Generalized Functions in Mathematical Physics: Main Ideas and Concepts (Horizons in World Physics, V. 237)

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This important book gives an interconnected presentation of some basic ideas, concepts, results of the theory of generalized functions (first of all, in the framework of the theory of distributions) and equations of mathematical physics. A part of the material is given according to the scheme: definition - theorem - proof. This scheme is convenient for presenting results in clear and concentrated form. However, it seems reasonable to give a student the possibility not only to study a priori given definitions and proofs of theorems, but also to discover them while considering the problems involved. A series of sections serve this purpose. Moreover, a part of the material is given as exercises and problems.

Methods of the Theory of Generalized Functions (Analytical Methods and Specialfunctions, 6)

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Methods of the Theory of Generalized Functions (Analytical Methods and Specialfunctions, 6)
V. S. Vladimirov
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This volume presents the general theory of generalized functions, including the Fourier, Laplace, Mellin, Hilbert, Cauchy-Bochner and Poisson integral transforms and operational calculus, with the traditional material augmented by the theory of Fourier series, abelian theorems, and boundary values of helomorphic functions for one and several variables. The author addresses several facets in depth, including convolution theory, convolution algebras and convolution equations in them, homogenous generalized functions, and multiplication of generalized functions. This book will meet the needs of researchers, engineers, and students of applied mathematics, control theory, and the engineering sciences.

Methods of the Theory of Generalized Functions

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Methods of the Theory of Generalized Functions
V. S. Vladimirov
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The Life of Graham Greene: Volume III: 1955-1991
Norman Sherry
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The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II: 1939-1955

The Life of Graham Greene: Volume 2 (Sherry, Norman//Life of Graham Greene)

The Life of Graham Greene : Volume II: 1939-1955

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ASIN: 0143036130

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Twenty-seven years in the making, Norman Sherry's magisterial biography of Graham Greene captures the life and character of one of the twentieth century's most important literary figures. The final, eagerly anticipated volume follows Greene, still an agent for the British government, from pre-Revolutionary Cuba and the Belgian Congo to adulterous interludes in Capri and Antibes. Based on unparalleled access to letters, diaries, and Greene himself, this book gives us the writer at the height of his fame, in the company of such literary luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Ian Fleming, and Ernest Hemingway. With insight and eloquence, Sherry reveals Greene's obsessions, feelings, and craft, bringing to a close what Margaret Atwood has called “the definitive biography.”

The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I: 1904-1939

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Lest Ye Be Judged
getting to know graham greene
All I ever wanted to know about GG but did not know to ask.

The Life of Graham Greene: Volume I: 1904-1939
Norman Sherry
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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ASIN: 0142004200
Release Date: 2004-08-31

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Lest Ye Be Judged.......2007-06-22

Sherry has certainly done a thorough job of "tracking" Greene, with the result that one gets a rather full picture of this writer. It's easy to throw around words like "great" and so on when talking about Greene, especially if you like him, but in the end I see him as a very entertaining writer who never achieved greatness. (Compare him to Joyce or Tolstoy and you'll see what I mean.) Sherry is a bit of a busy-body and gets into some strange "politically correct" judgments, criticizing Greene for not being properly appreciative of the 'natives' about whom he said many condescending, but possibly accurate things. Sherry seems not to be able to understand why Greene couldn't say nice things about everybody in the same way opportunistic journalists seem able to manage. Well, I don't have the answer to that, except to say that Greene's generation (see Waugh and Orwell) didn't have much patience for propaganda.

getting to know graham greene.......2000-08-31

Norman Sherry's thoughtful biography perfectly captures the early years of an honest,lonely,sensitive Englishman with privileged opportunities who becomes a successful novelist. As Sherry pointed out Greene's keen power of observation produced a cynical and realistic view of life. Burdened by anxieties but guided by his Catholic faith Greene was attracted to the epic struggles of flawed underdogs trying to cope with their transitory lives. Sherry ties all this together neatly. Its a book for leisurely reading. You will never regret its purchase.

