{"title":"Books by Stephen Wright","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780387303031","title":"Numerical Optimization","description":"Optimization is an important tool used in decision science and for the analysis of physical systems used in engineering. One can trace its roots to the Calculus of Variations and the work of Euler and Lagrange. This                            natural and reasonable approach to mathematical programming covers numerical methods for finite-dimensional optimization problems. It begins with very simple ideas progressing through more complicated concepts, concentrating                            on methods for both unconstrained and constrained optimization.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288870302069,"sku":"9780387303031","price":59.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780387303031_7c3c4ef3-b15e-4cad-af9e-d8ef8a76ad8f.jpg?v=1786013989"},{"product_id":"9781843831952","title":"The Early English Baptists, 1603-1649","description":"A fresh examination of the Baptist movement, showing its growth and development to be more complex than hitherto assumed.   This book challenges the orthodoxy that seventeenth-century Baptists were divided from the first into two separate denominations, 'Particular' and 'General', defined by their differing attitudes to predestination and the atonement, showing how the position was in fact much more complicated. It describes how from the foundation of the 'Generals' in 1609 there were always two tendencies, one clericalist and pacifist, influenced by the Dutch Mennonites, and one reflecting the English traditions of erastianism and local lay predominance in religion. It re-analyses the confessional struggle during and after the civil war, showing how Independent and erastian sentiment in Parliament increasingly combined to baulk Presbyterian ambition; during and partly because of this process (which they also influenced), the Baptists evolved into three recognisable tendencies.  Amongst General Baptists there was a politically radical current, but also a more passive tendency which was starting to gain ground. In 1647-9 most but by no means all Particular Baptist leaders were hostile to the Levellers. The book looks at the nature of religious convictionin the New Model Army, reassessing the role and influence of Baptists in it. In the late 40s, many Baptists, soldiers and civilians, rejected formal ordinances altogether.    STEPHEN WRIGHT received his Ph.D. from the Universityof London. He has been visiting lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of North London.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308359922037,"sku":"9781843831952","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781843831952_652150ee-9fd0-4cc2-85ad-d0d21936b056.jpg?v=1786028274"},{"product_id":"black-moon","title":"Black Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn utterly wild, debauched, romantic, and violent ride inspired by the 18th-century Irish pirate Anne Bonny, reimagined here as Amethyst \"Meeks\" Connell, one of the most extraordinary outlaws of any age. For readers of George Saunders, Percival Everett, and Maggie O'Farrell.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeeks is a poor Irish orphan whose energy, wit, and native sensitivity to the “main chance” take her to the unlikeliest of places. She marries into the aristocracy and follows her war-besotted husband into the latest of England and France’s seemingly endless scrapes where her husband is killed and she, on her way home, is taken prisoner by pirates, resulting in a tryst with the pirate captain that sets in motion an unlikely turn of events, leading her to join his crew. Upon the open sea, her ambition and cunning become her greatest assets as she reinvents herself anew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Irish reformatories to the battlefields of Europe to the swashbuckling high seas,\u003ci\u003e Black Moon\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a character you’ll never forget in an adventurous world you’ll never want to leave. Throughout Meeks’ globe-spanning narrative, we come to know a heroine of unconquerable ambition, boundless intelligence, and insatiable appetite—and to recognize a lawless, brutal, and bounteous world much like our own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Moon \u003c\/i\u003eis an ingenious work of ventriloquism and page-turning entertainment from “an extravagantly talented novelist” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499350270325,"sku":"9780316521857","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780316521857.jpg?v=1786694659"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-stephen-wright.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}