Author: Stephen Childress
Publisher: American Mathematical Society, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
Keywords: lecture, notes, courant, mechanics, theoretical, fluid, introduction
Number of Pages: 201
Published: 2009-10-09
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 0821848887
ISBN-13: 9780821848883

This book gives an overview of classical topics in fluid dynamics, focusing on the kinematics and dynamics of incompressible inviscid and Newtonian viscous fluids, but also including some material on compressible flow. The topics are chosen to illustrate the mathematical methods of classical fluid dynamics. The book is intended to prepare the reader for more advanced topics of current research interest.

Authors:David Childress, David Hatcher Childress,
Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press
Keywords: time, travel, teleportation, amp, manual, handbook, practice
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1999-07
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0932813682
ISBN-13: 9780932813688

The author takes readers into the weird world of time travel and teleportation. Not science fiction, this is an authoritative chronicle of actual time travel experiments, teleportation devices and more.

Author: Nancy Childress
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: universitext, theory, field, class
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2008-11-24
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0387724893
ISBN-13: 9780387724898

Class field theory, the study of abelian extensions of algebraic number fields, is one of the largest branches of algebraic number theory. It brings together the quadratic and higher reciprocity laws of Gauss, Legendre, and others, and vastly generalizes them. Some of its consequences (e.g., the Chebotarev density theorem) apply even to nonabelian extensions. This book is an accessible introduction to class field theory. It takes a traditional approach in that it attempts to present the material using the original techniques of proof (global to local), but in a fashion which is cleaner and mo

Author: Diana Childress
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Keywords: dictatorships, sudan, bashir, omar
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-08
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 0822590964
ISBN-13: 9780822590965

Omar al-Bashir came into power in 1989. Sudan was gripped by famine caused by drought as well as a devastating civil war between the north and south. Its economy was in shambles. Bashir headed a coup to overthrow Sudan’s democratic government, and many hoped it would finally bring order to the country. After the coup, Bashir suspended the constitution and appointed himself head of state, prime minister, defense minister, and commander in chief of the army. It soon became clear that his objective was to turn Sudan into a strict Islamic state, even though most people in South Sudan are not

Author: Diana Childress
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Keywords: moments, history, pivotal, press, gutenberg, printing, johannes
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 0822575205
ISBN-13: 9780822575207

Can one invention really change the world? Before the mid-fifteenth century, books were printed by hand, making them rare and expensive. Reading and learning remained a privilege of the wealthy--until Johannes Gutenberg developed a machine called the printing press. Gutenberg, a German metalworker, began in the 1440s by making movable type--small metal letters that were arranged to form words and sentences, replacing handwritten letters. Movable type fit into frames on the printing press, and the press then produced many copies of the same page. As movable type and the printing press made book

Author: William Childress
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: son, father, journey, odyssey, ozark
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-07-26
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0809326396
ISBN-13: 9780809326396

J. W. Childress loved farming but was lousy at it. His family—including his wife, children, and stepson—toiled as sharecroppers and migrant workers in fields of cotton, broomcorn, and peanuts in the Ozarks of Missouri and Oklahoma and were continually defeated by hardship and agrarian ineptitude as they struggled to stay united amid adversity.In An Ozark Odyssey: The Journey of a Father and Son, William Childress recalls the life of his late, irascible but lovable stepfather—his bad decisions, his misfit marriage, his prickly personality, and his gypsying ways that impoverished the family.

Authors:M. Ghil, S. Childress,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: dynamics, applied, climate, mathematical, sciences, theory, dynamo, geophysical, fluid, atmospheric, topics
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 1987-02-19
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0387964754
ISBN-13: 9780387964751

Applies successive bifurcations approach to complex time-dependent processes in large scale atmospheric dynamics, geomagnetism, and theoretical climate dynamics. Presentation of results on planetary-scale phenomena in the earth’s atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, mantle and core provides an integrated account of mathematical theory and methods together with physical phenomena and processes. Brings together modern tools of nonlinear mathematics and the problems of global change in the environment.