Authors:Alan Hirshfeld, Roger W. Sinnott, Frangois Ochsenbei
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: sky, catalogue, volume
Number of Pages: 702
Published: 1991-11-29
List price: $91.00
ISBN-10: 0521427363
ISBN-13: 9780521427364

This compendium summarizes the astronomical data for all stars brighter than 8.0. For every object listed, it includes designations from the HD (Henry Draper) and SAO (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) star catalogs; the star name and constellation; the common name; the position for the equinox and epoch 2000.0; the star’s proper motion; its visual magnitude and color index; the absolute magnitude; the spectral type; the radial velocity; the inferred distance; and, where appropriate, additional information on multiplicity, variablity and cluster membership. There is an index of Fl

Author: Frangois Crouzet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: british, history, economic, franco, studies, comparative, britain, ascendant
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 1991-01-25
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0521344344
ISBN-13: 9780521344340

François Crouzet is one of the most distinguished economic historians in the world whose life’s work has been largely devoted to the study of European industrialization. In Britain Ascendant, a collection of essays spanning his career, he examines the rise of Britain to the position of dominance in the world economy in the nineteenth century and the concomitant decline of France. Special attention is paid to the problems of capital formation, foreign trade and the Empire. In later chapters, Crouzet examines the Anglo-French relationship up to the present day, attacking conventional

Author: Frangois Recanati
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, studies, philosophy, utterances, performative, force, pragmatics, meaning
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1988-01-29
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0521303532
ISBN-13: 9780521303538

The author argues that no utterance can be fully understood simply in terms of its linguistic meaning but only with regard to contextual inference. He refutes the views of Austin and Searle and deals with major issues of pragmatics and speech-act theory.

Authors:Thierry Dubois, Frangois Jauberteau, Roger Temam,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: simulation, turbulence, numerical, methods, multilevel, dynamic
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1999-01-13
List price: $103.99
ISBN-10: 0521621658
ISBN-13: 9780521621656

This book describes the implementation of multilevel methods for the numerical simulation of turbulent flows. The general ideas for the algorithms presented stem from dynamical systems theory and are based on the decomposition of the unknown function into two or more arrays corresponding to different scales in the Fourier space. Before describing in detail the numerical algorithm, survey chapters on the mathematical theory of the Navier-Stokes equations and on the physics of the conventional theory of turbulence are included. The multilevel methods are applied here to the simulation of homoge