Theory category: 79975 books
Computability Theory
An Introduction to Recursion Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory provides a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to contemporary computability theory, techniques, and results. The basic concepts and techniques of computability theory are placed in their historical, philosophical and logical...
Reading Beyond the Code
Literature and Relevance Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton—nine of the ten essays...
Nursing Knowledge and Theory Innovation
Advancing the Science of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
"This is an excellent addition to the nursing theory literature and one that focuses on the needs of the new DNP role and knowledge development. As the preface states, it encourages the development of 'theory for practice in practice,' and could help to close the divide that exists between theorists/researchers/academics...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Achievement goal theory has emerged as one of the preeminent approaches to motivation. Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning presents the findings of a large scale, longitudinal study that use goal theory as the lens through which to examine the relation among achievement goals,...
Theory and Educational Research
Toward Critical Social Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Most empirical researchers avoid the use of theory in their studies, providing data but little or no social explanation. Theoreticians, on the other hand, rarely test their ideas with empirical projects. As this groundbreaking volume makes clear, however, neither data nor theory alone is adequate...
Forms of Fanonism
Frantz Fanon's Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
When Frantz Fanon's critiques of racism, sexism, colonialism, capitalism, and humanism are brought into the ever-widening orbit of Africana critical theory something unprecedented in the annals of Africana intellectual history happens: five distinct forms of Fanonism emerge. Forms of Fanonism: Frantz...
by Richard Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Quantum mechanics was developed during the first few decades of the twentieth century via a series of inspired guesses made by various physicists, including Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, and Dirac. All these scientists were trying to construct a self-consistent theory of...
Between the Psyche and the Social
Psychoanalytic Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film theory, literary criticism, and philosophy...
Theory into Practice: A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism
A Reader In Modern Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1992
Students of literary theory have been well provided for by the publication of various Readers in literary theory. However, the relation between theory and critical practice still presents a problem to the general reader. This book brings together essays by major critics which apply theory to practice...
Music Theory and Composition
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
***Music Theory and Composition: A Practical Approach***presents a pragmatic, accessible approach to music theory through an emphasis on melody and counterpoint. This focus explains the “why” of musical construction more clearly than the traditional approach of beginning with chords. By starting...
After Poststructuralism
Reading, Stories, Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
In the last decades of the twentieth century, French poststructuralist 'theory' transformed the humanities; it also met with resistance and today we frequently hear that theory is 'dead'.
In this brilliantly argued volume, Colin Davis:
*reconsiders key arguments for and against theory, identifying...
Primes of the Form x2+ny2
Fermat, Class Field Theory, and Complex Multiplication
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
An exciting approach to the history and mathematics of number theory
“. . . the author’s style is totally lucid and very easy to read . . .the result is indeed a wonderful story.” —Mathematical Reviews
Written in a unique and accessible style for readers of varied mathematical...
by Hans J. Zassenhaus
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Group theory represents one of the most fundamental elements of mathematics. Indispensable in nearly every branch of the field, concepts from the theory of groups also have important applications beyond mathematics, in such areas as quantum mechanics and crystallography.
Hans J. Zassenhaus, a pioneer...
Algebra 2
Linear Algebra, Galois Theory, Representation theory, Group extensions and Schur Multiplier
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This is the second in a series of three volumes dealing with important topics in algebra. Volume 2 is an introduction to linear algebra (including linear algebra over rings), Galois theory, representation theory, and the theory of group extensions. The section on linear algebra (chapters 1–5) does...