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This book presents the advances made in Statistical Mechanics of the last 50 years, including mathematical theorems on order and phase transitions; numerical and series computations of phase diagrams; and solutions for important solvable models including Ising and 8 vertex....

Sounding Off brings together a selection of essays on philosophy of music written        by Peter Kivy--the leading expert on the subject. The essays fall into four groups,        corresponding to Kivy's major interests. Part I contains two essays on the nature of        musical genius. In Part II, three essays take up the subject of authenticity...

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Volume III (October 1668-1671)Containing many previously unpublished letters, this third volume of a six volume        collection of the complete correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), documents an        important period in the history of the Royal Society, University of Oxford, and the        intellectual culture on which the growth of...

Samuels looks at the relations among sexual, political, and familial rhetoric in American writing from 1790 to the 1850s. With a special focus on the depictions of the American Revolution and the use of the family as a model and instrument of political forces, she examines how the historical novel formalizes some of the more extravagant features of...