This textbook on linear algebra includes the key topics of the subject that most advanced undergraduates need to learn before entering graduate school. All the usual topics, such as complex vector spaces, complex inner products, the Spectral theorem for normal operators, dual spaces, the minimal polynomial, the Jordan canonical form, and the rational canonical form, are covered, along with a chapter on determinants at the end of the book. In addition, there is material throughout the text ...

Intended for a one year course, this text serves as a single source, introducing readers to the important techniques and theorems, while also containing enough background on advanced topics to appeal to those students wishing to specialize in Riemannian geometry. This is one of the few Works to combine both the geometric parts of Riemannian geometry and the analytic aspects of the theory. The book will appeal to a readership that have a basic knowledge of standard manifold theory, includin...

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements. Yet musicology has thus far largely ignored the phenomenon of displacement and underestimated its significance for musical landscapes and music history. Music and Displacement: Diasporas, Mobilities, and Dislocations in Europe and Beyond constitutes a pioneering volume that aims to fill this gap as it explores the interactions between music and displacement in theoretical and pract...

Our hero Kam has to travel to Isle Elnare where his life, and the life of his friends are put on the line. The story takes place 11 months after his first encounter with the Jumbie medallion, and he’s achieved unbelievable feats since then, but will Kam make it out alive on this next adventure?

"The Ironclad Warriors" is the first book from "The Fate of the Elves" series. No more petty skirmishes and snatching of crowns. The elven land is in dire trouble – there is a mighty enemy at its gates, who is all too powerful for their armies. The elves are forced to hide in the forest where their plans for retaliation begin to brew. Daisy, the main character, is on the verge of finding something that might help them in their predicament and inevitable fight. A lot of adventures, dangerou...

The King's Children, Signy, Regin and Buri, are forced to flee from their home when their father is killed by the marauding chieftain Harwolf and his men.Behind the high mountains, somewhere to the East, there is a strange kingdom where they hope to find help avenging their father and winning back their homeland.Along the way, they discover a world inhabited by witches, elves, the undead, giants and many more strange and wonderful creatures. The royal children will need all...

While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A growing share of the population was covered by ever more generous systems of social protection that dramatically reduced poverty and economic inequality in the post-war decades. With it also came a growth in social spending, taxation and regulation that changed the nature of the modern state and the functioning...

"The Vicar had almost seen her entire body through the nightgown, which was so thin and worn as to be almost transparent, and now it felt as if the girl was standing naked in front of him. So wonderful and enticing, yet so completely out of reach." – The Vicar's New MaidFrom the Roaring Twenties to the turn of the millennium, traverse through the passions and pleasures of historical erotica. 'Lust in Different Eras: Short Stories About Erotic Encounters Throughout History' is the p...