The Catholic Writer Today
The Catholic Writer Today

Author: Dana Gioia

Publisher: Wiseblood

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781505114379

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Over the past decade Dana Gioia has emerged as a compelling advocate of Christianity's continuing importance in contemporary culture. His incisive and arresting essays have examined the spiritual dimensions of art and the decisive role faith has played in the lives of artists. This new volume collects Gioia's essays on Christianity, literature, and the arts. His influential title essay ignited a national conversation about the role of Catholicism in American literature. Other pieces explore the often-harrowing lives of Christian poets and painters as well as contemplate scripture and modern martyrdom.

An Invitation to Web Geometry
An Invitation to Web Geometry

Author: Jorge Vitório Pereira

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-23

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 3319145622

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This book takes an in-depth look at abelian relations of codimension one webs in the complex analytic setting. In its classical form, web geometry consists in the study of webs up to local diffeomorphisms. A significant part of the theory revolves around the concept of abelian relation, a particular kind of functional relation among the first integrals of the foliations of a web. Two main focuses of the book include how many abelian relations can a web carry and which webs are carrying the maximal possible number of abelian relations. The book offers complete proofs of both Chern’s bound and Trépreau’s algebraization theorem, including all the necessary prerequisites that go beyond elementary complex analysis or basic algebraic geometry. Most of the examples known up to date of non-algebraizable planar webs of maximal rank are discussed in detail. A historical account of the algebraization problem for maximal rank webs of codimension one is also presented.

Birational Geometry of Foliations
Birational Geometry of Foliations

Author: Marco Brunella

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-25

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 3319143107

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The text presents the birational classification of holomorphic foliations of surfaces. It discusses at length the theory developed by L.G. Mendes, M. McQuillan and the author to study foliations of surfaces in the spirit of the classification of complex algebraic surfaces.

The Monograph Series
The Monograph Series

Author: Russell Fenimore Whitehead

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Vols. 18-26 issued in Pencil points. At Yale these pages are detached and classified with v. 1-17 of the Monograph series.

Jefferson's Books
Jefferson's Books

Author: Douglas L. Wilson

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781882886036

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A chronicle of Thomas Jefferson's passion for reading and building his library.

The Philosophical Life
The Philosophical Life

Author: Arthur P. Urbano

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2013-10-12

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0813221625

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Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity

Some Organophosphate Insecticides and Herbicides
Some Organophosphate Insecticides and Herbicides

Author: IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789283201502

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This volume of the IARC Monographs provides evaluations of the carcinogenicity of some organophosphate insecticides and herbicides, including diazinon, glyphosate, malathion, parathion, and tetrachlorvinphos. Diazinon acts on a wide range of insects on crops, gardens, livestock, and pets, but most uses have been restricted in the USA, Canada, and the European Union since the 1980s. Glyphosate is the most heavily used agricultural and residential herbicide in the world, and has been detected in soil, air, surface water, and groundwater, as well as in food. Malathion is one of the oldest and most widely used organophosphate insecticides, and has a broad spectrum of applications in agriculture and public health, notably mosquito control. The insecticide parathion has been largely banned or restricted throughout the world due to toxicity to wildlife and humans. Tetrachlorvinphos is banned in the European Union, but continues to be used in the USA and elsewhere as an insecticide on animals, including in pet flea collars. The IARC Monographs Working Group reviewed epidemiological evidence, animal bioassays, and mechanistic and other relevant data to reach conclusions as to the carcinogenic hazard to humans of these agents.