Albert Einstein has quit his university teaching position and works six days a week as a second-class clerk in a patent office. With a wife and a newborn child, he’s struggling for money and isolated from academia. Yet out of this upheaval will come the basis for his greatest work, and one of the most spectacular discoveries of all time--the Theory of Relativity--leading the scientific community to refer to 1905 as annus mirabilis, or "the miracle year." In this fascinating account, renowned science writers John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin delve into the year that brought the world into the nuclear age. Covering Einstein’s scientific achievements--the completion of a doctoral degree and the three papers that form the basis of the Theory of Relativity--as well as his tumultuous personal life, the Gribbins present the historical context that led to this,the most famous equation of all time, and that changed the world as we know it. 作者简介： MARY GRIBBIN trained in psychology at the Unive

Most people think of yoga as a solitary activity that isinherently therapeutic. While that is generally true, yoga posesand breathing practices can also be prescribed for specific healthproblems—often in combination with dietary advice taken fromAyurveda, traditional Indian medicine. Yoga Therapy is an essentialguide for yoga teachers, advanced practitioners, and anyone whowants to make therapeutic use of yoga. A. G. and Indra Mohanprescribe postures, breathing techniques, and basic Ayurvedicprinciples for a variety of common health problems, includingasthma, back pain, constipation, hip pain, knee pain, menstrualproblems, and scoliosis. Yoga Therapy is one of the few books that shows yoga teachers howto put together appropriate yoga sequences and breathing techniquesfor their students. Mohan details how to correctly move into, hold,and move out of poses, how to breathe during practice to achievespecific results, and how to customize a yoga practice by creatingsequences of yoga poses for a particular pers

Studying the dynamics of a large number of particlesinteracting through long-range forces, commonly referred to as the'N-body problem', is a central aspect of many different branches ofphysics. In recent years, significant advances have been made inthe development of fast N-body algorithms to deal efficiently withsuch complex problems. This book is the first to give a thoroughintroduction to these so-called 'tree methods', setting out thebasic principles and giving many practical examples of their use.No prior specialist knowledge is assumed, and the techniques areillustrated throughout with reference to a broad range ofapplications. The book will be of great interest to graduatestudents and researchers working on the modelling of systems inastrophysics, plasma physics, nuclear and particle physics,condensed matter physics and materials science.

The Rhineland region includes the core regional economy ofwestern Europe, encompassing Belgium, Luxemburg and parts of theNetherlands, France, Switzerland and Germany. Throughout historythere have been tensions between this region's roles as a frontierand as western Europe's economic core. Michael Loriaux argues thatthe European Union arose from efforts to deconstruct this frontier.He traces Rhineland geopolitics back to its first emergence,restoring frontier deconstruction to the forefront of discussionabout the EU. He recounts how place names were manipulated tolegitimate political power and shows how this manipulationgenerated the geopolitics that the EU now tries to undo. Loriauxalso argues that the importance of this issue has significantlyaffected the nature of the EU's development and helps condition afestering legitimation crisis.

How do our feelings for others shape our attitudes and conducttowards them? Is morality primarily a matter of rational choice, orinstinctual feeling? Joseph Duke Filonowicz takes the reader on anengaging, informative tour of some of the main issues inphilosophical ethics, explaining and defending the ideas of theearly-modern British sentimentalists. These philosophers -Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith - argued that it is ourfeelings, and not our 'reason', which ultimately determine how wejudge what is good or bad, right or wrong, and how we choose to acttowards our fellow human beings. Filonowicz draws on contemporarysociology and evolutionary biology as well as present-day moraltheory to examine and defend the sentimentalist view and tochallenge the rationalistic character of contemporary ethics. Hisbook will appeal to readers interested in both history ofphilosophy and current ethical debates.

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The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus,Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but nevermore so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and RomanNovel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast ofexperts in the field. The emphasis is upon the criticalinterpretation of the texts within historical settings, both inantiquity and in the later generations that have been and continueto be inspired by them. All the central issues of currentscholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class,religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more.Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents,literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity andbeyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. Thiscollection will be essential for scholars and students, as well asfor others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction intothis exhilarating material. · Comprehensive, sophisticated critical

A step-by-step guide to establishing learning organizationswithin existing companies functions as a participative workbook,with exercises for both individuals and teams, suggested approachesand ideas, and success stories. 100,000 first printing. $100,000ad/promo.

Bryony Randall explores the twin concepts of daily time and ofeveryday life through the writing of several major modernistauthors. The book begins with a contextualising chapter on thepsychologists William James and Henri Bergson. It goes on to devotechapters to Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, H. D. and VirginiaWoolf. These experimental writers, she argues, reveal everyday lifeand daily time as rich and strange, not simply a banal backdrop tomore important events. Moreover, Randall argues that payingattention to the everyday and daily time can be politicallyempowering and subversive. The specific social and cultural contextof the early twentieth century is one in which the concept of dailytime is particularly strongly challenged. By examining Modernism'sengagement with or manifestation of this notion of daily time, shereveals a highly original perspective on their concerns andcomplexities.

Asperger Syndrome has become an increasingly common disorder.One in 300 individuals may have AS—exhibiting characteristics suchas average to high intelligence, obsessive behavior, intensespecial interests, and difficulty dealing with everyday socialsituations—and it is now more prevalent than childhood cancer andDown’s syndrome. As the mother of a boy diagnosed with AS in 1994, Barbara Kirbyfound scant resources and support. She developed theinternationally renowned OASIS (Online Asperger SyndromeInformation and Support) Web site in 1995 to help other parentsfind the information they need. She teamed up with PatriciaRomanowski Bashe, now co-owner of OASIS and herself the mother of ason with AS, to write The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome ,which has become the standout authority in the field and amust-have for this growing audience. Now Bashe and Kirby have crafted a fully revised edition of thiscomprehensive resource for parents, teachers, therapists, andanyone who knows or works with someone with

In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of black feminist intellectuals and writers. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of a range of prominent thinkers and draws from fiction, poetry, music and oral history, to provide a superbly crafted and revolutionary book that gave the first synthetic overview of black feminist thought and its canon.

