Product Description: This collection of essays in honor of Professor A.J. Slavin deals with a topic of growing importance in early modern English history - the interplay between the state, the sovereign and society. Many of the most absorbing fields of current research and debate on both sides of the Atlantic are addressed, among them the role of administrative history, the problems of legal enforcement, and the relations between local and central government...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book reflects the state-of-the-art and current trends in modeling and simulation. The book provides comprehensive coverage of 1) the modeling techniques of the major types of dynamic engineering systems, 2) the solution techniques for the resulting differential equations for linear and nonlinear systems, and 3) the attendant mathematical procedures related to the presentation of dynamic systems and determination of their time and frequency response characteristics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)