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Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician Learning and Embodying Musical Culture

Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician Learning and Embodying Musical Culture

Coupling the narratives of twenty-two Irish traditional musicians alongside intensive field research Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician explores the rich and diverse ways traditional musicians hone their craft. It details the educational benefits and challenges associated with each learning practice outlining the motivations and obstacles learners experience during musical development. By exploring learning from the point of view of the learners themselves the author provides new insights into modern Irish traditional music culture and how people begin to embody a musical tradition. This book charts the journey of becoming an Irish traditional musician and explores how musicality is learned developed and embodied. | Becoming an Irish Traditional Musician Learning and Embodying Musical Culture

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Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism

Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism

Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic rabbinic feminist and queer perspectives. The book explores how seemingly irreconcilable differences might be resolved. The book is divided into two separate but related sections. The first highlights the divide between the psychoanalytic academic and traditional Orthodox Jewish perspectives on sexual identity and orientation and the acute psychic and social challenges faced by gay and lesbian members of the Orthodox Jewish world. The contributors ask us to engage with them in a dialogue that allows for authentic conversation. The second section focuses on gender identity especially as experienced by the Orthodox transgender members of the community. It also highlights the divide between theories that see gender as fluid and traditional Judaism that sees gender as strictly binary. The contributors write about their views and experiences from both sides of the divide. They ask us to engage in true authentic dialogue about these complex and crucial emotional and religious challenges. Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as members and leaders of Jewish communities working with LGBTQ issues.

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Re-Visioning Existential Therapy Counter-traditional Perspectives

Re-Visioning Existential Therapy Counter-traditional Perspectives

Re-Visioning Existential Therapy is a collection of essays from leading practitioners and theorists around the globe which questions some of the key tenets of traditional existential therapy. The book enlightens stimulates and provokes the reader out of complacency. It expands the breadth and scope of the approach discusses recent developments in psychotherapy and philosophy and aligns existential therapy to a progressive radical and counter-traditional ethos. Through clinical studies personal reflections discussions on aspects of theory and exciting links to art literature and contemporary culture these very diverse and wide-ranging contributions take existential therapy into the fertile wilderness of shared experience. Through renewed links to seminal writers it captures the subversive spirit the deep compassion the unflinching gaze and playfulness that is at the heart of the approach. The book will share knowledge and enthusiasm for the practice of existential therapy in order to encourage therapists and trainees to partake of the joys and challenges of existential practice. | Re-Visioning Existential Therapy Counter-traditional Perspectives

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Communication in Instruction Beyond Traditional Classroom Settings

Communication in Instruction Beyond Traditional Classroom Settings

Communication in Instruction: Beyond Traditional Classroom Settings explores the various challenges we face when trying to teach others in various contexts beyond traditional classroom settings as well as the possible strategies for overcoming them. Instructional communication is a research field that focuses on the role communication plays in instructing others. Although many resources focus on effectively instructional communication strategies within a traditional classroom setting this book expands the scope to include diverse settings where instructional communication also occurs (e. g. risk and crisis situations health care contexts business settings) as well as new directions where instructional communication research and practice are (or ought to be) headed. Whether we are trying to teach a youngster to ride a bike to help a friend evaluate the claims made on an advertisement or to conduct a safety drill with colleagues in the workplace we are engaging in instructional communication. If we want to do so effectively however we need to equip ourselves with best practice tools and strategies for doing so. That is what this book is intended to do. In it you will read about how to teach advocacy to health care practitioners guide others to become socialised in a new workplace setting employ strategies for teaching digital media literacy to nondigital natives and use artificial intelligence (AI) and robots when instructing and engaging strategies for instruction around socially relevant issues such as religion politics and violence. Together they point to some of the ways instructional communication scholarship may be used to explore and inform best practices across communication contexts. The chapters in this book were originally published in Communication Education. | Communication in Instruction Beyond Traditional Classroom Settings

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Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging Michael Chekhov Reimagined

Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging Michael Chekhov Reimagined

Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging: Michael Chekhov Reimagined offers a new set of exercises for coaching actors when working on productions that are non-traditionally staged in arenas thrusts or alleys. All of the exercises are adapted from Michael Chekhov's acting technique but are reimagined in new and creative ways that offer innovative twists for the practitioner familiar with Chekhov and easy accessibility for the practitioner new to Chekhov. Exploring the methodology through a modern day lens these exercises are energizing additions to the classroom and essential tools for more a vibrant rehearsal and performance. | Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging Michael Chekhov Reimagined