The Z notation is a language for expressing mathematicalspecifications of computing systems. By providing a formalsemantics for Z, this book justifies the claim that Z is a precisespecification language, and provides a standard framework forunderstanding Z specifications. Z is compared with other methodssuch as VDM and CLEAR, and in the final chapter, a number ofstudies in Z style are presented to show that Z can be used in awide variety of specification tasks. This book will appeal to thosewho wish to deepen their understanding of the mathematicalbackground of the Z method, those who want a concise definition ofthe language, and those interested in the design of specificationlanguages.

From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changes Literary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to increase their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature and criticism in the world. In Comparing the Literatures , David Damrosch integrates comparative, postcolonial, and world-literary perspectives to offer a comprehensive overview of comparative studies and its prospects in a time of great upheaval and great opportunity. Comparing the Literatures looks both at institutional forces and at key episodes in the life and work of comparatists who have stru

《劳动论》以人类劳动的社会性为基础，运用辩证唯物史观，以人类劳动的态势差别为核心，对人类社会经济的历史与现实作了相对系统全面的考察和研究。科学地认识劳动及其内部矛盾，是当代政治经济学研究创新的起点。由这一起点阐发的理论可明确地解决人类对自身认识的困惑，科学地认识资本主义社会存在、发展、死亡的必然性，以及未来全球实现社会主义的实质，即通过提升人类劳动智力，消除一切变态动力以完成人类劳动的完善。

In the attempt to make good one of the desiderata in Bacon'sAdvancement of Learning, a cohort of seventeenth-centuryphilosophers, scientists, schoolmasters, clergymen and virtuosiattempted to devise artificial languages that would immediatelyrepresent the order of thought. This was believed directly torepresent the order of things and to be a universal characteristicof the human mind. Language, Mind and Nature is a 2007 text whichfully reconstructs this artificial language movement. In so doing,it reveals a great deal about the beliefs and activities of thosewho sought to reform learning in seventeenth-century England.Artificial languages straddle occult, religious andproto-scientific approaches to representation and communication,and suggest that much of the so-called 'new philosophy' was notvery new at all. This study broke important ground within itsfield, and will interest anyone concerned with early modernintellectual history or with the history of linguistic thought ingeneral.

Mark Twain is a central figure in nineteenth-century Americanliterature, and his novels are among the best-known and most oftenstudied texts in the field. This clear and incisive introductionprovides a biography of the author and situates his works in thehistorical and cultural context of his times. Peter Messent givesaccessible but penetrating readings of the best-known writingsincluding Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He pays particularattention to the way Twain's humour works and how it underpins hisprose style. The final chapter provides up-to-date analysis of therecent critical reception of Twain's writing, and summarises thecontentious and important debates about his literary and culturalposition. The guide to further reading will help those who wish toextend their research and critical work on the author. This bookwill be of outstanding value to anyone coming to Twain for thefirst time.

The Romantic age was one of anger and its consequences:revolution and reaction, terror and war. Andrew M. Staufferexplores the changing place of anger in the literature and cultureof the period, as English men and women rethought theirrelationship to the aggressive passions in the wake of the FrenchRevolution. Drawing on diverse fields and discourses such asaesthetics, politics, medicine and the law and tracing theclassical legacy the Romantics inherited, Stauffer charts theperiod's struggle to define the relationship of anger to justiceand the creative self. In their poetry and prose, Romantic authorsincluding Blake, Coleridge, Godwin, Shelley and Byron negotiate themeanings of indignation and rage amidst a clamourous debate overthe place of anger in art and in civil society. This innovativebook has much to contribute to the understanding of Romanticliterature and the cultural history of the emotions.

This book examines the Aberdeen Administration of 1852–1855 indetail in order to clarify the complicated subject of partyrelationships in mid-nineteenth-century British politics and theoperation of the British parliamentary system at that time. Itsinterest centres on the role of the Peelites in the Coalition as astage in the evolution of the Gladstonian Liberal party. The authordescribes the formation of the Coalition, the Cabinet membershipand the legislative achievements of 1853 Gladstone's famous Budgetsettling the issue of the Income Tax, the now forgotten India Actand valuable reform legislation. The success of 1853 is contrastedwith the failure of 1854. The author describes the routine problemsthat faced all ministries, the endless parliamentary wrangles overreligion and Ireland, the colourful contributions to debate by sucheccentrics as Colonel Sibthorpe, the problems of patronage, and therelations between the Prime Minister and the Queen.

The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains is the part ofthe orogenic system that formed at the Pacific continental marginof present-day Antarctica. According to a recent hypothesis, thiscontinental margin was created by the rifting and subsequent driftof Laurentia from Gondwana. With an unparalleled breadth and depthof information, this book provides a detailed synthesis of thehistory of the Ross orogen. In doing so, it incorporates classicalstudies with discussions of the most recent and controversialresearch from the international community. The book also includes acomprehensive bibliography and a historical chronology of allexpeditions that have worked on the Ross orogen in theTransantarctic Mountains, from the first sightings by Ross in 1840right up to the present day. This review of the Ross orogen of theTransantarctic Mountains will be valuable to all geologistsinterested in these episodes in the Earth's history, and toresearchers of the geology of Antarctica.