Oxford University Press

This book provides a rigorous and extensive undergraduate introduction to algebraic systems covering basic number theory, rings, fields, polynomial theory, groups, algebraic geometry and elliptic curves. In addition, it details algebra's central role in storing, securing, and communicating information in the electronic age....

Is it possible (or desirable) to live without illusions? Can artistry assist in the project of forging a unified self? What does our use of metaphor have to do with who we are? In this groundbreaking study, Joshua Landy explores Proust's original and sophisticated answers to these and related questions. At the same time, he asks why Proust chose to...

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African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and ReconstructionSick from Freedom provides the first study of the health conditions of emancipated slaves and reveals the epidemics, illnesses, and poverty that former slaves suffered from when slavery ended and freedom began....

This book provides a complete treatment of the theory of repeated games and reputations, beginning with the elementary concepts required to work with repeated games and coninuing to research frontier. Detailed theoretical arguments are complemented by copious exmaples and economic applications of the theory....

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