4420 results for '"Edward S. Tobias'

A salute to the early pioneer dancers, this book presents a panorama of dance in Australia from 1835 to 1949. The book traces a range of performers, from the exotic European dancers, freaks, frauds,...

No other weapon so characterizes the Malay world as the famous kris. Its origins are shrouded in mystery, it is credited with supernatural powers, and it serves as a status symbol for its owner. In...

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The smoke clears. The world watches. A name is announced. A man steps forward and the earth's gaze falls upon him. We have a Pope! And his name is Leo XIV. But who is this 266th successor to St...

The first comprehensive study of rituals in early modern Europe, this book argues that between about 1400 and 1700 a revolution in ritual theory took place that utterly transformed concepts about...

The calculus has served for three centuries as the principal quantitative language of Western science. In the course of its genesis and evolution some of the most fundamental problems of mathematics...

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history.The decline of Rome has been a...

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Stochastic mechanics is a description of quantum phenomena in classical probabilistic terms. This work contains a detailed account of the kinematics of diffusion processes, including diffusions on...

As Baby Boomers plan for their retirements, finance their children's educations, and provide for their families' medical expenses, they confront a fundamental reality: America today is a defined...

La nostra civiltà si porta dietro da secoli il sogno di un mondo in cui non più all'uomo, ma alle macchine spettino il lavoro e la fatica fisica. Gli straordinari progressi tecnologici degli ultimi...

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