Passive cooling; Logic and mathematics; Unjust laws

04/12/2011

Advances in passive cooling / edited by Mat Santamouris. London, U.K. : Earthscan, 2007. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Essays in the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics / Roman Murawski. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Changing unjust laws justly: pro-life solidarity with “the last and least” / Colin Harte. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2005. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Mathematics

03/23/2011

Michael, T.S. How to guard an art gallery and other discrete mathematical adventures. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Mazzucchi, Sonia. Mathematical Feynman path integrals and their applications. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2009.(Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Bismut, Jean-Michel, and Gilles Lebeau. The hypoelliptic Laplacian and Ray-Singer metrics.Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Gray, Jeremy. Plato’s ghost: the modernist transformation of mathematics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.(Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


New electronic reference books

01/26/2011

Parker, Martin, Valérie Fournier, and Patrick Reedy. The dictionary of alternatives: utopianism, and organization. London: Zed Books, 2007. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Gowers, Timothy, ed. The Princeton companion to mathematics. Princeton: Princeton University press, 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Hall, Carl W. A biographical dictionary of people in engineering: from earliest records until 2000. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2008. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Routledge Classics – Part II

12/02/2010

Popper, Karl. Unended quest. London: Routledge, 2002.(Publisher’s description)

Sartre, Jean-Paul. Colonialism and neocolonialism.Trans. Azzedine Haddour, Steve Brewer and Terry McWilliams. London: Routledge, 2006.(Publisher’s description)

Weil, Simone. Gravity and grace.Trans. Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr. London: Routledge, 2002. (Publisher’s description)

Russell, Bertrand. In praise of idleness and other essays. London: Routledge, 2004. (Publisher’s description)

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The world of perception.Trans. Oliver Davis. London: Routledge, 2008.(Publisher’s description)

Nagel, Ernst, and James R. Newman. Gödel’s proof. London: Routledge, 2005. (Publisher’s description)


Electronic reference sources: human geography, mathematics, psychology

09/17/2010

Gregory, Derek, et al., eds. The dictionary of human geography.5th ed. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.(Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Nelson, David, ed. The Penguin dictionary of mathematics.4th ed. London: Penguin, 2008.(Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Reber, Arthur S., Rhianon Allen, and Emily S. Reber. The Penguin dictionary of psychology.London: Penguin, 2009.(Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Numbers, nature, and climate change

04/12/2010

Tubbs, Robert. What is a number?: mathematical concepts and their origins. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Scheffer, Marten. Critical transitions in nature and society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Lovell, Bryan. Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


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