El Canto general es un clasico de la literatura hispanoamericana y de la poesia universal de este siglo, al que el autor chileno Pablo Neruda llamo en sus Memorias "mi libro mas importante." Este Canto es una obra de caracter enciclopedico, reune multiples temas, generos y tecnicas bajo un denominador comun: America, constituyendo una historia marginal del continente. Obras mae...(展开全部)

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins...(展开全部)

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins...(展开全部)

安·帕契特之前写过三本小说，被《纽约时报》评为“年度好书”的《利亚尔斯神圣的赞助人》、荣获珍妮特·海丁格·卡夫卡最佳小说奖的《塔夫脱》，以及《魔术师的助理》。她为诸多出版物执笔，其中包括《ELLE》、《GQ》、《巴黎评论》、《美食》和《VOGUE》。她生活在田纳西的纳什维尔。

Synopsis The poignant -- and at times very funny -- new novel from the author of THE MAGICIAN'S ASSISTANT, shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Latin terrorists storm an international gathering hosted by an underprivileged country to promote foreign interest and trade, only to find that their intended target, the President, has stayed home to watch his favourite soap opera on TV. ...(展开全部)

Among the best available reference introductions to general topology, this volume encompasses two broad areas of topology: "continuous topology," represented by sections on convergence, compactness, metrization and complete metric spaces, uniform spaces, and function spaces; and "geometric topology," covered by 9 sections on connectivity properties, topological characterization...(展开全部)

Product Description "Wald's book is clearly the first textbook on general relativity with a totally modern point of view; and it succeeds very well where others are only partially successful. The book includes full discussions of many problems of current interest which are not treated in any extant book, and all these matters are considered with perception and understanding."—S...(展开全部)

"The clarity of the author's thought and the carefulness of his exposition make reading this book a pleasure," noted the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society upon the 1955 publication of John L. Kelley's General Topology. This comprehensive treatment for beginning graduate-level students immediately found a significant audience, and it remains a highly worthwhile and r...(展开全部)

This classic book is a systematic exposition of general topology. It is especially intended as background for modern analysis. Based on lectures given at the University of Chicago, the University of California and Tulane University, this book is intended to be a reference and a text. As a reference work, it offers a reasonably complete coverage of the area, and this has resulte...(展开全部)