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Michael Allen
The New Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
What is Christian Doctrine? This Companion guides students and scholars through the key issues in the contemporary practice of Christian theology. Including twenty-one essays, specially commissioned from an international team of leading theologians, the volume outlines the central features of Chris...
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Andrew Mangham
The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing tha...
$30.52
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Joseph Bristow
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
This book provides an introduction to the issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. The thirteen chapters offer fresh insights into the works of well-known figures such as Robert Browning, and Alfred Tennyson and the writings of women poets--such as Amy Levy and August...
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V. N. Gribov
Quantum Electrodynamics: Gribov Lectures on Theoretical Physics (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology) (Cambridge .
Based on lectures given by the highly original and distinguished physicist V.N. Gribov, this book provides an accessible introduction to quantum electrodynamics. It presents the theory of quantum electrodynamics in the shortest and clearest way for applied use. A distinctive feature of Gribov's appr...
$81.00
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Michael Robinson
The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
August Strindberg is one of the most enduring of nineteenth-century dramatists, and is also an internationally recognised novelist, autobiographer, and painter. This Companion presents contributions by leading international scholars on different aspects of Strindberg's highly colourful life and work...
$26.59
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Oliver Double
The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy (Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance)
Stand-up comedy is one of the simplest theatre forms in existence. The comedian stands on a (usually) bare stage, talking straight to the audience in the hope of getting laughs. Yet it has never been more popular, with national scenes developing across every continent except Antarctica. In this insi...
$31.00
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Michael A Flower
The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
This Companion, the first dedicated to the philosopher and historian Xenophon of Athens, gives readers a sense of why he has held such a prominent place in literary and political culture from antiquity to the present and has been a favourite author of individuals as diverse as Machiavelli, Thomas Je...
$38.99
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Edward James
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is literature which draws on popular culture, and engages in speculation about science, history, and all varieties of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the...
$29.76
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Glenn Stanley
The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven (Cambridge Companions to Music)
This Companion provides a comprehensive view of Beethoven and his work. The first part of the book presents the composer as a private individual, as a professional, and at the work-place, discussing biographical problems, Beethoven's professional activities when not composing and his methods as a co...
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Leslie Hill
The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Derrida (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930–2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual movements of the present century, and Derrida's o...
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John Webster
The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth (Cambridge Companions to Religion)
This authoritative book offers challenging yet accessible accounts of the major features of Barth's theological work, especially as it has become available through the publication of his collected works, and interacts with the best of contemporary Barth scholarship. It assesses Barth's significance ...
$42.99
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Thea S. Thorsen
The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
In this volume leading international scholars offer a comprehensive, critical and engaging presentation of the genre of Latin love elegy. Opening with an outline of Greek elegy and Latin precursors, the volume challenges the conception of Gallus as the 'inventor' of Latin love elegy, highlights how ...
$48.00
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J. Michael Sproule
Propaganda and Democracy: The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication)
This is the first comprehensive study on the relationship of propaganda to participatory democracy in the United States during the twentieth century. The Muckrackers were the first critics to question whether the standard practices of communications industries, such as advertising and public relatio...
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C. I. Hamilton
The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927 (Cambridge Military Histories)
This is an important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. C. I. Hamilton explores the role of technological change, the global balance of power and, in particular, of finance and the First World War in shaping decision-...
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Michael J. Wichura
The Coordinate-Free Approach to Linear Models (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics, Series Number 19)
This book is about the coordinate-free, or geometric, approach to the theory of linear models; more precisely, Model I ANOVA and linear regression models with nonrandom predictors in a finite-dimensional setting. This approach is more insightful, more elegant, more direct, and simpler than the more ...
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Mark Harrison
Soviet Planning in Peace and War, 1938–1945 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 45)
This book is about the impact of war on the Soviet system of economic planning and management between 1938 and 1945. What was the dynamic of change in the prewar Soviet economic system? How well was the Soviet economy prepared for war? What kind of war followed the German invasion of 1941, and what ...
$45.00
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Liam Murphy
What Makes Law: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)
This book offers an advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy. What factors determine the content of the law in force? What makes a normative system a legal system? How does law beyond the state differ from domestic law? What kind of moral force does law have? These are all ques...
$33.91
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Doyle D. Knight
Elements of Numerical Methods for Compressible Flows (Cambridge Aerospace Series, Series Number 19)
The purpose of this book is to present the basic elements of numerical methods for compressible flows. It is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and specialists working in high speed flows. The focus is on the unsteady one-dimensional Euler equations which form the basis for...
$51.36
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Maria Polinsky
Heritage Languages and Their Speakers (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 159)
This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of languages, it covers all the main components of grammar, including phonetics and phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, semant...
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Henry Duff Traill
The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 26: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays I (Cambridge Library Collection - The Works of Carlyle)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of the Victorian period as a literary genius and...
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