The Little Goo-Roo: Lessons from Your Baby
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  • Wonderful!!
  • Delightful!!
The Little Goo-Roo: Lessons from Your Baby
Jan Kirschner , and Tracy Kirschner
Manufacturer: Atlas Press
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5 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!.......2005-08-28

This is a sweet, funny, and thought-provoking book that would be a wonderful gift for new parents or parents-to-be. The Little Goo-Roo is the kind of book attachment parents are always looking for. It has my highest recommendation!

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5 out of 5 stars Delightful!!.......2002-01-11

A very warm and delightful book to give as a gift, to remind us of life's lessons we never outgrow. Our teachers come in many forms and sometimes new parents need to be gently reminded of this. Our children 'raise' us too! An excellent suggestion for any gift regardless of the occassion.

The Battleship "Yamato" (Anatomy of the Ship)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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  • An excellent book of line drawings ! (010)
  • Painstakingly reverse-engineered drawings
The Battleship "Yamato" (Anatomy of the Ship)
Janusz Skulski
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This richly detailed tribute to the legendary Yamato is now back in print by popular demand. Equipped with the largest guns and heaviest armor and having the greatest displacement of any ship ever built, the Yamato proved to be a formidable opponent to the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. This classic in the Anatomy of the Ship series contains a full description of the design and construction of the battleship including wartime modifications, and a career history. This is followed by a substantial pictorial section with rare onboard views of Yamato and her sister ship, a comprehensive portfolio of more than 600 perspective and three-view drawings, and 30 photographs. Such a handsome and thorough work is guaranteed to impress modelmakers, ship enthusiasts, and naval historians.

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3 out of 5 stars As years goes by..........2007-10-05

the fascination for the biggest Engineering masterpieces remains.

Yamato was one of these masterpieces.

If you are an Engineer, probably you will be deceived. It missing lots of very interesting/important details. One of the reasons is no reliable info remains of this ship.

On the other hand, if you is a "typical curious guy/girl" you will find interesting info on the structure of this ship.

Anyway it an interesting book for a glance, not to include in your library as a comprehensive compendium on the subject :-) :-)

5 out of 5 stars Excellent reference book.......2007-06-13

Fills a void in reference material on the Yamato.

5 out of 5 stars The definitive work.......2007-05-12

For those interested in warships in general, this is a fascinating pictorial of one of the premier capital ships of WWII. For scholars of YAMATO, and particularly those who want to model her, it is simply imperative that you own it. In fact, it is impossible to build a highly detailed model of this ship without this book - don't try to without it.

5 out of 5 stars An excellent book of line drawings ! (010).......2006-06-22

Unlike most books on warships, which tend to focus on areas such as it's service history and technical specifications, which this book does cover, here is a fantastic collection of line drawings. I have several books featuring comprehensive line drawings of aircraft, but I had never seen such a book dedicated to a ship before. The author, a Polish modelmaker by the name of Janusz Skulski, has produced a book of such depth it will astound you. The 3-view plans are accompanied by great descriptive keys, and range from the entire hull and superstructure, liteally right down to individual nuts and bolts. The technical specifications are detailed and the photos, while necessarily brief because hardly any were ever taken of the Yamato, are very imformative. I can not stress enough how impressed I was with the level of detail, it was like looking at the original blueprints!

A top read!

4 out of 5 stars Painstakingly reverse-engineered drawings.......2004-07-30

The Anatomy series will be very familiar with naval history enthusiasts. What makes this special is that all drawings and pictures of these huge ships were ordered destroyed just before the Japanese surrender. Thus the pictorial section is understandably a little briefer than usual, while the drawings section contains many that were painstakingly reverse engineered from the study of photos.

In summary, a notch below the Anatomy of the Dreadnought, but a super effort given the lack of source materials.
Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Bluejacket Books)
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Bluejacket Books)
Yoshida Mitsuru , Richard H. Minear , and Mitsuru Yoshida
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato is Yoshida Mitsuru's story of his own experience as a junior naval officer aboard the fabled Japanese battleship as it set out on a last, desperate sortie in April 1945. Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato's fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war.

