New Releases by Paul Joseph

This book tells the story of the Patapsco River of Baltimore, Maryland--from the prehistoric Indian camps on its shores through floods and fires, war and peacetime, to the last twentieth century revitalization of its harbor.

The first full-length description of, and commentary on, Jeremy Bentham''s unique utilitarian theory of justice. The author makes use of neglected and unpublished writings.

A fictionalized account about the Sauk Indians and of their spirit lady, Sachim.

Color illustration on front cover of of Native American man and woman standing together above a group of British soldiers; forest fire in background.

Graduate-level coverage of Galois theory, especially development of infinite Galois theory; theory of valuations, prolongation of rank-one valuations, more. Over 200 exercises. Bibliography. ..."clear, unsophisticated and direct..." -- "Math."

Covers the creative history of prints and drawings from the time of David, Goya, Delacroix, Daunier, and Corot to that of the mid-twentieth century in Europe, the United States, and Mexico. Illustrated by over 200 reproductions to complement the text.

The present book differs widely in content, methods, and point of view from traditional presentations of the subject. Herein more space is devoted to the discussion of the basic concepts of distance, motion, area and perpendicularity. In fact, the non-Euclidean geometries are reached via general metric spaces and the Hilbert problem of finding those geometries in which straight lines are the shortest connections. Of course, the general problem is only formulated here; but this leads naturally to the consideration of geometries other than the Euclidean and two non-Euclidean ones, and thus to the modern view in which the three classical geometries are very special, and closely related, cases of general geometric structures. The overall aim is to counteract the impression of geometry as an isolated and static subject, and to present its methods and essential content as part of modern mathematics.