This text is designed for a three-semester or four-quarter calculus course (math, engineering, and science majors).
Calculus hasnât changed, but your students have. Todayâs students have been raised on immediacy and the desire for relevance, and they come to calculus with varied mathema[...]
One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deeply controversial figure who has been labeled both a Nazi sympathizer and a modern-day Thomas Hobbes. First published in 1938, "The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes" used the Enlightenment[...]
Admired long after his death by the likes of Lord Rayleigh and Einstein, Thomas Young (1773-1829) was the definition of a polymath. By the age of fourteen he was proficient in thirteen languages, including Greek, Hebrew and Persian. After studies in Edinburgh, London, Gottingen and Cambridge he esta[...]
First published in 1789, this biography explores the life of poet Thomas Chatterton and the allegations of forgery surrounding him.[...]
This impressive full-colour atlas, with over 100 colour-coded and accessible maps, uniquely presents the geography of death in Britain. The first atlas published on this subject for over two decades, this book presents data from more than 14 million deaths over a 24-year period in Britain. The maps [...]
A creature of myth and magic emerging from the mist-shrouded forests of the Northwest, Coyote appears as a creator, messenger, hero, trickster, fool or shape-shifter. Always on the lookout for fun, mischief or the opportunity to help humans, Coyotes encounters with gods, demons and the supernatural [...]
A valuable document, first published in 1824, in the understanding of the background to Anglo-Chinese relations into the twentieth century.[...]
George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale (1788-1824) is one of the central writers of British Romanticism and his 'Byronic' hero - the charming, dashing, rebellious outsider - remains a literary archetype. But to what extent is this character a portrayal of the author himself? Byron was[...]