This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this b[...]
This book breaks with the conventional model of perception that views vision as a mere inference to an objective reality on the basis of "inverse optics." The authors offer the alternative view that perception is an expressive and awareness-generating process. Perception creates semantic information[...]
Problems in Real Analysis: Advanced Calculus on the Real Axis features a comprehensive collection of challenging problems in mathematical analysis that aim to promote creative, non-standard techniques for solving problems. This self-contained text offers a host of new mathematical tools and strategi[...]
This comparative historical sociology of the Bolshevik revolutionaries offers a reinterpretation of political radicalization in the last years of the Russian Empire. Finding that two-thirds of the Bolshevik leadership were ethnic minorities - Ukrainians, Latvians, Georgians, Jews and others - this b[...]
The world of climate politics is increasingly no longer confined to the activities of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the politics of climate change has been the emergence of new forms of transnational governance that cut across traditional sta[...]
Presents and discusses a new perspective in vision science, and formalises a field of study that will become increasingly significant to researchers in visual science and beyond The contributors are outstanding scholars in their fields with impeccable academic credentials, including Jan J.[...]
When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist's "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With "The Data Journalism Handbook," you'll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new[...]
A lavish trilogy steeped in myth: Bodoc is the Tolkien of the Americas. 'When asked who I admire within my genre, I can only think of one name: Liliana Bodoc' - Ursula Le Guin It is known that the strangers will sail from some part of the Ancient Lands and will cross the Yentru Sea. All our predic[...]
"Liliana Heker is one of the most remarkable voices of the Argentinean generation after Borges."--Alberto ManguelThe year is 1976. The protagonists are women, writers, guerilla fighters, friends. And as they move toward the most shocking reversal in Latin American literature, their story emerges as [...]