All I ever wanted to know about GG but did not know to ask........1998-09-26

This is an inspiring, detailed look at a fascinating writer, by an equally fascinating writer. The images of Norman Sherry traipsing through the jungles and Mexico, etc., give one pause and confidence. If his work on Conrad is as detailed and careful, I would suspect he could give the composition of bilge water in the hold of each ship for each trip for each book. If one ever wondered about writers and sources and inspiration and biography and art, start with volume I. You could have no finer introduction.

The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II: 1939-1955 (Vol 2)

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Can't wait till volume 3
How to cover up an interesting life
A great biography-if you like literature don't miss this.

The Life of Graham Greene: Volume II: 1939-1955 (Vol 2)
Norman Sherry
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Can't wait till volume 3.......2000-08-15

Norman Sherry did an excellent job of chronicling some of the most facinating phases of Graham Greene's personal and professional life. While I found vol. 1 to be a bit slow and often uninteresting at times, vol. 2 really gives great insight into the period of Greene's most productive and important years.

I'm eagerly awaiting vol. 3 to see how well Sherry tells the life of one of the more important authors of the Twentieth Century.

How to cover up an interesting life.......1999-08-04

Sherry's "biography" is saved only by its topic: Graham Greene, a man whose life was so interesting that even Sherry's ineptitude can't quite get in the way.

The flaws in this work abound but of import are the consistent failures by Sherry to dive into anything that would or could possibly reveal "too much" about a man that even Sherry admits, was notorious for not revealing much of anyhting to anyone.

Dreams that beg to be discussed are described and then abandoned as topics, health concerns (Green's hemorage surely deserves some comment, doesn't it? - or have I missed it amid the insesent repetions by Sherry that The Power and the Glory was Grenne's "best work" - understood that the first three times Sherry said it)and refrences to one of Green's acknowledged "masters" (Conrad) are offered up, and then, dropped like hot rocks.

To make matters worse, one is treated to such sparkling gems of "thought" as (to paraphrase) that the insurgents in malaya were fighting against the "benificent" British and their colonial puppets - surely, greene, a man on the side of the "underdog" (regardless of said dog's politics)had something else in mind? Or is this more of the ex-spys double-talk? Using Sherry as a source, one will never know.

Given Greene's penchent for opacity, it should come as no suprise to anyone who knows anything about the man, that having chosen his own "man in biography" that Greene should have played Sherry for his own purposes.

As a source-work for Greene's own material, and as an illsutration of what can happen to an author upon achieving "success" the book is useful.

Beyond that, stick to Greene's own work. You'll be far better served.

Sincerely,

A Reader

A great biography-if you like literature don't miss this........1999-05-11

I have read very little of Graham Greene and I have not read Vol 1 of this biography. However I found this Vol 2 (1939-55) an enthralling read. It covers his life during the second world war and then later in Vietnam and Africa. There is a bit too much about his lovesick affair with Mrs Walston (a peculiar arrangment and a bit uninteresting at times) The record of his war service and his time in publishing is fascinating.I guess if you have read the books and are already a fan then this biography is even more valuable. The life of G.G. is a novel in itself,full of colour,sadness and bravery.These biographies can be turgid in the wrong hands but Sherry only uses the details necessary to tell a vivid story.His prose is excellent and flows along. A very enjoyable read and it made want to get reading the novels-and Vol3 which is due in 2000 I believe.

The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991

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Pursued by a dullard.
Weakest of the three volumes
Docta Docta
Greene still interesting, book a disappointment

The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 3: 1956-1991
Norman Sherry
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ASIN: 0670031429
Release Date: 2004-10-07

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October 2, 2004, marks the centenary of one of the twentieth century's most important literary figures: Graham Greene. In volume three, Norman Sherry brings this magisterial biography—twenty-seven years in the making—to a close. Following Greene, still an agent for the British government, from prerevolutionary Cuba and the Belgian Congo to adulterous interludes in Capri and Antibes, Sherry shows Greene at the height of his fame, in the company of other literary luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Ian Fleming, and Noël Coward.