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The Traditional and National Music of Scotland

The Traditional and National Music of Scotland

Originally published in 1966 this was the first book on this subject to be published for over a hundred years. It covers all facets including little-known types of Gaelic song the bagpipes and their music including the esoteric subject of pibroch the Ceol Mor or ‘Great Music’ of the pipes. It gives a comprehensive review of the fiddle composers and their music and of the Clarsach and its revival with an example of all-but-extinct Scottish harp music. A chapter is devoted to the music of Orkney and Shetland and the book contains over 100 examples of music many of which were from the author’s own collection and published here for the first time. | The Traditional and National Music of Scotland

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Introduction to Project Management A Source Book for Traditional PM Basics

Introduction to Project Management A Source Book for Traditional PM Basics

This book presents the fundamentals of project management in simple language and an easy-to-understand format. It is targeted principally at those who are learning or desiring to learn project management as well as those who are already taking project management as a course of study or as a profession. It covers all the basic aspects of project management including the core areas prescribed by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) sixth edition. Although the PMBOK Guide seventh edition has significantly shifted focus from a process based standard to a principle based standard it does not invalidate nor replace the detailed knowledge base contained in the sixth edition which substantially emphasizes project management processes and knowledge areas. This is particularly apt for the traditional approach to project delivery which is predictive in nature and has the bulk of the planning done upfront. The sections of the book are arranged in order of Project Management Processes as they fall within the respective Project Management Knowledge Areas. Experienced project manager Davies Igberaese presents all the basic content of traditional project management in a straightforward practical sequence as a typical project manager would go about the processes of initiating planning executing monitoring and closing a project without losing sight of the iterative nature of project management. The inclusion of Project Management Templates gives students and other users of the book the confidence required to effectively understand the basics of managing a wide variety of projects across disciplines including construction building industrial engineering petroleum engineering software engineering information technology business administration and event management. Introduction to Project Management: A Source Book for Traditional PM Basics can serve as a core textbook for academic courses in project management for preparing for PMP and CAPM Certification exams as an excellent resource for new project managers as well as a handy reference book for project sponsors. | Introduction to Project Management A Source Book for Traditional PM Basics

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Hereditary Physicians of Kerala Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India

Hereditary Physicians of Kerala Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India

This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners it focuses on Kerala’s heterogeneous medical traditions and presents them against the backdrop of the geographical historical sociocultural ethnographic and regional contexts in which they developed and transformed. The author explores the world of Kerala’s last traditionally trained hereditary practitioners (folk healers poison therapists Sanskrit-speaking Muslim Ayurvedic practitioners and the legendary Brahman Ashtavaidyan physicians). He discusses the views of these physicians regarding the marked difference between their personalised ancestral methods of treatment and the standardised version of Ayurveda compliant with biomedicine that is practised by doctors today. Drawing on extensive fieldwork this book will be useful to researchers and scholars of medical anthropology health and social medicine sociology and social anthropology the history of science and modern Indian history as well as to medical practitioners interested in alternative and traditional medicine. | Hereditary Physicians of Kerala Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India

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Psyche's Lamp A Revaluation of Pyschological Principles as Foundation of All Thought

Psyche's Lamp A Revaluation of Pyschological Principles as Foundation of All Thought

Originally published in 1921 Psyche's Lamp reminds the reader that all thought and discussion to whatever aspect of confronting problems social political ethical vital and personal they may be directed posit psychological premises. In the darkness and confusion of a human world under reconstrction where immemorial landmarks lie strewn and buried under the debris of collapsed super-structures we shall vainly endeavour to thread our way to any purpose unless we can pierce the obscurity by the light of Psyche's lamp. | Psyche's Lamp A Revaluation of Pyschological Principles as Foundation of All Thought

