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  • The Creative Spark

    How musicians, writers, explorers, and other artists found their inner fire and followed their dreams

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Who is the market?Anyone who appreciates creativity or seeks to be creativeFans or the musicians, writers and other creative people interviewed in the bookAnyone who loves music and/or literature and wants to know the stories behind some of the great works of our timesSelf-improvers, seekers, and the intellectually curiousArtists and other creative types including writers, musicians, painters, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bottom of the Ninth

    Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    This account of the expansion of the major leagues is "a fascinating look at an almost forgotten era . . . One of the best baseball books of recent seasons" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).In Bottom of the Ninth, Michael Shapiro brings to life a watershed moment in baseball history, when the sport was under siege in the late 1950s. He reveals how the legendary executive Branch Rickey saw the game's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Sense of Place

    Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they do and what that place means to them. The book chronicles a young writer’s conversations with his heroes, writers he's read for years who ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method

    After the Aesthetic Turn

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Interventions
    This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and methodological theory as well as a wide variety of artistic sources from fine art to cinema and from ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Quest for the Golden Honey

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Young bees strike out on their own in a pirate ship in search of treasure.Captain Mark and the rest of the baby bees have the adventure of their lives as they run into a notorious villain bee.Can they get past the villain bee and get the treasure? ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Time of the City

    Politics, philosophy and genre

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Interventions
    The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the global network of cities, the book draws on urban theory rather than traditional forms of official city politics. Deriving their methodological ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Logic of Language

    A Semiotic Study of Speech

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage

    Second Edition

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect. It is the expanded and improved 2nd edition of the author’s self-published volume with the same title, based on revised and adapted posts on the author’s Languagelore blog.Each vignette calls attention to points of grammar and style in contemporary American English, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Integral Representations For Spatial Models of Mathematical Physics

    by Vladislav V Kravchenko, Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
    This book provides a new mathematical theory for the treatment of an ample series of spatial problems of electrodynamics, particle physics, quantum mechanics and elasticity theory. This technique proves to be as powerful for solving the spatial problems of mathematical physics as complex analysis is for solving planar problems. The main analytic tool of the book, a non-harmonic version of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Integral Theorems for Functions and Differential Forms in C(m)

    by Reynaldo Rocha-Chavez, Michael Shapiro, Frank Sommen ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Research Notes in Mathematics Series
    The theory of holomorphic functions of several complex variables emerged from the attempt to generalize the theory in one variable to the multidimensional situation. Research in this area has led to the discovery of many sophisticated facts, structures, ideas, relations, and applications. This deepening of knowledge, however, has also revealed more ... Read more

    $255.00 USD

  • Basics of Functional Analysis with Bicomplex Scalars, and Bicomplex Schur Analysis

    by Daniel Alpay, Maria Elena Luna-Elizarrarás, Michael Shapiro, Daniele C. Struppa ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book provides the foundations for a rigorous theory of functional analysis with bicomplex scalars. It begins with a detailed study of bicomplex and hyperbolic numbers and then defines the notion of bicomplex modules. After introducing a number of norms and inner products on such modules (some of which appear in this volume for the first time), the authors develop the theory of linear ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Methods and Nations

    Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject

    by Michael J. Shapiro ...
    Series series Global Horizons
    Methods and Nations critiques one of the primary deployments of twentieth-century social science: comparative politics whose major focus has been "nation-building" in the "Third World," often attempting to universalize and render self-evident its own practices. International relations theorists, unable to resist the "cognitive imperialism" of a state-centric social science, have allowed themselves ... Read more

    $65.99 USD