An interesting piece by Manuela Zoninsein at Slate, claiming in The Black President that: 'A 1926 Brazilian sci-fi novel predicts a U.S. election determined by race and gender'.
The October edition of the SWR-Bestenliste is out, where 29 leading German literary critics each award points (15,10,6,3) to the four books they wish would reach the most readers. Not too much of a surprise that Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm
Doing his best to stir things up (since they don't have a long- or shortlist with which to attract media attention), Swedish Academy permanent secretary Horace Engdahl paints the American literary scene as too provincial to have much a chance
Ladbrokes has set odds on who will win the 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature, offering up some five dozen names (basically a retread of last year's list, with minimal changes), with Claudio Magris their favourite, ahead of Adonis and Amos
The pratice of capitalism can only succeed in keeping Africa perpetually backward, corrupt and under-developed," Mr. Eric Olie, writer of the book, 'Africa, Caught in the Web of Capitalism', has observed.
For readers already familiar with the TEX computer typesetting system, but have specific questions or want to explore advance features. A reference manual designed to complement tutorial guides.
This guide demonstrates the beauty of physics through explanations about the physical universe. It takes the reader from the basic introductory concepts about motion, energy and gravity, to recent theories about the structure of matter, the origin of the universe
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Simple ordinary differential equations may have solutions in terms of power series whose coefficients grow at such a rate that the series has a radius of convergence equal to zero. In fact, every linear meromorphic system has a formal solution
Black and white photography has come a long way in the digital world. Feeling overwhelmed by the endless conversion options in (and around) Photoshop, Lightroom and beyond? If so, youre not alone, and this is definitely the book for you!
explores all aspects of the emerging technology that enables electric utilities to provide support for high-speed data communications via their power infrastructure. This book examines the two methods used to connect consumers and businesses to the Internet through the utility
These lecture notes grew out of an M.Sc. course on diRerentialgeometry which I gave at the University of Leeds 1992. Their mainpurpose is to introduce the beautiful theory of Riemannian Geometrya still very active research area of mathematics. This is
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