The book has long been considered a classic in both Japan and the United States. As with most great battle stories, its ultimate concern is less bombs and bullets than human nature, less death than life. This sensitive translation by Richard Minear is totally faithful to Yoshida's original prose, its language vigorous and idiomatic yet poetic in nature. An informative introduction puts the work in historical and political context and discusses Yoshida's postwar search for the meaning of peace.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars poet in uniform.......2006-10-30

young, naive and inexperienced the author chronicles his one and only combat mission. relating his service on the japanese battleship 'yamato' author mitsuru gives perspective not only on what he does but on what he feels. fortunately for the reader mitsuru is an articulate writer who has had the opportunity to rewrite his recollections numerous times over the years before settling on this 'definitive' edition. the book runs as a subtle parallel of stories between the events happening around the author during war and what he thinks and feels as he faces his own mortality. an excellent perspective of man in conflict.
also worth noting is the outstanding translation and introduction by richard minear.

4 out of 5 stars The title should be requiem for the sailors of the Yamato.......2006-02-01

This book is not for readers searching for details of battle, or apologies for participating in the miltary adventure against the US. Yoshida Mitsuru was an unlikely survivor of a suicide mission.

Some of the reviewers have found this book morbid, and focused on death. Mitsuru attempts to describe his feelings and unaswered question that haunted him for the rest of his life. Why was he saved, when so many other died? Was there a purpose to his life, and the life of his dead shipmates. These are questions that all men ask to some extent, but for those caught in a war, life and death are close and constant companions.

The normal thoughts of young men towards life and the future are put aside as their ship plows forward on a suicide mission.

Do not buy or read this book if you are not prepared to think about the personal cost of war. Some have described this as an anti-war book. I do not believe that is a correct description. This book is written by someone whose education and social standing required him to enter the Navy, and go to war. I view this work as a refection of an eyewitness and wounded survivor. Such an experience at such a young age makes one an expert on the war experience, not the root causes of war or their justifications.

Most men who shared Mitsuru's experience do not write, or even disuss their experiences. For some, just the thoughts of their experience is unbearable and the reason some end their days in mental hospitals.

When Mitsuru wrote the first draft of this book, it fell under the authority and censorship of the American Occupation, which did not approve of the text.

Which brings up the question not posed directly by this book. What "truths" were censored during the official investigations surrounding Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, and other matters that impacted on the ledgends and careers of Americans of that time?

5 out of 5 stars A Sailor Remembers.......2004-04-06

"Ours is the signal honor of being the nation's bulwark. One day we must prove ourselves worthy."

Requiem for Battleship Yamato is about sacrifice-immolation on the altar of national survival. It was written not to needlessly lionize the wanton sacrifice of combatants in order to bring to an end what one historian called "a war to establish and revive the stature of man." Instead, it was written, and properly so, as catharsis: Yoshida Mitsuru, as a 20-year old ensign on the bridge of the Yamato during its final voyage, had witnessed War, and thus wished that future generations would no longer be called upon to "prove themselves worthy," and to bear the burden of armed conflict.

Yoshida's prose satisfactorily captures the spirit on board the Yamato prior to its climactic encounter. Yet there is no way to adequately describe what the men of the Yamato went through during the ship's final hours. One author called it "a glorious way to die." Alternatively, the battle could be described as a nautical siege, a maritime battle of Troy. There is no apotheosis in death; death is merely a release from duty. During the battle, one man struggles to keep the deck clean by throwing overboard limbs severed by bomb shrapnel or machine-gun fire. Below decks, men grapple with the bodies of their comrades; once-inviting hot tubs (the Yamato has several of them, we are told) are filled to the brim with the ranks of the dead. In the bridge, officers are mowed down by machine-gun bullets. There is no sanctuary aboard the most massive dreadnought ever constructed.

This is a highly readable book, redolent with poignant memories, written by a man who had the courage to confront his phantoms. Through Yoshida's book, many souls who fought during the Pacific War found a voice.

"Three thousand corpses, still entombed today. What were their thoughts as they died?"

5 out of 5 stars A true classic.......2004-03-15

Although perhaps unsurprising given the scale of Japan's losses and the bitterness of defeat, the fact remains that there are relatively few accounts of the war by those who fought with the Imperial Forces, and even fewer available in English.

For this reason alone `Requiem for Battleship Yamato' would command attention even if it were only an average work. But it is not an average work; it is a classic in the truest sense of this much abused word, which must be placed alongside books such as `The Last Enemy' by Richard Hillary.

Written in a spare, almost poetic style, `Requiem' tells the story of the Yamato's last doomed sortie from the viewpoint of one of her junior officers. Alongside glimpses of life on board the great battleship, we gain an insight into the thoughts and personal lives of her crew as they prepare for what most realise will be a mission from which there will be no return.

