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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The History of the American West Collection is a unique project
that provides opportunities for researchers and new readers to
easily access and explore works which have previously only been
available on library shelves. The Collection brings to life
pre-1923 titles focusing on a wide range of topics and experiences
in US Western history. From the initial westward migration, to
exploration and development of the American West to daily life in
the West and intimate pictures of the people who inhabited it, this
collection offers American West enthusiasts a new glimpse at some
forgotten treasures of American culture. Encompassing genres such
as poetry, fiction, nonfiction, tourist guides, biographies and
drama, this collection provides a new window to the legend and
realities of the American West.
After a highly publicized and controversial exit from Mormonism,
Lamborn intertwines the story of his awakening with psychological
aspects of religious belief.
From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that
explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This
fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows
how this list was a component of broader trade connections that
developed between the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia in the
Middle Ages. Drawing on a close reading of this unique
twelfth-century document, found in the Cairo Genizah and written in
India by North African merchant Abraham Ben Yiju, Lambourn focuses
on the domestic material culture and foods that structured the
daily life of such India traders, on land and at sea. This is an
exploration of the motivations and difficulties of maintaining
homes away from home, and the compromises that inevitably ensued.
Abraham's Luggage demonstrates the potential for writing
challenging new histories in the accidental survival of apparently
ordinary ephemera.
Predicting Motion presents the core ideas of Newtonian mechanics,
starting from Newton's laws and the idea that changes in motion are
predictable given the forces that cause them. Richly illustrated
with questions and answers for self-assessment, it carefully
introduces concepts, such as kinetics and potential energy, linear
momentum, torque (the rotational analogue of force), and angular
momentum, and explains their role in predicting motion. Although no
prior knowledge of this topic is required, the book focuses on the
significance of differential equations in making such predictions.
It also provides an up-to-date treatment of mechanics with accounts
of relativistic collisions and the implications of chaos theory for
the future of the solar system and for galaxies that contain black
holes.
These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban
growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and
South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary
cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and
potentially powerful alternatives to the diversity of kinship-based
local or regional networks, the societal delegated spaces in which
local and external agencies met and interacted in a wide variety of
political, economic, spiritual, and military forms. They were
variously transportation centers, sites of a central temples, court
and secular administration centers, fortified military compounds,
intellectual (literary) activity cores, and marketplace and/or
craft production sites. One element of these urban centers'
existence might have been more important than others, as a
political capital, a cultural capital, or an economic capital. In
the post-1500 era of increasing globalization, especially with the
introduction of new technologies of transport, communication, and
warfare, non-Western cities even more became the hubs of knowledge,
societal, and cultural formation and exchange because of the
location of both markets and political centers in urban areas. New
forms of professionalism, militarization, and secular
bureaucratization were foundational to centralizing state
hierarchies that could exert more control over their networked
segments. This book's authors consciously attempt to balance the
histories of functional urban agency between the local and the
exogenous, giving weight to local activities, events, beliefs,
institutions, communities, individuals, and historical narratives.
In several studies, both external and internal societal prejudices
and the inability of key decision makers to understand indigenous
reality led to negative consequences both in the local environment
and in the global arena.
With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth
century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian
Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural,
political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial
presence. Collectively, these studies explore the history of
non-metropolitan urban settings c. 1400-1800 in the Indian Ocean
realm, from the Ottoman Empire and the African coastline at the
mouth of the Red Sea in the west to China in the east. This was an
age of heightened international commercial exchange that pre-dated
the European arrival, which in the Indian Ocean paired Islamic
expansionism and political authority, and, alternately, in the case
of mainland Southeast Asia, partnered Buddhism with new
centralizing monarchies. While grounded in multi-disciplinary urban
studies literature, the twelve studies in this collection explore
secondary center networking, as this networking distinguishes
secondary cities from metropolitan centers, which have
traditionally received the most scholarly attention. The book
features the research of international scholars, whose work
addresses the representative history of small cities and urban
networking in various parts of the Indian Ocean world in an era of
change, allowing them the opportunity to compare approaches,
methods, and sources in the hopes of discovering common features as
well as notable differences. This volume is the result of a 2007
conference on 'The Small City in Global Context, ' hosted by the
Center for Middletown Studies at Ball State University, Muncie,
Indiana, intended to expand the field of urban studies by
encouraging scholars of diverse global interests and
specializations to explore the history of non-metropolitan urban
settings.