Through unparalleled access to letters, to diaries, and to Greene himself, Sherry reveals with insight and eloquence Greene's obsessions, his complicated religious feelings, and most significantly, his art. This volume, with its wealth of new and shocking details, brings to a close what Margaret Atwood called “the definitive biography.”

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Pursued by a dullard........2006-05-17

This guy Sherry is a terrible writer. It's a good job Greene had a full and event -filled life.
Sherry (see dustjacket photo-bouffant hairdo,dodgy moustache and awful "leisure wear" ) is an anorak about facts, thinks Shirley Hazzard is a wonderful writer, gets his facts wrong and goes off at tangents utterly irrelevant to the story he tells.
A typical American professor of English I would think.You can see why Evelyn Waugh refused to meet one.
He even manages to link Saddam Hussein with Stalin and Hitler ( so wanky and post 9/.11).
There's a bit where he says Greene was canny about money and a few pages earlier he'd been describing how some cad had deceived Greene and stolen all his money.

Weakest of the three volumes.......2005-08-26

While Volume 3 of the Graham Greene Biography is interesting it is not as riveting as the first two volumes by Sherry. In the first two volumes (and especially in volume 2 which reads almost like a fantastic novel) the author Norman Sherry points all his guns on Greene in excellent thorough and succinct reportage. It makes for an enthralling read and some of the best biography I have read. Unfortunately in Volume three Sherry inserts himself into the biography even going so far as to include a picture of him on a donkey in a place where Greene once was. Such puffery only distracts from the subject at hand. Sherry in volume three goes to great lengths to let you know he has talked to important people in Greene's life. Even so far as to include interview excerpts between himself and these people. This creates a very jarring affect and interferes with the story telling. It is downright annoying. Sherry also ends up in these long circular arcs repeating material already covered in other volumes and revealing little new in the process. It remains an intriguing read especially if you have read volumes one and two. It is a real let down to see the final volume does not have the same high standards as the first two either because Sherry is taking himself more seriously than his topic or because he is an egomaniac. Still there is enough interesting about Greene to keep you turning the pages in this overwritten 800 plus page tome that could have received a good editing job.

Docta Docta.......2004-11-18

Hey, this book rocks!
Buy it too, I know Dr. Sherry, my aunt works for him in San Antonio, and I have met this brilliant man on a several occasions. I have not read the book, I do not know where to buy but online, and I have no mney to buy it. But Dr. Sherry has put hours and years into his study and collections of Graham Greene, even a fourth volume.
Help this brother out and buy his book.
ME.

Greene still interesting, book a disappointment.......2004-11-11

Having read the first two volumes I eagerly awaited the third. It is a major disappointment for at least three reasons. The first is that Sherry seems to have merged his identity with that of Greene, making frequent references to himself (and name dropping in the process). He even includes a photo of himself on a donkey, making himself look a little ridiculous. Second, he is obsessed with Greene's sex life. While quite interesting, Greene's sexploits get a little tedious after a few hundred pages. Finally, Sherry takes up many pages with summaries and long quotes from Greene's books. I can read Greene's books for myself, thank you very much.

The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones

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Before Lewis and Tolkien
Counter-Cultural Revolutionaries

The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones
Adam Schwartz
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ASIN: 0813213878

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For most of modern history, Roman Catholics in Britain were a "rejected minority," facing hostility and estrangement from a culture increasingly at odds with traditional Christianity. Yet British Catholicism underwent a remarkable intellectual and literary renewal, especially in the twentieth century, drawing a disproportionate number of the age's leading minds into its ranks. The Third Spring unravels this paradox of a renascent Catholic culture within a post-Christian society. It does so through detailed profiles of the spiritual journeys and religious and cultural beliefs of four seminal members of that twentieth-century revival: G. K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson, and David Jones.

