In a country house in upstate New York, three friends gather on the anniversary of the death of a man who was related to them all, by either blood or love. Their idyll is disturbed by the presence of two outsiders and everything becomes charged with the tension of trying to come to terms with loss.
In the tradition of "The Catcher in the Rye," this darkly comic story of a young mans very reluctant coming-of-age paints an indelible portrait of a teenage hero holding out for a better grownup world.
Praying with Saint Paul is a handbook of daily reflections that leads the reader into the richness of the writings of the great Apostle. The words of Saint Paul are very familiar to us from the readings of the eucharistic Liturgy. Yet, we rarely get a cha
An American graduate student who wishes to write the life of a prominent Uruguayan writer named Jules Gund goes to Gund's home town to talk to the family about his project. His arrival and the subsequent events change the lives of everyone involved.
A superb homily preparation tool, this innovative approach to the Gospels of the Sundays of the C Cycle offers a series of short meditations intended to be, in the author's words, "spiritual bouillon cubes ready to be added by the reader to the heated waters of the Spirit so as to make a satisfying evangelical soup". To Praise, To Bless, To Preach ...
Developed to meet the needs of modern students, this Second Edition of the classic algebra text by Peter Cameron covers all the abstract algebra an undergraduate student is likely to need. Starting with an introductory overview of numbers, sets and functions, matrices, polynomials, and modular arithmetic, the text then introduces the most ...
Written by the author of "One Way or Another" and an O. Henry Award winner, this first novel depicts life in Manhattan at the end of the 1980s - a life filled with couplings gone awry, sperm-banks and custody battles, day-care centres run by voodoo priestesses and a murder in an art gallery.
This book prompts the reader to look beneath the divisions of the Catechism's presentation of the Faith in order to grasp the vision of the three-Personed love that calls us to new life.
Not only was Jesus a Jew, his coming was foreshadowed in stories from Genesis to the prophets. Fr. Richard Veras invites us to enter a more intimate relationship with Jesus Christ through the doors of familiar and not-so-familiar incidents in the Old Testament. Ever wonder, for example, why God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? Even more, why ...
Combinatorics is a subject of increasing importance, owing to its links with computer science, statistics and algebra. This is a textbook aimed at second-year undergraduates to beginning graduates. It stresses common techniques (such as generating functions and recursive construction) which underlie the great variety of subject matter and also ...
Recent years have seen a major growth in the European law concerning the operation of the energy industry, especially with respect to electricity and gas. Several directives have been adopted that are aimed at the promotion of competition in this key sector of the European economy. At the same time, the jurisprudence of the European Court had ...
Highly Commended (Third prize) in the Standing Conference on Studies in Education book prize for books published in 1999. 'It was a breath of fresh air to see 'contentious' issues dealt with in an enlightened and informative way. We are certain it will move the debate on years!' - Chrissie Meleady, Sheffield Childrens' Centre 'Looks most ...
Although graph theory, design theory, and coding theory had their origins in various areas of applied mathematics, today they are to be found under the umbrella of discrete mathematics. Here the authors have considerably reworked and expanded their earlier successful books on graphs, codes and designs, into an invaluable textbook. They do not seek ...
366 meditations for everyday of the year drawn from the wrtitings, homilies, and talks of Pope Benedict XVI. An elegant, hardcover book, with a cloth ribbon to keep place.
This volume covers the history of the Roman Empire from the accession of Septimius Severus in AD 193 to the death of Constantine in AD 337. This period was one of the most critical in the history of the Mediterranean world. It begins with the establishment of the Severan dynasty as a result of civil war. From AD 235 this period of relative ...
Set theory, logic and category theory lie at the foundations of mathematics, and have a dramatic effect on the mathematics that we do, through the Axiom of Choice, Godel's Theorem, and the Skolem Paradox. But they are also rich mathematical theories in their own right, contributing techniques and results to working mathematicians such as the ...
Designed as homily-preparation tools, these books are welcome companions to prayerful study of the Gospels for any Christian, ordained or lay. To some, remembering which Cycle we are currently in is very confusing. To help alleviate this confusion, here is some helpful information. A Cycle will start with the first Sunday of Advent, 2004, and so ...
These notes present an investigation of a condition similar to Euclid's parallel axiom for subsets of finite sets. The background material to the theory of parallelisms is introduced and the author then describes the links this theory has with other topics from the whole range of combinatorial theory and permutation groups. These include network ...
This book is concerned with the relations between graphs, error-correcting codes and designs, in particular how techniques of graph theory and coding theory can give information about designs. A major revision and expansion of a previous volume in this series, this account includes many examples and new results as well as improved treatments of ...
An American flees to the small country of Andorra after a devastating personal tragedy, and encounters a bizarre collection of citizens: the ancient Mrs. Reinhardt, a secretive Australian couple, an offbeat matriarch, and her two beautiful daughters. He also encounters--and comes to terms with--his own crisis of faith.
The care work sector is widely acknowledged to be facing a crisis of recruitment and retention, while long-held assumptions and gender biases of informal care are being shifted. This book considers the current situation of care work and care workers, from childcare to eldercare, and from family carers to paid carers. It examines the composition ...
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