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The theory of groups, especially of finite groups, is one of the most delightful areas of mathematics. Its proofs often have elegance and crystalline beauty. This textbook is intended for the reader who has been exposed to about three years of serious mathematics.The notion of a group appears widely... More

The shifting balance of economic power away from western Europe and the United States and towards East and Southeast Asia - firstly Japan, then the small 'Tiger' economies, and now the larger nations of Southeast Asia and the potential 'Dragons' - has provoked anger, dismay and a search for the 'sec... More

This text uses a five-layer Internet model as a framework for presenting principles of data communications and networking, using a combination text and some 700 figures to explain technical subjects without complex formulae. New and expanded coverage in this edition includes wireless LANs, satellite... More

The authors are experienced management consultants who have been determined to fill a need for an up-to-date and approachable A to Z of management concepts and models. They have produced a well-researched and accessible reference which provides clear definitions, balanced comment and valuable insigh... More

This book is concerned with subgroups of groups of the form GL(n, D) for some division ring D. In it the authors bring together many of the recent advances in the theory of skew linear groups. Some aspects of skew linear groups are similar to those for linear groups, however there are often signific... More

Christopher F. Black assesses the nature and extent of church reform demands within sixteenth-century Italy, then concentrates on religious society after the supposed watershed of the Council of Trent (1546-63), through the seventeenth century. Black considers structural reform through dioceses and ... More