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Designed for teaching astrophysics to physics students at advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level, this textbook also provides an overview of astrophysics for astrophysics graduate students, before they delve into more specialized volumes. Assuming backgro... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:46 | Health professionals are increasingly drawn towards research in the course of their training, often with little guidance on the skills and techniques required. This practical text provides essential advice to guide the beginner through the processes involved in selec... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:46 | This book provides a significant rereading of political and ecclesiastical developments during the English Revolution, by integrating them into broader European discussions about Christianity and civil society. Sarah Mortimer reveals the extent to which these discuss... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:47 | It is well known that George Eliot's intelligence and her wide knowledge of literature, history, philosophy and religion shaped her fiction, but until now no study has followed the development of her thinking through her whole career. This intellectual biography trac... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:47 | In matters of rights, constitutions tend to avoid settling controversies. With few exceptions, rights are formulated in open-ended language, seeking consensus on an abstraction without purporting to resolve the many moral-political questions implicated by rights. The... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:47 | The dislocations of the worldwide economic crisis, the necessity of a system of global justice to address crimes against humanity, and the notorious 'democratic deficit' of international institutions highlight the need for an innovative and truly global legal system,... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:47 | Mathematical modelling of physiological systems promises to advance our understanding of complex biological phenomena and pathophysiology of diseases. In this book, the authors adopt a mathematical approach to characterize and explain the functioning of the gastroint... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:47 | Our society's longstanding commitment to the liberty of conscience has become strained by our increasingly muddled understanding of what conscience is and why we value it. Too often we equate conscience with individual autonomy, and so we reflexively favor the indivi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:47 | Political parties provide a crucial link between voters and politicians. This link takes a variety of forms in democratic regimes, from the organization of political machines built around clientelistic networks to the establishment of sophisticated programmatic parti... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:47 | Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:48 | Early Childhood Curriculum addresses current approaches to curriculum for infants, toddlers and young children, ages birth to eight. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the curriculum issues that student teachers and emerging practitioners will face and equip... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | J-contractive and J-inner matrix valued functions have a wide range of applications in mathematical analysis, mathematical physics, control engineering and theory of systems and networks. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory of these function... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | Continued fractions, studied since Ancient Greece, only became a powerful tool in the eighteenth century, in the hands of the great mathematician Euler. This book tells how Euler introduced the idea of orthogonal polynomials and combined the two subjects, and how Bro... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | The ancient Greeks invented democracy. They also invented political theory. This book seeks to show that these were not unrelated achievements. The development of political theory accompanied the growth of democracy at Athens in the fifth century BC. By analysing the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | From their ability to use energy from sunlight to make their own food, to combating attacks from diseases and predators, plants have evolved an amazing range of life-sustaining strategies. Written with the non-specialist in mind, John King's lively natural history ex... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | A cursory reading of the history of US colleges and universities reveals that campus crime has been part of collegiate life since the Colonial Era, yet it was not until the late 1980s that it suddenly became an issue on the public stage. Drawing from numerous mass me... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | This book is based on a course given at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is intended to be a reasonably self-contained introduction to stochastic analytic techniques that can be used in the study of certain problems. The central theme is the theory of diffus... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | Because of their significance in physics and chemistry, representation of Lie groups has been an area of intensive study by physicists and chemists, as well as mathematicians. This introduction is designed for graduate students who have some knowledge of finite group... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | In 1963 Walter Feit and John G. Thompson published a proof of a 1911 conjecture by Burnside that every finite group of odd order is solvable. This proof, which ran for 255 pages, was a tour-de-force of mathematics and inspired intense effort to classify finite simple... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | Higher-dimensional category theory is the study of n-categories, operads, braided monoidal categories, and other such exotic structures. It draws its inspiration from areas as diverse as topology, quantum algebra, mathematical physics, logic, and theoretical computer... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | Did Homer tell the 'truth' about the Trojan War? If so, how much, and if not, why not? The issue was hardly academic to the Greeks living under the Roman Empire, given the centrality of both Homer, the father of Greek culture, and the Trojan War, the event that inaug... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller explores men's experiences of fatherhood and provides unique insights into paternal caring, changing masculinities and men's relations to paid work. She focuses on the narrative... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:49 | This volume explains how metaphors, metonymies, and other figures of thought interact cognitively and rhetorically to tell us what writing is and what it should do. Drawing on interviews with writing professionals and published commentary about writing, it argues tha... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:50 | In this 2010 book, Roger Masterman examines the dividing lines between the powers of the judicial branch of government and those of the executive and legislative branches in the light of two of the most significant constitutional reforms of recent years: the Human Ri... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 4:50 | What are international orders, how are they destroyed, and how can they be defended in the face of violent challenges? Advancing an innovative realist-constructivist account of international order, Andrew Phillips addresses each of these questions in War, Religion an... Полное описание |
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