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  • Myths and Memories of the Black Death

    by Ben Dodds ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores modern representations of the Black Death, a medieval pandemic. The concept of cultural memory is used to examine the ways in which journalists, writers of fiction, scholars and others referred to, described and explained the Black Death from around 1800 onwards. The distant medieval past was often used to make sense of aspects of the present, from the cholera pandemics of the ... Read more

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  • The Ideas of Particle Physics

    This book is a comprehensive introduction to particle physics, bridging the gap between traditional textbooks on the subject and popular accounts that assume little background knowledge. This fourth edition is fully revised, including the most recent ideas and discoveries, and the latest avenues of research. The development of the subject is traced from the foundations of quantum mechanics and ... Read more

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  • Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death

    Common Themes and Regional Variations

    Edited by Ben Dodds, Richard Britnell ...
    Series Book 6 - Studies in Regional and Local History
    With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems—such as depopulation and social conflict—with illustrative material from detailed local and regional research, this compilation demonstrates how these general problems were solved within ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Noncommutative Integration and Operator Theory

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    The purpose of this monograph is to provide a systematic account of the theory of noncommutative integration in semi-finite von Neumann algebras. It is designed to serve as an introductory graduate level text as well as a basic reference for more established mathematicians with interests in the continually expanding areas of noncommutative analysis and probability. Its origins lie in two ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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  • The Search for Superstrings, Symmetry, and the Theory of Everything

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  • Particle Physics

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