Although these four authors came from different backgrounds and wrote primarily in different genres, each converted to Roman Catholicism as an adult and made his new faith the foundation of his intellectual and artistic work. All of them judged the Church to be the last corporate voice of orthodox Christianity in a hitherto unmatched irreligious climate of opinion; and they concluded that the Roman Catholic vision of human nature, thought, history, and art was truer and richer than proposed by prevailing secularism. They thus built on the nineteenth-century "Second Spring" of British Catholicism proclaimed by John Henry Newman to create a fresh assertion of Roman Catholicism, one suited to an era of unprecedented unbelief: a Third Spring.

This book is the first detailed examination of these four authors as part of a Roman Catholic, counter-modern community of discourse. It is informed by extensive research in the writers' works, scholarship on them, and their personal papers. This study is also distinguished by its careful attention to the authors' cultural and religious contexts, and to the psychology and theology of conversion. It will therefore deepen understanding, and correct some misconceptions, of each man's spiritual development and his thought, while revealing the twentieth-century Catholic literary revival to be a distinct movement in both British and Roman Catholic thought.

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Before Lewis and Tolkien.......2006-06-21

Having just heard Adam Schwartz at the 25th Annual Chesterton Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, I couldn't wait to get hold of this book. Anyone who is waiting to get it is likely holding off because of the daunting price tag. Absolutely tempted to wait for the paperback, I nevertheless hold that this book is long-needed and occupies a unique niche and that readers interested in these topics will find it well worth the coin.

This is an academic book and probably could be used as a textbook (it's priced like one). That means it's scrupulously researched with long bibliographies and copious footnotes, as against the popular biography meant for casual reading. We need both kinds, but let me illustrate what I think is the difference. A popular biography tries to interest casual readers in the topic, saying something like, "Tolkien is the author of the century." An academic biography tries to justify its existence saying something like, "Amid the flood of Tolkien scholarship, this book satisfies a unique and long-felt need." Absolutely the opposite approach.

For that reason I suggest skipping the introduction to this book (or reading it later), which is entirely concerned with justifying its existence and placing it in a niche of literary biography. But start with the Chesterton chapter (chapter one) and the tone instantly changes from pedantic to winsome as Adam Schwartz winningly holds forth. His thesis that Chesterton's writing was shaped by an early aesthetic and spiritual crisis in art school is not a unique one, it's also handled in the light, brief overview by Peters, The Christian Imagination, but this is probably the first time it's been defended as a thesis.

Chesterton is the best known of the four authors considered in the book, the others being writer Graham Greene (who everyone has heard of but no one has read), historian Christopher Dawson and poet David Jones. Schwartz contends that they can all be considered together as British converts to Roman Catholicism in what he calls the Third Spring, the Second Spring being the earlier conversion of Newman, which may be said to mark the beginning of a British literary revival.

Needless to say this period and these authors are nearly unknown to most readers. Since this volume has as much reading as four short biographies, it can be considered four books averaging out at about $15 each. The value of this volume for libraries or research is a given, but I would also suggest that readers interested in literary biography or history will enjoy this engrossing and engaging read and discovering Adam Schwartz.

Counter-Cultural Revolutionaries.......2006-01-03

This is an amazing work. Somehow, Adam Schwartz, the author, has contrived to write interesting narratives about the details of the spiritual journeys of four English Roman Catholic converts. First, the amount of careful research is stunning. Second, Schwartz's ability to conflate myriad personal details, plus supporting examples in their ouevres, into a believable trajectory of conversion is nothing short of miraculous.

Lessons for today abound, but what is most impressive is the utter seriousness with which the four converts--Chesterton, Greene, Dawson and Jones--took their time on earth. Seemingly not a wasted minute for any of them.

These men were not grim, by any means, just serious. A real antidote for the near total lack of seriousness of today. Who, for example. would read, and then critique, the Summa Theologica, St. John of the Cross, etc.?

