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Theory of Solidification
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 157.00This book presents in a systematic way the field of continuum solidification theory based on instability phenomena. An understanding of the physics is developed by using examples of increasing complexity with the object of creating a deep physical insight applicable to more complex problems. Applied mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and materials... more...
Simulating Hamiltonian Dynamics
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 81.00Geometric integrators are timestepping methods, designed to exactly satisfy properties inherent in a system of differential equations. Beginning from basic principles of geometric integration and a discussion of the advantageous properties of such schemes, the book introduces a variety of methods and applications. Includes examples and excercises. more...
Matrix Preconditioning Techniques and Applications
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 138.00Very much a users-guide, this book provides insight to the use of preconditioning techniques in areas such as acoustic wave scattering, image restoration and bifurcation problems from electrical power stations. Supporting MATLAB files are available via the Web to assist and develop readers' understanding, and provide stimulus for further study. more...
A First Course in Combinatorial Optimization
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00This text for a one-semester introductory graduate course for students of operations research, mathematics, and computer science covers linear and integer programming, polytopes, matroids and matroid optimization, shortest paths, and network flows. The author focuses on the key mathematical ideas that lead to useful models and algorithms. more...
Practical Applied Mathematics
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 68.00Used either by upper-undergraduate students, or as extra reading for any applied mathematician, this book illustrates how the reader's knowledge can be used to describe the world around them. Topics include distributions, asymptotic methods and the basics of modelling. Applications range from piano tuning to egg incubation and traffic flow. more...
Supernatural Youth
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 69.99Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantastic media, adventure stories, cinema, and television aimed at youth. The goal of this volume is to analyze the ways in which young heroic protagonists are presented in such popular literary and visual texts.... more...
Societies in Eclipse
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 31.50While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse , archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography, and oral tradition to examine the cultural... more...
Histories of Southeastern Archaeology
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 32.95This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades. Histories of Southeastern Archaeology originated as a symposium at the 1999 Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) organized in honor of the retirement... more...
The Politically Correct University
AEI Press 2009; US$ 24.99The Politically Correct University shows how the universities' quest for 'diversity' has produced in too many departments a stifling uniformity of thought. Required reading for those who want American universities to eschew political correctness." ? Michael Barone, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute more...
Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?
Crossway 2012; US$ 27.99This timely collection of scholarly essays equips Christians to defend the key doctrine of inerrancy against the skeptical attitudes of culture and the academy toward the Bible’s historical claims. more...









