Author: Elton L. Daniel
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: modern, nations, histories, greenwood, iran, history
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-10-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0313307318
ISBN-13: 9780313307317

With almost three thousand years of history, Iran is home to one of the world’s richest and most complex cultures. Yet to the average American the name Iran probably conjures up an image of a remote and upstart country inhabited by a people whose religious fanaticism is matched only by the intensity of their disdain for the United States and its values, who speak an obscure tongue called Farsi, and whose identity is not clearly distinguished from that of their Arab neighbors. This work offers an objective and engagingly written portrait of the Iranian people and their complex history fro

Authors:Elton L. Daniel, Ali Akbar Mahdi,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: culture, customs, east, iran, middle
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0313320535
ISBN-13: 9780313320538

Iran is often a hotspot in the news, and the Muslim state is usually negatively portrayed in the West. Culture and Customs of Iran rejects facile stereotyping and presents the rich, age-old Persian culture that struggles with pressures of the modern world. This is the first volume in English to reveal the important sociocultural facets of Iran today for a general audience in an objective fashion. Authoritative, substantive narrative chapters cover the gamut of topics, from religion and religious thought to Iranian cuisine and festivals.

Authors:Elton P. Hsu and S. R. S. Varadhan, Elton P. Hsu, S.
Publisher: American Mathematical Society, IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute
Keywords: city, mathematics, series, park, ias, theory, applications, probability
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $62.00
ISBN-10: 0821805908
ISBN-13: 9780821805909

This volume, with contributions by leading experts in the field, is a collection of lecture notes of the six minicourses given at the IAS/Park City Summer Mathematics Institute. It introduces advanced graduates and researchers in probability theory to several of the currently active research areas in the field. Each course is self-contained with references and contains basic materials and recent results. Topics include interacting particle systems, percolation theory, analysis on path and loop spaces, and mathematical finance. The volume gives a balanced overview of the current status of proba

Author: John Elton John Elton joint a Bennett
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: milling, corn, history
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2009-07-17
List price: $25.75
ISBN-10: 1113050764
ISBN-13: 9781113050762

Author: Elton P. Hsu
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: studies, mathematics, graduate, manifolds, analysis, stochastic
Number of Pages: 281
Published: 2002-02-05
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0821808028
ISBN-13: 9780821808023

Probability theory has become a convenient language and a useful tool in many areas of modern analysis. The main purpose of this book is to explore part of this connection concerning the relations between Brownian motion on a manifold and analytical aspects of differential geometry. A dominant theme of the book is the probabilistic interpretation of the curvature of a manifold. The book begins with a brief review of stochastic differential equations on Euclidean space. After presenting the basics of stochastic analysis on manifolds, the author introduces Brownian motion on a Riemannian mani

Author: G. R. Elton
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Keywords: maitland
Number of Pages: 118
Published: 1985-09
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0300035284
ISBN-13: 9780300035285

Author: Ben Elton
Publisher: Delta
Keywords: past, blast
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-10-10
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0385334524
ISBN-13: 9780385334525

Ready to follow Nick Hornsby and Helen Fielding as the next big thing from Cool Britannia to hit America is Ben Elton. Already known to a wide public television audience as the funnyman behind Blackadder, The Young Ones, and The Thin Blue Line, Elton, author of Popcorn, lights up the literary sky with Blast from the Past.Part noir thriller, part hilarious send-up of the politics of extremism, Blast from the Past is the new novel from English comedy phenomenon (stand-up, playwright, television writer, and author) Ben Elton--a name soon to be known in all circles once Joel Schumacher’s fil