An account of one of the main directions of algebraic topology, this book focuses on the Sullivan conjecture and its generalizations and applications. Intended to be of use to graduates and algebraic topologists, it gathers work on the theory of modules over the Steenrod algebra.
In the former Eastern Bloc countries, one aspect of the transition to democracy has been the establishment of constitutional justice and the rule of law. This text chronicles and analyzes the rise of constitutional courts in this changing region.
This book of poems asks the sphinx to solve a riddle. The search for answers takes the poet to some surprising, often phantasmagoric places, and back again to the self, to dreams, to home, and even to the nursing home where his mother becomes the person asking the dark questions.
A collection of poems, which complicate and clarify the emotions waiting just underneath the patterns and expectations of the speakers' daylight lives, where anger, joy, corporeality, and mortality all seem to collide.
This work offers a sustained exploration of modules from developmental and evolutionary perspectives. Contributors discuss what modularity is, how it can be identified and modeled, how it originated and evolved, and why it matters.
This work examines the musical influences of a Malaysia's Portuguese community, whose roots lie in the conquest of Malacca in 1511 by the Portuguese seafarer Afonse D'Albuquerque.
During the 1920s and '30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals - including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky.... Læs mere
In this collection of poems, Peter Sacks draws upon his life as an expatriate and upon his early years in South Africa, including his time spent with the military. He lays bare his sense... Læs mere
This text explores the relationship between film and anthropology. It analyzes key filmmakers, the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, ethnography and anthropological knowledge.