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The Library of America presents the first of two volumes in its definitive Updike collection. Here are  102 classic stories that chart Updike’s emergence as America’s foremost practitioner of the...

This volume surveys important topics in singularity theory, with a particular focus on computational aspects of the subject. The contributors to this volume include R. O. Buchweitz, Y. A. Drozd, W...

"This will be the first textbook on nonlinear control at the upper undergraduate level, reflecting the many updates in the field that have occurred since the 1990s. Nonlinear control is a control...

What does it mean to think about, and with, Spinoza today? This collection, the first broadly interdisciplinary volume dealing with Spinozan thought, asserts the importance of Spinoza's philosophy of...

Prophesies of Godlessness explores the surprisingly similar expectations of religious and moral change voiced by major American thinkers from the time of the Puritans to today. These predictions of...

John Updike, at the peak of his powers, concludes his unforgettable Rabbit series and reimagines Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter for contemporary AmericaThe latest volume in Library of America’s John...

Much has been written about the crusades, but very little about the crusaders. What moved them to go? What preparations did they need to make? How did they react to their experiences? This book comes...

A new edition of the innovative, emotionally complex novel.After her parents’ bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her...

An authoritative new publication that revisits Edvard Munch's work in its entirety. Edvard Munch occupies a pivotal place in artistic modernity. His work is permeated by a singular vision of the...

The third volume of Library of America's five-volume edition of Updike's novels features the continuation of the renowned Rabbit saga and two wickedly funny satires set in the charged realms of sex,...

A compact, illustrated collection of quotations on fashion, women, love, and life by one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century, Coco Chanel.One of the most recognizable and...

A bestseller in the author's native country of Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popular board game has been created based on it, The Man Who Spoke Snakish is the imaginative and moving...

“Si nunca te arriesgas, jamás sabrás que debes cambiar”. El autor de El alquimista nos entrega una inspiradora fábula acerca de un joven en busca de la sabiduría de un maestro y las enseñanzas que...

A rewritten and re-organised edition of The Physiological Ecology of Seaweeds (1985). Seaweed Ecology and Physiology surveys the broad literature, but it is not merely an update of the earlier book...