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Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills passions and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways. Written by design professionals and expert career consultants this book is informed by numerous client accounts as well as the authors’ own stories and routes out of architecture. The initial chapters follow the narrative of a typical architecture training in the US highlighting the many highs and lows skills honed and ultimately the huge disconnect that can occur between architectural education and practice. Subsequent chapters explore a disillusionment with the profession unhealthy work cultures mentorship working with lead architects toxic perfectionism and the notion of a “calling. ” Authors then present the hopeful accounts of many architects who escaped a profession known for its grueling working conditions to find fulfilling well-paying creative jobs that better utilize the skills of architecture than the architectural profession itself. Written in a unique combination of storytelling and analysis this patchwork of client and author stories makes for an immersive provocative and enjoyable read. A wide range of architecture students graduates educators and professionals will recognize themselves within the pages of this book and find prompts to reassess their working practices teaching styles and the profession itself. It will be of particular value to those students skeptical of joining the architecture workforce as well as those further along and considering a career change. | Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

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Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care Introducing Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy

Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care Introducing Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy

This text outlines for the first time a structured articulation of an emerging Islamic orientation to psychotherapy a framework presented and known as Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy (TIIP). TIIP is an integrative model of mental health care that is grounded in the core principles of Islam while drawing upon empirical truths in psychology. The book introduces the basic foundations of TIIP then delves into the writings of early Islamic scholars to provide a richer understanding of the Islamic intellectual heritage as it pertains to human psychology and mental health. Beyond theory the book provides readers with practical interventional skills illustrated with case studies as well as techniques drawn inherently from the Islamic tradition. A methodology of case formulation is provided that allows for effective treatment planning and translation into therapeutic application. Throughout its chapters the book situates TIIP within an Islamic epistemological and ontological framework providing a discussion of the nature and composition of the human psyche its drives health pathology mechanisms of psychological change and principles of healing. Mental health practitioners who treat Muslim patients Muslim clinicians students of the behavioral sciences and related disciplines and anyone with an interest in spiritually oriented psychotherapies will greatly benefit from this illustrative and practical text. | Applying Islamic Principles to Clinical Mental Health Care Introducing Traditional Islamically Integrated Psychotherapy

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Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

The study and teaching of international human rights law is dominated by the doctrinal method. A wealth of alternative approaches exists but they tend to be discussed in isolation from one another. This collection focuses on cross-theoretical discussion that brings together an array of different analytical methods and theoretical lenses that can be used for conducting research within the field. As such it provides a coherent accessible and diverse account of key theories and methods. A distinctive feature of this collection is that it adopts a grounded approach to international human rights law through demonstrating the application of specific research methods to individual case studies. By applying the approach under discussion to a concrete case it is possible to better appreciate the multiple understandings of international human rights law that are missed when the field is only comprehended though the doctrinal method. Furthermore since every contribution follows the same uniform structure this allows for fruitful comparison between different approaches to the study of our discipline. | Research Methods for International Human Rights Law Beyond the traditional paradigm

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Contemporary Inter-regional Dialogue and Cooperation between the EU and ASEAN on Non-traditional Security Challenges

Contemporary Inter-regional Dialogue and Cooperation between the EU and ASEAN on Non-traditional Security Challenges

This book provides an analysis of non-traditional security (NTS) crises and cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Southeast Asia. Using case studies – transboundary air pollution marine life endangerment illegal migration and terrorism – from both Southeast Asia and Western Europe between 2009 and 2016 this book offers a contemporary understanding of the EU as a collective actor within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-EU and Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) inter-regional dialogue formats and affiliated programmes. Through new empirical insights into the regional and inter-regional institutional dynamics of the EU and ASEAN in times of crisis and rising nationalism in both regions the author demonstrates in particular the relevance of the EU as a security and normative actor and the value of inter-regionalism as a foreign and security tool of the EU in Southeast Asia. Thus this book underlines the importance of regional organisations in the management of contemporary transboundary NTS challenges within global governance. Enhancing topical debates and offering a timely assessment of crisis-induced regionalism and inter-regionalism in world affairs this book will be of interest to scholars studying International Relations International Security Southeast Asian Studies European Studies and Public Policy. | Contemporary Inter-regional Dialogue and Cooperation between the EU and ASEAN on Non-traditional Security Challenges

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Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

