-
Author:Larry O'Connor
Tip of the Iceberg
Growing up in remote central Canada, Larry O'Connor was spellbound by the country farther north--the unknowable white expanses, the harsh lives of its indigenous peoples and animals, and the exploits of its legendary explorers. A memoir of self-discovery, Tip of the Iceberg samples the...- $29.95
$29.95- $29.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Elizabeth Lee Thompson
The Reconstruction of Southern Debtors: Bankruptcy After the Civil War
Based on a careful empirical study of nearly four thousand cases filed in three southern federal districts, this book focuses on how the Bankruptcy Act of 1867 helped shape the course and outcome of Reconstruction. Although passed by a Republican-dominated Congress that was commonly...- $48.95
$48.95- $48.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Leeann Lands
The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950
This history of the idea of "neighborhood" in a major American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion....- $120.95
$120.95- $120.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:James C. Cobb
The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The recent fiftieth anniversary of Brown prompted a surge of tributes: books, television and radio specials, conferences, and speeches. At the same...- $30.95
$30.95- $30.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Sarah Wilkerson Freeman
Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers new perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their...- $120.95
$120.95- $120.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979
Renewing Birmingham is the first book-length study of how federal funding helped transform a twentieth-century southern city. Christopher MacGregor Scribner shows that such funding not only aided Birmingham's transition from an industrial to a service economy but also led to redrawn avenues of power,...- $48.95
$48.95- $48.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:John Herbert Roper
Paul Green: Playwright of the Real South
This is the most thorough and comprehensive biography to date of writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his play In Abraham's Bosom and author of the pioneering symphonic drama The Lost Colony, Green was a literary figure of...- $48.95
$48.95- $48.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Mark D. Hersey
My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver
George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of Conservation, Mark D. Hersey reveals the life and work of this fascinating man who is widely--and reductively--known as the...- $120.95
$120.95- $120.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Byron Herbert Reece
Fable in the Blood: Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece
Collected here are poems by one of Georgia's most intriguing and talented poets of the twentieth century. Byron Herbert Reece was born in Union County, Georgia, in 1917 and authored four volumes of poems and two novels during his short lifetime. Until now, many...- $34.95
$34.95- $34.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Barton C. Marcy
Fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin: With Emphasis on the Savannah River Site
Featuring more than 200 color photographs of species and habitats, this is the first comprehensive assessment of the fishes of the Middle Savannah River Basin (MSRB). Located along the Georgia-South Carolina border, the MSRB comprises the portion of the Savannah River drainage area located...- $51.95
$51.95- $51.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Cedrick May
Evangelism and Resistance in the Black Atlantic, 1760-1835
This study focuses on the role of early African American Christianity in the formation of American egalitarian religion and politics. It also provides a new context for understanding how black Christianity and evangelism developed, spread, and interacted with transatlantic religious cultures of the eighteenth...- $44.95
$44.95- $44.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Jeffrey Myers
Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature
In American literature, our discourse on the themes of race and ecology is too narrowly focused on the twentieth century and does not adequately take into account how these themes are interrelated, argues Jeffrey Myers. His new study broadens the field by looking at...- $48.95
$48.95- $48.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Dean McWilliams
Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of Race
Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932) was the first African American writer of fiction to win the attention and approval of America's literary establishment. Looking anew at Chesnutt's public and private writings, his fiction and nonfiction, and his well-known and recently rediscovered works, Dean McWilliams explores Chesnutt's...- $48.95
$48.95- $48.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Allen Tullos
Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie
In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation's most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary--the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity. From Alabama's largely ineffectual politicians to its miserly support of education, health care,...- $120.95
$120.95- $120.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Eva Sheppard Wolf
Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South. There were several paths...- $120.95
$120.95- $120.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Armida Gilbert
The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform
This gathering of eleven original essays with a substantive introduction brings the traditional image of Emerson the Transcendentalist face-to-face with an emerging image of Emerson the reformer. The Emerson Dilemma highlights the conflict between Emerson's philosophical attraction to solitary contemplation and the demands of...- $50.95
$50.95- $50.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Sally Russell
Roots and Ever Green: The Selected Letters of Ina Dillard Russell
When Ina Dillard Russell died in 1953, flags throughout Georgia were lowered to half-mast in honor of her dedication to her state, community, and family. Roots and Ever Green is the engaging true story, told through her letters, of this remarkable woman's life at...- $57.95
$57.95- $57.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:John F. Wilson
Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and History
This lively survey ranges across several centuries of change in the ways historians have thought and written about religion in America. In particular, John F. Wilson is concerned with how historians have perceived religion's relationship to the political organization of our country. He begins...- $30.95
$30.95- $30.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Lucinda H. Mackethan
Recollections of a Southern Daughter: A Memoir by Cornelia Jones Pond of Liberty County
Recollections of a Southern Daughter recalls life in antebellum Liberty County, Georgia, a time and place best known today through the letters of the Charles Colcock Jones family, published in the classic Children of Pride, and the letters and journals of the Roswell King,...- $34.95
$34.95- $34.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:John Russell
Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel
Nonfiction novels have usually been associated with the "new journalism" writers of the 1960s such as Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote. Yet this form has long commanded a key position in the literary canon, as John Russell now reveals. Russell identifies eleven...- $48.95
$48.95- $48.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Nancy Fredricks
Melville's Art of Democracy
Was Herman Melville, one of the most canonical of American authors, an early practitioner and advocate of multiculturalism? In Melville's Art of Democracy, Nancy Fredricks examines Melville's search for literary strategies compatible with egalitarian, democratic, and multicultural values. Fredricks argues that Melville's concern with...- $43.95
$43.95- $43.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:John Franklin Jameson
John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Volume 2: The Years of Growth, 1859-1905
John Franklin Jameson (1859-1937) was instrumental in the development of history as an academic discipline in the United States. After the Johns Hopkins University awarded him its first doctorate in history, he became a founder of the American Historical Review and was a key...- $55.95
$55.95- $55.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:John Franklin Jameson
John Franklin Jameson and the Development of Humanistic Scholarship in America: Volume 1: Selected Essays
John Franklin Jameson (1859-1937) was instrumental in the development of history as an academic discipline in the United States. After the Johns Hopkins University awarded him the country's first doctorate in history, he became a founder of the American Historical Association, served as the...- $55.95
$55.95- $55.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Felix Klein
The Theory of the Top. Volume IV: Technical Applications of the Theory of the Top
The Theory of the Top was originally presented by Felix Klein as an 1895 lecture at Gtingen University that was broadened in scope and clarified as a result of collaboration with Arnold Sommerfeld. The Theory of the Top: Volume IV. Technical Applications of the...- $109.99
$109.99- $109.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:J. Adams
The Langlands Classification and Irreducible Characters for Real Reductive Groups
This monograph explores the geometry of the local Langlands conjecture. The conjecture predicts a parametrizations of the irreducible representations of a reductive algebraic group over a local field in terms of the complex dual group and the Weil-Deligne group. For p-adic fields, this conjecture...- $159.99
$159.99- $159.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Carlos S. Kubrusly
The Elements of Operator Theory
{\it Elements of Operatory Theory} is largely self-contained and geared towards graduate students, mathematicians and scientists who need to apply operator theory to their field. Written in a user- friendly, motivating style, fundamental topics are presented systematically, i.e, set theory, algebraic structures, topological structures,...- $129.99
$129.99- $129.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Daniel Liberzon
Switching in Systems and Control
This book bridges the gap between classical mathematical control theory and the interdisciplinary field of hybrid systems. Presented are theoretical developments in the field of stability analysis and control synthesis of systems that combine continuous dynamics with switching events. The theory of such switched...- $99.99
