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  • Encyclopedia of Knot Theory

    "Knot theory is a fascinating mathematical subject, with multiple links to theoretical physics. This enyclopedia is filled with valuable information on a rich and fascinating subject."– Ed Witten, Recipient of the Fields Medal"I spent a pleasant afternoon perusing the Encyclopedia of Knot Theory. It’s a comprehensive compilation of clear introductions to both classical and very modern developments ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Religion, Politics, and American Identity

    New Directions, New Controversies

    Scholarship on the role of religion in American public life has taken on a new urgency in the increasingly contentious wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. This volume brings together an impressive group of scholars to build on past work and broaden the scope of this crucial inquiry in two respects: by exploring aspects of the religion-politics nexus in the United States that have been ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Divided by Faith

    Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America

    Through a nationwide telephone survey of 2,000 people and an additional 200 face-to-face interviews, Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith probed the grassroots of white evangelical America. They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm. In fact, most white ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Rights from Wrongs

    A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights

    This is a wholly new and compelling answer to one of the most persistent dilemmas in both law and moral philosophy: If rights are "natural"-if, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, it is "self-evident that all men are endowed . . . with certain inalienable rights"-where do these rights come from? Does natural law really exist outside the formal structure of humanly enacted law? On the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals

    Series series The Finite Element Method
    The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals offers a complete introduction to the basis of the finite element method, covering fundamental theory and worked examples in the detail required for readers to apply the knowledge to their own engineering problems and understand more advanced applications. This edition sees a significant rearrangement of the book's content to enable clearer ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con

    With same-sex marriage igniting a firestorm of controversy in the press and in the courts, in legislative chambers and in living rooms, Andrew Sullivan, a pioneering voice in the debate, has brought together two thousand years of argument in an anthology of historic inclusiveness and evenhandedness. Among the selections included here:- The 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • I Bring the Voices of My People

    A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation

    Series series Prophetic Christianity (PC)
    Disrupting the racist and sexist biases in conversations on reconciliationChanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation movement is incapable of responding to modern-day racism. She demonstrates how reconciliation's roots in the evangelical, male-centered Promise Keepers' movement has resulted in a patriarchal and largely symbolic effort, focused upon ... Read more

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  • Planar Maps, Random Walks and Circle Packing

    École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLVIII - 2018

    by Asaf Nachmias ...
    Series Book 2243 - Lecture Notes in Mathematics
    This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, uniform spanning trees of planar maps, local limits of finite planar maps and the almost sure recurrence of simple random walks on these limits. One of its main goals is to ... Read more

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  • To Shape a New World

    Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    “Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America’s most revered figures, yet despite his mythic stature, the significance of his political thought remains underappreciated. In this indispensable reappraisal, leading ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Difference Equations by Differential Equation Methods

    Series Book 27 - Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics
    Most well-known solution techniques for differential equations exploit symmetry in some form. Systematic methods have been developed for finding and using symmetries, first integrals and conservation laws of a given differential equation. Here the author explains how to extend these powerful methods to difference equations, greatly increasing the range of solvable problems. Beginning with an ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Good Society

    THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Knots And Physics (Fourth Edition)

    Series Book 53 - Series On Knots And Everything
    This invaluable book is an introduction to knot and link invariants as generalized amplitudes for a quasi-physical process. The demands of knot theory, coupled with a quantum-statistical framework, create a context that naturally and powerfully includes an extraordinary range of interrelated topics in topology and mathematical physics. The author takes a primarily combinatorial stance toward knot ... Read more

    $66.99 USD