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Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon , Georgia. Public health theory, concepts, and issues. DNLM: 1. Community Health Services. ... Read more

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Temperature is probably the most influential of all climatic variables. Our only direct, quantitative knowledge of global temperatures comes from instruments operated over the last 150 or so years. Yet as crucial and as central as these data are to our understanding of the climate, they are largely taken for granted, even by many of those using them. Measuring Global Temperatures will fill this gap by explaining how global temperatures are measured, how the data are analyzed, what the potential errors are, and what needs to be done to improve temperature measurement in the future. The book is of great interest to all meteorologists, climatologists, and hydrologists, and especially those concerned with climate change and global warming. It is written in accessible language with little mathematics, and so will appeal to students and amateur meteorologists with a strong interest in weather and climate. ... Read more

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This book is a collection of 375 completely solved exercises on differentiable manifolds, Lie groups, fibre bundles, and Riemannian manifolds. The exercises go from elementary computations to rather sophisticated tools. It is the first book consisting of completely solved problems on differentiable manifolds, and therefore will be a complement to the books on theory. A 42-page formulary is included which will be useful as an aide-mémoire, especially for teachers and researchers on these topics.

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This book rocks like Newton and Gauss....
Man, this is a very instructional manual that can help just about anyone having problems learning differential geometry. I give it two tangent vectors up. ... Read more

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A novel and stimulating account regarding the past, present and future elements of the world's geopolitical system, especially the reality of the new world order of the 21st century. Each chapter is an original contribution from prominent Anglo-American workers in political geography. Includes essays offering alternative perspectives from scholars outside the Anglo-American tradition. ... Read more

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The purpose of this book is to provide core material in nonlinear analysis for mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and mathematical biologists. The main goal is to provide a working knowledge of manifolds, dynamical systems, tensors, and differential forms. Some applications to Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism, plasma dynamics and control theory are given using both invariant and index notation. The prerequisites required are solid undergraduate courses in linear algebra and advanced calculus. ... Read more

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A complete book by very erudite authors
I actually read this entire book--it is quite long and dense. Actually I took the course from the author Jerry Marsden at Caltech and Tutor (Jerry's friend and co-author) gave a guest lecture while visiting. We flew through the entire thing and ch 9 on lie groups of his mechanics and symmetry text in a short 10 weeks! My background in math was relatively weak when taking the course so it was a little hard to keep up; i.e. I came from an engineering background. Anyway, it is probably the most complete/diverse text I've come across on the subject. Of course, it's actually more of a monograph than a text. Since I've read the whole thing, I have to admit there are "several" typos. But as it is that most people can't even write a damn email without a typo or two, the book really does a good job considering it is 800 pages of mostly dense mathematical rigor. I imagine that if I wrote 800 pages of mathematical symbols in latex, that I might forget a tilde or put something as subscript that should have been superscript here or there! None of these errors really matter too much-they should not hinder one's understanding. All and all I think that this book is a great ref, although I've never seen the index, if one exists. For the beginner, also check out Boothby's book, which covers a lot of the same material but tones it down a bit.

A Unique Reference
Students of mathematical physics in general, and general relativity in particular, face a formidable challenge in attempting to find coherent, readable references on manifold theory and tensor analysis.I think it fair to say that for every well-written work on the subject, there are ten that do more damage than good.Very few texts can claim to (1) be clear enough to assist the person who is studying alone, (2)offer valuable PHYSICAL insight into the subject, and (3) pass the standards of rigor that mathematicians would impose.Abraham, Marsden, and Ratiu manage to accomplish all three of these goals in this profoundly useful text.I studied from the first edition and I have taught from the second.The two chapters on differential forms, Hodge star duality, integration on manifolds, and the generalized Stokes' Theorem alone are worth the price of the entire book.I am unaware of any other reference which which treats differential forms with the same combination of clarity, physical motivation, and mathematical rigor.The concluding chapter on applications offers one of the clearest introductions to the relativistic form of Maxwell's equations to be found in any text.For students of physics who want to see the mathematics "done right," one would be hard pressed to do better than Abraham, Marsden, and Ratiu.