This book discusses the history of the El Chamizal dispute,
integrating theories of statecraft with the domestic environment
for choice that is built on an analysis of how key factions within
policy coalitions react to the policy and political risks attached
to the different foreign policy options.
Describing Motion: The Physical World provides the quantitative
description of a variety of physically important motions. Starting
with simple examples of motion along a line, the book introduces
key concepts, such as position, velocity, and acceleration, using
the fundamental rules of differential calculus. Topics include the
free-fall motion of micro-gravity test vehicles, the trajectories
of long-jumpers, and the orbital motion of satellites and space
probes. The book also covers several essential mathematical tools.
Predicting Motion presents the core ideas of Newtonian mechanics,
starting from Newton's laws and the idea that changes in motion are
predictable given the forces that cause them. Richly illustrated
with questions and answers for self-assessment, it carefully
introduces concepts, such as kinetics and potential energy, linear
momentum, torque (the rotational analogue of force), and angular
momentum, and explains their role in predicting motion. Although no
prior knowledge of this topic is required, the book focuses on the
significance of differential equations in making such predictions.
It also provides an up-to-date treatment of mechanics with accounts
of relativistic collisions and the implications of chaos theory for
the future of the solar system and for galaxies that contain black
holes.
Describing Motion: The Physical World provides the quantitative
description of a variety of physically important motions. Starting
with simple examples of motion along a line, the book introduces
key concepts, such as position, velocity, and acceleration, using
the fundamental rules of differential calculus. Topics include the
free-fall motion of micro-gravity test vehicles, the trajectories
of long-jumpers, and the orbital motion of satellites and space
probes. The book also covers several essential mathematical tools.
Learn to integrate programming with good documentation. This book
teaches you the craft of documentation for each step in the
software development lifecycle, from understanding your users'
needs to publishing, measuring, and maintaining useful developer
documentation. Well-documented projects save time for both
developers on the project and users of the software. Projects
without adequate documentation suffer from poor developer
productivity, project scalability, user adoption, and
accessibility. In short: bad documentation kills projects. Docs for
Developers demystifies the process of creating great developer
documentation, following a team of software developers as they work
to launch a new product. At each step along the way, you learn
through examples, templates, and principles how to create, measure,
and maintain documentation-tools you can adapt to the needs of your
own organization. What You'll Learn Create friction logs and
perform user research to understand your users' frustrations
Research, draft, and write different kinds of documentation,
including READMEs, API documentation, tutorials, conceptual
content, and release notes Publish and maintain documentation
alongside regular code releases Measure the success of the content
you create through analytics and user feedback Organize larger sets
of documentation to help users find the right information at the
right time Who This Book Is For Ideal for software developers who
need to create documentation alongside code, or for technical
writers, developer advocates, product managers, and other technical
roles that create and contribute to documentation for their
products and services.
Basic Mathematics for the Physical Sciences provides a thorough introduction to the essential mathematical techniques needed in the physical sciences. Carefully structured as a series of self-paced and self-contained chapters, this text covers the basic techniques on which more advanced material is built. Starting with arithmetic and algebra, the text then moves on to cover basic elements of geometry, vector algebra, differentiation and finally integration, all within an applied environment. The reader is guided through these different techniques with the help of numerous worked examples, applications, problems, figures, and summaries. The authors aim to provide high-quality and thoroughly class-tested material to meet the changing needs of science students. Basic Mathematics for the Physical Sciences: - Is a carefully structured text, with self-contained chapters.
- Gradually introduces mathematical techniques within an applied environment.
- Includes many worked examples, applications, problems, and summaries in each chapter.
Basic Mathematics for the Physical Sciences will be invaluable to all students of physics, chemistry and engineering, needing to develop or refresh their knowledge of basic mathematics. The book’s structure will make it equally valuable for course use, home study or distance learning.
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