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

(Recorder). This Recorder Fun! pack makes learning to play recorder easy, even if you've never played before! In no time at all, you'll be playing your favorite songs from the hit Disney movie Frozen . The pack includes a high-quality beginner's recorder with the feel and tuning of a pro model, plus a songbook with easy instructions. The book features a fingering chart, coloring pages, and easy versions of the following songs: Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * Fixer Upper * For the First Time in Forever * Frozen Heart * In Summer * Let It Go * Love Is an Open Door * Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People.

Frozen – Recorder Fun! | Beginner Recorder Pack with Songbook and Instrument | Easy Disney Songs for Kids | Learn to Play Recorder with Fingering Chart and Instructions

Humor & Entertainment

HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The sequel to the uber-popular Disney film Frozen is here, and the soundtrack features more songs from Robert Lopez &amp; Kristen Anderson-Lopez. Our matching songbook includes fantastic color photos from the film, the new breakout song "Into the Unknown," a continuation from the first film, "Reindeers Are Better Than People," and 6 more new songs: All Is Found * Lost in the Woods * The Next Right Thing * Show Yourself * Some Things Never Change * When I Am Older.

Frozen 2 Songbook | Piano, Vocal, Guitar Sheet Music | Includes "Into the Unknown" and Other Disney Songs | Hal Leonard Official Music Book

Hal Leonard

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