As the tension mounts and enemy forces close in for the inevitable kill, Yoshida provides a moving commentary on the Yamato's last days and hours, with poignant vignettes of such figures as the force commander Vice Admiral Ito, who had correctly appreciated the futility of the mission yet carried out his task with calm resolution.

With the Yamato entering her final death agony, Yoshida gives us harrowing descriptions of the effects of explosives and steel on human flesh - a timely reminder in this age of glossy propaganda of the true face of battle. Then there is the homecoming, with Yoshida's personal struggle to come to terms with the meaning of his survival while so many of his comrades are dead.

No review of this book would be complete without acknowledging the outstanding work of its translator, Richard Minear, who has also provided an excellent introduction. Thanks to his efforts, this work will not only be read with profit by the military historian, but anyone who seeks to broaden his understanding of the human condition.

5 out of 5 stars High Tragedy and Futility in the Pacific...........2003-07-19

In the 1950's and 60's, Japanese memoirs of the Pacific War flooded forth from the publishers. Saburo Sakai's "Samurai", Hara's "Japanese Destroyer Captain," Mochitsura Hashimoto's "Sunk!" are just the tip of the spear. But Yoshida's "Requiem for Battleship Yamato" is simply in a class by itself. The youngest officer on board the mighty battleship, he was present when the giant was ordered on her suicide sortie. Escorted by the anti-aircraft cruiser Yahagi and numerous destroyers in April 1945, Yamato's mission was sublimely ridiculous: sail down toward the Ryuku Islands (where a massive American task force was staging the invasion of Okinawa), attack the landing force, beach itself, expend all weapons and ammunition, then the surviving crew members would join the garrison in Okinawa's defense. It was no surprise that the force didn't even make it halfway before being annihilated by U.S. planes. Yoshida's book is poetic and is beautifully translated by Richard Minnear who also provides a superb introduction as well. Yoshida's account of the American air attacks which inevitably shattered the Yamato, the Yahagi and most of the escorting destroyers come off as not combat, but high slaughter. Veterans who survived idiotic orders and suicide charges will find a spiritual brother in Yoshida. Don't be surprised if you have a tear in your eye for the brave crews of these ships as you close this book for the last time.

Written as a tribute to his shipmates, "Requiem" is also a powerful anti-war book.
A Glorious Way To Die, The Kamikazie Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • An incredible end to an incredible ship.
A Glorious Way To Die, The Kamikazie Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945
Russell Spurr
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JJFWNM

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5 out of 5 stars An incredible end to an incredible ship........2007-05-05

HIJMS Yamato was - and will now forever be, the largest Battleship ever built. It will also forever remain a supreme curiosity that Japan - the one country which had the foresight to recognise how air power and aircraft carriers were the sea-going naval might of the future, should insist on building 2 Yamato class Battleships when their construction almost bankrupted the nation to the extent that their building even deprived the country's fishermen of their nets.

Nevertheless this magnificent vessel of death, doom and destruction went into service at a time when the Imperial Japanese Navy could do no wrong. Prior to WW2 Japan broke the terms of the peace treaties by preparing for their eventual complete domination of the Pacific region. The building of Truk Lagoon being one example. Then, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour those plans were put into effect with devastating results. In June 1942, however, they failed to take Midway Atoll and from then on it was all downhill. Three years later, the largest Battleship ever to have been built was sent on a final mission from which she never returned.

In "A Glorious Way to Die" Russell Spurr gives an account of this great ship from beginning to tragic end. It is a complete account - as befits one of the world's greatest ships.

Perhaps the Yamato will prove to be the last great ship to be discovered by the great Bob Ballard.

NM.

A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Every little detail about the Yamato's loss
  • Made-up names
  • An incredible end to an incredible ship.
  • It's as if you were really there- watching & listening
  • Glorious reading
A Glorious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945
Russell Spurr
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5 out of 5 stars Every little detail about the Yamato's loss.......2006-03-07

This is a wonderful book which reconstructs the last mission of the super-battleship Yamato with great clarity and attention to detail. Spurr has also devoted many pages to the collateral action taking place after the US landigs on Okinawa, like the kamikaze strikes against the US naval armada and the futile trials of Japanese submarines to hit the invaders. The air strikes against the Yamato and its group of accompanying ships are perfectly explained along with details of all the possible hits attained against the battleship. The author interviewed many Yamato survivors and these men revealed also some annoying piece of information: after the battleship's demise, US fliers made low firing passes against the Japanese survivors, a nasty gesture surely for a gallant foe. I really enjoyed the chapter where Spurr presents admiral Mitscher's tactical dilemma and the way he chose to solve it. A very nice book about a forgotten episode of the Pacific War.

