“roberts paul”

Offering an in-depth approach to successful project management, this guide focuses on the essential steps necessary to see a project through--initiation, planning, delegation, and closing.... More

The End of Oil is a "geologic cautionary tale for a complacent world accustomed to reliable infusions of cheap energy." The book centers around one irrefutable fact: the global supply of oil is being depleted at an alarming rate. Precisely how much accessible (not to mention theoretical) oil remains... More

Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpa... More

In radio astronomy wider observing bandwidths are constantly desired to provide improved sensitivity and velocity coverage. As observing frequencies move steadily higher with advances in technology these needs become even more pressing. In order to process wider bandwidths, signal processing compone... More

Journalist Paul Roberts takes us along as he scales the great pyramids, spends the night in an ancient tomb, navigates the Nile, lives among monks and travels the Arabian Desert by camel. In place after place, we encounter the awesome grandeur of Egypt's past--and hear the beguiling story of its pre... More

The theory of local Chern characters used in commutative algebra originated in topology about thirty years ago, and from there was introduced in algebraic geometry. This book describes the theory in an algebraic setting, presenting recent research results and important algebraic applications, some o... More

When a gospel scroll that predates the New Testament is discovered, it introduces a mysterious symbol that combines the Star of David, the Cross of Christianity, and the Crescent and Star of Islam. None of these symbols existed at the time the gospel was written, adding to a mystery that Irish pries... More