mixed bag: many virtues but many weaknesses
I took a course taught by the 3rd author (Tudor Ratiu) at UCSC using this book; I found both good and bad in it.Much of the bad for me was overcome by the inspiring and energetic presentation by one of the authors.One mayview this book as basically a detailed elaboration of the"preliminary" chapters of the book "Foundations ofMechanics" by the 1st 2 authors. The strengths of this book are (a)the treatment which is general enough to include infinite-dimensionalmanifolds and not just the finite-dimensional case (most books just talkabout the finite-dim'l case) and (b) the attempt to cover all theorems"full strength" (in the greatest generality obtaining thestrongest conclusions from the weakest hypotheses). Neither of these (notcounting the many typos) recommends this as a first or even second text forstudents, but it's hard to find any other books that treat the material atthe same level of generality and precision, which is a must if attempting"hard" global analysis in areas such as fluid mechanics (from ageometric point of view).Correction of the many typos could make this anindispensable reference book for those requiring the techniques discussed.More discussion of finite-dimensional examples before jumping toinfinite-dimensional ones (e.g. discussing finite-dimensional Grassmanniansbefore jumping to the infinite-dimensional Banach manifold version) couldmake this into a tolerable text.

As it is, it's problematic, aggravating,and not for the faint of heart, but not without its virtues.

Possiblealternatives for the infinite-dimensional point of view are Lang'smanifolds book or some volume of the expensive multi-volume treatise onanalysis by Dieudonne.

Poorly writen, filled with errors, very long, poorly indexed
We used this book in a graduate course at UCLA. The professor had to hand out a list of all the errors we encountered, and it was about ten pages typewritten. The professor, Geoff Mess, wrote at the top of this list thatmany of the students had complained about this book, and that it was adisappointment to him as well.I often found myself scanning hundreds ofpages in search of what should have been contained in their sparse index.The book is unnecessarily long and wordy for the matter covered. In theintroduction, the authors mention that they invite comments from thereaders. It seems that they depend on their readers to correct theircopious errors and their poor writing. ... Read more

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Global analysis is the analysis on manifolds. Since the middle of the sixties there exists a highly elaborated setting if the underlying manifold is compact, evidence of which can be found in index theory, spectral geometry, the theory of harmonic maps, many applications to mathematical physics on closed manifolds like gauge theory, Seiberg-Witten theory, etc. If the underlying manifold is open, i.e. non-compact and without boundary, then most of the foundations and of the great achievements fail. Elliptic operators are no longer Fredholm, the analytical and topological indexes are not defined, the spectrum of self-adjoint elliptic operators is no longer discrete, functional spaces strongly depend on the operators involved and the data from geometry, many embedding and module structure theorems do not hold, manifolds of maps are not defined, etc. It is the goal of this new book to provide serious foundations for global analysis on open manifolds, to discuss the difficulties and special features which come from the openness and to establish many results and applications on this basis. ... Read more

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In this groundbreaking new edition, Mendelsohn gives you the weapon to conquer the limitations of traditional technical trading—intermarket analysis. To compete in today’s rapidly changing economy, you need a method that can identify reoccurring patterns within individual financial markets and between related global markets. You need tools that lead, not lag.

Step by step, Mendelsohn shows how combining technical, fundamental, and intermarket analysis into one powerful framework can give you an early edge to accurately forecast trends.

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Global Development Finance the World Bank's annual report on the external financing of developing countries provides monitoring and analysis of development finance, identifying key emerging trends and policy challenges in international financial flows that are likely to affect the growth prospects of developing countries.As major financial institutions currently recognize losses from the U.S. subprime mortgage market crisis and rebuild their balance sheets through a more conservative approach to lending and risk management, the central theme of this year's report will be the market for international bank credit to developing countries. It is an indispensable resource for governments, economists, investors, financial consultants, academics, bankers, and the entire development community.Volume I: Analysis and Outlook reviews recent trends in financial flows of developing countries. ... Read more

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Global Structural Analysis of Buildings is a practical reference for professional civil and structural engineers in construction firms, consultancies, and building research organisations. The theoretical aspects of the book will appeal to postgraduates, lecturers and reserachers of structural analysis and design. ... Read more