1 out of 5 stars Made-up names.......2005-09-01

In the passage describing the part played by Torpedo Squadron 84 the attack on the Yamato contains egregious errors in the names of 12 of the 14 pilots of VT-84. The only two that are correct are squadron skipper, Lt.Cdr. Chandler Swanson, and Lt.jg Richard Walsh. This leads me to question the validity of other portions of the account that may be made up. My name is Dewey Ray. An Owen Ray appears in Russell Spurr's account . I was one of the pilots on the attack. There was no Owen Ray in our squadron and the names of the other pilots on the attack are similarly mangled or completely ficticious.

5 out of 5 stars An incredible end to an incredible ship........2004-11-26

HIJMS Yamato was - and will now forever be, the largest Battleship ever built. It will also forever remain a supreme curiosity that Japan - the one country which had the foresight to recognise how air power and aircraft carriers were the sea-going naval might of the future, should insist on building 2 Yamato class Battleships when their construction almost bankrupted the nation to the extent that their building even deprived the country's fishermen of their nets.

Nevertheless this magnificent vessel of death, doom and destruction went into service at a time when the Imperial Japanese Navy could do no wrong. Prior to WW2 Japan broke the terms of the peace treaties by preparing for their eventual complete domination of the Pacific region. The building of Truk Lagoon being one example. Then, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour those plans were put into effect with devastating results. In June 1942, however, they failed to take Midway Atoll and from then on it was all downhill. Three years later, the largest Battleship ever to have been built was sent on a final mission from which she never returned.

In "A Glorious Way to Die" Russell Spurr gives an account of this great ship from beginning to tragic end. It is a complete account - as befits one of the world's greatest ships.

Perhaps the Yamato will prove to be the last great ship to be discovered by the great Bob Ballard.

NM.

5 out of 5 stars It's as if you were really there- watching & listening.......2003-06-20

I purchased this book to obtain background info while researching information for my family tree. This book is a *gem*! It is easy-to-read, even for non-history and non-military interested people. It gives the reader an inside look into the decisions/actions that took place from both sides of the battle day-by-day and reads like a novel. Highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars Glorious reading.......2002-05-29

Excellant book on the final days of Japan's fleet. Also gives great sumary of key WWII events.
Battleships of World War II: An illustrated history and country-by-country directory of warships, including battlecruisers and pocket battleships, that ... Jersey, Iowa, Bismarck, Yamato, Richelieu
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    A Curious Way to Die: The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945
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      A Glorious Way to Die
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • An incredible end to an incredible ship.
      A Glorious Way to Die
      Russell Spurr
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      5 out of 5 stars An incredible end to an incredible ship........2004-11-26

      HIJMS Yamato was - and will now forever be, the largest Battleship ever built. It will also forever remain a supreme curiosity that Japan - the one country which had the foresight to recognise how air power and aircraft carriers were the sea-going naval might of the future, should insist on building 2 Yamato class Battleships when their construction almost bankrupted the nation to the extent that their building even deprived the country's fishermen of their nets.

      Nevertheless this magnificent vessel of death, doom and destruction went into service at a time when the Imperial Japanese Navy could do no wrong. Prior to WW2 Japan broke the terms of the peace treaties by preparing for their eventual complete domination of the Pacific region. The building of Truk Lagoon being one example. Then, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour those plans were put into effect with devastating results. In June 1942, however, they failed to take Midway Atoll and from then on it was all downhill. Three years later, the largest Battleship ever to have been built was sent on a final mission from which she never returned.

      In "A Glorious Way to Die" Russell Spurr gives an account of this great ship from beginning to tragic end. It is a complete account - as befits one of the world's greatest ships.

      Perhaps the Yamato will prove to be the last great ship to be discovered by the great Bob Ballard.

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      A Glorious Way To Die (The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945)
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      • An incredible end to an incredible ship.
      A Glorious Way To Die (The Kamikaze Mission of the Battleship Yamato, April 1945)
      Russell Spurr
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      5 out of 5 stars An incredible end to an incredible ship........2007-05-05

      HIJMS Yamato was - and will now forever be, the largest Battleship ever built. It will also forever remain a supreme curiosity that Japan - the one country which had the foresight to recognise how air power and aircraft carriers were the sea-going naval might of the future, should insist on building 2 Yamato class Battleships when their construction almost bankrupted the nation to the extent that their building even deprived the country's fishermen of their nets.

