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In reshaping Lodge's "Rosalynde" into "As You Like It, " Shakespeare not only undermines the Petrarchan and pastoral traditions of the romance, but also refutes the implicit gender structures upon which such Petrarchanisms are based. In refashioning "The True Chronicle Historie of King Leir" into the tragedy of "King Lear, " Shakespeare does not simply reject the explicit Christian setting and happy ending of "Leir, " but engages and responds to the highly Reformational and Calvinistic assumptions that shape and inform the source play. In rewriting Greene's "Pandosto" into "The Winter's...

Excellent reviews of the first edition (Mathematical Reviews, SIAM, Reviews, UK Nonlinear News, The Maple Reporter)

New edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to include more applications, examples, and exercises, all with solutions

Two new chapters on neural networks and simulation have also been added

Wide variety of topics covered with applications to many fields, including mechanical systems, chemical kinetics, economics, population dynamics, nonlinear optics, and materials science

Accessible to a broad, interdisciplinary audience of readers with a...

This textbook, now in its second edition, provides a broad introduction to both continuous and discrete dynamical systems, the theory of which is motivated by examples from a wide range of disciplines. It emphasizes applications and simulation utilizing MATLAB^(R), Simulink^(R), the Image Processing Toolbox(R) and the Symbolic Math toolbox(R), including MuPAD.

Features new to the second edition include

- sections on series solutions of ordinary differential equations, perturbation methods, normal forms, Grobner bases, and chaos synchronization;

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This textbook, now in its second edition, provides a broad introduction to both continuous and discrete dynamical systems, the theory of which is motivated by examples from a wide range of disciplines. It emphasizes applications and simulation utilizing MATLAB^(r), Simulink^(r), the Image Processing Toolbox(r) and the Symbolic Math toolbox(r), including MuPAD.

Features new to the second edition include

. sections on series solutions of ordinary differential equations, perturbation methods, normal forms, Grobner bases, and chaos synchronization;

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Canadian cultural icon Stephen Leacock was as wise and witty as he was prolific, and as sharp as he was humane. A professor of political economy, author, and social critic, Leacock has long been considered Canada's foremost humourist and social satirist. He was at his best in observational humour but excelled as well in the unforgettable aphorism and the pointed riposte. Leacock's views on life provide a uniquely Canadian take on the world, an ironic perspective which continues to delight and instruct readers around the globe.

Introduced and compiled by scholar and writer Gerald...

This comprehensive guide includes a discussion of the play's textual history, analyses of its various contexts and sources of influence, an examination of its dramatic structure, a detailed plot summary, a discussion of major themes and critical approaches, and a look at major productions from the 16th through the 20th century.

Shakespeare's "As You Like It" continues to captivate audiences some 400 years after it was written. This reference is a comprehensive guide to the play. Beginning with a discussion of the play's textual history, the guide analyzes its various contexts and...