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Many properties of minimal surfaces are of a global nature, and this is already true for the results treated in the first two volumes of the treatise. Part I of the present book can be viewed as an extension of these results. For instance, the first two chapters deal with existence, regularity and uniqueness theorems for minimal surfaces with partially free boundaries. Here one of the main features is the possibility of "edge-crawling" along free parts of the boundary.The third chapter deals with a priori estimates for minimal surfaces in higher dimensions and for minimizers of singular integrals related to the area functional. In particular, far reaching Bernstein theorems are derived.The second part of the book contains what one might justly call a "global theory of minimal surfaces" as envisioned by Smale. First, the Douglas problem is treated anew by using Teichmüller theory. Secondly, various index theorems for minimal theorems are derived, and their consequences for the space of solutions to Plateau´s problem are discussed. Finally, a topological approach to minimal surfaces via Fredholm vector fields in the spirit of Smale is presented. ... Read more

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This monograph examines and develops the Global Smoothness Preservation Property (GSPP) and the Shape Preservation Property (SPP) in the field of interpolation of functions. The study is developed for the univariate and bivariate cases using well-known classical interpolation operators of Lagrange, Grünwald, Hermite-Fejér and Shepard type. One of the first books on the subject, it presents interesting new results alongwith an excellent survey of past research.

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- potential applications to data fitting, fluid dynamics, curves and surfaces, engineering, and computer-aided geometric design

- presents recent work featuring many new interesting results as well as an excellent survey of past research

- many interesting open problems for future research presented throughout the text

- includes 20 very suggestive figures of nine types of Shepard surfaces concerning their shape preservation property

- generic techniques of the proofs allow for easy application to obtaining similar results for other interpolation operators

This unique, well-written text is best suited to graduate students and researchers in mathematical analysis, interpolation of functions, pure and applied mathematicians in numerical analysis, approximation theory, data fitting, computer-aided geometric design, fluid mechanics, and engineering researchers.

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This text is designed for the systems analysis and design course usually taught at the sophomore, junior, senior, and graduate levels to both information systems and business majors. The authors have consciously kept a fine balance between the presentation of concepts and the support of those concepts through the practice of techniques and their application to systems development. The text is written with a lively, conversational tone, which works well with a wide variety of students. A running integrated case demonstrates concepts and techniques by tying the material together at the appropriate level of complexity. ... Read more

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Decent CDLC book
Especially at the lower prices of the used copies! The book does repeat itself quite a bit, but this was intended as a teaching device to make sure certain important ideas were well learned.

i dont even received this book yet
i dont received my book you guys asked me for review. This is ridiculous almost 1 month

Does a fair job as an introduction but I will be selling my copy
I bought this textbook as it was required for one of my courses. I would not consider using any of the advice offered in practice - the book is outdated and very far removed from the reality of software development processes today. Consider picking up a book on the Unified Process or one of the many books on agile methods instead.

Extremely repetitive book
I had to purchase this book as part of a graduate course in information systems. Beign myself a professional programmer and engineer, I am familiar with most of the terms and cases presented in this book. Unfortunately, the material is repeated over and over again. A 50 pages chapter perhaps have less than 10 pages useful content. Some of the topics are irrelevant but they spend a considerable amount of time on them. In short: I will not recomend this book unless you are willing to spend long hours filtering the content or you are forced to buy it as part of a college class.

Excellent Educational Text Book
This book is extremely helpful.It uses step by step guides to help the reader fully understand the content, plus a life-like story line to help the reader understand the placement of the information studied.I would recommend it to any student or professional who wishes to better their knowledge and understanding of analysis and design of an information system. ... Read more

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GLOBAL MARKETING: Foreign Entry,Local Marketing, and Global Management can be used at the better undergraduate programs where the students have had some exposure to global management or global business or in the MBA curriculum. The subtitle for this text is an important way to remember what makes this book distinct. This text offers a three-pronged approach to Global Marketing. That approach is Foreign Entry, Local Marketing, and Global Management and this represents the structure for the text. Johansson addresses how you market an existing product in new global markets and also discusses how a company develops a new product for a global market. This discussion takes into consideration the culture and needs of those customers. Most International Marketing books have a separate chapter for each of the environments (legal and regulatory, political, Business Customs, etc) and then they launch into a discussion of marketing management for global markets. However, Johansson only has a separate chapter on culture and then he integrates the rest of the environment discussions throughout the text and where appropriate. This too is a distinct feature of the text. ... Read more

