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Selected Works of Ya. B. Zeldovich is a two-volume collection of over 100 articles spanning half a century of work by the late Soviet scientist Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich. The breadth and depth of Zeldovich's work is staggering. Author of over twenty books and more than 500 scientific articles, he made fundamental contributions in chemical catalysi

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Focuses on selection theorems that are related to the axiom of choice, particularly selectors of small Borel or Baire classes. This text constructs selectors obtained as limits of functions that are constant on the sets of certain partitions of metric spaces. It is aimed at students and researchers who wish to expand their knowledge of selectors.

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Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans (Princeton, 1982). Using patterns in Byron's canon as models, he focuses on the relations of self-making and text-making as a central Romantic issue. For Byron and many of his contemporaries, putting a

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Self-deception raises questions about the nature of belief and the structure of the human mind. This book takes the issue with commonplace attempts to equate the processes of self-deception with those of stereotypical interpersonal deception.

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In their struggle for self-determination the newly independent countries of the Third World are reestablishing links with their precolonial pasts and determining their present identities and future possibilities. To demonstrate this, David Gordon brings together, interprets, and synthesizes the thought of contemporary Arab historiographers. Origin

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Cultures around the world have regarded self-fulfillment as the ultimate goal of human striving and as the fundamental test of the goodness of a human life. The ideal has also been criticized, however, as egotistical and value-neutral. This book seeks to overcome these and other arguments.

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To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the current preoccupation with the nature of writing. Professor Laden joins a more philosophical probing of the nature of the self. At issue is how language serves the self and whether its role is one of presentation, representation, or generation. The author argues that the self in the wo

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A primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and other enthusiasts, this book introduces readers to the basic concepts and tools for studying self-organization and then examines numerous examples of self-organization in the natural world.

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Deals with the usefulness of tools from statistical physics in ecology. This book provides an introduction to complex systems theory, and asks whether universal laws shape the structure of ecosystems. Tackling classic ecological questions, its presentation of theories and data focuses on the power of statistical physics and complexity in ecology.

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Contrary to what news reports might suggest, the majority of politicians behave ethically and are never subject to investigations. This title argues that members of Congress behave ethnically not because of the fear of punishment but because of their concern for their reputations. It draws parallels between politicians and businesses.

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Presents a framework for the theory of primal-dual IPMs based on the notion of the self-regularity of a function. This book deals with linear optimization, nonlinear complementarity problems, semidefinite optimization, and second-order conic optimization problems.

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The modeling of stochastic dependence is fundamental for understanding random systems evolving in time. With an historical overview, this book describes the state of knowledge about selfsimilar processes and their applications. It emphasizes concepts, definitions and basic properties, giving the reader a road map of the realm of selfsimilarity.

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Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Wall Street is supposed to be a citadel of pure economics, paying

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Represents the asymptotic analysis, via completely integrable techniques, of the initial value problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the semiclassical asymptotic regime. This book exploits complete integrability to establish pointwise asymptotics for this problem's solution in the semiclassical regime.