Authors:Mario T. García, Mario T. Garcâa,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: biography, auto, leal, luis
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0292728298
ISBN-13: 9780292728295

Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and importance of Chicano literature, and, through his perceptive literary criticism, helped to legitimize it as a worthy field of study. His contributions to humanistic learning have brought him many honors, including Mexico’s Aquila Azteca and the United States’ National Humanities Medal. In this testimonio, or oral history, Luis Leal

Author: Mario Dal Pra
Publisher: Editori Laterza
Keywords: marx, dialettica
Published: 1965-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: B002KTKB9Y
ISBN-13:

La Dialettica in Marx Author: Mario Dal PraPublisher: Editori LaterzaBuy Used: $20.00as of 12/12/2009 10:29 CST details Seller: jemilesMedia: PaperbackEdition: Italian LanguageASIN: B002KTKB9YPublication Date: January 1, 1965Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Author: Mario Paz
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: programs, examples, codes, engineering, handbook, earthquake, international
Number of Pages: 545
Published: 1995-02-28
List price: $289.00
ISBN-10: 0412982110
ISBN-13: 9780412982118

This unique handbook compiles essential information on the theory, regulation, analysis, and design for the construction of seismically safe structures throughout the world in one comprehensive volume. The book begins with a section covering the fundamentals of earthquake engineering, serving as an up-to-date overview of structural dynamics. The focus of the book is on approaches to earthquake engineering from around the world. Experienced engineers from thirty-four countries present their national seismic codes and demonstrate their application with quantitative examples. Seismi

Authors:F. Di Mario, Di Mario,
Publisher: Gordon & Breach Science Publishers
Keywords: secretion, peptic, gastroenterology, advances
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 1985-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 8829904082
ISBN-13: 9788829904082

Author: Mario Livio
Publisher: Broadway
Keywords: astonishing, number, world, phi, ratio, story, golden
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-10
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0767908155
ISBN-13: 9780767908153

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago because of its crucial role in the construction of the pentagram, to which magical properties had been attributed. Since then it has shown a propensity to appear in the most astonishing variety of pl

Author: Mario Puzo
Publisher: NAL Trade
Keywords: godfather
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0451205766
ISBN-13: 9780451205766

More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones-and became the definitive novel of the virile, violent subculture that remains steeped in intrigue, in controversy, and in our collective consciousness.

Author: Mario Livio
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: constant, beauty, cosmos, cosmological, expansion, universe, infinite, accelerating
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-12-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0471399760
ISBN-13: 9780471399766

A Brilliant Journey into the World of Beauty and Modern Cosmology "Thought-provoking . . . engaging."-New Scientist "The Accelerating Universe is not only an informative book about cosmology. It is rich storytelling and, above all, a celebration of the human mind on its quest for beauty in all things."-Alan Lightman, bestselling author of Einstein’s Dreams "Stimulating."-Nature "The reader will enter a `garden of delights.’"-Physics World "Far more than a puzzle for specialists, the struggle to reinterpret the cosmos raises fundamental questions about the h