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Honor

Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Title:HonorISBN13:9780226774084ISBN10:0226774082Author:Stewart, Frank Henderson (Author)Description:What Is Honor? Is It The Same As Reputation? Or Is It Rather A Sentiment? Is It A Character Trait, Like Integrity? Or Is It Simply A Concept Too Vague Or Incoherent To Be Fully Analyzed? In The First Sustained Comparative Analysis Of This Elusive Notion, Frank Stewart Writes That None Of These Ideas Is Correct Drawing On Information About Western Ideas Of Honor From Sources As Diverse As Medieval Arthurian Romances, Spanish Dramas Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, And The Writings Of German Jurists Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, And Comparing The European Ideas With The Ideas Of A Non-Western Society-The Bedouin-Stewart Argues That Honor Must Be Understood As A Right, Basically A Right To Respect He Shows That By Understanding Honor This Way, We Can Resolve Some Of The Paradoxes That Have Long Troubled Scholars, And Can Make Sense Of Certain Institutions (For Instance The Medieval European Pledge Of Honor) That Have Not Hitherto Been Properly Understood Offering A Powerful New Way To Understand This Complex Notion, Honor Has Important Implications Not Only For The Social Sciences But Also For The Whole History Of European Sensibility Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:UNIV OF CHICAGO PRPublication Date:1994-12-15Weight:0.49 lbsDimensions:0.41” H x 8.45” L x 5.49” WNumber of Pages:190Language:English

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Music After Deleuze

Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Title:Music After DeleuzeISBN13:9781441101815ISBN10:1441101810Author:Campbell, Edward (Author)Description:Music After Deleuze Explores How Deleuzian Concepts Offer Interesting Ways Of Thinking About A Wide Range Of Musics The Concepts Of Difference, Identity And Repetition Offer Novel Approaches To Western Art Music From Beethoven To Boulez And Bernhard Lang As Well As Jazz Improvisation, Popular And Sacred Music The Concepts Of The ‘Rhizome’, The ‘Assemblage’ And The ‘Refrain’ Enable Us To Think Of The Specificity Of Musical Works As The Meeting Of Productive Forces, For Example In The Contemporary Opera Of Dusapin And The Experimental Music Theatre Of Aperghis The Concepts Of Smooth And Striated Space Form The Starting Point For Musical And Political Reflections On Pitch In Western And Eastern Music Deleuze’s Notion Of Time As Multiple Illumines The Distinctive Conceptions Of Musical Time Found In Debussy, Messiaen, Boulez, Carter And Grisey Finally, The Innovative Semiotic Theory Forged In Deleuze-Guattarian Philosophy Offers Valuable Insights For A Semiotics Capable Of Engaging With The Innovative, Molecular Music Of Lachenmann, Aperghis And Levinas Binding:Hardcover, HardcoverPublisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublication Date:2014-01-02Weight:0.85 lbsDimensions:0.7” H x 8.7” L x 5.3” WNumber of Pages:208Language:English

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Vector Geometry

Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Title:Vector GeometryISBN13:9780486481609ISBN10:0486481603Author:Robinson, Gilbert De B. (Author)Description:This Brief Undergraduate-Level Text By A Prominent Cambridge-Educated Mathematician Explores The Relationship Between Algebra And Geometry An Elementary Course In Plane Geometry Is The Sole Requirement For Gilbert De B Robinson’s Text, Which Is The Result Of Several Years Of Teaching And Learning The Most Effective Methods From Discussions With Students Topics Include Lines And Planes, Determinants And Linear Equations, Matrices, Groups And Linear Transformations, And Vectors And Vector Spaces Additional Subjects Range From Conics And Quadrics To Homogeneous Coordinates And Projective Geometry, Geometry On The Sphere, And Reduction Of Real Matrices To Diagonal Form Exercises Appear Throughout The Text, With Complete Answers At The End Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:DOVER PUBN INCPublication Date:2011-06-16Weight:0.45 lbsDimensions:0.5” H x 8.4” L x 5.3” WNumber of Pages:176Language:English