Are some readings of the Bible more objective than others? More privileged? More true? How does one's own life situation shape one's reading of the text? What will acknowledgment of the validity of a variety of perspectives mean for historical-critical methods of interpretation? The present dizzying[...]

The Feynman Lectures on Gravitation are based on notes prepared during a course on gravitational physics that Richard Feynman taught at Caltech during the 1962-63 academic year. For several years prior to these lectures, Feynman thought long and hard about the fundamental problems in gravitational [...]

Some emphasize Christian mission as verbal proclamation and "saving souls." Others focus on global justice issues or relief and development work. Can we do both? In this classic book, John Stott shows that Christian mission must encompass both evangelism and social action. He offers careful definiti[...]

Fernando Caretta is the high-lord of naughty bottom His stylized take on young ladies in public and private, going about their day in the most provocative of innocent fashion is what brings his many fans to the yard Cheeky fun is what Fernando is all about, and the subjects of his pretty portraits[...]

Where did maths come from? Who thought up all those algebra symbols, and why? What's the story behind ...negative numbers? ...the metric system? ...quadratic equations? ...sine and cosine? The 25 independent sketches in Math through the Ages answer these questions and many others in an informal, eas[...]

Focusing on prints (etchings, drypoints, colour lithographs), Picasso and the Circus presents a pivotal moment in Picasso's early career, between his Blue and Rose Periods, when he was increasingly drawn to the subject of the circus in Paris. The book analyzes the circus and related spectacles in fi[...]

El 20 de abril del 2008, la dupla Fernando Lugo & Federico Franco gano las elecciones presidenciales, tras mas de seis decadas de hegemonia del Partido Colorado, lo que represento, el fin de la denominada "Transicion Democratica", que se iniciara con la caida de la dictadura del general Alfredo Stro[...]

Semantic Web is a term coined by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) director Tim Berners-Lee describing the methods and technologies that allow machines to understand the meaning--or semantics--of information on the World Wide Web.[...]

A comprehensive evaluation of Fi-Wi, enabling readers to design links using channel estimation and equalization algorithms This book provides a detailed study of radio over fiber (ROF) based wireless communication systems, otherwise called fiber wireless (Fi-Wi) systems.[...]