Geometric Constructions

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Anatoly Libgober, Mihai Tibăr

The collection of papers in this volume represents recent advances in the geometry and topology of singularities. Written by well-known specialists, the articles cover a broad range of topics that provide a focus for ongoing research and investigation. The contributions discuss local as well as global aspects, endowing the reader with an overview on the present state of the art. The volume is intended for a large audience in pure and applied mathematics, including researchers and graduate students working in algebraic geometry, singularity theory, topology and related fields. The reader will find up-to-date information on a wide variety of contemporary problems involving singularities.

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Jean-Claude Schmitt

This book explores the history of gestures in the West, from late antiquity to the heart of the Middle Ages. Unlike the ethnologist or sociologist, the historian has no direct access to the gestures of the past, but must deal with texts or images only, the representations of gestures, which rely on the interpretation of gestures made by the culture that created the representations. Thus the historian's investigation is driven by these questions: What does it mean to "make a gesture" in medieval Christian society? How was the body, its movement, and its attitudes understood in that era? Did a theory of gesture exist?

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Gordon Corrigan

In this succinct history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relationships.

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T.E. Lawrence

The classic text on Crusader castles and their relation to the military architecture of the West, written by T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) while still an undergraduate at Oxford in 1910.