Authors:Tudor Bompa, Michael Carrera,
Publisher: Human Kinetic
Keywords: sports, training, periodization
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-04-06
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0736055592
ISBN-13: 9780736055598

Sports conditioning has advanced tremendously since the era when a "no pain, no gain" philosophy guided the training regimens of athletes. Dr. Tudor Bompa pioneered most of these breakthroughs, proving long ago that it?s not only how much and how hard an athlete works but also when and what work is done that determines the athlete?s conditioning level. In Periodization Training for Sports, Bompa demonstrates how to use periodized workouts in order to peak at optimal times by manipulating six different training phases: anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, maximum strength, conversion to power, m

Author: Juliet Carrera
Publisher: Haworth Pre
Keywords: inside
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2000-07-21
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1560232021
ISBN-13: 9781560232025

Love denied . . . and rediscovered! When hidden passions are brought to light and long-held secrets revealed, either triumph or tragedy can follow. Inside Out explores this dangerous territory through the lives of three very different women. A deeply closeted politician will hurt anyone-even those closest to her-in her ruthless climb to the top. A free-spirited musician, determined to stay true to herself, will do whatever it takes to follow her heart. The woman caught between them struggles to reconcile her lifelong pragmatism with her newly reawakened desires. Set in New York, Los Angeles, a

Author: Manuel Carrera Diaz
Publisher: Ariel
Keywords: teorica, spanish, parte, italiana, lengua, curso
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2004-05
List price: $56.00
ISBN-10: 8434481081
ISBN-13: 9788434481084

Authors:Axel Bronstert, Jesus Carrera, Pavel Kabat, Sabine
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: atmosphere, biosphere, pedosphere, integrating, cycle, models, hydrological, coupled
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 2005-02-24
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 3540223711
ISBN-13: 9783540223719

Hydrologists, climatologists, soil scientists and environmental engineers are frequently asked to analyse complex environmental problems. It is becoming increasingly apparent that these problems usually involve feedbacks between atmospheric, ecological, and hydrological systems, as well as human society. It is often the feedbacks between systems that are of greatest interest because they may produce unanticipated responses. That is why coupling of different compartments of the Earth system has emerged as a general challenge to the modelling community. This book considers an array of state-of-t

Authors:Xavier Sanchez-Vila, Jesus Carrera, Jaime Gómez-Hern
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: geostatistics, geology, quantitative, environmental, geoenv, applications
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2004-05-31
List price: $83.00
ISBN-10: 1402021143
ISBN-13: 9781402021145

This volume contains forty-one selected full-text contributions from the Fourth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, geoENV IV, held in Barcelona, Spain, November 2002. The objective of the editors was to compile a set of papers from which the reader could perceive how geostatistics is applied within the environmental sciences. A few selected theoretical contributions are also included. The papers are organized in the following sections: -Air pollution and satellite images, -Ecology and environment, -Hydrogeology, -Climatology and rainfall, -Oceanography, -Soi

Authors:Michael Grosser, Michael Kunzinger, Michael Oberguge
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: applications, general, mathematics, relativity, functions, theory, generalized, geometric
Number of Pages: 521
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 1402001452
ISBN-13: 9781402001451

This work provides the first comprehensive introduction to the nonlinear theory of generalized functions (in the sense of Colombeau’s construction) on differentiable manifolds. Particular emphasis is laid on a diffeomorphism invariant geometric approach to embedding the space of Schwartz distributions into algebras of generalized functions. The foundations of a `nonlinear distributional geometry’ are developed, supplying a solid base for an increasing number of applications of algebras of generalized functions to questions of a primarily geometric mature, in particular in m

Authors:Michael Oberguggenberger, Michael Grosser, Michael
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: notes, mathematics, series, research, functions, theory, generalized, nonlinear
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-03-16
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 0849306493
ISBN-13: 9780849306495

Questions regarding the interplay of nonlinearity and the creation and propagation of singularities arise in a variety of fields-including nonlinear partial differential equations, noise-driven stochastic partial differential equations, general relativity, and geometry with singularities. A workshop held at the Erwin-Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna investigated these questions and culminated in this volume of invited papers from experts in the fields of nonlinear partial differential equations, structure theory of generalized functions, geometry and gene