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The Minutemen and Their World
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011; US$ 15.99Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World , first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted... more...
Fearless Symmetry
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 26.95Mathematicians solve equations, or try to. But sometimes the solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to them. Written in a friendly style for a general audience, Fearless Symmetry is the first popular math book to discuss these elegant and mysterious patterns and the ingenious techniques mathematicians use... more...
Elliptic Tales
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 29.95Elliptic Tales describes the latest developments in number theory by looking at one of the most exciting unsolved problems in contemporary mathematics--the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture. The Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a prize of $1 million to anyone who can discover a general solution to the problem. In this book, Avner Ash and... more...
Interim Management
Franz Vahlen 2012; US$ 21.56Hauptbeschreibung Die Veränderungen außerhalb und innerhalb von Unternehmen nehmen an Geschwindigkeit zu. Insbesondere mittelständische Unternehmen sind gezwungen, rechtzeitig zu reagieren. Der Eintritt in unbekannte Märkte und Kulturen bzw. der Druck, heimische Kostenpositionen drastisch anzupassen, sind hierfür nur zwei Beispiele. Doch wie könnten... more...
Electromagnetic Theory and Computation
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 38.00This book explores the connection between algebraic structures in topology and computational methods for 3-dimensional electric and magnetic field computation. Although a connection between topology and electromagnetism has been known since the 1800s, there has been very little exposition of it. This book takes steps to close that gap. more...
Durkheim's Philosophy Lectures
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00Moving back and forth between the history of philosophy and the contributions of philosophers in his own day, Durkheim takes up topics as diverse as philosophical psychology, logic, ethics, and metaphysics, and seeks to articulate a unified philosophical position. more...
Space Weapons, Earth Wars
RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95An exploration of the possibility, utility, legalities and limitations of the military use of space, specifically the use in space of weapons or defences for terrestrial conflict. The authors define and classify these weapons, describe their attributes, and explain how they might be used. more...
The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 36.99The Twenty-First-Century Media Industry examines the role that new media technologies are having on the traditional media industry from a media management perspective. It provides an intriguing examination of how traditional media industries are adapting to new media technologies and evolving in the twenty-first century. more...
Resistance and Theological Ethics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2004; US$ 36.99Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999. These writings from educators and ethicists combine to sound a clarion call for the church to stand in resistance to social, economic... more...
Peace versus Justice
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2005; US$ 32.99This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' A wide range of case studies is marshaled to explore relevant peacemaking situations, from the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic... more...









