Author: Marilyn McShane
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theory, literature, practice, contemporary, justice, criminal, criminological
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0815325096
ISBN-13: 9780815325093
This text covers all major sociological theories of crime. The major points of each theory are summarized in a proposition format and the theories are placed in relation to time and history and their intellectual and social heritage. The book provides a bibliography of major works on each theory with a new research bibliography for each theory. This edition contains a new chapter on major new theoretical developments, including feminist perspectives, and a revised discussion on the direction of theory.
Author: Peter Barry
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: theory, third, beginnings, cultural, literary, introduction, beginning
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-03-15
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0719079276
ISBN-13: 9780719079276
This book has been helping students navigate through the thickest of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume introduction to the field.The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Peter Barry allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped.The book has been updated and includ
Authors:Raymond Yeung, S-Y Li, N Cai,
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Keywords: theory, communications, information, trends, foundations, coding, network
Number of Pages: 156
Published: 2006-06-16
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1933019247
ISBN-13: 9781933019246
Network Coding Theory provides a tutorial on the basic of network coding theory. It presents the material in a transparent manner without unnecessarily presenting all the results in their full generality. Store-and-forward had been the predominant technique for transmitting information through a network until its optimality was refuted by network coding theory. Network coding offers a new paradigm for network communications and has generated abundant research interest in information and coding theory, networking, switching, wireless communications, cryptography, computer science, operatio
Lectures on the theory of maxima and minima of functions of several variables: (Weierstrass’ theory)
Author: Harris Hancock
Publisher: Cornell University Library
Keywords: theory, variables, weierstrass, several, minima, maxima, lectures, functions
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 1902-01-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1429703172
ISBN-13: 9781429703178
This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs collection.
Author: V. K. Balakrishna
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: theory, concepts, graph, including, problems, outline, schaum, combinatorics
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1994-11-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 007003575X
ISBN-13: 9780070035751
Combinatorics deals with the enumeration, existence, analysis, and optimization of discrete structures. With this study guide, students can master this growing field--with applications in several physical and social sciences, including chemistry, computer science, operations research, and statistics. Includes hundreds of problems with detailed solutions.
Authors:Theodor W. Adorno, Robert Hullot-Kentor,
Publisher: University of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: theory, literature, history, aesthetic
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1998-12-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0816618003
ISBN-13: 9780816618002
This text on aesthetics includes major sections on: Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; and Towards a Theory of the Artwork.
Author: Irena R. Makaryk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Keywords: theory, terms, culture, scholars, approaches, literary, encyclopedia, contemporary
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 1993-04-19
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 080206860X
ISBN-13: 9780802068606
The last half of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of literary theory as a new discipline. As with any body of scholarship, various schools of thought exist, and sometimes conflict, within it. I.R. Makaryk has compiled a welcome guide to the field. Accessible and jargon-free, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory provides lucid, concise explanations of myriad approaches to literature that have arisen over the past forty years.Some 170 scholars from around the world have contributed their expertise to this volume. Their work is organized into three parts. In Part I, fo
