Author: Luis Barreira File Type: pdf The main objective of this book is to give a broad united introduction to the study of dimension and recurrence in hyperbolic dynamics. It includes a discussion of the foundations, main results, and main techniques in the rich interplay of fourmain areas of research hyperbolic dynamics, dimension theory, multifractal analysis, and quantitative recurrence. It also gives a panorama of several selected topics of current research interest. This includes topics on irregular sets, variational principles, applications to number theory, measures of maximal dimension, multifractal rigidity, and quantitative recurrence. The book is directed to researchers as well as graduate students who wish to have a global view of the theory together with a working knowledgeof its main techniques. It can also be used as a basis for graduate courses in dimension theory of dynamical systems, multifractal analysis (together with a discussion of several special topics), and pointwise dimension and recurrence in hyperbolic dynamics. I hope that the book may serve as a fast entry point to this exciting and active field of research, and also that it may lead to further developments.(Progress in Mathematics 272)

Author: Saroj Kumar Rath File Type: pdf Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and introspective, this book offers a lucid and graphic account of the ill-fated day and traces the changing dynamics of terror in South Asia. Using new insights, it explores South Asias regional dynamics of antagonism, the ever-present challenge to the frontiers of India, Pakistan and the terrorism question, the strife in Afghanistan and the self-serving selective US war on terror. Including a new Afterword, this second edition will greatly interest those in defence, security and strategic studies, politics and international relations, peace and conflict studies, media and journalism, and South Asian studies as well as the general reader. **Review The book is refreshingly honest, thoroughly researched, and goes deep under the skin of the event with toothcomb precision. What sets its writing apart and above all the others that have come in the wake of the event is the incisive inquiry and the detail. * The Hindu * The book goes on to raise several questions over the way the investigations into the 2611 attacks was handled, and the very shallow chargesheet filed in the case. * The Times of India * According to The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks, the prosecution relieved the real criminals behind the actual crime. The name of ISI does not figure in the chargesheet and the LeT is also scantily defined. * Pakistan Observer * Most well-written book on the Mumbai terror attacks. *Rediff.com * Saroj Kumar Raths Fragile Frontiers stands head and shoulders above other books on the 2611 Mumbai attacks. Despite his thorough research the intimate details and his easy style make this book read like a thriller. But the seriousness of the facts about the terrorists strength and Indias unpreparedness that he has unearthed makes it compulsory reading for anybody interested in Indias security. Nayan Chanda, Editor-in-chief, YaleGlobal Online and author of Bound Together How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers and Warriors Shaped Globalization, Yale University, New Haven Saroj Kumar Rath is that rare breed of thinker who combines the capacity to capture the details and immediacy of a significant event the way a journalist can, but who can analyze and assess that events importance, both nationally and geopolitically, only the way a seasoned analyst and academic can. In this book, he has brought new and compelling insight into the Mumbai massacre. David Plott, Managing Editor, Global Asia, Seoul In Fragile Frontiers, Saroj Kumar Rath painstakingly reconstructs the tumultuous days of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, from its initial stages to the attack itself to the highly publicized trial. He cuts through the confusion and misreporting to deliver a clear and sobering look at one of the major geopolitical events of the new century, making it essential reading for scholars and the policy community. Anand Gopal, Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation, Washington DC, Formerly with *The Wall Street Journal * Saroj Kumar Rath has ventured into the tricky territory of contemporary history and the even trickier field of terrorism in this account of Mumbai attacks of 2008. Fragile Frontiers will attract debate, vigorous discussion and no doubt disagreement on both the causes of terrorism and the specific motivations that led to the Mumbai attacks. David Walker, eminent historian and Chair of Australian Studies, Peking University, Beijing About the Author Saroj Kumar Rath is a historian and specialist on terrorism in South Asia, and teaches at the Department of History, Sri Aurobindo College (Evening), University of Delhi, India. A member of NATO-Academia dialogue, he was formerly with Hosei University, Tokyo and Deakin University, Melbourne. He has been assisting home government and international organizations in understanding the causes of extremism in South Asia and working towards possible solutions. A regular speaker at global security forums, he is a visiting faculty member at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico and Vice President of the Ottawa-based Alternative Perspective and Global Concern.

Author: Janet Swailes File Type: pdf The act of field sketching allows us to experience the landscape first-hand rather than reliance upon plans, maps and photographs at a distance, back in the studio. Aimed primarily at landscape architects, Janet Swailes takes the reader on a journey through the art of field sketching, providing guidance and tips to develop skills from those starting out on a design course, to those looking to improve their sketching. ? Combining techniques from landscape architecture and the craft and sensibilities of arts practice, she invites us to experience sensations directly out in the field to enrich our work to look closely at the effects of light and weather understand the lie and shapes of the land through travel and walking and to consider lines of sight from the inside out as well as outside in. Full colour throughout with examples, checklists and case studies of other sketchers methods, this is an inspirational book to encourage landscape architects to spend more time in the field and reconnect with the basics of design through drawing practice. **Review Janet Swailes has a rare gift for expressing the qualities of the landscape through the medium of field sketching. Her astonishing expertise, honed through decades of working in and with the landscape, both as an artist and as a professional landscape architect, is evident on every page of this book. What is equally astonishing is how well she articulates and demonstrates the ways that we can all learn to use field sketching to understand and communicate our experience of the landscape in effective ways. While we might not achieve her levels of skill and artistry, the delight in this book is partly the discovery of how easy it is to develop a basic expertise that will serve us well. Whether youre an enthusiastic amateur who wants to learn how to read the landscape with greater clarity, or a professional practitioner wanting to record or communicate key information effectively and with economy of line and image, this is the book for you. Janet is a wonderful communicator, in image above all else, demonstrating how field sketching may be one way to return to the basics of understanding our environment that many of us long for, and find hard to achieve in a digital age. Catharine Ward Thompson, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh. About the Author Janet Swailes is an artist and landscape architect living in the Upper Eden Valley, Cumbria. She has worked for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, Stirling Council, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority, the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, as a freelance consultant landscape architect and illustrator, and she currently works for Dumfries and Galloway Council. She has a PhD in Landscape Architecturefrom Edinburgh College of Art, where she was originally an undergraduate.

Author: Claudia L. Johnson File Type: pdf Reflecting the dynamic and expansive nature of Austen studies, A Companion to Jane Austen provides 42 essays from a distinguished team of literary scholars that examine the full breadth of the English novelists works and career.ullProvides the most comprehensive and up-to-date array of Austen scholarshipllFunctions both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the most innovative speculative developments in the field of Austen studiesllEngages at length with changing contexts and cultures of reception from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centurieslulReviewWhile other companions provide scholarly summary-context and assessment-as a starting place for further research, this companion seems more individualized.... A Companion to Jane Austen offers the useful charms of knowledge, stimulation, judgment. (1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, September 2010)The advantage is that the chapters tend to be manageable, clear, and focused-perfect, in fact, for assigning to undergraduate and beginning graduate students. I for one certainly plan on doing that. After all, one of the charms of enchantment is that it can be contagious. (Notes and Queries, March 2010)This book would be a worthy addition to any university, school and even private library in a place where Austen is read and re-read. (Transnational Literature, May 2009)Austenites should be delighted with this comprehensive survey of contemporary Austen studies. [...] This should become a standard Austen reference. Highly recommended. (Choice, August 2009)How is it that fresh perspectives on Austen and her writing are still being thought up? Johnson and Tuite answer that the study of Austen today is a diverse, expansive, excitable and critical life-form, growing and changing with new audiences and approaches to literary criticism. Arranged in five parts, this Companion covers the style and genre of her novels, including the history of manuscripts, editions and illustrations (with 13 black-and-white facsimiles) individual readings of the main texts, looking at how Austen was initially received by critics and readers alike and the success of Pride and Prejudice Austens literary style and technique, showing how the author used language and who she was influenced by the political, social and cultural settings of her novels, discussing the French Revolution and feminism and how Austen has been reinvented by different generations, from the silver fork novel of the Victorian era to sexed-up television adaptations of our screens today. (Reference Reviews, December 2009) ReviewThe advantage is that the chapters tend to be manageable, clear, and focused-perfect, in fact, for assigning to undergraduate and beginning graduate students. I for one certainly plan on doing that. After all, one of the charms of enchantment is that it can be contagious. (Notes and Queries, March 2010) This book would be a worthy addition to any university, school and even private library in a place where Austen is read and re-read. (Transnational Literature , May 2009) Austenites should be delighted with this comprehensive survey of contemporary Austen studies. [] This should become a standard Austen reference. Highly recommended. (Choice, August 2009) How is it that fresh perspectives on Austen and her writing are still being thought up? Johnson and Tuite answer that the study of Austen today is a diverse, expansive, excitable and critical life-form, growing and changing with new audiences and approaches to literary criticism. Arranged in five parts, this Companion covers the style and genre of her novels, including the history of manuscripts, editions and illustrations (with 13 black-and-white facsimiles) individual readings of the main texts, looking at how Austen was initially received by critics and readers alike and the success of Pride and Prejudice Austens literary style and technique, showing how the author used language and who she was influenced by the political, social and cultural settings of her novels, discussing the French Revolution and feminism and how Austen has been reinvented by different generations, from the silver fork novel of the Victorian era to sexed-up television adaptations of our screens today. (Reference Reviews, December 2009)