Book Description: This cerebral text seeks understanding of the mysteries at the heart of mathematics.At a certain level, math is a mystery. For example, what exactly is a line? Is it a series oftiny dots in a row? Is it the length from one dot to another? These are the types of questions that author Peter F...read more

Product Description: The Nature of Negative Numbers There is a famous number that contradicts the real law of signs. That number is square of -1. Some regard this exception to be a member of its own tiny number system, whereas others hold that it is something else that only looks like a number...read more

Product Description: Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that contemporary writers' revisions of Shakespeare can have a political impact on our vision of America.

Product Description: Now at ninety-three volumes, this popular MLA series addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text...read more

Product Description: How the Clinton Administration and Fed regulators manipulated the stock market to make the economy appear healthy, when it was not. Multitudes were transfixed by the mirage of a continuing cornucopia, while in the background, internationalist financial in (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How the Clinton Administration and Fed regulators manipulated the stock market to make the economy appear healthy, when it was not. Multitudes were transfixed by the mirage of a continuing cornucopia, while in the background, internationalist financial in

An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer criticisms of the last decade, the authors write in a diversity of voices on a range of subjects. Common among them, however, is a concern with the visual technologies that underlie the representation of the body, of race, of nation, and of empire.Several essays focus on the construction and representation of the human body—including an examination of anatomy as procedure and visual concept, and a look at early cartographic practice to reveal the correspondences between maps and the female body. In one essay, early Tudor portraits are studied to develop theoretical analogies and historical links between verbal and visual portrayal. In another, connections in Tudor-Stuart drama are drawn between the female body and the textiles made by women. A second group of essays considers issues of colonization, empire, and race. They approach a variety of visual materials, including sixteenth-century representations of the New World that helped formulate a consciousness of subjugation; the Drake Jewel and the myth of the Black Emperor as indices of Elizabethan colonial ideology; and depictions of the Queen of Sheba among other black women "present" in early modern painting. One chapter considers the politics of collecting. The aesthetic and imperial agendas of a Van Dyck portrait are uncovered in another essay, while elsewhere, that same portrait is linked to issues of whiteness and blackness as they are concentrated within the ceremonies and trappings of the Order of the Garter.All of the essays in Early Modern Visual Culture explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts are produced and consumed. They also explore how those artifacts—and the acts of creating, collecting, and admiring them—are themselves mechanisms for fashioning the body and identity, situating the self within a social order, defining the otherness of race, ethnicity, and gender, and establishing relationships of power over others based on exploration, surveillance, and insight. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, three have never before been published; the essays' appearance in a single volume makes available for the first time the full scope of Berger's unique approach to ethical discourses in Shakespeare's plays...read more

Product Description: Participants in the current debate about the literary canon generally separate the established literary order—of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon—from the emergent minority literatures. In this challenging study, Peter Erickson insists on bringing the two realms together...read more

Product Description: Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama Hardcover - March, 1985 by Peter Erickson (Author)