Authors:Robin Higham, Robin Higham, Carol Williams, Abigail T
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Keywords: military, history, series, stackpole, aircraft, american, combat, flying
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2004-03
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0811731243
ISBN-13: 9780811731249

Find out what it was like to fly some of the all-time classic aircraft of World War II, including the P-51 Mustang, B-17 Flying Fortress, P-47 Thunderbolt, P-38 Lightning, P-40 Kittyhawk, and many more. Riveting, first-person accounts that put the reader in the cockpit accompany dozens of photographs of the planes and the pilots that flew and fought in the skies from Tokyo to Berlin.

Authors:Robin Higham, Stephen J. Harris,
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: defeat, anatomy, forces, air
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-02-17
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0813123747
ISBN-13: 9780813123745

The failures of armies, navies, and even entire nations have been well documented by historians. Air forces, however, have received little attention. Why Air Forces Fail examines several air forces that have suffered defeat and explains the complex, often deep-seated foundations for these catastrophes. The contributors to Why Air Forces Fail consider cases of Russian, Polish, French, British, Italian, German, Argentine, and U.S. air force defeats, looking beyond purely military factors to explore the cultural, political, and technical causes of failure. The book includes both overviews and

Authors:David Graff, Robin Higham,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: china, history, military
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2002-03
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 0813339901
ISBN-13: 9780813339900

Armed conflict has always played an important role in Chinese history. Most of China’s imperial dynasties were established as a result of success in battle, and the same may be said of the Guomindang (KMT) and Communist regimes in the 20th century. This volume offers a basic introduction to the military history of China from the second millennium B.C.E. to the present, and is intended to be accessible to non-specialists. The book’s sixteen chapters, organized along both thematic and chronological lines, deal with such topics as “Continuity and Change,” “Military Writings,” “Warl

Authors:Desmond J. Higham, Nicholas J. Higham,
Publisher: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematic
Keywords: guide, matlab
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0898715784
ISBN-13: 9780898715781

Matlab is an interactive system for numerical computation that is widely used for teaching and research in industry and academia. It provides a modern programming language and problem solving environment, with powerful data structures, customizable graphics, and easy-to-use editing and debugging tools. This second edition of Matlab Guide completely revises and updates the best-selling first edition and is more than 30% longer. The book remains a lively, concise introduction to the most popular and important features of Matlab 7 and the Symbolic Math Toolbox. Key features of the second edition

Author: Desmond Higham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: stochastics, computation, mathematics, valuation, financial, option, introduction
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-04-19
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0521547571
ISBN-13: 9780521547574

This is a lively textbook providing a solid introduction to financial option valuation for undergraduate students armed with a working knowledge of a first year calculus. Written in a series of short chapters, its self-contained treatment gives equal weight to applied mathematics, stochastics and computational algorithms. No prior background in probability, statistics or numerical analysis is required. Detailed derivations of both the basic asset price model and the Black-Scholes equation are provided along with a presentation of appropriate computational techniques including binomial, finite

Author: Nicholas J. Higham
Publisher: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathemati
Keywords: sciences, mathematical, writing, handbook
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0898714206
ISBN-13: 9780898714203

The subject of mathematical writing has been infused with life once again by Nick Higham as he follows up his successful HWMS volume with this much-anticipated second edition. As is Higham’s style, the material is enlivened by anecdotes, unusual paper titles, and humorous quotations. This handy new volume provides even more information on the issues you will face when writing a technical paper or talk, from choosing the right journal in which to publish to handling your references. Its overview of the entire publication process is invaluable for anyone hoping to publish in a technical jo

Author: Charles Higham
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: angkor, civilization
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2004-04-23
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520242181
ISBN-13: 9780520242180

In the late sixteenth century a mythical encounter was reported during an elephant hunt in the dense north of the Tonle Sap, or Great Lake of central Cambodia. King Satha of Cambodia and his retainers were beating a path through the undergrowth when they were halted by stone giants and a massive wall. The King, the fable reported, ordered six thousand men to clear away the forest overgrowth around the wall, thereby exposing the city of Angkor--"lost" for over a century.Subsequent reports from Portuguese missionaries described its five gateways, with bridges flanked by stone figures leading acr