Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.  Meer

This Element undertakes the first comprehensive examination of the 1914 tour to reveal the sixty-six year old Ellen Terry's professional agency, her creative autonomy, her skilful navigation of ageist sexism, her eager receptivity to new natural environments, and her friendship with international opera star, Nellie Melba.  Meer

This Element undertakes the first comprehensive examination of the 1914 tour to reveal the sixty-six year old Ellen Terry's professional agency, her creative autonomy, her skilful navigation of ageist sexism, her eager receptivity to new natural environments, and her friendship with international opera star, Nellie Melba.  Meer

A practical guide with 220 teaching ideas to motivate teenage students.  Meer

In 1893, the English composer and director of the Royal College of Music C. Hubert H. Parry published Summary of the Development of Medieval and Modern European Music, an overview of European music from the middle ages to the work of Schubert and Brahms.  Meer

A merry collection of festive poetry favourites chosen and illustrated by Chris Riddell.  Meer

Reinforcing concepts with frequent exercises and extended applications, this introduction to the theoretical and computational aspects of linear algebra uses the MATLAB software to master the basic algorithms and to increase the speed and efficiency of computations.  Meer

This book concisely addresses the classical results of the field, emphasizes the beauty, power, and counterintuitive nature of the subject, and moves the notion of power series front and center, giving readers a primary tool to deal with problems from modern function theory.  Meer

This book deals with the thought of William Harrison, a well-known Elizabethan intellectual, whose ideas are significant chiefly because they are often representative of the thoroughgoing Protestantism which adapted continental reformed ideas to the circumstances of Tudor England.  Meer

C. Hubert H. Parry (1848–1918), knighted in 1902 for his services to music, was a distinguished composer, conductor and musicologist. In the first of these roles he is best known for his settings of Blake's 'Jerusalem' and the coronation anthem 'I was glad'.  Meer

This book gathers papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2016). The conference was co-sponsored by Springer, Fujian University of Technology in China, the University of Computer Studies in Yangon, University of Miyazaki in Japan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences in Taiwan, Taiwan Association for Web Intelligence Consortium, and VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic.  Meer

This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing highlights papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2017).  Meer

This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing highlights papers presented at the 12th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2018).  Meer