4721 results for '"Grant, Jon E.'

This richly illustrated catalogue and discussion of approximately 1200 late medieval religious and secular badges found in the Netherlands aims to complement the earlier 1993 volume and provide...

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This book surveys and explains the mathematical methods and techniques used in the study of lattice models of polymers in solvents. The techniques include the self-avoiding walk and its related...

One of the most important recent developments in financial markets is the institutionalization of saving associated with the growth of pension funds, life insurance companies, and mutual funds. An...

Book by Syme, Ronald

An "astonishing encyclopedic compilation"* "Probably the most important single work on longitudinal psychiatric research ever published and ... perhaps the most important book on psychiatric...

A catalogue of 1036 late Medieval pewter badges. They include numerous pilgrims' badges (the `Heilig' of the title) and also badges which depict all sorts of secular designs: everyday objects,...

An examination of social change around the world from a global and historical perspective. Part One explains the rise of the Western world from the 1500s, while Parts Two and Three focus on the 20th...

A noted historian recreates life in a seventeenth-century Belgian convent, offering a fascinating narrative based on recently discovered letters and documents, focusing on the trials of Sister...

Here a physicist and a professor of literature guide general readers through the ideas that revolutionized our conception of the physical universe.

Denominationalism--that ''free market'' mode of organizing religious life which, some say, manages to combine traditional religious claims with a free society in a peculiarly American way--is the...

The French Riviera as Eden and muse for modern artists.The French Riviera has been a fabled resort for more than a century. As an enclave for the rich and famous, as well as a scenic tourist spot, it...