Originally published in 1987. In this book we find songs reflecting every aspect of life in the twentieth-century Royal Navy both upper and lower deck: war ship’s routine aviation submarines the antics of dockyard personnel not to mention the matelot’s shore-going adventures both amorous and bibulous. The compiler was well-known as a folk-singer though he began his career in the Royal Navy. Based on his personal collection of Navy songs this book proves that the sailor’s muse did not desert him with the passing of the sailing ship. It also dispels the notion that the modern Jack Tar when he produces any songs at all confines himself to the pornographic. With the songs Cyril Tawney interweaves a commentary on the Royal Navy setting providing a backdrop to the sailor’s own words. This book is of enduring appeal to all who have served as well as to students of twentieth-century oral tradition. | Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

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Pursuing Justice Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World

Pursuing Justice Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World

Pursuing Justice Third Edition examines the issue of justice by considering the origins of the idea formal systems of justice current global issues of justice and ways in which justice might be achieved by individuals organizations and the global community. Part I demonstrates how the idea of justice has emerged over time starting with religion and philosophy and then to the concept of social justice. Part II outlines the very different mechanisms used by various nations for achieving state justice including systems based on common law civil law and Islamic law with a separate discussion of the US justice system. Part III focuses on six contemporary issues of justice: war immigration domestic terrorism genocide slavery and the environment. Finally Part IV shows how individuals and organizations can go about pursuing justice and describes the rise of global justice. This updated timely book helps students understand the complexities and nuances of a society's pursuit of justice. It provides students with the foundations of global justice systems integrating Greek philosophies and major religious perspectives into a justice perspective and contributes to undergraduate understanding of international justice bodies NGOs and institutions. New to the third edition is a complete chapter on immigration with a focus on historical and global patterns as they relate to justice as well as new material on the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements the genocide of the Rohingya of Myanmar and the sovereign citizens movement in relation to domestic terrorism. | Pursuing Justice Traditional and Contemporary Issues in Our Communities and the World

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Project Management Methodologies Governance and Success Insight from Traditional and Transformative Research

Project Management Methodologies Governance and Success Insight from Traditional and Transformative Research

With all signs pointing to an increased use of and interest in project-based work in modern organizations the better scholars are able to make sense of the current state of the field through theory development and empirical investigation the more successful projects promise to become. This book is a welcome addition to our field and will be I am sure an important work and source for future reference well into the future. —Dr. Jeffrey Pinto Pennsylvania State UniversityThe goal of practicing project managers and scholars alike lies in solving the puzzle of how to manage projects toward successful completion. However understanding what comprises project success—seemingly such an innocent question—has come to represent one of the most challenging problems for project managers and scholars. Who determines success? At what point in time is success best measured? How do diverse stakeholders define success? What happens when their perspectives collide? What is the difference between project success and project management success? These are surprisingly complex problems. For every principle or rule posited a brief investigation reveals that there are numerous exceptions muddying the waters and making these ideas increasingly opaque. Project Management Methodologies Governance and Success addresses this challenge head-on putting into proper context the critical issues that shape our understanding of the project management research process. Employing a concept referred to as philosophical triangulation the book shows how to overcome the weaknesses or intrinsic biases that disrupt and minimize the impact of so much organizational research. It places organizational governance and success within their proper context allowing scholars to identify the best methods for investigating project-based work. It links together in a cogent manner the diverse themes of research theory and design projects and project success and organizational governance. In effect this book demonstrates that to fully understand how to undertake research in projects theory and method are inextricably interwoven. | Project Management Methodologies Governance and Success Insight from Traditional and Transformative Research

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The Professionalisation of African Medicine

The Professionalisation of African Medicine

Originally published in 1986 this book draws upon a range of authors to reflect wide interest in systematising traditional medicine and to include material on significant instances of regulation or organisation. It was the first book to study the efforts of traditional healers and their newly formed professional associations and as such constitutes a pioneering collection of sources. Because of the changing position of traditional medicine it may well also be a unique record: before long what is described here will largely have disappeared. | The Professionalisation of African Medicine

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Rewriting Ancient Jewish History The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method

Rewriting Ancient Jewish History The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method

