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Part of the Blackwell Manifestos series, The State of the Novel offers a lively, yet rigorous investigation into the state and future of the contempor…

An innovative treatment of mathematical methods for a multidisciplinary audience Clearly and elegantly presented, Mathematical Methods in Science and …

This book comprises 11 essays on Stalinism by both eminent historians and younger scholars who have conducted research in the newly opened Russian arc…

Shorter, more concise chapters provide flexible coverage of the subject. Expanded coverage includes: uncertainty and randomness, prior distributions, …

The Blackwell Companion to American Regional Literature is the most comprehensive resource yet published for study of this popular field. The most inc…

In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. Introduces student…

A novel, practical introduction to functional analysis In the twenty years since the first edition of Applied Functional Analysis was published, there…

Praise for the First Edition: «This book is well conceived and well written. The author has succeeded in producing a text on nonlinear PDEs that is no…

This inspiring survey challenges conventional ways of viewing the Victorian novel. Provides time maps and overviews of historical and social contexts.…

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of Victorian literature’s enduring impact and importance for readers interested in the …

A complete and well-balanced introduction to modern experimental design Using current research and discussion of the topic along with clear applicatio…

An introductory perspective on statistical applications in the field of engineering Modern Engineering Statistics presents state-of-the-art statistica…

This book introduces readers to the ancient rhetorical tradition by investigating key questions about the origins, nature and importance of rhetoric. …

A self-contained, contemporary treatment of the analysis of long-range dependent data Long-Memory Time Series: Theory and Methods provides an overview…

This second edition of the highly acclaimed and successful first edition, deals primarily with the analysis of structural engineering systems, with ap…

This fully-annotated anthology of sixteenth-century English verse features generous selections from the canonical poets, alongside judicious selection…

The Growing Imperative Need for Effective Information Security Governance With monotonous regularity, headlines announce ever more spectacular failure…

This latest edition of Coloring of Plastics: Fundamentals offers an updated introduction to color as a science while also providing the foundation for…

This reader-friendly introduction makes Joyce asscessible by combining the excitement of reading his words with the excitement of interpreting them.

An accessible, clearly organized survey of the basic topics of measure theory for students and researchers in mathematics, statistics, and physics In …

Learn rigorous statistical methods to ensure valid clinical trials This Second Edition of the critically hailed Clinical Trials builds on the text's r…

In this carefully researched, thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Hughes examines the trajectory of political correctness and its impact on public life. …

This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. The first book to focus on war and peace in the ancie…

A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. A fresh account of …

Written for the professional statistician or graduate statistics student, the primary objective of this book is to describe a system, based on the LIS…

Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situat…

Modern Real and Complex Analysis Thorough, well-written, and encyclopedic in its coverage, this text offers a lucid presentation of all the topics ess…

This book challenges the reputation of the Spanish Inquisition as an instrument of religious persecution, torture and repressionand looks at its wider…

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in th…

A new model for task scheduling that dramatically improves the efficiency of parallel systems Task scheduling for parallel systems can become a quagmi…

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and …

This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it “big”, “new”, “r…

This comprehensive survey of Spain’s history looks at the major political, social, and economic changes that took place from the end of the Civil War …

The Persians is a succinct narrative of Iranian history from the time of Cyrus the Great in 560BC to the present day. A succinct narrative of Iranian …

Learn the latest techniques in programming sophisticated simulation systems This cutting-edge text presents the latest techniques in advanced simulati…

How to Read World Literature addresses the unique challenges faced by a reader confronting foreign literature. Accessible and enlightening, Damrosch o…

WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumer…

Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century…

A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial histor…

Living with Arthritis provides an overview of arthritis that is grounded in the realities of living with a long-term condition often characterised by …

A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction offers an authoritative overview of contemporary British fiction in its social, political, and eco…

Considered by many to be the most influential US novelist the world has known, William Faulkner's roots and his writing are planted in a single obscur…

A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the…

The Novel Now is an intelligent and engaging survey of contemporary British fiction. Discusses familiar names such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman …

Provides an introduction to modern object-oriented design principles and applications for the fast-growing area of modeling and simulation Covers the …