Authors:Glynn Isaac, Barbara Isaac,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: glynn, isaac, papers, origins, human, archaeology
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2005-12-08
List price: $87.00
ISBN-10: 0521023157
ISBN-13: 9780521023153

This work contains a collection of the most influential papers of the late Glynn Isaac which illustrate his work in East Africa on the earliest records of the human species. It consists of 18 essays on the archaeology of the Old Stone Age in Kenya and Tanzania.

Authors:Debra S. Isaac, Michael J. Isaac,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: areas, system, security, key, seven, prep, guide, mastering, sscp
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-04-11
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0471273511
ISBN-13: 9780471273516

* SSCP (System Security Certified Practitioner) is the companion test to CISSP, appealing to the practitioners who implement the security policies that the CISSP-certified professionals create * Organized exactly like the bestselling The CISSP Prep Guide (0-471-41356-9) by Ronald L. Krutz and Russell Dean Vines, who serve as consulting editors for this book * This study guide greatly enhances the reader’s understanding of how to implement security policies, standards, and procedures in order to breeze through the SSCP security certification test * CD-ROM contains a complete interactive s

Authors:Isaac Newton,  D. T. Whiteside,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: newton, mathematical, isaac, papers, sir, volume
Number of Pages: 664
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $99.99
ISBN-10: 0521045843
ISBN-13: 9780521045841

The fifth volume of this definitive edition centres around Newton’s Lucasian lectures on algebra, purportedly delivered during 1673-83, and subsequently prepared for publication under the title Arithmetica Universalis many years later. Dr Whiteside first reproduces the text of the lectures deposited by Newton in the Cambridge University Library about 1684. In these much reworked, not quite finished, professional lectiones, Newton builds upon his earlier studies of the fundamentals of algebra and its application to the theory and construction of equations, developing new techniques for th

Authors:Isaac Newton,  D. T. Whiteside,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: newton, mathematical, isaac, papers, sir, volume
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2008-02-11
List price: $99.99
ISBN-10: 0521045894
ISBN-13: 9780521045896

Newton’s mathematical researches during the last five years of his stay in Cambridge before leaving in April 1696 to take up his duties at the Mint in London have three main centres of interest: methods of fluxions and series, classical pure geometry, and Cartesian analytical geometry. Part 1 reproduces Newton’s advances at this time in further extending the techniques of his combined calculus of fluxions and fluent, and of expansion into infinite series. Part 2 gives publication of Newton’s lengthy excursions in the early 1690s into the modes of geometrical analysis used by

Authors:Isaac Newton, D. T. Whiteside, M. A. Hoskin,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: newton, mathematical, isaac, papers, sir, volume
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0521045967
ISBN-13: 9780521045964

The second volume of Dr Whiteside’s annotated edition of all the known mathematical papers of Isaac Newton covers the period 1667-70. It is divided into three parts: Part 1 contains the first drafts of an attempted classification of cubics, together with more general studies on the properties of higher algebraic curves and researches into the ’organic’ construction of curves. Part 2 comprises papers on miscellaneous researches in calculus, including the important De Analysi which introduced Newton to John Collins and others outside Cambridge; Newton’s original text is h

Authors:Isaac Newton,  Andrew Janiak,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: texts, history, philosophy, cambridge, writings, newton, philosophical, isaac
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-12-06
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521538483
ISBN-13: 9780521538480

Andrew Janiak examines Newton’s philosophical positions and his relations to canonical figures in early modern philosophy through Newton’s principal philosophical writings. Janiak’s study includes excerpts from the Principia and the Opticks, Newton’s famous correspondence with Boyle and with Bentley, and his equally significant correspondence with Leibniz, often ignored in favor of Leibniz’s later debate with Samuel Clarke. (Newton’s exchanges with Leibniz place their different understandings of natural philosophy in sharp relief.)Book DescriptionIn this vol

Authors:Christophe Blain, Joe Johnso,
Publisher: ComicsLit
Keywords: isaac, pirate, novels, capital, graphic
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2005-03-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1561634182
ISBN-13: 9781561634187

The critically acclaimed series continues as Isaac finally gets off the boat but is altered forever from his intense experience at sea. After a dicey life of women and drink on tropical isles fueled by robbery and deft pickpocketing, he itches to be back home and find his love of so many years ago, Alice. While he reunites with his now much older father, Alice, and a `clean` life, remain elusive... "Blain`s drawing appears cartoony at first, but on closer examination shows a deep portrayal of human emotion."-Publishers Weekly "Genuinely picaresque chronicle of a young man`s adventures among