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  • Convex Optimization

    by Stephen Boyd, Lieven Vandenberghe ...
    Convex optimization problems arise frequently in many different fields. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject, and shows in detail how such problems can be solved numerically with great efficiency. The book begins with the basic elements of convex sets and functions, and then describes various classes of convex optimization problems. Duality and approximation techniques ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra

    Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares

    by Stephen Boyd, Lieven Vandenberghe ...
    This groundbreaking textbook combines straightforward explanations with a wealth of practical examples to offer an innovative approach to teaching linear algebra. Requiring no prior knowledge of the subject, it covers the aspects of linear algebra - vectors, matrices, and least squares - that are needed for engineering applications, discussing examples across data science, machine learning and ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Piece of Another Period

    Four sons and a Cambridge childhood

    by Richard Boyd, Stephen Boyd, Robert Boyd, John Boyd ...
    Dixon and Amelie Boyd were Belfast medical students. Later he was a Cambridge Professor and she an Academic's wife. They and their four sons, became a Cambridge mid-century fixture. Their copious letters (and memories of those sons, the authors) bring to light an unvarnished picture of that University at a time of dramatic change.Darlingest, It not only seems but it was a long time ago. We were ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain

    John of the Cross, Francisco de Aldana, Luis de León

    by Terence O’Reilly ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Humanism and Religion in Early Modern Spain brings together twenty-five essays by renowned historian Terence O’Reilly.The essays examine the interplay of religion and humanism in a series of writings composed in sixteenth-century Spain. It begins by presenting essential background: the coming together during the reign of the Emperor Charles V of Erasmian humanism and various movements of religious ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Wildlife Toxicology

    Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues

    Edited by Ronald J. Kendall, Thomas E. Lacher, George C. Cobb, Stephen Boyd Cox ...
    Updating the extremely successful Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling (CRC Press, 1994), Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues brings together a distinguished group of international contributors, who provide a global assessment of a range of environmental stressors, including pesticides, environmental contaminant ... Read more

    Was $84.99 USD Now $71.99 USD

  • Artifice and Invention in the Spanish Golden Age

    by Stephen Boyd ...
    The corpus of literary works shaped by the Renaissance and the Baroque that appeared in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had a transforming effect on writing throughout Europe and left a rich legacy that scholars continue to explore. For four decades after the Spanish Civil War the study of this literature flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, where many of the leading ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales (UNABRIDGED)

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    by ELLIOTT O'DONNELL ...
    Narrated by Joseph Dismukes, Jessica Sones, Stephen Boyd, Billy Neiman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 16 min

    Old buildings necessarily have a history. It is not always a happy history and folklore abounds. Sometimes unhappy souls come back to haunt the current residents or their guests. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, these narratives provide a fascinating insight into the history of the buildings and the hysteria they may induce. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Translation as Conquest

    Sahagún and Universal History of the Things of New Spain

    by Victoria Ríos Castaño ...
    Series Book 13 - Parecos y Australes. Ensayos de Cultura de la Colonia
    Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) directed the composition of an encyclopaedic work on the world of the Nahuas, Universal History of the Things of New Spain (ca. 1577-1579), for which he has received the title of pioneering ethnographer and anthropologist of colonial Mexico. Contextualizing Sahagún and his work in sixteenth-century Spain and America, this study presents him as a cultural ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Law and Order in Medieval Spain: Alfonsine Legislation and the Cantigas de Santa Maria

    by Jessica Knauss ...
    Although their milieu bore striking similarities to the Wild West, the people of medieval Spain were preoccupied with constructing valid laws and learning how best to abide by them. This obsession with legality comes out in epics, songs, stories, and even in miracles of the Virgin Mary. Scholars have largely failed to see the usefulness of considering the different types of text produced under ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Laughter of the Saints

    Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain

    by Ryan D. Giles ...
    Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as Don Quixote.The first full ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Ideal of the Courtly Gentleman in Spanish Literature:

    Its Ascent and Decline

    by Francesco Raimondo ...
    In this study on the subject of the Spanish courtly gentleman of the sixteenth century, the author traces the courtly gentlemans life ideals as they appear first in Montalvos Amadis de Gaula and later in Il Cortegiano of Castiglione. The study also appraises what new perspectives and attitudes are at the center of Castigliones view of cortegiania and how these elements are reflected in other ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age

    A Literature of Fragments

    by Jonathan David Bradbury ...
    Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Spanish-America. In the first full-length study of this commercially successful and intellectually significant genre, Bradbury underlines the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD