Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: Together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka 10 Volume Set

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This monumental ten-volume series, the first volume of which was published in 1996, and includes new information about long-range migration and taxonomic changes, along with the existing life history information, accounts of behaviour, ecology, distribution and migration records of practically every species found on the Indian subcontinent.

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The Bible of Birds in South Asia.......2007-09-21

A must-have for anyone serious about birds in India. A monumental effort the likes of which only Ali, Ripley and TJ were capable of.

Get one, it's the ultimate reference guide.

Goes without saying this is not a field guide, for that I'd recommend Grimett, Inskip, Inskipp's guide to the birds of India.Pocket Guide to Birds of the Indian Subcontinent

Excellent Book from The Bombay Natural History Society.......2004-08-03

This is an excellent book from the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and published by the OUP. It is a book that gives the complete list of all the different species and sub-species with the modern geographical and geo-geographical boundaries. A must for any bird watcher, amatuer or prefessional, student or researcher, bird lover and traveller to the great Indian Sub-continent.

This book shall be a great value addition when read with other great titles and publications of the BNHS

Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: Volume 10: Together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka (Handbook of the Birds of India & Pakistan)

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Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: Volume 10: Together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka (Handbook of the Birds of India & Pakistan)
Salim Ali , S. Dillon Ripley , and T. J. Roberts
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195637089

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Over the years, the Handbook has established itself as the most comprehensive and reliable reference work on the birds of the Indian subcontinent. Volume 10, first published in 1974, has been thoroughly revised for this second edition, with new plates by distinguished bird artist John Henry
Dick. This revision incorporates the latest information on distribution and introduces several new and recently amalgamated species.

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In this insightful book, which is a revisionist math history as well as a revisionist art history, Tony Robbin, well known for his innovative computer visualizations of hyperspace, investigates different models of the fourth dimension and how these are applied in art and physics. Robbin explores the distinction between the slicing, or Flatland, model and the projection, or shadow, model. He compares the history of these two models and their uses and misuses in popular discussions. Robbin breaks new ground with his original argument that Picasso used the projection model to invent cubism, and that Minkowski had four-dimensional projective geometry in mind when he structured special relativity. The discussion is brought to the present with an exposition of the projection model in the most creative ideas about space in contemporary mathematics such as twisters, quasicrystals, and quantum topology. Robbin clarifies these esoteric concepts with understandable drawings and diagrams.
Robbin proposes that the powerful role of projective geometry in the development of current mathematical ideas has been long overlooked and that our attachment to the slicing model is essentially a conceptual block that hinders progress in understanding contemporary models of spacetime. He offers a fascinating review of how projective ideas are the source of some of today’s most exciting developments in art, math, physics, and computer visualization.

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A wonderful introduction to the projective approach in math and art.......2006-03-07

An innovative thinker and a gifted artist, Tony Robbin filters the world of mathematics through the nuances of human vision, creating masterful representations of higher dimensions. His new book stands as a testament to his meticulous scholarship of the history of projective geometry, in mathematics, physics and art. It is a thoroughly enjoyable account of how the notion of finding shadows of the fourth dimension emerged in the 19th century, permeated modern art in the 20th, and now represents one of the frontiers of computer graphics in the 21st. Along the way, Robbin shows how projective geometry could provide the key to a quantum description of gravity. A must read, for the curious anecdotes, cutting-edge science, impressive array of references, colorful art, and insight into how we can perceive the seemingly imperceptible.

Geometry, Topology and Quantization (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Geometry, Topology and Quantization (Mathematics and Its Applications)
P. Bandyopadhyay
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This monograph deals with the geometrical and topological aspects associated with the quantization procedure, and it is shown how these features are manifested in anomaly and Berry Phase. This book is unique in its emphasis on the topological aspects of a fermion which arise as a consequence of the quantization procedure. Also, an overview of quantization procedures is presented, tracing the equivalence of these methods by noting that the gauge field plays a significant role in all these procedures, as it contains the ingredients of topological features.
Audience: This book will be of value to research workers and specialists in mathematical physics, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, particle physics and differential geometry.

Quantum-Classical Correspondence: Dynamical Quantization and the Classical Limit (The Frontiers Collection)

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Quantum-Classical Correspondence: Dynamical Quantization and the Classical Limit (The Frontiers Collection)
A.O. Bolivar
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ASIN: 3540201467

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At what level of physical existence does "quantum behavior" begin? How does it develop from classical mechanics? This book addresses these questions and thereby sheds light on fundamental conceptual problems of quantum mechanics. Quantum-Classical Correspondence elucidates the problem by developing a procedure for quantizing stochastic systems (e.g. Brownian systems) described by Fokker-Planck equations. The logical consistency of the scheme is then verified by taking the classical limit of the equations of motion and corresponding physical quantities. Perhaps equally important, conceptual problems concerning the relationship between classical and quantum physics are identified and discussed. Physical scientists will find this an accessible entrée to an intriguing and thorny issue at the core of modern physics.

Quantum Geometry: A Statistical Field Theory Approach (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

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Quantum Geometry: A Statistical Field Theory Approach (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
Jan Ambjørn , Bergfinnur Durhuus , and Thordur Jonsson
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 052101736X

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This graduate level text describes in a unified fashion the statistical mechanics of random walks, random surfaces and random higher dimensional manifolds with an emphasis on the geometrical aspects of the theory and applications to the quantization of strings, gravity and topological field theory. With chapters on random walks, random surfaces, two-and higher-dimensional quantum gravity, topological quantum field theories and Monte Carlo simulations of random geometries, the text provides a self-contained account of quantum geometry from a statistical field theory point of view. The approach uses discrete approximations and develops analytical and numerical tools. Continuum physics is recovered through scaling limits at phase transition points and the relation to conformal quantum field theories coupled to quantum gravity is described. The most important numerical work is covered, but the main aim is to develop mathematically precise results that have wide applications. Many diagrams and references are included.

Maslov Classes, Metaplectic Representation and Lagrangian Quantization (Mathematical Research Vol. 5)

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Maslov Classes, Metaplectic Representation and Lagrangian Quantization (Mathematical Research Vol. 5)
Maurice de Gosson
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ASIN: 3527400877

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The Maslov Classes have been playing an essential role in various parts of applied and pure mathematics, and physics, since the early 70's. Their correct definition is due to V. I. Arnold and J. Leray, in the transversal case, and to P. Dazord and the author in the general case. The aim of this book is to give a thorough treatment of the theory of the Maslov classes and of their relationship with the metaplectic group. It is (among other things) shown that these classes can be reconstructed, modulo 4, using only the analytic properties of the metaplectic group. In the last chapter the author sketches a scheme for geometric quantization by introducing two new concepts, that of metaplectic half-form and that of Lagrangian catalogue, the latter generalizes and simplifies the notion of "Lagrangian function" introduced by J. Leray. A Lagrangian catalogue is a collection of metaplectic half-forms which are themselves "cohomological wave functions", whose definition is made possible by using the combinatorial properties of the Maslov classes. The transformation of Lagrangian catalogues under the metaplectic group and of Hamiltonian flows is studied, and it is shown that one thus recovers very easily the so-called "quasi-classical approximation" to the solutions of Schrödinger equation if one introduces a natural concept, that of projection of a Lagrangian catalogue. An application to geometric phase shifts, including Berry's phase, is given.

Bilinear Integrable Systems: from Classical to Quantum, Continuous to Discrete: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Bilinear Integrable ... II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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Bilinear Integrable Systems: from Classical to Quantum, Continuous to Discrete: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Bilinear Integrable ... II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry)

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The Breadth of Symplectic and Poisson Geometry: Festschrift in Honor of Alan Weinstein (Progress in Mathematics)

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The Breadth of Symplectic and Poisson Geometry: Festschrift in Honor of Alan Weinstein (Progress in Mathematics)

Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Boston
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ASIN: 0817635653

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One of the world’s foremost geometers, Alan Weinstein has made deep contributions to symplectic and differential geometry, Lie theory, mechanics, and related fields. Written in his honor, the invited papers in this volume reflect the active and vibrant research in these areas and are a tribute to Weinstein’s ongoing influence.

The well-recognized contributors to this text cover a broad range of topics: Induction and reduction for systems with symmetry, symplectic geometry and topology, geometric quantization, the Weinstein Conjecture, Poisson algebra and geometry, Dirac structures, deformations for Lie group actions, Kähler geometry of moduli spaces, theory and applications of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics and dynamics, symplectic and Poisson groupoids, and quantum representations.

Intended for graduate students and working mathematicians in symplectic and Poisson geometry as well as mechanics, this text is a distillation of prominent research and an indication of the future trends and directions in geometry, mechanics, and mathematical physics.

Contributors: H. Bursztyn, M. Cahen, M. Crainic, J. J. Duistermaat, K. Ehlers, S. Evens, V. L. Ginzburg, A. B. Givental, S. Gutt, D. D. Holm, J. Huebschmann, L. Jeffrey, F. Kirwan, M. Kogan, J. Koiller, Y. Kosmann-Schwarzbach, B. Kostant, C. Laurent-Gengoux, J-H. Lu, J. E. Marsden, K. C. H. Mackenzie, Y. Maeda, C-M. Marle, T. E. Milanov, N. Miyazaki, R. Montgomery, Y-G. Oh, J-P. Ortega, H. Omori, T. S. Ratiu, P. M. Rios, L. Schwachhöfer, J. Stasheff, I. Vaisman, A. Yoshioka, P. Xu, and S. Zelditch.

