Authors:Ian Hinchliffe, Philip Holmes,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: essential, grammars, grammar, swedish
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0415458005
ISBN-13: 9780415458009

This fully revised second edition of Swedish: An Essential grammar incorporates the changes proposed to the Swedish grammar by Svenska Akademiens Grammatik. All examples have been fully updated, the bibliography has been expanded and a number of tables clarified. Swedish: An Essential grammar provides a fresh and accessible description of the language. It is suitable for independent study or for class-based students. The explanations are free of jargon and emphasis has been placed in the areas of Swedish that pose a particular challenge for English-speaking learners.

Authors:Ian Hinchliffe, Philip Holmes,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: essential, grammars, grammar, swedish
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1997-06-23
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 0415160480
ISBN-13: 9780415160483

Swedish: An Essential Grammar is a reference guide to the most important aspects of current Swedish as it is used by native speakers. It focuses on the real patterns of use in today’s Swedish and is the ideal reference source for any learner or user of Swedish. Suitable for either independent study or for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types, explanations are free from jargon and emphasis has been placed on the areas of Swedish that pose a particular challenge for English-language learners. Features include a detailed contents list, many tables an

Authors:Ian Hinchliffe, Philip Holmes,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: comprehensive, grammars, routledge, grammar, swedish
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2003-09-30
List price: $60.95
ISBN-10: 0415278848
ISBN-13: 9780415278843

This complete reference guide to Swedish grammar is a new edition of the only comprehensive grammar of Swedish in English. It has been fully updated to accurately reflect Swedish as it is employed today in educated everyday use. A new chapter on word formation has also been included to reflect recent changes in a few areas of usage and to employ the new standards that have been set in the description of language. An extensive index, numbered paragraphs and generous use of headings and cross-references provides readers with easy access to the information they require. Key features of Swedis

Authors:Florin Diacu, Philip Holmes,
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: encounters, celestial
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1999-03-08
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0691005451
ISBN-13: 9780691005454

Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincaré submitted a paper that was to change the course of science, but not before it underwent significant changes itself. "The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics" won a prize sponsored by King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway and the journal Acta Mathematica, but after accepting the prize, Poincaré found a serious mistake in his work. While correcting it, he discovered the phenomenon of chaos. Starting with the story of Poincaré’s work, Florin Diacu an

Authors:John Guckenheimer, Philip Holmes,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: applied, mathematical, sciences, vol, fields, vector, oscillations, dynamical, systems, bifurcations, nonlinear
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1983-08-01
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0387908196
ISBN-13: 9780387908199

This book applied the techniques of dynamical systems and bifurcation theories to the study of nonlinear oscillations. Taking the cue from Poincare, the authors stress the geometrical and topological properties of solutions of differential equations and iterated maps. Numerous exercises, some of which require nontrivial algebraic manipulations and computer work, convey the important analytical underpinnings of problems in dynamical systems and help the reader develop an intuitive feel for the properties involved. In this fifth printing the authors have corrected further errors, oversights and

Authors:Philip Holmes, Jill M. Singleton,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, fremont, irvington
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-10-24
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738530050
ISBN-13: 9780738530055

Before there was a city of Fremont, there was the town of Irvington, and earlier still a busy crossroads called Washington Corners. Fields of grain once spilled over an open landscape, spurring production here of the first wheat harvesters in California. After local landowners built the Washington College of Science and Industry in the 1870s, they renamed its host town Irvington. By 1890, it boasted the largest, most advanced winery in the state and had earned the title, Beautiful Irvington, home of gracious estates, apricot orchards, baseball, and first-class, high-bred trotters. Cows from Sw

Authors:Holmes Philip, Lumley John L., Berkooz Gal,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: cambridge, monographs, mechanics, symmetry, systems, coherent, structures, dynamical, turbulence
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1998-08-13
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0521634199
ISBN-13: 9780521634199

This book offers a new approach to the modeling and analysis of turbulent flows dominated by coherent structures: the concentrated and recurrent patterns of vorticity seen in aircraft contrails, eddies behind bridge piers and the wakes of moving cars and boats. Using techniques from probability theory and nonlinear dynamics, the authors show how the governing nonlinear equations of fluid mechanics may be reduced to simpler models that provide understanding of the basic mechanisms of turbulence generation.