Product Description: An Accidental Utopia? investigates a more egalitarian past at a time when New Zealand ranks fourth in the developed world for social inequality. It is our first systematic analysis of urban social structure, focusing on three major forms of mobility—marital, work life, and intergenerational...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: The calculus of variations is a beautiful subject with a rich history and with origins in the minimization problems of calculus. Although it is now at the core of many modern mathematical fields, it does not have a well-defined place in most undergraduate mathematics curricula...read more

Product Description: Why did Madam Fahmy intentionally stalk and kill her husband in cold blood at the elegant Savoy Hotel? Did too many gangster movies lead Betty Jones to embark on a killing spree across the English countryside? Why would a private school headmistress -- a well-bred lady by the name of Jean Harris -- gun down the Scarsdale Diet doctor? And how did the poisoning of Florence Bravo's husband become the 19th century's greatest unsolved murder mystery inspiring none other than Agatha Christie? Frank Jones delves into the backgrounds, psyches, and trials of fifteen notorious women accused of murder from Victorian times to the present...read more

Lebesgue Integration on Euclidean Space contains a concrete, intuitive, and patient derivation of Lebesgue measure and integration on Rn. Throughout the text, many exercises are incorporated, enabling students to apply new ideas immediately. Jones strives to present a slow introduction to Lebesgue integration by dealing with n-dimensional spaces from the outset. In addition, the text provides students a thorough treatment of Fourier analysis, while holistically preparing students to become workers in real analysis. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Come Home to Your Children

Product Description: Here, Frank Jones has brought together a chilling collection of cases which show that, for the right price, some people will do anything - even murder. Around the world, contract killings have become a bizarre and growing trend. More and more 'ordinary' people are hiring strangers to dispose of their no-longer-loved ones...read more

Clerk and spy Sir Hugh Corbett is called upon by King Edward I to find the causes of the fire that consumed a man, and the mystery deepens when an assassin is later consumed by this same 'Satan's fire.'

Product Description: This is a chilling collection of cases which show that, for the right price, some people will do anything, even murder. It includes classic cases such as the attempted murder of Ivor Stokle and Pauline Leyshon.

Product Description: Book by Jones, Frank

Product Description: Book by Jones, Frank

Each of the sixteen tragedies is preceded by notes on plot, theme, and characters