Written by a prominent historian, this work develops a highly Original argument in the context of recent debates. Against naive empiricism, Mary Fulbrook argues that all historians face key theoretical questions, and that an emphasis on the facts alone is not enough. Against postmodernism, she argues that historical narratives are not simply inventions imposed on the past, and that some answers to historical questions are more plausible or adequate than others. Focusing on central theoretical issues and strategies for bridging the gap between the traces of the past and the interpretations of the present, and deploying a range of substantive examples to illustrate the argument, this study provides an essential guide to and through major debates about the nature of history and representations of the past.

Few beginning graduate students in mathematics and other quantitative subjects possess the daunting breadth of mathematical knowledge expected of them when they begin their studies. This book will offer students a broad outline of essential mathematics and will help to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. The author explains the basic points and a few key results of all the most important undergraduate topics in mathematics, emphasizing the intuitions behind the subject. The topics include linear algebra, vector calculus, differential and analytical geometry, real analysis, point-set topology, probability, complex analysis, set theory, algorithms, and more. An annotated bibliography offers a guide to further reading and to more rigorous foundations.

Flora has been expensively educated to do everything but earn her own living. When she is orphaned at 20, she decides her only option is to go and live with her relatives, the Starkadders, at Cold Comfort Farm. What relatives though. Flora feels it incumbent upon her to bring order into the chaos.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), geadelt 1782, ist als Dichter, Dramatiker, Theaterleiter, Naturwissenschaftler, Kunsttheoretiker und Staatsmann einer der bekanntesten Vertreter der Weimarer Klassik. Von 1765 bis 1768 studierte Goethe in Leipzig Jura. 1772 verliebte er sich unglücklich in die schon verlobte Charlotte Buff. Während dieser Phase entstand sein Roman Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers (1774). 1775 traf er in Weimar ein. Dort bekleidete er verschiedene Staatsämter. In diesen Jahren begann er sich mit der Biologie zu beschäftigen. Gemeinsam mit Justus Christian Loder entdeckte Goethe 1784 bei zielgerichteten Forschungen den Zwischenkieferknochen am menschlichen Schädel. Anfang 1786 unternahm Goethe eine Italienreise. Nach zwei Jahren kehrte er wieder nach Weimar zurück. 1791 übernahm er die Leitung des Hoftheaters in Weimar. Für die Neunziger Jahre war seine freundschaftliche, fruchtbare Zusammenarbeit mit Friedrich Schiller charakteristisch. Sein Werk umfasst Gedichte, Dramen und Prosa- Literatur, aber auch naturwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen. Er gilt als der bedeutendste deutsche Dichter und ist eine herausragende Persönlichkeit der Weltliteratur. Zu seinen Werken gehören auch: Götz von Berlichingen mit der Eisernen Hand (1773), Faust: Der Tragödie, Erster Teil (1797), Hermann und Dorothea (1798), WestÖstlicher Divan (1819) und Faust: Der Tragödie, Zweiter Teil (1832).

Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns. These women have created absurdist and black-humor storytelling practices in the face of trauma and tragedy. Goldstein helps us to understand that such joking and laughter is part of an emotional aesthetic that defines the sense of frustration and anomie endemic to the political and economic desperation of the shantytown.

A brand new English-Japanese dictionary that's specially designed for quick and easy reference—ideal for students and travelers alike. 20,000 entries.

Thorough history, analysis, commentary on symphonies and some revealed pieces. Includes 436 musical passages.

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained in Worlds of Exile and Illusion. These novels, Rocannon's world, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left hand of Darkness.

Tor is pleased to return these previously unavailable works to print in this attractive new edition.

This is Ursula Le Guin's first and perhaps most famous collection of short stories. The author's novels include "The Left Hand of Darkness", "The Dispossessed", "Always Coming Home" and "The Earthsea" trilogy. She has also published a book of essays entitled "Dancing at the Edge of the World".

These five superlative, evocative and enchanting stories range from a few hundred years before A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA to just before THE OTHER WIND, and feature some of Le Guin’s most popular characters, including the Wizard Ged himself. The stories are rounded off with an essay about Earthsea’s history and people. No Earthsea fan will want to be without this magical collection.

ARMCHAIR TRAVEL FOR THE MIND: It was Sita Dulip who discovered, whilst stuck in an airport, unable to get anywhere, how to change planes - literally. With a kind of a twist and a slipping bend, easier to do than describe, she could go anywhere - be anywhere - because she was already between planes ...and on the way back from her sister's wedding, she missed her plane in Chicago and found herself in Choom. The author, armed with this knowledge and Rornan's invaluable Handy Planetary Guide - although not the Encyclopedia Planeria, as that runs to forty-four volumes - has spent many happy years exploring places as diverse as Islac and the Veksian plane. CHANGING PLANES is an intriguing, enticing mixture of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS and THE HITCH HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY; a cross between Douglas Adams and Alain de Botton: a mix of satire, cynicism and humour by one of the world's best writers.