CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics
The format of this work is somewhere between a handbook, a dictionary, and an encyclopedia.
It is written in an informal style intended to make it accessible to a broad spectrum of readers with a wide range of mathematical backgrounds and interests.The selection of topics in this work is more extensive than in most mathematical dictionaries (e.g., Borowski and Borwein’s Harper-Collins Dictionary of Mathematics and Jeans and Jeans’ Muthematics Dictionary).
Russian Fairy Tales by Peter Polevoi translated by Robert Nisbet Bain (Rare Book Collection)
The existence of the Russian Skazki or Märchen was first made generally known to the British Public by Mr. W. R. S. Ralston in his Russian Folk Tales. That excellent and most engrossing volume was, primarily, a treatise on Slavonic Folk-Lore, illustrated with admirable skill and judgment, by stories, mainly selected from the vast collection of Afanasiev, who did for the Russian what Asbjornsen has done for the Norwegian Folk-Tale. A year after the appearance of Mr. Ralston's book, the eminent Russian historian and archaeologist, Peter Nikolaevich Polevoi (well known, too, as an able and ardent Shaksperian scholar), selected from the inexhaustible stores of Afanasiev some three dozen of the Skazki most suitable for children, and worked them up into a fairy tale book which was published at St. Petersburg in 1874, under the title of Narodnuiya Russkiya Skazki (Popular Russian Märchen). To manipulate these quaintly vigorous old-world stories for nursery purposes was, as may well be imagined, no easy task, but, on the whole, M. Polevoi did his work excellently well, and while softening the crudities and smoothing out the occasional roughness of these charming stories, neither injured their simple texture nor overlaid the original pattern.
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Contemporary Novelists Edition 7 This 7th edition of Contemporary Novelists includes biographies, bibliographies and critical essays on approximately 650 contemporary writers, 100 new to this edition. Includes nationality and title indexes.
Although readers of prose fiction sometimes find descriptive passages superfluous or boring, description itself is often the most important aspect of a poem. This book examines how a variety of contemporary poets use description in their work. Description has been the great burden of poetry. How do poets see the world? How do they look at it? What do they look for?
Telephone Skills - Essential Telephone English (Heinemann) Lower intermediate.
This book is a guide and practice book for people who need to use English on the telephone.
Contains over 30 typical telephone conversations, with key language highlighted in each one. Provides lots of additional telephone practice, and an extensive telephone wordlist for general reference. Ideal for Pre-Intermediate students who need to use the telephone in English in their day-to-day lives. Note: Only the book, sorry.
