This comprehensive student manual has been designed to accompany the leading textbook by Bernard Schutz A First Course in General Relativity & uses detailed solutions cross-referenced to several introductory & more advanced textbooks to enable self-learners undergraduates & postgraduates to master general relativity through problem solving The perfect accompaniment to Schutz's textbook this manual guides the reader step-by-step through over 200 exercises with clear easy-to-follow derivations It provides detailed solutions to almost half of Schutz's exercises &

Includes:: 125 brand new supplementary problems that address the subtle points of each chapter It

Includes:: a comprehensive index & collects useful mathematical results such as transformation matrices & Christoffel symbols for commonly studied spacetimes in an appendix Supported by an online table categorising exercises a Maple worksheet & an instructors' manual this text provides an invaluable resource for all students & instructors using Schutz's textbook



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It is 1882 & the Old Ones are already here They arrived seven hundred years ago & have been ruling the planet ever since The majority of people just get on with their lives accepting their monstrous rulers However a growing band of revolutionaries wish to free mankind from their slavery These freedom fighters call themselves the Restorationists A secret war has already broken out between the Restorationists & the forces loyal to the Old Ones The invention of dynamite has changed the balance of power & a lone assassin now has the capacity to destroy an Old One In this shadow world of assassins informers police agents & anarchists nobody is quite sure who is who & which side they fight for The game A Study in Emerald draws its central plot from the award-winning short story penned by Neil Gaiman in which the worlds of Sherlock Holmes & HP Lovecraft are combined to telling effect However to create a world detailed enough for players much has been added from real history The nineteenth century was a time of unrest with many colorful characters fighting both for & against the authorities A Study in Emerald is the outcome of the merging of these three worlds This second edition of A Study in Emerald sports new artwork by Ian O& Toole & Tatiana Kuzilova along with a streamlined set of rules that will hopefully help those folks who found the first version a tad complicated Inconsistencies have been removed & the number of available actions has been reduced to the minimum whilst still retaining the mood of paranoia from the first edition ...

The Penguin English Library edition When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality & violence Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror There is no mark of violence on the body yet a single word is written on the wall in blood Dr Watson is as baffled as the police but Holmes's brilliant analytical skills soon uncover a trail of murder revenge & lost love ...

All legends begin somewhere & the two novels here are where one of the world&s best-loved legends began In A Study in Scarlet Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson first meet & investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house In The Sign of the Four the detective faces an even greater challenge solving both the disappearance of Captain Arthur Morstan & the theft of the Agra treasure in India In this Macmillan Collector&s Library edition Sherlock scholar David Stuart Davies provides an illuminating afterword Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector&s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector&s Library are books to love & treasure ...

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Regarded as one of the most accomplished fashion photographers from the United States Louise Dahl-Wolfe earned great recognition for her ample knowledge of techniques concerned with the use of color & light 256 pages 120 black & white 15 colour ...

' Almost a prerequisite for any serious study of Sufism in European languages' this was the verdict of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in his review of the first edition of the book According to the Journal of Near Eastern Studies it is 'one of the most thorough & intimately engaging books on Sufism to be produced by a Western scholar' Certainly there is nothing second-hand about it The author lets Sufis speak for themselves & in a series of unusual & absorbing texts mainly translated from Arabic he gives a vivid picture of life in a North African Sufi order Against this background stands the unforgettable figure of the Algerian Shaikh who was head of the order from 1909 until his death in 1934 The last few chapters are mainly devoted to his writings which include some penetrating aphorisms & which end with a small anthology of his remarkable mystic poems ...

A modern classic this epic tale of families romance & political intrigue never loses its power to delight & enchant readers Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story the tale of Lata
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- attempts to find her a suitable husband through love or through exacting maternal appraisal At the same time it is the story of India newly independent & struggling through a time of crisis as a sixth of the world's population faces its first great general election & the chance to map its own destiny'A Suitable Boy may prove to be the most fecund as well as the most prodigious work of the latter half of this century
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Romance humour & happy-ever-after endings The deliciously romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A Vintage Wedding Emily is happy with her life just as it is She has a career as a midwife that she loves She enjoys living on her own as a single woman But she’s also feels it’s time for a change & a spot of some sea air So when her best friend Rebecca asks whether she’d like to spend the summer cooking on a ‘puffer’ boat just off the Scottish coast she jumps at the chance But she barely has time to get to grips with the galley before she finds herself with a lot on her plate Rebecca is heavily pregnant & is thrilled to have her friend on board doing most of the work Then there’s Emily’s competitive & jealous kitchen assistant who thinks she should be head-cook not Emily & there’s Alasdair the handsome local doctor who Emily is desperately trying not to notice Because if she falls in love with him as he appears to be falling for her will she ever want her old life back again? ...

Daisy's getting into double the trouble in this fantastic collection! Whether she's making lots of furry friends on her summer holiday in Spain or trying to win a coconut at the fair one thing's for sure
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