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1968
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire - 1968
The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.
Guests of the Sheik: An Ethnography of an Iraqi Village
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea - 1968
A delightful, well-written, and vastly informative ethnographic study, this is an account of Fernea's two-year stay in a tiny rural village in Iraq, where she assumed the dress and sheltered life of a harem woman.
Envy and Gratitude and Other Works
Melanie Klein - 1968
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1957 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1
William Feller - 1968
Beginning with the background and very nature of probability theory, the book then proceeds through sample spaces, combinatorial analysis, fluctuations in coin tossing and random walks, the combination of events, types of distributions, Markov chains, stochastic processes, and more. The book's comprehensive approach provides a complete view of theory along with enlightening examples along the way.
Bailey and Love's Short Practice of Surgery
Norman S. Williams - 1968
Under the stewardship of the eminent editorial team, comprising two editors with experience gained over previous editions and a third editor new to this edition, and in response to reader feedback, the content has been sub-divided into parts to ensure a logical sequence and grouping of related chapters throughout while the text features enthusiastically received in the last edition have been retained. The new edition opens with sections devoted to the underlying principles of surgical practice, investigation and diagnosis, and pre-operative care. These are followed by chapters covering all aspects of surgical trauma. The remainder of the book considers each of the surgical specialties in turn, from elective orthopaedics through skin, head and neck, breast and endocrine, cardiothoracic and vascular, to abdominal and genitourinary.Key features: Authoritative: emphasises the importance of effective clinical examination and soundly based surgical principles, while taking into account the latest developments in surgical practice.Updated: incorporates new chapters on a wide variety of topics including metabolic response to injury, shock and blood transfusion, and surgery in the tropics.Easy to navigate: related chapters brought together into clearly differentiated sections for the first time.Readable: preserves the clear, direct writing style, uncluttered by technical jargon, that has proved so popular in previous editions.User-friendly: numerous photographs and explanatory line diagrams, learning objectives, summary boxes, biographical footnotes, memorable anecdotes and full-colour presentation supplement and enhance the text throughout.Bailey and Love has a wide appeal to all those studying surgery, from undergraduate medical students to those in preparation for their postgraduate surgical examinations. In addition, its high standing and reputation for unambiguous advice also make it the first point of reference for many practising surgeons. The changes that have been introduced to the 25th edition will only serve to strengthen support for the text among all these groups.
Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
Jacob Klein - 1968
This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science — in which the symbolic "form" of a mathematical statement is completely inseparable from its "content" of physical meaning. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to the Analytical Art. 1968 edition. Bibliography.
Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering
Warren L. McCabe - 1968
Separate chapters are devoted to each of the principle unit operations, grouped into four sections: fluid mechanics, heat transfer, mass transfer and equilibrium stages, and operations involving particulate solids.
Southern Tradition at Bay
Richard M. Weaver - 1968
Southern Tradition at Bay
Axiomatic Set Theory
Patrick C. Suppes - 1968
It examines the basic paradoxes and history of set theory and advanced topics such as relations and functions, equipollence, finite sets and cardinal numbers, rational and real numbers, and other subjects. 1960 edition.
Space and Time in Special Relativity
N. David Mermin - 1968
The writing is crisp and clearly written by someone who is aware of the conceptual difficulties that nonscientists have in coming to grips with relativity.
A Course in Probability Theory
Kai Lai Chung - 1968
Chung's A Course in Probability Theory, now in its third edition, has sustained its popularity for nearly 35 years. Originally developed from Dr. Chung's course at Stanford University, this book continues to be a successful tool for instructors and students alike.This third edition offers for the first time a supplement on Measure and Integral. This material has been used to supplement Dr. Chung's course for many years. It will assist students not previously exposed to this material and can also be sued as a review. The text is very flexible, offering instructors several different options in creating their syllabus, or in aligning it with current course design. It has been used successfully at over 75 universities since its initial publication.--back cover
Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West
Marie-Dominique Chenu - 1968
They are representative of Chenu's finest work.'If P?re Chenu considers "history of theology" to be the central concern of this collection, it is because he conceives of theology as an all-encompassing science, one which reflects the comprehensive unity of intellectual life as that develops within a culture. Literary history and criticism, cultural history, philosophy, biblical exegesis, historiography, ecclesiastical and social history, the history of education-all these and more are here involved, in their interdependence.' -- From the Translators' NoteFirst published as La th?ologie au douzi?me si?cle by J. Vinn, 1957. English translation published by University of Chicago Press, 1968
Early Middle English Verse and Prose
J.A.W. Bennett - 1968
With a glossary by: Davis, Norman;
Ten blocks from the White House: An anatomy of the Washington riots of 1968
Ben W. Gilbert - 1968
Jesus
David Flusser - 1968
Yet, with the passage of 30 years, the new volume has been essentially rewritten to incorporate the wealth of new data. Whereas the previous book, now out of print, represented the beginnings of Flusser's investigation into the historical Jesus, the present volume is its culmination.
