Search Results: Authors starting with A from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

De Buitenkant, 2017 8vo (24 cm), 1492 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). A catalog of authors' collections of Jewish bookplates, featuring descriptions and illustrations of 1700 bookplates. The volume commences with a detailed introduction outlining the history of the Dutch bookplate tradition and the significant contributions made by Jews. Presented in Dutch with a summary provided in English.

Harvard University Press, 2007 8vo (24 cm), XI, 304 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. From the blurb: "The rise of global financial markets in the last decades of the twentieth century was premised on one fundamental idea: that capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that this was not always the case. Transactions routinely executed by bankers, managers, and investors during the 1990s - trading foreign stocks and bonds, borrowing in foreign currencies - had been illegal in many countries only decades, and sometimes just a year or two, earlier. How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally?… Read More

Cornell University Press, 1983 8vo (21.5 cm), XVIII, 353 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). This book argues that history and sociology share the same vital preoccupation: the desire to unravel the puzzle of human agency. How do large-scale social transformations occur, and what is the role of the individual in them? Phil Abrams devotes three chapters to the development of industrialism and scrutinizes, in that connection, the theories of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim. Subsequent chapters consider Talcott Parsons and the debate on "convergence"; the formation of "states"; the idea of the "event" as a legitimate concern of history and sociology; individuals and sociological generations; deviancy and revolution; and a final chapter on the limits of historical sociology.

The MIT Press, 1992 4to (28.5 cm), X, 318 pp. Publisher's cloth. "Poet, gardener, and moralist, Ian Hamilton Finlay is also an artist of international stature whose remarkable originality blurs the traditional genre distinctions between painting, sculpture, and architecture. Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer will be an indispensable source for readers interested in any aspect of his work. Representing Finlay as both a visual artist and a poet, it brings together the widest range of printed texts, photographs, and environmental work yet assembled to provide a comprehensive overview of his achievements. Finlay became known in the 1960s as Britain's foremost concrete poet and promoted this movement through his Wild Hawthorn Press, which he continues to operate. Yet he is best known for his garden at Stonypath in Lanarkshire, Scotland, one of the most celebrated of modern gardens. "Little Sparta," as the garden is now called, is an inland island constantly transformed with… Read More

Yale University Press, 1994 8vo (20.5 cm), VIII, 152 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb "Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their opportunities and construct enduring forms of political order? In this important and timely book, a leading political theorist discusses the possibility of liberal democracy in Western and Eastern Europe and offers practical suggestions for its realization. Bruce Ackerman begins by sketching the challenges faced a Western Europe free for the first time in half a century to determine its own fate without the constant intervention of the United States and the Soviet Union. Unless decisive steps are taken, this moment of promise can degenerate into a new cycle… Read More

American Mathematical Society, 2021 8vo (25 cm), 342 pp. Laminated wrappers. "This volume contains the proceedings of the conference Representation Theory XVI, held from June 25-29, 2019, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The articles in the volume address selected aspects of representation theory of reductive Lie groups and vertex algebras, and are written by prominent experts in the field as well as junior researchers. The three main topics of these articles are Lie theory, number theory, and vertex algebras." (publisher's synopsis)

McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1995 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 410 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). This text provides an overview of current developments, a brief historical study of post-Tsarist Russia, an examination of modern Soviet politics and political change, and an analysis of the prospects for a future of democracy, capitalism and nation-building in the former Soviet Union.

PHI Learning, 2012 8vo (23.5 cm), XXVIII, 336 pp. Laminated wrappers (head of the spine chipped). "Today, Information Technology (IT) offers hundreds of solutions/applications for any type of business. Therefore, it is necessary to have a good knowledge of all such applications. This book describes all possible IT applications in business today to enable the readers to understand the scope and benefits of individual applications and their relevance to business.<br><br> The book discusses all business processes and modern management functions and shows how IT solutions get mapped onto them. It explains the potential of IT and how technology leverages the business and makes it more competitive. The book also emphasises that the success of IT applications depends on people, top management, functional managers, operational users and software engineers. Besides, it discusses the attributes of ideal IT applications in business and how to achieve them, and system control to… Read More

Serpent's Tail, 2022 12mo (19.5 cm), [8], 143, [3] pp. Laminated wrappers (minor shelf-wear). "In 1936, a young dreamer named Edmond Charlot opened a modest bookshop in Algiers. Once the heart of Algerian cultural life, where Camus launched his first book and the Free French printed propaganda during the war, Charlot's beloved bookshop has been closed for decades, living on as a government lending library. Now it is to be shuttered forever. But as a young man named Ryad empties it of its books, he begins to understand that a bookshop can be much more than just a shop that sells books. A Bookshop in Algiers charts the changing fortunes of Charlot's bookshop through the political drama of Algeria's turbulent twentieth century of war, revolution and independence. It is a moving celebration of books, bookshops and of those who dare to dream." (from the blurb)

