Product Description: Written for graduate students, this book presents topics in 2-dimensional hyperbolic geometry. The authors begin with rigid motions in the plane which are used as motivation for a full development of hyperbolic geometry in the unit disk...read more

Product Description: Chaotic behavior of (even the simplest) iterations of polynomial maps of the complex plane was known for almost one hundred years due to the pioneering work of Farou, Julia, and their contemporaries. However, it was only twenty-five years ago that the first computer generated images illustrating properties of iterations of quadratic maps appeared...read more

Product Description: See first edition of same story titled John Lennon in Heaven: Crossing the Borderlines of Being now on Kindle.

Product Description: How little is actually known about human consciousness, particularly how intuition works in relation to the human body, mind, and spirit. If we think we cannot see, hear, feel, or touch it, what does it mean to believe in it? What does the unseen world offer us that the tangible world cannot? Does intuition lead us to the soul? Could it serve as a gateway to a sublime reality and awareness otherwise far too great and distant for us to comprehend? We might agree that our experience of love can be very similar--that it serves as a gateway to the divine, to a place of awareness too immeasurable for humans to try to understand...read more

Product Description: This text explores the impact of the changes in local government upon the attitudes, behaviour and job satisfaction of the managers most affected by them. On the basis of a detailed review of recent research findings and theoretical debates, it outlines the major changes affecting local government organizations and the duties and responsibilities of those working with them...read more

Product Description: The mathematical works of Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers are fundamental and lasting. They have influenced and altered the development of twentieth century mathematics. The personalities of these two scientists helped create a mathematical family and have had a permanent positive effect on a whole generation of mathematicians...read more

Product Description: How little is actually known about human consciousness, particularly how intuition works in relation to the human body, mind, and spirit. If we think we cannot see, hear, feel, or touch it, what does it mean to believe in it? What does the unseen world offer us that the tangible world cannot? Does intuition lead us to the soul? Could it serve as a gateway to a sublime reality and awareness otherwise far too great and distant for us to comprehend? We might agree that our experience of love can be very similar--that it serves as a gateway to the divine, to a place of awareness too immeasurable for humans to try to understand...read more

Product Description: Journeys Across Seas of the Collective Consciousness Imagine that you get up one morning to discover you've tapped a rich vein of the collective consciousness and can now visit friends or favorite heroes who've passed over to the other side...read more

Product Description: Sonya Kovalevskaya was a distinguished mathematician and considered by her contemporaries to be among the best of her generation. Her work, ideas, and approach to mathematics are still relevant today, while her accomplishments continue to inspire women mathematicians...read more