The Nature of Man (Problems of Philosophy)
Erich Fromm - 1968
ForewordIntroductionThe Upanishads --Gautama --Shin Ichi Hisamatsu --The Bible --Heraclitus --Empedocles --Sophocles --Socrates and Plato --Aristotle --Lucretius --Epictetus --Plotinus --Sextus Empiricus --Saint Gregory of Nyssa --Saint Augustine --Saint Thomas Aquinas --Meister Eckhart --Nicolaus Cusanus --Marsillo Ficino --Pietro Popponazzi --Giovanni Pico della Mirandola --Erasmus of Rotterdam --Martin Luther --Thomas More --Juan Luis Vives --Paracelsus --Saint Teresa of Avila --Saint John of the Cross --Michel de Montaine --Rene Descartes --Baruch Spinoza --Blaise Pascal --Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz --Francis Bacon --Thomas Hobbes --John Locke --David Hume --Giambattista Vico --Jean-Jacques Rousseau --Immanuel Kant --Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel --Johann Gottfrid Herder --Jeremy Bentham --Arthur Schopenhauer --Auguste Comte --Ralph Waldo Emerson --Ludwig Feuerbach --Karl Marx --Soren Kierkegaard --Friedrch Nietzsche --William James --John Dewey --Sigmund Freud --Carl Gustav Jung --Henri Bergson --Edmund Husserl --Alfred North Whitehead --Miguel de Unamuno --Antonio Machado --Max Scheler --Nicolas Berdyaev --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin --Jose Ortega y Gasset --Martin Heidegger --Francisco Romero --Lewis Mumford --Erich Fromm --Jean Paul Sartre --Simone Weil --Edith Stein --Adam Schaff --David RiesmanBibliography
Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics
Herschel B. Chipp - 1968
Chipp's Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics—some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Greenberg, just to name a few—and some less so: Trotsky and Hitler, in the section on Art and Politics. The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work.
Algebraic Coding Theory
Elwyn R. Berlekamp - 1968
Research reviewed in the book include Berlekamp's algorithm for factoring polynomials (the first significant improvement on a classical mathematical problem in almost two centuries), and Berlekamp's algorithm for decoding Bose- Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem and Reed-Solomon codes. For the past 15 years, this coding algorithm has been used universally in algebraic decoders that correct multiple errors in communications or computer memory systems. Chapters include: Basic Binary Codes; Arithmetic Operations Modulo an Irreducible Binary Polynomial; The Number of Irreducible q-ary Polynomials of Given Degree; The Factorization of Polynomials Over Finite Fields; The Enumeration of Information Symbols in BCH Codes; appendices and references.
Language and Symbolic Systems
Yuen Ren Chao - 1968
Professor Chao covers the whole field of language and of modern developments in linguistics, with particular emphasis on those aspects which are likely to be most interesting to the layman. Professor Chao emphasises the relationship between language and other aspects of human culture and discusses systems of writing, minority languages and problems of translation in this context. An important part of the book reviews symbolic systems in language, writing and modern communication technology, with applications such as automatic speech, machine translation and related topics. Professor Chao laid the foundations of modern linguistics in China and has been associated with a number of important linguistic projects both in China and in the USA where he has taught for many years. In this book he approaches his subject with clarity, warmth and humour.
Mathematical Physics
Eugene Butkov - 1968
This classic text focuses on pedagogy to enhance comprehension for students and make it more suitable for independent study.
Political Order in Changing Societies
Samuel P. Huntington - 1968
In a new Foreword, Francis Fukuyama assesses Huntington’s achievement, examining the context of the book’s original publication as well as its lasting importance.“This pioneering volume, examining as it does the relation between development and stability, is an interesting and exciting addition to the literature.”—American Political Science Review“’Must’ reading for all those interested in comparative politics or in the study of development.”—Dankwart A. Rustow, Journal of International Affairs
The Theory of Business Enterprise
Thorstein Veblen - 1968
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Early American Winters II 1821-1870 (History of American Weather)
David McWilliams Ludlum - 1968
Drop Out!
Robin Farquharson - 1968
The writings of the man who ditched a successful university career and simply dropped out, living on the streets of London, and his acquaintance with L.S.D.
The Spirit of Chinese Politics (New Edition)
Lucian W. Pye - 1968
The dynamics of the Cultural Revolution, the behavior of the Red Guards, and the compulsions of Mao Tse-tung are among the important symptoms examined. But Pye goes behind large events, exploring the more enduring aspects of Chinese culture and the stable elements of the national psychology as they have been manifested in traditional, Republican, and Communist periods. He also scans several possible paths of future development. The emphasis is on the roles long played by authority, order, hierarchy, and emotional quietism in Chinese political culture as shaped by the Confucian tradition and the institution of filial piety, and the resulting confusions brought about by the displacements of these traditions in the face of political change and modernization.In this new edition Pye adds a chapter on the basic tension between consensus and conflict in the operation of Chinese politics, illustrating the spirit in action, and another discussing the great gap that persists between the worlds of the political leadership and of society at large in post-Tiananmen China.