      Nevertheless this magnificent vessel of death, doom and destruction went into service at a time when the Imperial Japanese Navy could do no wrong. Prior to WW2 Japan broke the terms of the peace treaties by preparing for their eventual complete domination of the Pacific region. The building of Truk Lagoon being one example. Then, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour those plans were put into effect with devastating results. In June 1942, however, they failed to take Midway Atoll and from then on it was all downhill. Three years later, the largest Battleship ever to have been built was sent on a final mission from which she never returned.

      In "A Glorious Way to Die" Russell Spurr gives an account of this great ship from beginning to tragic end. It is a complete account - as befits one of the world's greatest ships.

      Perhaps the Yamato will prove to be the last great ship to be discovered by the great Bob Ballard.

      NM.


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            Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Stoler shows that matters of the intimate were absolutely central to imperial politics. It was, after all, in the intimate sphere of home and servants that European children learned what they were required to learn of place and race. Gender-specific sexual sanctions, too, were squarely at the heart of imperial rule, and European supremacy was asserted in terms of national and racial virility.
            Stoler looks discerningly at the way cultural competencies and sensibilities entered into the construction of race in the colonial context and proposes that "cultural racism" in fact predates its postmodern discovery. Her acute analysis of colonial Indonesian society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries yields insights that translate to a global, comparative perspective.
            Intimate Relations: World Archaeology (World Archaeology , Vol 29, No 3)
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              Intimate Relations: World Archaeology (World Archaeology , Vol 29, No 3)
              Y. Marshall
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              This groundbreaking issue of World Archaeology explores the invisible bonds that constitute a society--including familial, sexual, spiritual, community-based and work-based relationships that have left their traces in archaeological records in North America, Greece, El Salvador, Japan, Egypt, Cameroon and other places around the globe.

              Selected contents: Intimate relations with the past: the story of an Athapaskan village on the southern Northwest Coast of North America; Witchcraft, gender, power and intimate relations in Mura compounds in Dela, northern Cameroon; Intimate archaeologies: the case of Kha and Merit; Women, children and the family in the late Aegean Bronze Age: differences in Minoan and Mycenaean constructions of gender; Intimate sexual relations in prehistory: lessons from the Japanese macaques and more.

              INTIMATE RELATIONS. World Archaeology , Vol. 29, No. 3
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                INTIMATE RELATIONS. World Archaeology , Vol. 29, No. 3
                Yvonne (editor). Marshall
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                Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Physics
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                  Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Physics
                  Robert H. Wasserman
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                  ASIN: 0198510594

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                  This book is a new edition of "Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Mechanics and Relativity" which was published in 1992. It is based on courses taken by advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in mathematics and physics, giving an introduction to the expanse of modern mathematics and its application in modern physics. It aims to fill the gap between the basic courses and the highly technical and specialised courses which both mathematics and physics students require in their advanced training, while simultaneously trying to promote, at an early stage, a better appreciation and understanding of each other's discipline. The book sets forth the basic principles of tensors and manifolds, describing how the mathematics underlies elegant geometrical models of classical mechanics, relativity and elementary particle physics. The existing material from the first edition has been reworked and extended in some sections to provide extra clarity, as well as additional problems. Four new chapters on Lie groups and fibre bundles have been included, leading to an exposition of gauge theory and the standard model of elementary particle physics. Mathematical rigour combined with an informal style makes this a very accessible book and will provide the reader with an enjoyable panorama of interesting mathematics and physics.
                  Tensor And Vector Analysis
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                  Tensor And Vector Analysis
                  A. Fomenko
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                  Reflecting the significant contributions of Russian mathematicians to the field, this book contains a selection of papers on tensor and vector analysis. It is divided into three parts, covering Hamiltonian systems, Riemannian geometry and calculus of variations, and topology. The range of applications of these topics is very broad, as many modern geometrical problems recur across a wide range of fields, including mechanics and physics as well as mathematics. Many of the approaches to problems presented in this volume will be novel to the Western reader, although questions are of global interest. The main achievements of the Russian school are placed in the context of the development of each individual subject.

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                  4 out of 5 stars Gives Russian mathematicians their due.......2004-04-17

                  Tensor and vector analysis in a Euclidean space gives very elegant and powerful tools for the study of physical systems. Most of the papers in this book will be of interest to physicists. The emphasis is not so much on pure mathematics, but on studying real problems in physics. Quite possibly, engineers dealing in control systems theory and complex dynamical systems may also benefit from some papers.

                  The book is useful at a graduate and postgraduate level, in bringing forth ideas that go well beyond the standard graduate texts on this subject.

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