Half a century ago the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed however when a handful of insights undermined the traditional historical method the method long enlisted by historians for eliciting facts from sources. In response to these insights a new historical method gradually emerged. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History critiques the traditional historical method and makes a case for the new one illustrating how to write anew ancient Jewish history. At the heart of the traditional historical method lie three fundamental presumptions. The traditional historical method regularly presumes that multiple versions of a text or tradition are equally authentic; it presumes that many ancient Jewish sources are the products of largely immanent forces of cloistered Jewish communities; and barring any local grounds for suspicion it presumes that most ancient Jewish texts faithfully reflect their sources and reliably recount events. Rewriting Ancient Jewish History unfurls the failings of this approach; it promotes the new historical method which circumvents the flawed traditional presumptions while plotting anew the limits of rational argumentation in historical inquiry. This crucial reappraisal is a must-read for students of Jewish and Roman history alike and a fascinating case-study in how historians should approach their ancient sources. | Rewriting Ancient Jewish History The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method

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Ritual and Economy in Metropolitan China A Global Social Science Approach

Ritual and Economy in Metropolitan China A Global Social Science Approach

This book focuses on Shenzhen one of China’s most globalized metropolises a leading centre of high-tech industries and as a melting pot of migrants from all over China a place of vibrant cultural creativity. While in the early stages of Shenzhen’s development this vibrant cultural creativity was associated with the resilience of traditional social structures in Shenzhen’s migrant ‘urban villages’ today these structures undergird dynamic entrepreneurship and urban self-organization throughout Shenzhen and have gradually merged with the formal structures of urban governance and politics. This book examines these developments showing how important traditional social structures and traditional Chinese culture have been for China’s economic modernization. The book goes on to draw out the implications of this for the future of Chinese culture and Chinese economic engagement in a globalized world. | Ritual and Economy in Metropolitan China A Global Social Science Approach

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Japanese Flower Culture – An Introduction

Japanese Flower Culture – An Introduction

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to ikebana and other forms of Japanese flower culture. Unlike other books on the subject which focus on practice the book provides both an academic discussion of the subject and an introduction to practice. It examines ikebana and flower culture from anthropological and sociological perspectives analyses Japanese aesthetics customs and rituals related to flower arrangements and outlines ikebana history and the Grand Master Iemoto system. It considers how the traditional arts are taught in Japan and links traditional arts to current issues in today’s society such as gender and class. This book also covers how to prepare ikebana utensils preserve flowers and branches and how to appreciate arrangements placing an emphasis on acknowledging our five senses throughout each stage of the process. The book will be of interest to a wide range of people interested in Japanese flower culture – university professors and students tourists and people interested in traditional Japanese arts. | Japanese Flower Culture – An Introduction

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Control and Dynamics in Power Systems and Microgrids

Control and Dynamics in Power Systems and Microgrids

In traditional power system dynamics and control books the focus is on synchronous generators. Within current industry where renewable energy power electronics converters and microgrids arise the related system-level dynamics and control need coverage. Wind energy system dynamics and microgrid system control are covered. The text also offers insight to using programming examples state-of-the-art control design tools and advanced control concepts to explain traditional power system dynamics and control. The reader will gain knowledge of dynamics and control in both synchronous generator-based power system and power electronic converter enabled renewable energy systems as well as microgrids. | Control and Dynamics in Power Systems and Microgrids

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Discrete Encounters

Discrete Encounters

Eschewing the often standard dry and static writing style of traditional textbooks Discrete Encounters provides a refreshing approach to discrete mathematics. The author blends traditional course topics and applications with historical context pop culture references and open problems. This book focuses on the historical development of the subject and provides fascinating details of the people behind the mathematics along with their motivations deepening readers’ appreciation of mathematics. This unique book covers many of the same topics found in traditional textbooks but does so in an alternative entertaining style that better captures readers’ attention. In addition to standard discrete mathematics material the author shows the interplay between the discrete and the continuous and includes high-interest topics such as fractals chaos theory cellular automata money-saving financial mathematics and much more. Not only will readers gain a greater understanding of mathematics and its culture they will also be encouraged to further explore the subject. Long lists of references at the end of each chapter make this easy. Highlights:Features fascinating historical context to motivate readersText includes numerous pop culture references throughout to provide a more engaging reading experienceIts unique topic structure presents a fresh approachThe text’s narrative style is that of a popular book not a dry textbookIncludes the work of many living mathematiciansIts multidisciplinary approach makes it ideal for liberal arts mathematics classes leisure reading or as a reference for professors looking to supplement traditional coursesContains many open problemsProfusely illustrated

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