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“Publish and be damned”, Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of the state for publishing books on sensitive issues. Damned also for publishing such authors as Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi and Hubert Selby Jr, as well as for bringing to public notice the abuses of the armies and security forces of colonial countries. He took on American authors who could not be published in the United States during the McCarthy witch-hunt. He exposed the atrocities of the Algerian and other African wars, and produced many books on British political, social and moral issues, which only a totally independent publisher could have done.Born into the most conservative of establishment families, John Calder has always gone his own way – seeking out literary genius and creating a greater awareness of the world we inhabit. His publishing programme contained a large proportion of the leading writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Luigi Pirandello, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Heinrich Böll and such British authors as Howard Barker, Edward Bond, Steven Berkoff and Ann Quin. Anecdotes abound in these memoirs about Bertrand Russell, Alger Hiss, Graham Greene, J.B. Priestley, Jo Grimond and dozens of others whom the author encountered in his activities, both within and outside of publishing. This book is too outspoken to make many friends, but it will open eyes and upset apple carts. Never a saint, Calder is as frank about his own failings as of those of others.

As in the first volume of Acuarela Songs released in November of 2001 the leitmotiv of this new compilation is the term acuarela or it's equivalent in the participating artists' mother tongues (English French Basque Asturian)is contained in the lyric the title or even the spirit of each song especially in the case of instrumentals. in a ways it's a homage implicit & explicit to a label that has survived nine years holding on to a piece of driftwood we call independence in the.

In works of Western literature ranging from Homer’s Odyssey to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the giving and taking of hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ’s Last Supper, Macbeth’s murder of his royal guest, and Camus’s short story on French colonialism in Arab Algeria. By means of such examples and many more, this book considers what literary hosts, hostesses, and guests do to as well as for each other. In doing so, it shows how often treachery rends the fabric of trust that hospitality weaves.

Neuware -Die moderne Weltanschauung ihrer inneren Widersprüchlichkeit zu überführen, ist ein Leitmotiv des Philosophierens von Robert Spaemann: Dem philosophischen Denken geht es um etwas jenseits seiner selbst. Und dass es ihm überhaupt um etwas geht, denn es verbindet den Menschen mit allem Lebendigem.Diese philosophische Haltung zeigt sich in seinem Gespräch mit den Großen der Philosophie und wird zum roten Faden seines Opus, dessen essayistischer Teil in Form von Reden und Aufsätzen der letzten 60 Jahre in diesem Band vorliegt. Ihre Lektüre bereitet zudem Vergnügen. »Die Zeit« nennt Spaemann den das beste Deutsch schreibenden lebenden Philosophen. 376 pp. Deutsch

The book covers different aspects of mathematical methods for Physics. It is designed for graduate courses but a part of it can also be used by undergraduate students. The leitmotiv of the book is the search for a common mathematical framework for a wide class of apparently disparate physical phenomena. An important role, within this respect, is provided by a nonconventional formulation of special functions and polynomials. The proposed methods simplify the understanding of the relevant technicalities and yield a unifying view to their applications in Physics as well as other branches of science. The chapters are not organized through the mathematical study of specific problems in Physics, rather they are suggested by the formalism itself. For example, it is shown how the matrix formalism is useful to treat ray Optics, atomic systems evolution, QED, QCD and Feynman diagrams. The methods presented here are simple but rigorous. They allow a fairly substantive tool of analysis for a variety of topics and are useful for beginners as well as the more experienced researchers. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and related fields.

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key disciplines of mathematics - linear algebra, calculus, and geometry - needed in the undergraduate physics curriculum. Its leitmotiv is that success in learning these subjects depends on a good balance between theory and practice. Reflecting this belief, mathematical foundations are explained in pedagogical depth, and computational methods are introduced from a physicist's perspective and in a timely manner. This original approach presents concepts and methods as inseparable entities, facilitating in-depth understanding and making even advanced mathematics tangible. The book guides the reader from high-school level to advanced subjects such as tensor algebra, complex functions, and differential geometry. It contains numerous worked examples, info sections providing context, biographical boxes, several detailed case studies, over 300 problems, and fully worked solutions for all odd-numbered problems. An online solutions manual for all even-numbered problems will be made available to instructors.

Groups are a means of classification, via the group action on a set, but also the object of a classification. How many groups of a given type are there, and how can they be described? Hölder’s program for attacking this problem in the case of finite groups is a sort of leitmotiv throughout the text. Infinite groups are also considered, with particular attention to logical and decision problems. Abelian, nilpotent and solvable groups are studied both in the finite and infinite case. Permutation groups and are treated in detail; their relationship with Galois theory is often taken into account. The last two chapters deal with the representation theory of finite group and the cohomology theory of groups; the latter with special emphasis on the extension problem. The sections are followed by exercises; hints to the solution are given, and for most of them a complete solution is provided.

