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Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 64.00Balancing rigour and intuition, and emphasizing applications, this modern text is ideal for university courses and actuarial exam preparation. more...
Solutions Manual for Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 26.00This must-have manual provides solutions to all exercises in the authors' groundbreaking text. more...
British Women Writers and the Profession of Literary Criticism, 1789-1832
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 105.00This book examines professional literary criticism by Romantic-era British women to reveal that, while developing a conscious professionalism, women literary critics helped to shape the aesthetic models that defined Romantic-era literary values and made the British literary heritage a source of national pride. Women critics understood the contested... more...
The Laws of Evening
Scribner 2003; US$ 13.99In this dazzling debut collection, Mary Yukari Waters, a remarkably gifted, award-winning Japanese-American writer, opens a window onto a foreign culture as she reveals the universal humanity of her characters. These uncommonly elegant and assured stories explore Japanese society caught between the long shadow of World War II and the rapid advance... more...
The Favorites
Scribner 2009; US$ 25.00When Mary Yukari Waters's short-story collection, The Laws of Evening , was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio's Fresh Air said that "Waters's empathic imagination is so vivid she makes her reader feel like a silent witness to the small acts of cruelty and surrender that the history books can't record." In her exquisite first... more...
The Favorites
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; US$ 12.99Kyoto 1978. Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rexford returns to Japan with her mother for the first time in five years, to stay with the family at her mother's childhood home. Having begun her teenage years in America, where she is popular, confident and assured, it is a shock for Sarah to find herself ill at ease and unsure of what to say or how to say it,... more...
The Laws Of Evening
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; US$ 10.99After the war, the destruction begins. With exquisite prose and breathtaking insight, Mary Yukari Waters brings to life a generation of Japanese women who survived the war their husbands did not - the last representatives of a delicate, ancient culture. In their past lies the brutality and defeat of World War Two, which fills them with shame. In the... more...
The Favorites
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableKyoto 1978. Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rexford returns to Japan with her mother for the first time in five years, to stay with the family at her mother's childhood home. Having begun her teenage years in America, where she is popular, confident and assured, it is a shock for Sarah to find herself ill at ease and unsure of what to say or how to say it,... more...
The Laws Of Evening
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableAfter the war, the destruction begins. With exquisite prose and breathtaking insight, Mary Yukari Waters brings to life a generation of Japanese women who survived the war their husbands did not - the last representatives of a delicate, ancient culture. In their past lies the brutality and defeat of World War Two, which fills them with shame. In the... more...
The Laws Of Evening
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableAfter the war, the destruction begins. With exquisite prose and breathtaking insight, Mary Yukari Waters brings to life a generation of Japanese women who survived the war their husbands did not - the last representatives of a delicate, ancient culture. In their past lies the brutality and defeat of World War Two, which fills them with shame. In the... more...