This book is worth every penny.

May We Borrow Your Husband?: And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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Delicious end of summer comedy
Hilarious

May We Borrow Your Husband?: And Other Comedies of the Sexual Life (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Graham Greene
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Delicious end of summer comedy.......2007-09-12

The main story giving the title to the collection is absolutely exquisite. The narrator (Greene?) a writer who lingers in an Antibes hotel at the end of the summer to work quietly finds his peace unsettled by the arrival of a young newlyweds couple, whose male component is coveted by a couple of gay seducers. We see their unrelenting siege with the resigned eyes of the narrator, who tries to face the wolves with lame results.The characters are superbly depicted, but it's interesting to note that's one tale of seduction where we never see or hear the POV of the seduced.

Hilarious.......1998-06-16

When two gay men set their sights on an unhappy honeymooner in Italy, a disturbingly funny series of events take place. The story ends on a similar note, hilarious, and yet somewhat frightening.

Lord Rochester's Monkey, being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester

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Lord Rochester's Monkey, being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester
Graham Greene
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psychological non-thriller
Litotes
Understated and highly readable!

SORT OF LIFE P
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"Writing A Sort of Life...was in the nature of a psychoanalysis. I made a long journey through time, and I was one of my characters." - Graham Greene in conversation with Marie-Francoise Allain

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psychological non-thriller.......2003-12-23

My main complaint with this book is that a depressed author does not write a stimulating biography. When all instances in the time period covered by the book are downplayed, the reader loses a sense of what is important. Graham Greene's experimentation with Russian roulette, and a flirtation with foreign espionage are told in an attitude that makes it difficult to sense its importance. Was his spy work unimportant, or was it Greene's ho-hum attitude toward spying coming through. The tint of boredom and failure extends over every aspect of his very fortunate and privileged life. An Oxford education, career editor on the London times, courtship, marriage and a religious convert to Catholicism all seem to be performed robotically without any passion. It definitely is an apt title. The book really does stop short in his career as a successful author. I am unfamiliar with his later writings, but this book mentions the fact that he feels alive when traveling throughout the world's danger spots. In this autobiography, Greene mentioned in later years he would cover a local insurrection in Mexico, and viewed first hand the troubled years in Vietnam, Liberia and the Mau-Mau insurrection. I would rather have skipped this book and read his later works about his experiences. I would recommend this book only to someone interested in the psychological background of Graham Greene.

Litotes.......2003-09-23

is for the empowered; the powerless use hyperbole. Aristocratic Greene understates. He promises, in his introduction, to relate the events of his life with emotions he felt at the time without irony, but his detatchment to events in his own life makes it impossible for him to keep his pledge. Irony is his lens on the world, and he must see through it, darkly, or grope blindly. Pain comes through--the pain of childhood, pain of attending school where his father was headmaster, pain of academic boredom long after he'd outgrown it, pain of rootlessness, many failures--as if he were betrayed by experience itself. His writing, in his two autobiographies, shows the craftsmanship that made him famous, but fails to sparkle like the prose in his fiction, as if he were off-duty. He seems to have embraced Catholicism for the same reason Wordsworth wrote sonnets, for form; it doesn't seem to have been a passion, but perhaps it would have been bad form to say so. Worth reading for insights into his friendships and characters.

Understated and highly readable!.......2003-03-01

Greene is a master of understatment and restraint. This book is a lovely if self-effacing coming-of-literary-age memoir that is fun and reader friendly. It's invaluable for its precious glimpses into the vanished world of the 10's and 20's England. Full of curious detail too: I didn't know that Greene was related to R.L. Stevenson for example. The book ends just around the time of his first literary success. I don't know if there are any further memoirs but I wouldn't mind reading them.

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Lord Rochester's Monkey: Being the Life of John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester
Graham Greene
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A SORT OF LIFE
GRAHAM GREENE
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