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Hester tells the story of the aging but powerful Catherine Vernon, and her conflict with the young and determined Hester, whose growing attachment to Edward, Catherine's favorite, spells disaster for all concerned. Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as hea...
Author
Margaret Oliphant
Binding
Paperback
Pages
512
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199555494
EAN Code
9780199555499
ISBN #
15
Interpolation and approximation offer important applications in computer science and elsewhere. This intermediate-level survey by a noted authority abounds in useful examples of related subjects and has been praised for its level of clarity and reliance on well-presented and useful examples.A brief ...
Author
Philip J. Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
416
Publisher
Dover Publications
ISBN #
0486624951
EAN Code
9780486624952
ISBN #
14
In this charming memoir, a renowned mathematician and winner of the American Book Award traces his career in mathematics from early lessons in horse racing and the realities of life to his adventures on the lecture circuit. A thought-provoking mix of autobiography, history, and insights into the rol...
Author
Philip J. Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
368
Publisher
A K Peters/CRC Press
ISBN #
1568811160
EAN Code
9781568811161
ISBN #
13
Goddess Unmasked provides the first critical evaluation by a qualified scholar of the theological, anthropological, and historical claims of the "Goddess" movement. This timely book reveals how Goddess spirituality has spread far beyond the exotic confines of witchcraft and environmental cults, show...
Author
Philip G. Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
418
Publisher
Spence Publishing Company
ISBN #
0965320898
EAN Code
9780965320894
ISBN #
11
The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more.Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions. events, ...
Author
Philip Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
648
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199269203
EAN Code
9780199269204
ISBN #
6
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how inc...
Author
Philip Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
160
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199683182
EAN Code
9780199683185
ISBN #
4
Here is the first full-length biography of Bernard Malamud, the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period, a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the ranks of...
Author
Philip Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199270090
EAN Code
9780199270095
ISBN #
3
Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method. ...
Author
Philip Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN #
0826486959
EAN Code
9780826486950
ISBN #
2