Coherent Transform, Quantization, & Poisson Geometry (American Mathematical Society Translations Series 2)

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Coherent Transform, Quantization, & Poisson Geometry (American Mathematical Society Translations Series 2)

Manufacturer: American Mathematical Society
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This volume contains three extensive articles written by Karasev and his pupils. Topics covered include the following: coherent states and irreducible representations for algebras with non-Lie permutation relations, Hamilton dynamics and quantization over stable isotropic submanifolds, and infinitesimal tensor complexes over degenerate symplectic leaves in Poisson manifolds. The articles contain many examples (including from physics) and complete proofs.

Deformation Quantization: Proceedings of the Meeting Between Mathematicians and Theoretical Physicists, Institut De Recherche Mathematiques Avancee d (Irma-Lecture ... in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 1)

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Deformation Quantization: Proceedings of the Meeting Between Mathematicians and Theoretical Physicists, Institut De Recherche Mathematiques Avancee d (Irma-Lecture ... in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 1)

Manufacturer: Walter de Gruyter
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ASIN: 311017247X

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This book contains eleven refereed research papers on deformation quantization by leading experts in the respective fields. These contributions are based on talks presented on the occasion of the meeting between mathematicians and theoretical physicists held in Strasbourg in May 2001.

Topics covered are: star-products over Poisson manifolds, quantization of Hopf algebras, index theorems, globalization and cohomological problems. Both the mathematical and the physical approach ranging from asymptotic quantum electrodynamics to operads and prop theory will be presented. Historical remarks and surveys set the results presented in perspective.

Directed at research mathematicians and theoretical physicists as well as graduate students, the volume will give an overview of a field of research that has seen enourmous acticity in the last years, with new ties to many other areas of mathematics and physics.

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Gilles Halbout: Deformation quantization, methods and applications to open problems · Giuseppe Dito and Daniel Sternheimer: Deformation quantization: genisis and metamorphoses · Giuseppe Dito: Asymptotic quantum electrodynamics · Boris Fedosov: On the trace density in deformation quantization · Daniel Arnaudon, Jean Avan, Luc Frappat and Eric Ragoucy: Deformed double Yangians and quasi-Hopf algebras · Stefan Waldmann: On the representation theory of deformation quantization · Claude Roger: Unimodular fields and deformation quantization · Christian Frønsdal: Harrison cohomology and abelian deformation quantization on algebraic varieties · Louis Boutet de Monvel: Related semi-classical and Toeplitz algebras · Alberto S. Cattaneo, Giovani Felder and Adriano Tomassini: Fedosov connections on jet bundles and deformation quantization · Dimitry Tamarkin: Deformation theory of Hopf algebras Gilles Halbout, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

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First Summer School in Analysis and Mathematical Physics: Quantization, the Segal-Bargmann Transform, and Semiclassical Analysis : First Summer School ... Morelos (Contemporary Mathematics)
m Summer School in Analysis and Mathematical Physics 1998 Cuernavaca , Salvador Perez-Esteva , and Carlos Villegas-Blas
Manufacturer: American Mathematical Society
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ASIN: 0821821156

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The first Summer School of Analysis and Mathematical Physics of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Cuernavaca) offered graduate and advanced undergraduate students courses on modern topics in the overlap between analysis and physics. This volume contains the expanded notes from the lectures by Brian Hall, Alejandro Uribe, and David Borthwick. The articles introduce readers to mathematical methods of classical and quantum mechanics and the link between these two theories: quantization and semiclassical analysis. Hall writes about holomorphic methods in analysis and mathematical physics and includes exercises. Uribe's lectures covered trace formulae, in particular asymptotic behavior and the relationship between the asymptotics and the geometric properties of the classical system. Borthwick presents an introduction to Kähler quantization, including the moment map, the orbit method, and symmetry and reduction. The exposition in the entire volume is geared to introducing graduate students with a basic knowledge of mathematics into areas of active research.

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A glorious collection of fiction, art, poetry, and protest from The Masses, the best radical magazine ever. A sumptuous feast...a splendid achievement. --New York Times

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Echoes of Revolt: The Masses 1911-1917
William L., Ed. O'Neill
Manufacturer: Quadrangle Books
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ASIN: B000NQ0O8O

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Echoes of Revolt: The Masses 1911-1917

Manufacturer: Quadrangle Books; Chicago
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ASIN: B000L97PXU

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Large hardcover (9 X 12 in.), illustrated throughout with black & white drawings.

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Echoes of Revolt: The Masses, 1911-1917
William O'Neill; Editor; Introduction Irving Howe; Afterword Max East
Manufacturer: QUADRANGLE BOOKS
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ASIN: B000OLCQ8O

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