259pages. 17x10,8x1,8cm. Poche. "L'imagination ce n'est pas le mensonge", tel est le leitmotiv que Crastaing assène inlassablement à ses élèves, qui ne l'écoutent guère. Si peu même que trois d'entre eux, les plus frondeurs, Igor Laforgue, Joseph Pritsky et Nourdine Kader vont écoper, en guise de punition, du devoir suivant : Vous vous réveillez un matin, et vous constatez que vous avez été transformé en adulte. Complètement affolé, vous vous précipitez dans la chambre de vos parents. Ils ont été transformés en enfants. Racontez la suite. La suite prouvera que la réalité dépasse souvent la fiction puisque c'est ce qui va véritablement se produire à travers une série de catastrophes et de métamorphoses rocambolesques qui donnent à l'auteur de Comme un roman, l'occasion de réfléchir non seulement sur le pouvoir de la fiction mais sur l'enfance et l'éducation. Tout en se livrant sans restriction au "bonheur narratif", Daniel Pennac porte un jugement sévère sur une certaine attitude pédagogique qui produit des enfants "amputés de leur enfance, poussés prématurément dans le train des ambitions, programmés dès l'ovule" et invite chacun de ses lecteurs, quel que soit son âge à "ressentir l'enfance au moins une fois". -Gérard Meudal

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key disciplines of mathematics - linear algebra, calculus, and geometry - needed in the undergraduate physics curriculum. Its leitmotiv is that success in learning these subjects depends on a good balance between theory and practice. Reflecting this belief, mathematical foundations are explained in pedagogical depth, and computational methods are introduced from a physicist's perspective and in a timely manner. This original approach presents concepts and methods as inseparable entities, facilitating in-depth understanding and making even advanced mathematics tangible. The book guides the reader from high-school level to advanced subjects such as tensor algebra, complex functions, and differential geometry. It contains numerous worked examples, info sections providing context, biographical boxes, several detailed case studies, over 300 problems, and fully worked solutions for all odd-numbered problems. An online solutions manual for all even-numbered problems will be made available to instructors.

The book covers different aspects of mathematical methods for Physics. It is designed for graduate courses but a part of it can also be used by undergraduate students. The leitmotiv of the book is the search for a common mathematical framework for a wide class of apparently disparate physical phenomena. An important role, within this respect, is provided by a nonconventional formulation of special functions and polynomials. The proposed methods simplify the understanding of the relevant technicalities and yield a unifying view to their applications in Physics as well as other branches of science. The chapters are not organized through the mathematical study of specific problems in Physics, rather they are suggested by the formalism itself. For example, it is shown how the matrix formalism is useful to treat ray Optics, atomic systems evolution, QED, QCD and Feynman diagrams. The methods presented here are simple but rigorous. They allow a fairly substantive tool of analysis for a variety of topics and are useful for beginners as well as the more experienced researchers. Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics and related fields.

Groups are a means of classification, via the group action on a set, but also the object of a classification. How many groups of a given type are there, and how can they be described? Hölder’s program for attacking this problem in the case of finite groups is a sort of leitmotiv throughout the text. Infinite groups are also considered, with particular attention to logical and decision problems. Abelian, nilpotent and solvable groups are studied both in the finite and infinite case. Permutation groups and are treated in detail; their relationship with Galois theory is often taken into account. The last two chapters deal with the representation theory of finite group and the cohomology theory of groups; the latter with special emphasis on the extension problem. The sections are followed by exercises; hints to the solution are given, and for most of them a complete solution is provided.

Neuware - Der Autor unternimmt den Versuch, die scheinbar disparaten Positionen und Denkfiguren des Gesamtwerkes des polnischen Philosophen Leszek Kolakowski als Entwurf einer Religionsphilosophie zu entziffern, deren Leitmotiv der »Dienst an der Würde des Menschen« ist. Im Mittelpunkt stehen hierbei die Neubestimmung des »Mythos«, der Rekurs auf die christliche Tradition sowie die spezifische Konstellation von »Skepsis« und »Mystik«.Heidrich zeigt mit seiner umfassenden Studie die innere Entwicklungslogik des Kolakowskischen Werkes von den fünfziger Jahren bis heute, sowie die politischen, philosophischen und theologischen Implikationen, die das kontroverse Oeuvre des polnischen Philosophen zu geben vermag.