Professor Robert Lopez provides an incisive analysis of the economic structure of the Middle Ages. He makes use of modern economic concepts to explain how an underdeveloped economic system gave birth to the commercial revolution through which Europe succeeded in developing itself. The book goes far beyond the familiar picture of medieval European society, with its magnificent cathedrals and imposing castles, to concentrate instead on the walled cities and open countryside, for it was here that the revolution was born. Deftly and concisely, Professor Lopez traces the history of this remarkable economic upheaval which saw the rise of merchants and craftsmen and the decline of agricultural dependence by the society.

Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages

Business & Money

Lopez, Robert

Economics

Spectrum Publications New York

This innovative text was written for the one or two-semester, sophomore/junior level advanced math course for engineers. It was built from the ground up using a Computer Algebra System, offering the student opportunities to visualize and experience the math at every turn. The text has been designed to accommodate a variety of teaching styles, and varying levels on technology integration. It has a logical arrangement with many short self-contained sections, and many real-world applications of interest to engineering students. Chapter Introductions and Chapter Summaries help to make the material more accessible, and Chapter Review Exercises provides constant checks along the way.

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

Science & Math

Mathematics

Addison-Wesley

Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen

Religion & Spirituality

Sokei-An

Sasaki, Shigetsu

Farkas, Mary

Buddhism

Shambhala Pubns

The Birth of Europe

One of the most original and enlightening one-volume accounts of medieval Europe ever published.—The Virginia Quarterly Review

History

Europe

M. Evan and Co.

M.Evans & Company

Kamby Bolongo Mean River, Robert Lopez’s hypnotic second novel, is the story of a young man whofinds himself confined and under observation, the subject of seemingly pointless tests. His only link to the outside world is a telephone that will not dial out. During the occasional calls he receives, usually wrong numbers, the narrator remembers his former life growing up in Injury, Alaska with his Mother, an often unemployed single parent, and his older brother, Charlie, a sometime boxer, sometime actor. Throughout the course of this extraordinary novel, the unwilling captive draws his life-story in stickfigures on the walls. From the difficulty of his birth, to his sickly childhood, to adventures with his brother, the narrator depicts his crazy life, which is at once fascinating and heartbreaking. The one memory that haunts him is that of watching a movie about slaves on television and how that one slave, the one for whom Kamby Bolongo Mean River meant freedom, would never relinquish the idea of returning home. Darkly hilarious with a crushing emotional impact, Kamby Bolongo Mean River is a brilliant study of familial bonds and trauma, isolation and captivity, hope and hopelessness. “Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.”—Sam Lipsyte,author of Home Land “In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett’s ‘The Calmative’ and Gordon Lish’s Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez’s new novel gets under your skin and latches on.”—Brian Evenson, author of The Open Curtain

Kamby Bolongo Mean River

Literature & Fiction

United States

Dzanc Books

Fiction. PART OF THE WORLD is a fugue in both a musical and psychological sense. It is a canonical juggernaut of lyrical language--ever dissolving, devolving, shifting, then reconstituting itself into a new knowledge of reality. This language comes straight from a compulsive mind in a Quixotic state--ceaselessly harping on the everyday perturbations and peculiarities of our humdrum lives--our cars, apartments, health, finances. But if you relax your focus as if staring at some sort of holographic fractal, with each part containing the whole, the superficial meaning is purged, layer by layer, peeling back and revealing the subtext of what the mind is capable of under the burden of trauma and accountability. "Robert Lopez has written a darkly hilarious exploration of the trickery of memory, the unreliability of personal history, and the strangeness, even uncanniness, of our daily transactions"--Dawn Raffel. "Literary pleasures like this are all too uncommon"--Laird Hunt

Part of the World

Literary

Calamari Press

Praise for Robert Lopez:The unforgettable stories in this collection vary in  length and style, but all of them devestate, all constantly cross the  boundaries between poetry and prose. Here we have characters who are  uncertain of themselves, of the people surrounding them. Here people are  in trouble and need help. The compressed lyricism of these stories  seems driven by  the silence of what is not said, what lies beneath the  lines and between them. As in his novels Part of the World and Kamby Bolongo Mean River,   this elliptical tension of the language gives way to moments of grace  and savage humor, leaving the reader startled, as though the world were  a  complete surprise. Michael Kimball, author of Dear Everybody, says that "Robert  Lopez and his writing are original and pure, fearless and  hypnotic. He  is one of the brave protagonists of American literature." David McLendon, editor of the literary journal Unsaid, agrees, saying that "For a great long while something was broken inside our language. Robert  Lopez took what was broken and did something more than simply repair  it. He repaired what was broken and broke it again and made it human.  Beautiful and ugly and lastingly mortal, our language through Lopez  becomes a kind of song. The kind of song we all might sing to bring some  laughter from our deathbeds."

Asunder

Short Stories & Anthologies

The only official companion book to the Tony Award winner for Best Musical from the creators of South Park and the co-creator of Avenue Q. Features the complete script and song lyrics, with 4-color spot illustrations throughout, an original introduction by the creators, and a foreword by Mark Harris.
The Book of Mormon, which follows a pair of mismatched Mormon boys sent on a mission to a place that's about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get, features book, music, and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone.
Parker and Stone are the four-time Emmy Award–winning creators of Comedy Central's landmark animated series South Park. Tony Award–winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy Avenue Q. The Book of Mormon is choreographed by three-time Tony Award–nominee Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python's Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) and is directed by Nicholaw and Parker.
The book includes • an original foreword by journalist Mark Harris (author of Pictures at a Revolution) • an original introduction by the authors on the genesis of the show • a production history • the complete book and lyrics, with four-color spot illustrations throughout.

The Book of Mormon Script Book: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

Stone, Matt

Parker, Trey

Dramas & Plays

NEWMARKET PRESS

Act One: At a kitchen table, a husband and wife discuss the news, nudists, and lie to each other about the ways they no longer connect. Act Two: At a kitchen table, a man and his friend discuss the weather, the state of public transportation, and lie to each other for the sake of something to say. Act Three: At a kitchen table, three people discuss, mostly, nothing, and watch the threads unravel as their lives come apart at the seams. Told in a genre-defying style that melds the depth of the novel with the honesty of the stage, All Back Full charts one day in a marriage at once usual and unusual, exploring what we say to each other when we say nothing, and the ways we speak to each other without words.

All Back Full

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