Brilliant in conception and flowing in style, Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire documents Roman expansion in what came to be the beginnings of the early imperial period. In an inimitable way, the author of this groundbreaking work explores how Romans came to map the world they[...]
Deux Arabesques, Suite Bergamasque, Masque, Images and more.
Described by the composer as a "study in gray painting," this three-movement work exemplifies the aural impressionism synonymous with Debussy's name. Shaded by his unique orchestral palette, three evocative scenes include the summer love of "Nuages," the celebration of "Fetes," and the seduction of [...]
This comprehensive text offers a balanced treatment of quantum field theory, providing both a formal presentation and numerous practical examples. A two-part approach, it begins with the standard quantization of electrodynamics, culminating in the perturbative renormalization. The second part compri[...]
An introductory program that allows students to communicate meaningfully in French while encouraging them to interact with and respond to French and francophone cultures and literatures. It emphasizes skills acquisition through progressive vocabulary and grammar activities, integrated culture, authe[...]
Based on a complete study of Monet's work, his surviving letters (nearly 3,000 in all) and contemporary documentary material, Virginia Spate's classic volume is the fullest account available of a complex and influential man whose style changed and evolved considerably during his long career. Monet i[...]
The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology - how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histori[...]
This is a major study of the Nobel prize-winning French novelist Claude Simon. Simon is a complex figure: for all that he writes in a distinctively modern fictional tradition (exemplified by Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet), his novels contain strong elements of visual representation alongs[...]
Given the controversies and difficulties which preceded the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, it is easy to forget that the Treaty is a complex legal document in need of detailed analysis for its impact to be fully understood. Jean-Claude Piris, the Director General of the Legal Service of the[...]
The first comprehensive guide to Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy?s only completed opera, this book is written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera Richard Langham Smith discusses the play, by the Belgian dramatist Maeterlinck, and considers [...]
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy, investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. In contrast to previous studies, where the focus of research has been on aspects of cognition, education and on the economic âconsequencesâ of literacy, these largely [...]
Introductory textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, covering a number of important subjects in quantum optics.[...]
Essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.