This volume is woven around the idea that wholeness (the firm) and fragmentation (risking formlessness) alternate in human affairs. This theme is applied to the history and the present condition of Australian Aboriginals. Their religion is seen as a way to bolster a precarious identity and to affirm order in an existence which would otherwise become formless. It deals with totemism as a form of ordering a variety of often conflicting identitie...
This is the first of a series of full reports of large excavations undertaken by the Canterbury Archaeological Trust. The volume covers the sites of Rosemary Lane car park and the Castle Keep and assesses finds including pottery, jewellery and human remains.
Green's functions are an important tool used in solving boundary value problems associated with ordinary and partial differential equations.This self-contained and systematic introduction to Green's functions has been written with applications in mind. The material is presented in an unsophisticated and rather more practical manner than usual. Consequently advanced undergraduates and beginning postgraduate students in mathematics and the appli...
This provocative and original look at current trends in the United States presents a grim forecast of a possible totalitarian future. The author shows how the chronic problems faced by the U.S. in the late twentieth century require increasing collusions between Big Business and Big Government in order to 'manage' society in the interests of the rich and powerful. This "friendly fascism", Gross argues, will probably lack the dictatorships, publ...
Probing the social repercussions of the industrial development of South Carolina in the decades following Reconstruction, David L. Carlton's Mill and Town in South Carolina, 1880-1920, tells of the conflict that erupted between the rising middle class of the South's small towns and the rural white who came to labor in the towns' burgeoning textile mills.
The townsmen who built the mills initially expected no social friction to result from ind...
Case studies, problems and their statistical investigation.- Elementary Gaussian processes.- The maximum likelihood estimators and their distributions in the one dimensional case.- The multi-dimensional processes.
Time-scales in interconnected systems.- Singular perturbations and time-scales.- Modeling of two-time-scale systems.- Dynamic networks and area aggregation.- Coherency and area identification.- Slow coherency and weak connections.- Nonlinear dynamic networks.- Reduced simulations of nonlinear power system models.
The Illiac IV was the first large scale array computer. As the fore runner of today's advanced computers, it brought whole classes of scientific computations into the realm of practicality. Conceived initially as a grand experiment in computer science, the revolutionary architecture incorporated both a high level of parallelism and pipe lining. After a difficult gestation, the Illiac IV became operational in November 1975. It has for a decad...
Though three times burned in effigy for his political activities, Ashbel Smith was an admired and influential leader in nineteenth-century Texas. A doctor educated at Yale and abroad, the "father of Texas medicine" championed higher standards of medical practice and helped found the state's medical society. He worked persistently to establish free public education in Texas and in his later years led the way in founding Prairie View State Norma...