Vectors & tensors are among the most powerful problem-solving tools available with applications ranging from mechanics & electromagnetics to general relativity Understanding the nature & application of vectors & tensors is critically important to students of physics & engineering Adopting the same approach used in his highly popular A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations Fleisch explains vectors & tensors in plain language Written for undergraduate & beginning graduate students the book provides a thorough grounding in vectors & vector calculus before transitioning through contra & covariant components to tensors & their applications Matrices & their algebra are reviewed on the book's supporting website which also features interactive solutions to every problem in the text where students can work through a series of hints or choose to see the entire solution at once Audio podcasts give students the opportunity to hear important concepts in the book explained by the author ...

This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors' previous work The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002) The analyses defended there are outlined here more briefly in an engagingly accessible & informal style Errors of the older tradition of English grammar are noted & corrected & the excesses of prescriptive usage manuals are firmly rebutted in specially highlighted notes that explain what older authorities have called 'incorrect' & show why those authorities are mistaken This book is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar & presupposes no linguistics It contains exercises & will provide a basis for introductions to grammar & courses on the structure of English not only in linguistics departments but also in English language & literature departments & schools of education ...

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 ...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies & Doctor Watson Mr Sherlock Holmes&
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Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life & our duty is to unravel it After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan Dr Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy ill-omened' house with the word rache'
- German for revenge
- written in blood on the wall This grisly discovery is complicated further by the look of utter horror on the victim's face & the complete absence of any wounds on the body or sign of a struggle First published in 1887 A Study in Scarlet' is the remarkable first-outing of one of literature's most famous partnerships

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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
- perhaps even the book to restore the serious reading public's faith in the contemporary novel You should make time for it It will keep you company for the rest of your life' Daniel Johnson The Times


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