This volume brings together a series of analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. The essays present a wide and varied picture of the period. The authors investigate different aspects of...

A lucid and profound yet eminently readable introduction to [Tibetan Buddhism].--Library Journal

Features the chemistry of manganese, technetium and rhenium covered in Volume 4 of COMC . This book highlights the growth in organorhenium chemistry, the use of manganese hydrocarbon complexes in organic synthesis, and the...

Klein's openness and warmth are reflected everywhere in her famous book, from the opening account of her family in prewar Poland to her three-year imprisonment in German work camps. On May 7, 1945, she was liberated by the U.S....

This book deals with the existing mathematical models of neurons and their interactions. Beginning with the research of John Hopfield, the authors go on to study problems involving Hopfield's network, the modifications introduced...

Karol ( Lolek ) Wojtyla and Jerzy ( Jurek ) Kluger were schoolmates until the autumn of 1938. In the years that followed, they endured the unendurable. It would be fifty years before their emotional reunion. The seed of hope that...

Orr applies Strauss's own principles of analysis to his pivotal essay Jerusalem and Athens: some Preliminary Reflections . She reveals Strauss's understanding of religion as more than simply political. Neither an atheist nor a...