Leon Trotsky's lively study of Lenin's formative years is an engrossing account of the youth of a brilliant political leader told by one of his closet associates.

"we want to know what external economic ends we desire the State to pursue"

These are the memoirs of Leonid Pasternak, a Russian painter of the twentieth century. He traces his life from its beginnings in a poor Russian family, through to his emergence as one of Russia's finest portrait painters, then to his exile from Nazi Germany and emigration to the UK.

In 1945, Dr. Ernst Weber founded, and was the first Director of, the Microwave Research Institute (MRI) at POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY (at that time named the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn). MRI gained world-wide recognition in the 50's and 60's for its research in electromagnetic theory, antennas and radiation, network theory and microwave networks, microwave components and devices. It was also known through its series of topical symposia and the widely distributed hard bound MRI Symposium Proceedings. Rededicated as the Weber Research Institute (WRI) in 1986, the research focus today is on such areas as electromagnetic propagation and antennas, ultra broadband electromagnetics, pulse power, acoustics, gaseous electronics, plasma physics, solid state materials, quantum electronics, electromagnetic launchers, and networks. Following the MRI tradition, WRI has launched its own series of in-depth topical conferences with published proceedings. The first conference was held in October, 1990 and was entitled Directions in Electromagnetic Wave Modeling. The proceedings of the conference were published under that title by Plenum Press. This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the second WRI International Conference dealing with Ultra·Wideband Short·Pulse Electromagnetics.

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1929. With fifty animated maps by the author, giving a pictorial history of centuries of wandering. Browne writes in the prologue that while this story may have been told, yet it cries out to be told still again. From beginning to end it pleads to be retold, and not as a list of names and dates, but as a wild adventure, as a romance. For the whole history of the Jewish people is a romance; the strangest, the most colorful in the saga of all mankind.

A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism A comprehensive study of recent African history, examining the political, social, and economic effects of colonialism

Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a confection from David Levithan that is sure to have fans of "Boy Meets Boy "eager to devour it. Here are 18 stories, all about love, all kinds of love. From the aching for the one you pine for, to standing up and speaking up for the one you love, to pure joy and happiness, these love stories run the gamut of that emotion that at some point has turned every one of us inside out and upside down. What is love? With this original story collection, David Levithan proves that love is a many splendored thing, a varied, complicated, addictive, wonderful thing. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

"In this book, philosopher and social critic Lewis Gordon explores the ossification of disciplines, which he calls "disciplinary decadence". In response, he offers a theory of what he calls a "teleological suspension of disciplinarity", in which he encourages scholars and lay intellectuals to pay attention to the openness of ideas and purposes on which their disciplines were born. Gordon builds his case through discussions of philosophy of education, problems of secularization in religious thought, obligations across generations, notions of invention in the study of ideas, decadence in development, colonial epistemologies, and the quest for a genuine postcolonial language. These topics are examined with the underlying diagnosis of the present political and academic environment as one in which it is indecent to think". --Publisher.

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