The Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Arts & Photography

Ian Bradley

Music

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Matrices offer some of the most powerful techniques in modem mathematics. In the social sciences they provide fresh insights into an astonishing variety of topics. Dominance matrices can show how power struggles in offices or committees develop; Markov chains predict how fast news or gossip will spread in a village; permutation matrices illuminate kinship structures in tribal societies. All these invaluable techniques and many more are explained clearly and simply in this wide-ranging book.   Originally published in 1986.   The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Matrices and Society (Pelican)

Politics & Social Sciences

Ronald L. Meek

Social Sciences

1st Darton,Longman &amp; Todd edition 1993 trade paperback fine book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Celtic Way

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd.

Enlightened Entrepreneurs

Weidenfeld &Nicholson

Celtic Christianity: Making Myths and Chasing Dreams

Bradley, a Church of Scotland minister, teaches Celtic Christianity (U. of Aberdeen) but that is not his topic here. Rather he traces how the image of the Celtic Church, as it developed separately from Rome, has been appropriated and depicted by various groups for various purposes over the past 1,300 years. He identifies and describes six distinct movements from the eighth and ninth centuries to the current wave of New Age spirituality. He does a pretty good job of dampening the outrage of a professional whose field is being overrun by amateurs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

History

World

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

'Abide with me', 'The day thou gavest Lord is ended', 'All things bright and beautiful': a century and more after they were written Victorian hymns like these have an enduring popularity. This book examines the Victorian hymn from a literary, theological and cultural point of view. It traces its contemporary impact and its continuing influence in churches, public popularity, parody and literary references. In a way that has not been done before, Ian Bradley traces the importance of hymns in Victorian novels, explores the extraordinary political and social ramifications of Victorian hymnody, and assesses the literary and musical importance of the genre. Written in a lively and anecdotal style, this book punctures some of the myths about Victorian hymns, showing that the themes of doubt, humility and political and social radicalism surface just as much as those of triumphalism, imperialism and conservatism. 'Ian Bradley tells his story lucidly, from the disappearance of the chaotic and cheerful gallery musicians so beloved of Thomas Hardy, to the gospel songs of Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey. He moves easily between the novelist, the theologian and the musician. He introduces the story with a striking analogy: hymns played much the same role in Victorian culture that soap operas do among us today ...it is a good curtain-raiser for a serious, indeed learned, but never humourless book' - Lord Runcie, "Daily Telegraph". 'I was so gripped by this book that I could not put it down. Here is invaluable resource material dealing with a period of hymnody which has never before been researched in such depth. In this eminently readable survey, we are left in no doubt as to the merits or otherwise of nineteenth-century hymnody' - Dr Lionel Dakers, formerly Director of the Royal School of Music.

Abide with Me: the World of the Victorian Hymn

Don't Rock the Boat : An Autobiography

I. Bradley]

The Penguin Book of Hymns

Literature & Fiction

VIKING

Matrices offer some of the most powerful techniques in modem mathematics. In the social sciences they provide fresh insights into an astonishing variety of topics. Dominance matrices can show how power struggles in offices or committees develop; Markov chains predict how fast news or gossip will spread in a village; permutation matrices illuminate kinship structures in tribal societies. All these invaluable techniques and many more are explained clearly and simply in this wide-ranging book.
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Matrices and Society: Matrix Algebra and its Application in Social Sciences

Princeton University Press

The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Britain

Politics & Government

Chatto and Windus, London

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