This study of slavery focuses initially on the drastic revisions in the historical debate on slavery and the present understanding of the peculiar institution.” It gives a concise explanation of the nature of American slavery and its impact on the slaves themselves and on Southern society and culture. And it broadens our understanding of the debates among historians about slavery; compares Southern slavery with slavery elsewhere in the New World; and shows how slavery evolved and changed over timeand how it ended. Peter Parish examines some of the important recent works on slavery to identify crucial questions and basic themes and define the main areas of controversy.

Slavery: History And Historians

History

Parish, 0

Africa

Perseus

Concepts of identity are complex and changing, and in this book Katherine Hoffman examines images of individuals and families from ancient Egypt to the present—more than two thirds of the book covers the twentieth century. Through a comprehensive study of paintings, sculpture, photography, film, television, and other media, Hoffman provides eye-opening insights on the identity of family and self through time and explores what these images say about the attitudes and values of a particular culture.Concepts of identity and self as individuals and families are complex and changing, but images from the artist, the photographer, the filmmaker, and TV producer can help us discover where we came from, who we are and why, and where we are in the maze of postmodern life. Katherine Hoffman explores portraits and images from ancient Egypt to the present—more than two-thirds of the book covers the twentieth century, including images from art, photography, film, TV, and other media. The 75 illustrations are integrated with the text.

Concepts Of Identity: Historical And Contemporary Images And Portraits Of Self And Family (Icon Editions)

Arts & Photography

Hoffman, Katherine

History & Criticism

This book focuses on the nature, origins, and degeneracy (or redundancy) of viral regulatory elements and on the strategies that enable viruses to adapt to cells, examining experimental findings and models regarding HIV and HPV regulatory mechanisms.

Viral Regulatory Structures And Their Degeneracy (Santa Fe Institute Series)

Science & Math

Myers, Gerald

Biological Sciences

Graduate students in both theoretical and experimental physics will find this third edition of Intermediate Quantum Mechanics, refined and updated in 1986, indispensable. The first part of the book deals with the theory of atomic structure, while the second and third parts deal with the relativistic wave equations and introduction to field theory, making Intermediate Quantum Mechanics more complete than any other single-volume work on the subject.

Intermediate Quantum Mechanics: Third Edition (Frontiers in Physics)

Bethe, Roman

Physics

Computational Physics: Fortran Version

Computational Physics is designed to provide direct experience in the computer modeling of physical systems. Its scope includes the essential numerical techniques needed to "do physics" on a computer. Each of these is developed heuristically in the text, with the aid of simple mathematical illustrations. However, the real value of the book is in the eight Examples and Projects, where the reader is guided in applying these techniques to substantial problems in classical, quantum, or statistical mechanics. These problems have been chosen to enrich the standard physics curriculum at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. The book will also be useful to physicists, engineers, and chemists interested in computer modeling and numerical techniques. Although the user-friendly and fully documented programs are written in FORTRAN, a casual familiarity with any other high-level language, such as BASIC, PASCAL, or C, is sufficient. The codes in BASIC and FORTRAN are available on the web at http://www.computationalphysics.info (Please follow the link at the bottom of the page). They are available in zip format, which can be expanded on UNIX, Window, and Mac systems with the proper software. The codes are suitable for use (with minor changes) on any machine with a FORTRAN-77 compatible compiler or BASIC compiler. The FORTRAN graphics codes are available as well. However, as they were originally written to run on the VAX, major modifications must be made to make them run on other machines.

Computers & Technology

E. Koonin, Steven

Programming

This book is based on a series of lectures on mathematical biology, the essential dynamics of complex and crucially important social systems, and the unifying power of mathematics and nonlinear dynamical systems theory.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Mathematical Biology, And Social Science: Wise Use Of Alternative Therapies (Santa Fe Institute Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

M. Epstein, Joshua

Social Sciences

Rebel code: Inside Linux and the Open Source Revolution

Business & Money

Glyn Moody

Economics

A parent's illustrated guide to complete medical care for their child.

Taking Care Of Your Child: Fifth Edition

Pantell, Robert H.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This monograph presents thirty research papers dealing with the classification of strongly interacting particles and their interaction according to the eightfold way. In each chapter the authors' commentary introduces the reprints.

The Eightfold Way

GELL-MANN, MURRAY

Ne'eman, Yuval

Book Details:<ul>
<li>Format: Hardcover</li>
<li>Publication Date: 7/1/2006</li>
<li>Pages: 320</li>
<li>Reading Level: Age 4 and Up</li>
</ul>

Treasury of Bedtimes Stories

Jerrard, Jane

Killion, Bette

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