$99.99- $99.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Robert D. MacPherson
Raoul Bott: Collected Papers: Volume 3: Foliations
The Collected Papers of Raoul Bott are contained in five volumes, with each volume covering a different subject and each representing approximately a decade of Bott's work. The volumes are: Volume 1: Topology and Lie Groups (1950's)Volume 2: Differential Operators (1960's)Volume 3: Foliations (1970's)Volume...- $199.99
$199.99- $199.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Guillermo J. Silva
Pid Controllers for Time-Delay Systems
Filling a gap in the literature, this book is a presentation of recent results in the field of PID controllers, including their design, analysis, and synthesis. Emphasis is placed on the efficient computation of the entire set of PID controllers achieving stability and various...- $109.99
$109.99- $109.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Ilia Itenberg
Perspectives in Analysis, Geometry, and Topology: On the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Oleg Viro
Preface.- 1 Selman Akbulut, Exotic structures on smooth 4-manifolds.- 2 Kenneth Baker, John Etnyre, Rational linking and contact geometry.- 3 Robert Berman, Jean-Pierre Demailly, Regularity of plurisubharmonic upper envelopes in big cohomology classes.- 4 Alex Degtarev, Towards the generalized Shapiro and Shapiro conjecture.-5 Alex...- $159.99
$159.99- $159.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Jie Chen
Parametric Statistical Change Point Analysis: With Applications to Genetics, Medicine, and Finance
This revised and expanded second edition is an in-depth study of the change point problem from a general point of view, as well as a further examination of change point analysis of the most commonly used statistical models. Change point problems are encountered in...- $169.99
$169.99- $169.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Fitzmaurice
Nonlinear Waves and Weak Turbulence: With Applications in Oceanography and Condensed Matter Physics
This book is an outgrowth of the NSF-CBMS conference Nonlinear Waves 3 Weak Turbulence held at Case Western Reserve University in May 1992. The principal speaker at the conference was Professor V. E. Zakharov who delivered a series of ten lectures outlining the historical...- $169.99
$169.99- $169.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Michael J. Boskin
NAFTA at 20: The North American Free Trade Agreement's Achievements and Challenges
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was bold and controversial from the start. When first conceived, it was far from obvious that it would be possible given the circumstances of the times. Drawing from a December 2013 Hoover Institution conference on "NAFTA at...- $19.95
$19.95- $19.95
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Mariano Giaquinta
Mathematical Analysis: An Introduction to Functions of Several Variables
Preface.-Differential Calculus.-The differential calculus for scalar functions.-The differential calculus for vector-valued functions.-The theorems of the differential calculus.-Invertibility of map Rn to Rn.-Differential calculus in Banach spaces.-Exercises.-The Integral Calculus.-Lebesque's integral.-Convergence theorems.-Mollifiers and approximation.-Integral calculus.-Measure and area.-The Gauss-Green formula.-Exercises.-Curves and Differential Forms.-Differential forms, fields, and work.-Conservative...- $119.99
$119.99- $119.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Bruce Sagan
Mathematical Essays in Honor of Gian-Carlo Rota
In April of 1996 an array of mathematicians converged on Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Rotafest and Umbral Calculus Workshop, two con- ferences celebrating Gian-Carlo Rota's 64th birthday. It seemed appropriate when feting one of the world's great combinatorialists to have the anniversary be a...- $219.99
$219.99- $219.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Tyn Myint-U
Linear Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers
This significantly expanded fourth edition is designed as an introduction to the theory and applications of linear PDEs. The authors provide fundamental concepts, underlying principles, a wide range of applications, and various methods of solutions to PDEs. In addition to essential standard material on...- $139.99
$139.99- $139.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Ben M. Chen
Linear Systems Theory: A Structural Decomposition Approach
This text is the first comprehensive treatment of structural decompositions of various types of linear systems, including autonomous, unforced or unsensed, strictly proper, non-strictly proper, and descriptor or singular systems. Structural properties play an important role in the understanding of linear systems, and also...- $89.99
$89.99- $89.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Jean-Luc Brylinski
Lie Theory and Geometry: In Honor of Bertram Kostant
Author: Jean-Luc BrylinskiISBN-10: 0817637613ISBN-13: 9780817637613Publisher: BirkhauserLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1994Pages: 596Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.31lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.34w x 1.33d- $199.99
$199.99- $199.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Manfred Denker
Introductory Statistics and Random Phenomena: Uncertainty, Complexity and Chaotic Behavior in Engineering and Science
