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Functional Equations and How to Solve Them (Problem Books in Mathematics)
Christopher G. Small

Springer, 2007

Over the years, a number of books have been written on the theory of functional equations. However, very little has been published which helps readers to solve functional equations in mathematics competitions and mathematical problem solving. This book fills that gap. The student who encounters a functional equation on a mathematics contest will need to investigate solutions to the equation by finding all solutions, or by showing that all ...

Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music (Music/Culture)
Christopher Small

Wesleyan, 1998

In clear and elegant prose, Music of the Common Tongue, first published in 1987, argues that by any reasonable reckoning of the function of music in human life the African American tradition, that which stems from the collision between African and European ways of doing music which occurred in the Americas and the Caribbean during and after slavery, is the major western music of the twentieth century. In showing why this is so, the author ...

Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening (Music/Culture)

1 review
Christopher Small

Wesleyan, 1998

Musicking is Relational--Refutes idea of "absolute music"
According to Small, there is no such thing as "music." "Music" is a abstract reification of what is fundamentally of a process--'musicking.' Moreover, the term "music" is not held in hegemonic circles to be just *any* product of a process, but rather the product of the process of producing what is known as Western classical music. This music is today commonly perceived as being absolute or ...

Gray Air : Poems From Prison: 1983-1999 (Poetry)

1 review
Christopher Presfield, Deborah Small

Cedar Hill Publications, 1999

One of the "Cons" (Pun Intended) of the century!!
Hayden Carruth's review of "Christopher" Presfield's "Gray Air..." is both insightful and amusing. Granted, Mr. Presfield is a somewhat talented poet. His IQ is far greater than the norm. The fact is, had he chosen to persue a more constructive life, the sky might have been the limit. Alas, he chose otherwise. At the age of 13 he decided that breaking into pinball machines and stealing nickles ...

Music, Society, Education (Music/Culture)

3 reviews
Christopher Small

Wesleyan, 1996

Groundbreaking
Anyone with an interest in the emergence of Avant-Garde in Western classical music should read this book. Those with general interests in music -- in rock or jazz or "world" -- should also pick it up. Small's well-argued points about Western ideals and preconceptions of music -- especially its limitations -- are compelling. A classic in music scholarship!

The Statistical Theory of Shape (Springer Series in Statistics)
Christopher G. Small

Springer, 1996

The shape of a data set can be defined as the total of all information under translations, rotations, and scale changes to the data. Over the last decade, shape analysis has emerged as a promising new field of statistics with applications to morphometrics, pattern recognition, archaeology, and other disciplines. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the statistical theory of shape. Both the Kendall and the Bookstein schools of shape ...

Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in Afro-American Music (Calderbooks)
Christopher Small

Marion Boyars Publishers, 1992

large study of black music as means of survival

Hilbert Space Methods in Probability and Statistical Inference (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Christopher G. Small, D. L. McLeish

Wiley-Interscience, 1994

Explains how Hilbert space techniques cross the boundaries into the foundations of probability and statistics. Focuses on the theory of martingales stochastic integration, interpolation and density estimation. Includes a copious amount of problems and examples.

Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Estimating Equations (Oxford Statistical Science Series, 29)
Christopher G. Small, Jinfang Wang

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

Non linearity arises in statistical inference in various ways, with varying degrees of severity, as an obstacle to statistical analysis. More entrenched forms of nonlinearity often require intensive numerical methods to construct estimators, and the use of root search algorithms, or one-step estimators, is a standard method of solution. This book provides a comprehensive study of nonlinear estimating equations and artificial likelihood's for ...

Time Wave
Christopher Small

Lulu.com, 2007

Neo Santon Was killed in a plane crash, along with his friend and parents. Now he realizes he has the chance to learn to use time and change what has happened, but in order to do so he must defeat a group of demons known as the Time Wave

Mouldings of the Wren and Georgian Periods
Tunstall Small & Christopher Woodbridge

The Architectural Press, 1930

Circa 1930. Portfolio of full-size architectural mouldings.

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