

This is the official history of the German occupation of the Channel Islands taken from government papers, war cabinet and German files and the Channel Islands own wartime papers.