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This book deals with a broad range of topics from the theory of automorphic functions on three-dimensional hyperbolic space and its arithmetic group theoretic and geometric ramifications. Starting off with several models of hyperbolic space and its group of motions the authors discuss the spectral theory of the Laplacian and Selberg's theory for cofinite groups. This culminates in explicit versions of the Selberg trace formula and the Selberg zeta-function. The interplay with arithmetic is demonstrated by means of the groups PSL(2) over rings and of quadratic integers, their Eisenstein series and their associated Hermitian forms. A rich chapter on concrete examples of arithmetic and non-arithmetic cofinite groups enhances the usefulness of this work for a wide circle of mathematicians. ... Read more

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Text discusses the qualitative investigation of two-dimensional polynomial dynamical systems, and is aimed at solving Hilbert's Sixteenth Problem on the maximum number and relative position of limit cycles. The volume number facing the title page is erroneously listed as Volume 559. ... Read more

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This volume contains the refereed proceedings of the Special Session on Geometric Analysis held at the AMS meeting in Philadelphia in October 1991. The term "geometric analysis" is being used with increasing frequency in the mathematical community, but its meaning is not entirely fixed. The papers in this collection should help to better define the notion of geometric analysis by illustrating emerging trends in the subject. The topics covered range over a broad spectrum: integral geometry, Radon transforms, geometric inequalities, microlocal analysis, harmonic analysis, analysis on Lie groups and symmetric spaces, and more. Containing articles varying from the expository to the technical, this book presents the latest results in a broad range of analytic and geometric topics. ... Read more

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This book introduces value distribution theory starting with a survey of two Nevanlinna-type main theorems and defect relations for meromorphic mappings from parabolic manifolds into projective spaces. Then the unicity theory of meromorphic functions or mappings is discussed systematically and the discussion also covers value distribution theory of algebroid functions of several variables and its applications in unicity theory.

Audience: Graduate students and researchers involved in the fields of analysis, complex function theory of one or several variables, value distribution theory and analysis on complex manifolds.

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H. Brezis: Propriétés régularisantes de certains semigroupes et applications.- F. Browder: Normal solvability and existence theorems for nonlinear mappings in Banach spaces.- F. Browder: Normal solvability for nonlinear mappings and the geometry of Banach spaces.- J. Eells, K.D. Elworthy: Wiener integration on certain manifolds.- W.H. Fleming: Nonlinear partial differential equations - Probabilistic and game theoretic methods.- C. Foias: Solutions statistiques des équations d’évolution non linéaires.- J.L. Lions: Quelques problèmes de la théorie des équations non linéaires d’évolution.- A. Pazy: Semi-groups of nonlinear contractions in Hilbert space.- R. Temam: Equations aux dérivées partielles stochastiques.- M.M. Vainberg: Le problème de la minimisation des fonctionnelles non linéaires. ... Read more

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This book presents global actions of arbitrary Lie groups onlarge classes of generalised functions by using a novel parametricapproach. This new method extends and completes earlier results of theauthor and collaborators, in which global Lie group actions ongeneralised functions were only defined in the case of projectable orfibre-preserving Lie group actions.
The parametric method opens the possibility of dealing with vastlylarger classes of Lie semigroup actions which still transformsolutions into solutions. These Lie semigroups can contain arbitrarynoninvertible smooth mappings. Thus, they cannot be subsemigroups ofLie groups.
Audience: This volume is addressed to graduate students andresearchers involved in solving linear and nonlinear partialdifferential equations, and in particular, in dealing with the Liegroup symmetries of their classical or generalised solutions. ... Read more

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Optimization models based on a nonlinear systems description often possess multiple local optima. The objective of Global Optimization (GO) is to find the best possible solution of multiextremal problems. This volume illustrates the applicability of GO modeling techniques and solution strategies to real-world problems. Coverage extends to a broad range of applications, from agroecosystem management to robot design. Proposed solutions encompass a range of practical and viable methods.