The present book is based on a course developed as partofthe large NSF-funded GatewayCoalitionInitiativeinEngineeringEducationwhichincludedCaseWest- ern Reserve University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Drexel University, Florida International University, New Jersey Institute ofTechnology, Ohio State University, University ofPennsylvania, Polytechnic University, and Universityof South Carolina. The Coalition aimed...- $54.99
$54.99- $54.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Ovidiu Calin
Geometric Mechanics on Riemannian Manifolds: Applications to Partial Differential Equations
Differential geometry techniques have very useful and important applications in partial differential equations and quantum mechanics. This work presents a purely geometric treatment of problems in physics involving quantum harmonic oscillators, quartic oscillators, minimal surfaces, and Schringer's, Einstein's and Newton's equations. Geometric Mechanics on...- $99.99
$99.99- $99.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Andrei I. Subbotin
Generalized Solutions of First Order Pdes: The Dynamical Optimization Perspective
Hamilton-Jacobi equations and other types of partial differential equa- tions of the first order are dealt with in many branches of mathematics, mechanics, and physics. These equations are usually nonlinear, and func- tions vital for the considered problems are not smooth enough to satisfy...- $109.99
$109.99- $109.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Franco Pavese
Data Modeling for Metrology and Testing in Measurement Science [With DVD]
This book provide a comprehensive set of modeling methods for data and uncertainty analysis, taking readers beyond mainstream methods described in standard texts. The focus is on techniques having a broad range of real-world applications in a variety of fields.Data Modeling for Metrology and...- $219.99
$219.99- $219.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Anthony W. Knapp
Basic Algebra
Basic Algebra and Advanced Algebra systematically develop concepts and tools in algebra that are vital to every mathematician, whether pure or applied, aspiring or established. Together, the two books give the reader a global view of algebra and its role in mathematics as a...- $159.99
$159.99- $159.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Bruce C. Berndt
Analytic Number Theory: The Halberstam Festschrift 2
The second of two volumes presenting papers from an international conference on analytic number theory. The two volumes contain 50 papers, with an emphasis on topics such as sieves, related combinatorial aspects, multiplicative number theory, additive number theory, and Riemann zeta-function.Author: Bruce C. BerndtISBN-10:...- $139.99
$139.99- $139.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Sebastian Aniţa
An Introduction to Optimal Control Problems in Life Sciences and Economics: From Mathematical Models to Numerical Simulation with Matlab(r)
Combining two important and growing areas of applied mathematics--control theory and modeling--this textbook introduces and builds on methods for simulating and tackling concrete problems in a variety of applied sciences. Emphasizing "learning by doing," the authors focus on examples and applications to real-world problems....- $54.99
$54.99- $54.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Jean-Camille Birget
Algorithmic Problems in Groups and Semigroups
This volume contains papers which are based primarily on talks given at an inter- national conference on Algorithmic Problems in Groups and Semigroups held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from May ll-May 16, 1998. The conference coincided with the Centennial Celebration of the Department...- $109.99
$109.99- $109.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Steven G. Krantz
A Primer of Real Analytic Functions
"This well-organized and clearly written advanced textbook introduces students to real analytic functions of one or more real variables. Many historical remarks, examples and references to the literature encourage the beginner to study further this ample, valuable and exciting theory." (1st ed.) New to...- $99.99
$99.99- $99.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Ricardo Estrada
A Distributional Approach to Asymptotics: Theory and Applications
"...the book is a valuable one, one that many applied mathematicians may want to buy. The authors are undeniably experts in their field...most of the material has appeared in no other book." SIAM News (Review of 1st/e)....Key features of this significantly expanded second edition:...- $54.99
$54.99- $54.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:W. D. Wallis
A Beginner's Guide to Finite Mathematics: For Business, Management, and the Social Sciences
This second edition of A Beginner's Guide to Finite Mathematics takes a distinctly applied approach to finite mathematics at the freshman and sophomore level. Topics are presented sequentially: the book opens with a brief review of sets and numbers, followed by an introduction to...- $79.99
$79.99- $79.99
- Unit price
- per
-
Author:Sharon Monteith
Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction
Though black and white women have long been associated with the heart of southern culture, their relationships with each other in the context of contemporary southern fiction have been largely glossed over until now. In Advancing Sisterhood? Sharon Monteith offers an enlightening map of...- $51.95
$51.95- $51.95
- Unit price
- per