Product Description: Historians, clerics, human rights activists and political analysts from the region and beyond chronicle the rebirth of Islam in Central Asia. What kind of Islam will define the post-Soviet transformation of the Central Asia region? Will it be a moderate and tolerant Islam, the one that has dominated the area historically? Or a newly recreated, highly politicized radical Islam with ambitions to establish control far beyond the religious affairs of these states? In answering these questions, the authors seek to add new insight and depth to our understanding of the vital spiritual and political processes now underway in this important strategic region...read more

Product Description: The critically acclaimed memoir that rips the curtain of secrecy off the world of Soviet science"Revelations and insights about the Soviet space program . . . It is good that such a wise man will live among us for a while." --The New York Times"A rare, valuable, insider's look at the Soviet military industrial machine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Market: Researchers in plasma physics and astrophysics. This informative work contains the papers of the International Topical Conference on Research Trends in Nonlinear Space Plasma Physics, held in February 1991. Leading figures in the field met to discuss subjects including chaotic phenomena in space plasma, ionospheric and alfven waves, plasma instabilities and turbulence, and collisionless shock waves...read more

This book presents the fundamentals of chaos theory in conservative systems and provides a systematic study of the theory of transitional states of physical systems that lie between deterministic and chaotic behavior. The authors begin with the general concepts of Hamiltonian dynamics, stabililty, and chaos, and then discuss the theory of stochastic layers and webs and the numerous applications of this theory, particularly to pattern symmetry. Throughout, they are meticulous in providing a detailed presentation of the material, which enables the reader to learn the necessary computational methods and to apply them to other problems. The inclusion of computer graphics will aid understanding and the final section of the book contains a collection of patterns in art and living nature that will fascinate. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Two sets of related computer software are also available. One, the student/teacher set, consists of six 51/4 inch IBM/XT/AT-compatible floppy diskettes on which eight scenarios of dynamic computer graphics are recorded. The second, the ATRS research diskette, contains the 'ATRS' program, which runs numerical experiments with mappings: constructing their phase portraits at any specified level of detail, studying their dynamics, correlation properties and the dependence of the dynamics of the processes on the initial condition and mapping coefficients...read more