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Transformation Groups for Beginners
Presents a discussion of algebraic operations on the points in the plane and rigid motions in the Euclidean plane. This work introduces the notions of a transformation group and of an abstract group. It gives an elementary exposition of the basic ideas of Sophus Lie about symmetries of differential equations.
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
By the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGER ‘Chilling . . . Poignant . . . Haunting and gripping . . . gets into worlds that are otherwise invisible to us’ Daily Mail A Polish detective tries to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel An arson investigator races to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent Scientists stalk a sea monster … In this engrossing collection, David Grann sets out to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Each of these mesmerising stories is true; the protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven by deception and murder. Others go mad. After all, as Holmes puts it, ‘Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.’
East Central Europe
What is East Central Europe? Can it be defined with any precision? The question of definition is a difficult one as is ussually the case concerning borderlands whose historical developments show little continuity and an uncertain identity born of the conflict between aspirations and reality. It is in East Central Europe that „no peace settlement is ever final, no frontiers are secure and each generation must begin its work anew”. Is there any chance that this definition will become out of date?
Groza i postgroza
Monografia Groza i postgroza, powstała pod wspólną redakcją Kseni Olkusz i Barbary Szymczak-Maciejczyk jest siódmym tomem serii „Perspektywy Ponowoczesności” i trzecim już — po Zombie w kulturze oraz Światach grozy — poświęconym studiom nad fantastyką grozy. Rozdziałom polskich badaczy towarzyszą również po raz pierwszy w historii serii przekłady prac wybitnych światowych znawców problematyki: Gregory’ego Claeysa, Elany Gomel, Mathiasa Clasena oraz Leigh M. McLennon. Z wprowadzenia Kseni Olkusz: Współczesne narracje grozy (postgroza) stanowią obecnie niejednokrotnie nie tylko twory komplementarne wobec konwencji, lecz i będące polemiką z tradycją, s...
PISA 2009 Results: Learning to Learn Student Engagement, Strategies and Practices (Volume III)
This volume of PISA 2009 results examines 15-year-olds’ motivation, their engagement with reading and their use of effective learning strategies.
Leaves in the Wind
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Place and Politics
The first part of the book is concerned with developing the place perspective. Three dimensions of place are put forward: locale and sense of place describe the objective and subjective dimensions of local social arrangements within which political behaviour is realized; location refers to the impact of the ‘macro-order’, to the fact that a single place is one among many and that the social life of a place is embedded in theworkings of the state and the world economy. The second part of the book provides detailed examinations of American and Scottish politics, using the place perspective. Contrary to the view that place or locality is important only in ‘traditional societies’, this book argues that place is of continuing significance in even the most ‘advanced’ societies.