Harvard University Press, 1988 12mo (17 cm), xxiii, 528, 8 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Aeschines, orator and statesman of Athens, 390 or 389–14 BCE, became active in politics about 350. In 348 he was a member of a mission sent to the Peloponnese to stir up feeling against the growing power of king Philip of Macedon; but in 347, when part of a peace-making embassy to Philip, was won over to sympathy with the king, and became a supporter of the peace policy of the Athenian statesman Eubulus. On a second embassy in 346 to ratify a peace Aeschines’s delaying tactics caused the famous orator Demosthenes and Timarchus to accuse him of treason, a charge which he successfully rebutted in the strong extant speech Against Timarchus. In 344–3, when Demosthenes accused him again in a speech, Aeschines replied in the fine extant speech having the same title On the False Embassy and was again acquitted. In 336, when Ctesiphon proposed that Demosthenes should be awarded a crown… Read More

Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1980 Oblong 4to (23 x 30.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers (wrappers slightly rubbed, paper toned). Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition held at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, from September 18 to October 19, 1980. The catalogue features 139 entries.

Now Publishers, 2021 8vo (23.5 cm). X, 174 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Embeddings provide concrete numerical representations of otherwise abstract items, for use in downstream tasks. For example, a biologist might look for subfamilies of related cells by clustering embedding vectors associated with individual cells, while a machine learning practitioner might use vector representations of words as features for a classification task. In this monograph the authors present a general framework for faithful embedding called minimum-distortion embedding (MDE) that generalizes the common cases in which similarities between items are described by weights or distances. The MDE framework is simple but general. It includes a wide variety of specific embedding methods, including spectral embedding, principal component analysis, multidimensional scaling, Euclidean distance problems, etc. The authors provide a detailed description of minimum-distortion embedding problem and describe the theory behind creating… Read More

Oliver & Boyd, 1947 12mo (19 cm), VI, 153 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities and stained, occasional foxing inside). 5th edition. A classic textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to statistical methods and their application in various fields. First published in 1939, it has served as a fundamental reference for students and researchers in statistics and related disciplines. In this book, A. C. Aitken covers a wide range of statistical topics, including probability theory, estimation, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and analysis of variance. Aitken provides a rigorous treatment of statistical principles and techniques, supported by practical examples and exercises aimed at reinforcing understanding.

SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2020 8vo (23 cm), 342 pp.Laminated wrappers. "The mathematical theory for many application areas depends on a deep understanding of the theory of moments. These areas include medical imaging, signal processing, computer visualization, and data science. The problem of moments has also found novel applications to areas such as control theory, image analysis, signal processing, polynomial optimization, and statistical big data." (publisher's synopsis)

American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), 2018 8vo (23.5 cm), 406 pp. Publisher's laminated boards. "Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) has been used since the inception of radiation treatment, but its usage became routine with the development of gantry-mounted cone-beam CT systems in the early 21st century. IGRT is now the norm in the clinics equipped with modern radiation therapy delivery systems. All patients undergoing radiation therapy benefit from this widely available technology, as it enables more accurate delivery of radiation to the intended targets. The 2018 summer school and this book cover all the important aspects of current IGRT techniques used in clinics, as well as some emerging technologies that may become available in the future. Since IGRT is a confluence of radiation therapy and imaging physics, many of the topics covered here focus on the application of imaging physics in therapy. Although the majority of image-guidance devices use ionizing radiation, the… Read More

Battenberg Verlag, 2004 8vo (24.5 cm), 272 pp. Laminated boards.

Yale University Press, 1966 8vo (20.5 cm), 141 pp. Laminated wrappers. Alberti’s Della Pittura was the first modern analytical study of painting, a pioneering treatise on the theory of art. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was primarily designed to persuade both patron and painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. John R. Spencer's translation of Della Pittura is based on all the known manuscripts and is edited with an Introduction and Notes.

Now Publishers, 2019 8vo (23.5 cm). VIII, 200 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Group testing emerged as an area for research from the need for the US Government to screen recruits in the second world war for syphilis. Obviously rather than testing each recruit, a more efficient method involving the minimal number of tests was required. The central problem of group testing is thus: Given a number of items and a number of defectives, how many tests are required to accurately discover the defective items, and how can this be achieved? Group testing has since found applications in medical testing, biology, telecommunications, information technology, data science, and more. The focus of this survey is on the non-adaptive setting of group testing. In this setting, the test pools are designed in advance enabling them to be implemented in parallel. The survey gives a comprehensive and thorough treatment of the subject from an information theoretic perspective. It covers several related developments: efficient… Read More

Chapman and Hall, 1975 8vo (21 cm), 62 pp. Laminated wrappers. This resource booklet contains simple, fun, practical ideas each linked to biomechanical principles.