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Frank Stewart's Bridge Club
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Frank Stewart's Bridge Club

A collection of hands that take the reader through a year at the author's (fictional) bridge club. The characters make all the common errors, so the author manages to instruct while he entertains. For fans of Stewart's enormously popular syndicated bridge column, in which these characters appear regularly.

Honor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Honor

What is honor? Is it the same as reputation? Or is it rather a sentiment? Is it a character trait, like integrity? Or is it simply a concept too vague or incoherent to be fully analyzed? In the first sustained comparative analysis of this elusive notion, Frank Stewart writes that none of these ideas is correct. Drawing on information about Western ideas of honor from sources as diverse as medieval Arthurian romances, Spanish dramas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the writings of German jurists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society—the Bedouin—Stewart argues that honor must be understood as a right, basically a right to respect. He shows that by understanding honor this way, we can resolve some of the paradoxes that have long troubled scholars, and can make sense of certain institutions (for instance the medieval European pledge of honor) that have not hitherto been properly understood. Offering a powerful new way to understand this complex notion, Honor has important implications not only for the social sciences but also for the whole history of European sensibility.

Introduction to Linear Algebra
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Introduction to Linear Algebra

Introduction to Linear Algebra stresses finite dimensional vector spaces and linear transformations. Intended for undergraduate majors in mathematics, applied mathematics, chemistry, and physics, the treatment's only prerequisite is a first course in calculus. Proofs are given in detail, and carefully chosen problems demonstrate the variety of situations in which these concepts arise. After a brief Introduction, the text advances to chapters on the plane, linear dependence, span, dimension, bases, and subspaces. Subsequent chapters explore linear transformations, the dual space in terms of multilinear forms and determinants, a traditional treatment of determinants, and inner product spaces. Extensive Appendixes cover equations and identities; variables, quantifiers, and unknowns; sets; proofs; indices and summations; and functions.

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2014

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1940
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Sweet Swing Blues on the Road
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Sweet Swing Blues on the Road

A year in the life of the jazz musician and composer includes his views on rap, the road, romance, creativity, politics, culture, and the role of the artist in American society.

Fountain Inn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Fountain Inn

Before there was an inn and a fountain, the present town of Fountain Inn was half Indian Territory bisected by the "Old Indian Boundary Line." It was established in 1766 by a treaty made between Old Hop, the head of the Cherokees, and Gov. James Glen of the province of South Carolina. The Cherokees used this area--a region of dense forests, canebrakes, and springs of water--for hunting deer, turkeys, panthers, bears, wolves, wildcats, and even buffalo. Only a few settlers had moved to the territory prior to the Revolutionary War. The Fairview Presbyterian Church community was not settled until 1786. Around 1830, a stagecoach stop was established where there was not only an inn but also a spring of water that gushed two feet in the air like a fountain. In time, the stop became known as Fountain Inn. After the War Between the States, Noah Cannon, a resident of the Greer area, bought up huge tracts of land, and so began the village that was chartered in 1886.

The Lost Girls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 811

The Lost Girls

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Susan Lund

Too many girls missing in the Pacific Northwest. Three serial killers with too many victims still at large. Two crime fighters on their trail -- amateur sleuth and crime reporter Tess McClintock and her partner former FBI Special Agent Michael Carter. Three stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat...

The Poem Behind the Poem
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

The Poem Behind the Poem

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"The translator must keep faith with the deeper need that poetry fulfills in our lives, [to] discover not what the poem says but what it does."--Tony Barnstone, in his essay "Poem Behind the Poem" The translation of Asian poetry into Western languages has been one of the most important literary events over the past one hundred years. Readers have fallen in love with Asian poetry and writers have been greatly influenced by it. What neither reader nor writer ever witness is the intense engagement behind the poem, how the translator must serve as both artist and alchemist, urging a poem to work and sing in a foreign language. Success is rare, and the practice of translation, as W.S. Merwin has ...

Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1742

Violations of Free Speech and Rights of Labor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1941
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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General Catalogue of Printed Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1138

General Catalogue of Printed Books

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1969
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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