Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi

作者：  Martin Gardner　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

简介：Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi isthe inaugural volume in The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Libraryseries. Based off of Gardener's enormously popular ScientificAmerican columns, his puzzles and challenges can now fascinate awhole new generation Paradoxes and paper-folding, Moebiusvariations and mnemonics, fallacies, magic square, topologicalcuriosities, parlor tricks, and games ancient and modern, fromPolyminoes, Nim, Hex, and the Tower of Hanoi to four-dimensionalticktacktoe. These mathematical recreations, clearly and cleverlypresented by Martin Gardner, delight and perplex whiledemonstrating principles of logic, probability, geometry, and otherfields of mathematics. Now the author, in consultation withexperts, has added updates to all the chapters, including new gamevariations, mathematical proofs, and other developments anddiscoveries.

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

作者：  Stanley Wells aft

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

简介：　　Written by a team of leading international scholars, thisCompanion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works throughdiscussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-onebrand new essays provide lively and authoritative approaches torecent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand theirknowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book containsstimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare'sbiography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings ofthe plays are given in the context of genre as well as through thecultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender,and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latestdigital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume,contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a nationalcontext, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history ofreception and performance.

The Cambridge Companion to Hume

作者：  Jacqueline Taylor　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

简介：　　Each Cambridge Companion to a philosophical figure is made upof specially commissioned essays by an international team ofscholars, providing students and non-specialists with anintroduction to a major philosopher. The series aims to dispel theintimidation that readers may feel when faced with the work of achallenging thinker. David Hume is now considered one of the mostimportant philosophers of the Western world. Although best knownfor his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, andphilosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in thephilosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economictheory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. Thefifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume"sthought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who,though often critical to the point of skepticism, was nonethelessable to build on that skepticism a constructive, viable, andprofoundly important view of the world. Also included in thisvolume are Hume"s two brief autobiographies and a bibliographysuited to those beginning their study of Hume. This second editionof one our most popular Companions includes six new essays and anew introduction, and the remaining essays have all been updated orrevised.

The Cambridge Companion to Philo

作者：  Hardback　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

简介：　　The works of Philo of Alexandria, a slightly oldercontemporary of Jesus and Paul, constitute an essential source forthe study of Judaism and the rise of Christianity. They are also ofextreme importance for understanding the Greek philosophy of thetime and help to explain the onset of new forms of spiritualitythat would dominate the following centuries. This 2009 handbookpresents an account of Philo's achievements. It contains a profileof his life and times, a systematic overview of his many writings,and survey chapters of the key features of his thought, as seenfrom the perspectives of Judaism and Greek philosophy. The volumeconcludes with a section devoted to Philo's influence andsignificance. Composed by an international team of experts, TheCambridge Companion to Philo gives readers a sense of the state ofscholarship and provides depth of vision in key areas of Philonicstudies.　　Covers the breadth of Philonic studies, while also providingdepth of vision ? International team of experts ? Unassuming andstraightforward style

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

作者：  本社　编

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

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The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston

作者：  Lovalerie King　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

简介：Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African Americanliterature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconicfigure for her literary works and for her invaluable contributionto documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural southand in the Caribbean. This introductory book designed for studentsexplores Hurston"s artistic achievements and her unique character:her staunch individualism, her penchant for drama, her sometimescontroversial politics, her philosophical influences and her viewson gender relations. Lovalerie King explores Hurston"s life andanalyses her major works and short stories. Historical, social,political, and cultural contexts for Hurston"s life and work,including her key role in the development of the HarlemRenaissance, are set out. The book concludes with an overview ofthe reception of Hurston"s work, both in her lifetime and up to thepresent, as well as suggestions for further reading.

The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge

作者：  P. J. Mathews　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

简介：John Millington Synge was a leading literary figure of the IrishRevival who played a significant role in the founding of Dublin'sAbbey Theatre in 1904. This Companion offers a comprehensiveintroduction to the whole range of Synge's work from well-knownplays like Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints and ThePlayboy of the Western World, to his influential prose work TheAran Islands. The essays provide detailed and insightful analysesof individual texts, as well as perceptive reflections on hisengagements with the Irish language, processes of decolonisation,gender, modernism and European culture. Critical accounts oflandmark productions in Ireland and America are also included. Witha guide to further reading and a chronology, this book willintroduce students of drama, postcolonial studies, and Irishstudies as well as theatregoers to one of the most influential andcontroversial dramatists of the twentieth century.

The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe

作者：  本社　编

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric

作者：  Erik Gunderson　著

出版社：Cambridge University Press 2011-12-1

简介：Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature ofGraeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensiveoverview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, fromHomer to early Christianity, accessible to students andnon-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods anddisciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discreteobject to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set ofpractices that include disputes over the very definition ofrhetoric itself. Standard treatments of ancient oratory tend totake it too much in its own terms and to isolate it unduly fromother social and cultural concerns. This volume provides anoverview of the shape and scope of the problems while alsoidentifying core themes and propositions: for example, persuasion,virtue, and public life are virtual constants. But they mix andmingle differently, and the contents designated by each of theseterms can also shift.