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Analytic Number Theory (Colloquium Publications, Vol. 53) (Colloquium Publications (Amer Mathematical Soc))
Henryk Iwaniec
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Emmanuel Kowalski
American Mathematical Society
, 2004
Great Reference
This book covers an amazing amount of material and is an extremely good reference, going from more classical topics to spectral methods of automorphic forms and even mentioning the GUE hypothesis and the distribution of zeroes of L-functions. But this is not a book ...
Noncommutative Geometry, Quantum Fields and Motives (Colloquium Publications (Amer Mathematical Soc))
Alain Connes and Matilde Marcolli
American Mathematical Society
, 2007
A new mathematical view of perturbative quantum field theory
Mathematics and physics has had an intense symbiotic relationship in the last few hundred years, but even more so in the last three decades, due in part to the willingness of physicists to learn highly sophisticated "pure" mathematics, but also the willingness of ...
Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the ...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
, 2007
From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits. Far from a mere trade, horticulture profoundly affected Jewish and Persian mystical poetry and caused deep changes ...
Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of ...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
, 2007
Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms ...
Gardens and Imagination: Cultural History and Agency (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of ...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
, 2008
From mirroring the true reality of God in Sufi Persia to the enjoyment of fictitious identities in Rome or present-day Granada, the ways of imagination in gardens are infinitely varied. This book explores how gardens could be imagined, and also how they could be used to trigger the imagination by very different cultures in Japan, China, Russia, ...
Colloquium: Dilemmas of Academic Discourse (Advances in Discourse Processes , Vol 60)
Karen Tracy
Ablex Publishing
, 1997
A unique contribution to studies of intellectual discussion
Karen Tracy, Ph.D. and professor of communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has done an extensive analysis of academic colloquia at two U.S. universities. The study uses discourse analytic methods to illustrate dilemmas of academic talk that arise ...
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge: Volume 4: Proceedings of the International Colloquium in the ...
Cambridge University Press
, 1970
If you want to understand Kuhn: buy it.
I've been a big Kuhn fan for years. I thought I understood his ideas, too, until I read this book. This gem is a debate among some of the most interesting philosophers of science in the twentieth century-- all trying to make sense of Kuhn, most concluding that his ...
Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of ...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
, 2008
Richness of the Middle East gardening legacy
It is not by chance that this book provides an innovative themes on landscape of this part of the world, for long ago, perhaps during the rein of Andalus by the Arabs Umyyad dynasties that gardening emerged as science as well as art then reached Europe and this could ...
Speaking in our Tongues: Proceedings of a Colloquium on Medieval Dialectology and Related Disciplines
D.S.Brewer
, 1994
The papers in this book examine the place of medieval dialectology within the wider realms of historical linguistics and medieval studies. Contributors'interests cover philology, textual studies, codicology and palaeography, onomastics, word geography, lexicography, history and ethnology. They also bring expertise in different languages: English, ...
Contours Of Christology In The New Testament (Mcmaster New Testament Studies)
Richard N. Longenecker
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H. H. BINGHAM COLLOQUIUM IN NEW TESTAMENT
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
, 2005
A Life-Giving Spirit
After a very successful initial foray into the enlightened minds of the New Perspective on Paul, Douglas J Moo extends a warm welcome to true piety and learning in the form of biblical theology, in a chapter titled, 'The Christology Of The Early Pauline Letters'. ...
Garden History: Issues, Approaches, Methods (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape ...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
, 1992
The study of garden history has grown rapidly over the last twenty years. This collection of essays explores the issues, methods, and approaches that students in landscape architecture have developed during that period to cope with the expanding subject of gardens and their history. The volume will serve as a bench mark in the field, with its ...
Biblical Studies/Cultural Studies: The Third Sheffield Colloquium (Gender, Culture, Theory, 7)
Sheffield Academic Press
, 1998
Based on the international colloquium held a t the University of Sheffield, this collection represents th e first book-length encounter between biblical studies and t he proliferating and controversial field of cultural studies . '
Global Solutions of Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations (Colloquium Publications (Amer Mathematical Soc))
Jean Bourgain
American Mathematical Society
, 1999
This volume presents recent progress in the theory of nonlinear dispersive equations, primarily the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. The Cauchy problem for defocusing NLS with critical nonlinearity is discussed. New techniques and results are described on global existence and properties of solutions with large Cauchy data. Current ...
Regional Garden Design in the United States (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape ...
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
, 1995
Regionalism has become a much-discussed design issue for landscape architects in recent years. Increased mobility, uprootedness, and the pace of change in an increasingly technological society have contributed to interest in this concept, which places value on cultural continuity in local areas. This approach to garden design attempts to capture ...
Word of God, Art of Man: The Qur'an and its Creative Expressions: Selected Proceedings from the International ...
Oxford University Press, USA
, 2008
Muslim reverence for the Qur'an as the Word of God has manifested itself in various artistic forms throughout history and up to the present day. This innovative collection of essays explores creative expressions of the Qur'an in a wide range of media. Contributors include museum curators and leading academics in art and architectural history, ...
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