The forest primeval, the river of life, the sacred mount – read ‘Landscape and Memory’ to have these explained… ‘Landscape and Memory’ is a history book unlike any other. In a series of journeys through space and time, it examines our relationship with the landscape around us – rivers, mountains, forests – the impact each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to answer our needs. This is not a conventional history b...

'Writing for Advanced Learners of English' is for advanced learners of English language and literature. The four sections guide students from aspects of accuracy and writing within given frameworks to open-ended, creative activities.

Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park. We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them.

So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture? In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors to Monster Theory co...

Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan have increasingly focused on the questions of how, in the modern world, nondemocratic regimes can be eroded and democratic regimes crafted. In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, they break new ground in numerous areas.

They reconceptualize the major types of modern nondemocratic regimes and point out for each type the available paths to democratic transition a...

Dit boek geeft een inleiding in het rekenen met matrices en in lineaire optimalisering en programmering. De tekst is ontstaan uit colleges wiskunde voor bouwkundestudenten van de Technische Universiteit te Delft.Om verband met de beroepspraktijk te leggen zijn een aanzienlijk aantal problemen en modellen uit de bouwkunde opgenomen; deze toepassingen en het leren opstellen van modellen zijn ook voor wiskundigen interessant.Behalve algemene technieken voor de behandeling van stelsels lineaire v...