7939 results for '"George W. Downs'

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism’s basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing...

Intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, this text explores quantum mechanical techniques from the viewpoint of chemistry and materials science. Dynamics, symmetry, and formalism...

Ellsworth Kelly's paintings and sculptures are the heroes of this visual exploration of opposites Up, Down & Other Opposites pairs different combinations of Ellsworth Kelly's paintings and sculptures...

Fox and Freiberg have written a comprehensive book on federal and state law relating to the sentencing of offenders in the state of Victoria, Australia. In providing such a guide, the authors have...

Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and...

"One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov."--Boston Globe Structured...

C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important...

In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Born in Alaska herself to a family with a homesteading...

"Crime writing of the very highest order ... Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around" --The Times (U.K.) There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate...

This perfect bedtime read-aloud describes that magical time, just as we're drifting off to sleep, when the moon shines brightly and life emerges from the forest. Now a board book! Hello moon,...

A text intended to acquaint undergraduates with the standard details of special relativity and the foundations of general relativity. The authors are capable (have been associated with the Institute...

The next time you get sick, consider this before picking up the aspirin: your body may be doing exactly what it's supposed to. In this ground-breaking book, two pioneers of the science of Darwinian...

Probabilistic Methods of Signal and System Analysis (Holt, Rinehart and Winst...

An eloquent and passionate call for educational transformation--now in an updated paperback edition. "An unapologetic cri de coeur about the shortcomings of the schools that serve poor Black and...