This is the best book I've seen explaining Goppa codes and their mathematical background. The explanation of algebraic curves is much easier to follow than the other two books I know of on this topic, "Algebraic Function Fields and Codes" by Stichtenoth and "Algebraic Curves over Finite Fields" by Moreno. In fact, even if you aren't especially interested in Goppa codes, this would be a good book from which to learn the basics of algebraic curves.

The book has one of the few treatments of algebraic curves that explains them first concretely as zeros of a polynomial f(x,y), and then more abstractly as a function field, a finite extension of K(x).

Ms. Ribeiro's study offered practicing psychiatrists the opportunity of reflecting on the need to take interaction processes into account while evaluating a patient. She also created opportunities for Brazilian applied linguists to study yet another context of language use -- the medical clinic. Her study reveals great theoretical knowledge, painstaking analysis of data and an effort to contribute to the development of medical practices -- an achievement to be praised by academics as well as patients.

Raffles rates with Sherlock Holmes: same period: turn of 19th/20th Century, very "English", albeit less of an eccentric than Holmes, but, as with those sherlock Holmes stories, the Raffles tales create a world of their own, close to but not quite the same as the real one of historical "fact".

Where Raffles parts company from Holmes is in, of course, the fact that he is on "the other side", a thief, though a very stylish one and with all the acquired gloss of the English gentleman, a gloss tarnished a bit when he "nicks" stuff from houses in which he is a guest...hm...However, he is a patriot and an aesthete par excellence, as when he takes off with a priceless urn from the British Museum, only to keep it openly on his mantlepiece (until sending it as a present to, if I recall aright, the Queen!) (Victoria, that is).

Regrettably neglected, Raffles deserves a revival.

I had the pleasure of studying under Dr. Humphries during my junior year abroad at NUI Maynooth. His passion for the ancient world was evident in all his lectures, from the fall of Rome to Latin language.

Unfortunately, I don't own a copy of this myself (being a poor college student), but if it's anything like his lectures, it is well-researched, well-written and full of gorgeous pictures and illustrations. Please, support a wonderful teacher and buy this book!!

This book is, as the author mentioned in the preface, a marriage of two parts. The first part provided more or less a self-contained introduction to the theory of Riemannian holonomy groups, which usually couldn't be found in differential geometry textbooks. The second part is a research monograph on exceptional holonomy groups, which is the subject that the author is famous at. This book contains lots of topics which are hard to be found in any other books. For example, it contains a proof of the Calabi conjecture, which I've never seen in anywhere else except Yau's original papers. It also has a concise introduction to Calabi-Yau manifolds, which includes lots of topics about CY manifolds that are hard to be found in just a single book. Overall, it's a great introduction to the theory of holonomy groups. And also provides a good start about differential geometric side of the theory of Calabi-Yau manifolds, together with a roughly complete list of further references.

Keep this in your library - not only does it look good it feels good. You will always have Shakespeare on hand to get in your literary fix. Shakespeare in a serious readers library is a must!

It is often said prophets are never appreciated in their own land, and in the case of Basil Bunting this adage seems particularly apt. Praised by Ezra Pound, whose disciple he was, and feted by the likes of luminaries William Butler Yeats and TS Eliot, his work remained virtually unknown to the outside world until 1966, when the (North of England based) Fulcrum Press brought out Briggflatts, an epic poem drawing on elements of inner autobiography and Northumbrian folklore. Then his career kicked off in earnest, with the result that we are now able to see Bunting for what he is; a great Modernist poet whose work will undoubtedly last.

This edition brings together the majority of Bunting's work he and his executors saw fit to preserve and is definitive. In it you can treat yourself to the First Book of Odes with its brief verses originally published in various magazines and pamphlets that published the work of poets prepared to make poetry count after the foggy Neo-Romanticism of the Georgians had all but rendered it irrelevant. Alongside is the Second Book of Odes, mainly assembled in 1965 after Bunting, neglected and working on a newspaper in Newcastle England had been rediscovered by counterculture poet Tom Pickard. These poems are brief and lyrical, reinforcing Bunting's belief that "poetry is to be heard", and are sometimes hard to get into. However, they repay a certain amount of rereading and rapidly become memorable. The same can be said for the "Overdrafts" - free verse versions of poets as diverse as Horace, Virgil, Firdosi and Rudaki. Bunting spoke Persian fluently (he worked in Iran for part of his life) and his translations are highly accessible.

The highpoint of the book, however, must be "Briggflatts". "Brag, sweet tenor bull/Descant on Rawthey's madrigal". It is described by the poet as "an autobiography", but it communicates on a far deeper level than simply that. Items of myth, music and art are fused ably together, and the effect is of an English Modernist masterpiece rivalling Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Hart Crane's "The Bridge". The poem experiments with sonata form, as do "Villon" and "The Spoils" among others.

Bunting was Pound's follower, but he avoided his political excesses and linguistic boasting. He also perhaps managed a higher level of originality, for whilst like Pound and Eliot he was happy to draw on sources, Bunting seems to have weaved his heritage into his work in a way in which the joins are less obvious. His concern was primarily with music, and he had, whilst making it new, to make connections with sound in the manner of the Troubadours or wandering minstrels. His work deserves every new reader it gets.

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Oscar Wilde is my favorite author and in my opinion one of the greatest writers to have ever lived.His magnificent stories can make you laugh out loud but they can also move you to tears.No library is complete without the writings of Oscar Wilde.And I highly recommend this book and anything else by Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde complete shorter fiction contains all of Oscar Wildes fairy tales.And it also contains his short stories and some poems.

The fairy tales collected in this volume are "The Nightingale and The Rose" and "The Selfish Giant" and "The Happy Prince".The aforementioned tales happen to be my absolute favorites.The are among the most beautiful stories I have ever read and they will truly touch your heart.Other fairy tales in this book are "The Devoted Friend" and "The Remarkable Rocket".

The short stories in this collection include" Lord Arthur Savile`s Crime "and "The Sphinx Without a Secret".And also "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Model Millionaire"."The Canterville Ghost" is absolutely hilarious and yet at the same time very touching.

Other stories contained in this book are "The Young King" "The Birthday Of Infanta" and "The Fisherman and his Soul "and also "The Star Child"."The Birthday Of Infanta" will truly break your heart and "The Fisherman and his Soul" is also a very touching story.

The poems in this book include The Artist, The Doer of Good,The Disciple, "The Master" and "The House Of Judgement" and "The Teacher of Wisdom".

I highly recommend this book and if you haven`t read any of these stories treat yourself to this book you won`t be sorry.

well i thought that the book was good, and even though it was introduced to me in high school, i think that maybe it is for the more mature crowd. if you can get passed the text then you will really enjoy the book. it is best to read the book along with its footnotes. not only is it a little easier on the reader, but it is also more enjoyable when you can actually understand what it is you are reading. but over all the book was excellent. i think of it as one of marlowe's greatest works.

This text is very specific about how the treaments are done, and is not merely a description of a variety of psychotherapies. Although "comprehensive," Dr. Beutler's book is the best guide in the profession for the clinician and for the research academician. It has become a classic. --R. E. Romanelli, Ph.D.