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Presents the theory and the methods of nonlinear optimization, with proofs illustrated by examples and figures. This book covers convex analysis, the theory of optimality conditions, duality theory, and numerical methods for solving unconstrained and constrained optimization problems. It is aimed at graduate students and researchers.

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This book offers a fundamental explanation of nonlinear oscillations in physical systems. Originally intended for electrical engineers, it remains an important reference for the increasing numbers of researchers studying nonlinear phenomena in physics, chemical engineering, biology, medicine, and other fields. Originally published in 1986. The Pr

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Presents a framework for stability and dissipativity analysis and control design for nonnegative and compartmental dynamical systems, which play a key role in various fields, such as engineering, thermal sciences, biology, ecology, economics, genetics, chemistry, medicine, and sociology. This title is suitable for control theorists and engineers.

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The authors, leading researchers in the fields of mathematical economics and methodology, present the first comprehensive synthesis of literature on qualitative and other nonparametric techniques, which are important elements of comparative statics and stability analysis in economic theory. The topics covered show how to assess the comparative stat

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Tailored to the needs of applied econometricians and social scientists, this work emphasizes nonparametric techniques suited to the rich array of data types - continuous, nominal, and ordinal - within one coherent framework. It also covers the various material necessary to understand and apply nonparametric methods for real-world problems.

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Tailored to the needs of applied econometricians and social scientists, this work emphasizes nonparametric techniques suited to the rich array of data types - continuous, nominal, and ordinal - within one coherent framework. It also covers the various material necessary to understand and apply nonparametric methods for real-world problems.

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Presents an English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. This title recalls Mircea Eliade's observation that 'most of the time [our] encounters and comparisons with non-Western cultures have not made all the 'strangeness' of these cultures evident.

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An exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. It guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. It helps readers gain fresh perspectives on canonical giants such as Soren Kierkegaard, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Edvard Munch, Knut Hamsun, and Ingmar Bergman.

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The Scandinavian countries today form a security-community for economic cooperation and the settlement of international controversy by peaceful methods rather than by war. This status was achieved not while Norway and Sweden were amalgamated in a political union from 1814 to 1905, but only after separation. In this book Dr. Lindgren analyzes some o

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Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response

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Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps" - places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans.

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Chronicles the life of one of the most remarkable musical minds of the American experience, the great nineteenth-century New Orleans-born composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk. This book recounts Gottschalk's experiences as he traveled and performed throughout the last decade of his life.

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These notes contain the first complete treatment of cobordism, a topic that has become increasingly important in the past ten years. The subject is fully developed and the latest theories are treated. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-pri

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Written by Arthur Ogus on the basis of notes from Pierre Berthelot's seminar on crystalline cohomology at Princeton University in the spring of 1974, this book constitutes an informal introduction to a significant branch of algebraic geometry. Specifically, it provides the basic tools used in the study of crystalline cohomology of algebraic varieti

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Two appendixes from Nabokov's famous edition of Eugene Onegin: his study of versification in English and Russian poetry, and his "term paper" on Pushkin's Ethiopian ancestor. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distingu

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A comprehensive English-language collection of verse by the most celebrated Slovenian poet of modern times and one of Europe's most notable postwar poets, Edvard Kocbek (1904-1981). The selections introduce the reader to the Kocbek's long and distinguished career.