Librarian's Note: this is an alternate edition to ISBN-10 0316184152Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations.

    It should be read by prospective and current calculus students and by their teachers. Even someone who has completely mastered the technical side of the subject can benefit from being reminded of the essentially simple ideas and the calculational needs that led mathematicians to develop the rather complex machinery of calculus. Sawyer deals with it all, from what background a student needs to begin, to the study of speed and acceleration, to graphing (slope and curvature), to areas, volumes, and the integral. Calculus, invented by Newton and Leibniz in the seventeenth century, has played a decisive role in the development of mathematics and the growth of our present technological society. It is an indispensable tool of both the pure and applied sciences and is one of the cornerstones of modern mathematics. It has provided ways of understanding such phenomena as the velocity of a moving object at any moment, the rate at which moving objects change their speeds and, more generally, the way in which quantities vary as factors affecting them change. In this book, the author tells what calculus is about in simple nontechnical language, understandable to any interested reader. W.W. Sawyer was born in St Ives, Hunts, England in 1911. He attended Highgate School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he specialized in the mathematics of quantum theory and relativity. He has taught at Leicester College of Technology and has lectured in mathematics at universities in Dundee, Manchester, Ghana, New Zealand, Illinois and Connecticut. In 1965 he became a professor jointly to the departments of mathematics and education at the University of Toronto, retiring in July 1976. His books include Mathematician's Delight, Prelude to Mathematics, A Concrete Approach to Abstract Algebra and An Engineering Approach to Linear Algebra.Content: What must you know to learn about calculus? The study of speed The simplest case of varying speed The higher powers Extending our results Calculus and graphs Acceleration and curvature The reverse problem Circles and spheres, squares and cubes Intuition and logic.

    Both Jewish and Christian writers are represented.

    In fact, I think one might call the book a single poem because, although it's divided in twelve sections, its thematic unity holds it together, I believe. This poem was written in segments beginning at Newport, at the Newport Jazz Festival in fact, two summers ago. And I suppose that is why, as I wrote most of it, I could hear jazz music behind it. And so when I gave the first reading of some segments of this poem, they were read to jazz. However, the poem may be read with or without music, of course. But for the benefit of those who might like to hear the music that I heard in my mind as I wrote 'Ask Your Mama,' along the margin of the book there are little musical notations. And the leitmotif of the poem, the Hesitation Blues, the old-traditional blues, and the little break that is used between some of the verses, 'Shave And A Haircut, Fifteen Cents,' those are reproduced musically at the front of the book. And then in the back of the book, as if it were a record, I have a series of liner notes for the unhep, that is, for those who may not quite understand what the poem is about."Reissued on the occasion of the March 16, 2009 world premiere performance of ASK YOUR MAMA, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, music by Laura Karpman, for the HONOR! Festival, curated by Jessye Norman.Introductions by Professor Arnold Rampersad, Professor Derrick Bell, Laura Karpman, and Jessye Norman.

    T. Hsia's book is by now an acknowledged classic. It truly opened up a new field and prepared the way for generations of American scholars to do research. We are all in his debt." --Leo LeeThis pioneering, classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction covers some sixty years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76.