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The great awakening trilogy volume II
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Post Hill Press
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[2023]
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English
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Umberto Zannier is professor of mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Pisa, Italy. He is the author of Lecture Notes on Diophantine Analysis and the editor of Diophantine Geometry.
This book considers the so-called Unlikely Intersections, a topic that embraces well-known issues, such as Lang's and Manin-Mumford's, concerning torsion points in subvarieties of tori or abelian varieties. More generally, the book considers algebraic...
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Xinyi Yuan is assistant professor of mathematics at Princeton University. Shou-wu Zhang is professor of mathematics at Princeton University and Columbia University. Wei Zhang is assistant professor of mathematics at Columbia University.
This comprehensive account of the Gross-Zagier formula on Shimura curves over totally real fields relates the heights of Heegner points on abelian varieties to the derivatives of L-series. The formula will have new...
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Science is incomplete. It always has been and might always be. It has been right some of the time but wrong way too much of the time. Most of the theories of the the greatest scientists of all time have been met initially with skepticism, accusations of incompetence and baffoonery, and some put in jail for herecy. There is the quintessential quest for the 'Theory of Everything' among physicists to equivicate the known science of the macro world (the...
5) El Pequeño Libro de la Psicología del Color: Descubre el Significado de los Colores y Cómo Influyen
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Nuestro mundo está lleno de colores. En todas partes encontramos hermosos tonos que nos hacen la vida más agradable. Sin embargo, pocas veces somos conscientes del origen de los colores que vemos. ¿Qué son realmente los colores? ¿Por qué podemos ver en colores?
Más importante aún, es saber de qué forma los colores pueden cambiar nuestra percepción de las cosas, nuestro juicio sobre algo o alguien, y de qué manera pudieran estar siendo usados...
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Get the Summary of M. Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Brian Arthur, a Stanford University professor, felt disillusioned with traditional economics, which he found static and disconnected from the dynamic complexities of real-world markets. His concept of "increasing returns" suggested that success breeds further success in certain markets, challenging the equilibrium-focused theories...
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In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism's development, registers the reductive and regressive tendencies produced by capitalism's effect on individuals and society.
Ruda examines a problem that has invisibly been shaping the history of modern, especially...
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Seyla Benhabib's ongoing work has expanded the range and scope of critical theory beyond its origins to address questions of gender, migration, and difference. This book brings together an ensemble of leading theorists and younger voices to explore new dimensions of Benhabib's thought across critical theory, feminism, and democratic theory, foregrounding the intricate relationship between critique and universality.
Another Universalism provides both...
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Joram Lindenstrauss is professor emeritus of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. David Preiss is professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick. Jaroslav Tier is associate professor of mathematics at Czech Technical University in Prague.
This book makes a significant inroad into the unexpectedly difficult question of existence of Fréchet derivatives of Lipschitz maps of Banach spaces into higher dimensional spaces. Because...
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Ben Brubaker is assistant professor of mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Daniel Bump is professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Solomon Friedberg is professor of mathematics at Boston College.
Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series are generalizations of the Riemann zeta function. Like the Riemann zeta function, they are Dirichlet series with analytic continuation and functional equations, having applications to analytic...
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Get the Summary of Russ Ramsey's Rembrandt Is in the Wind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Rembrandt Is in the Wind" explores the concept that beauty emerges from healing and restoration. It highlights the importance of authenticity, using Vincent van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear" as an example of raw honesty. Van Gogh's time in the Saint-Paul asylum, despite mental illness and personal challenges,...
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Get the Summary of Michio Kaku's Quantum Supremacy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Quantum Supremacy" by Michio Kaku chronicles the advent of quantum computing, a transformative technology that surpasses traditional supercomputers by exploiting atomic properties to tackle complex problems, such as simulating chemical reactions. This innovation has sparked a competitive race among tech giants like IBM, Google,...
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Este libro contiene tres ensayos escritos (y dictados) entre 1882 y 1889: Lección para estudiantes de arte, Decoración del hogar y Modelos londinenses. Reflejan el interés y profundidad del autor acerca del arte y la belleza: en ellos no solo aborda la composición, el color y los materiales, sino también la universalidad de lo bello en la decoración, en el vestuario y en el mero existir.
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DK Publishing
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2024.
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English
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Publisher Annotation: This is an unapologetic take on feminism as a thing that everyone can embrace, no matter their gender. It tackles ideas around equality, bias, and discrimination because of gender. It also empowers young girls and boys to embrace feminism and show up for others when they’re being treated unfairly.
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The Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer on the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most salient expression as a sociological pursuit in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Addressing the epistemological premises of the field at present, the book also refutes the common criticism that the sociology of literature does not take the text to be the central...
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Nicholas M. Katz is professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He is the author or coauthor of six previous titles in the Annals of Mathematics Studies: Arithmetic Moduli of Elliptic Curves (with Barry Mazur); Gauss Sums, Kloosterman Sums, and Monodromy Groups; Exponential Sums and Differential Equations; Rigid Local Systems; Twisted L-Functions and Monodromy; and Moments, Monodromy, and Perversity.
Convolution and Equidistribution explores...
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"Silber is a charming narrator, and the stories in this book range from the Montgomery bus boycott to the mating habits of spiders to the sinking of the Lusitania. The insight linking these episodes is both simple and profound: when people (or spiders) have nothing to lose, caution deserts them. Refugees seeking asylum, presidents facing term limits, patients with terminal illnesses, Adolf Hitler in December 1944: all illustrate how desperate people...
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Politically speaking, do heroes matter? Are we living in a post-heroic age? The Republican Hero addresses both these questions. The general tenor of modern thinking is that heroes do matter but that the modern age is characterized by a narrowing of moral horizons once illuminated by heroes, secular and spiritual. Michael Lusztig argues that the modern world is not post-heroic. He makes the case that the modern age is the most heroic age, if measured...
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Is the bridge between the Austrian and Chicago schools coming together or moving apart?
In Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? economist and author Mark Skousen debates the Austrian and Chicago schools of free-market economics, which differ in monetary policy, business cycle, government policy, and methodology. Both have played a successful role in advancing classic free-market economics and countering the critics of capitalism during crucial times...
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"Tensiones y Extensiones Armónicas: Explorando los Círculos Armónicos Mayores" es un viaje apasionante hacia el fascinante mundo de la teoría musical y la composición. Este libro te sumerge en la riqueza de los círculos armónicos mayores y te guía a través de un territorio musical donde las tensiones y extensiones se convierten en las herramientas secretas para crear emociones y profundidad en tus composiciones.
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