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Since it was first published in 1987, Galactic Dynamics has become the most widely used advanced textbook on the structure and dynamics of galaxies and one of the most cited references in astrophysics. Now, in this extensively revised and updated edition, James Binney and Scott Tremaine describe the dramatic recent advances in this subject, making Galactic Dynamics the most authoritative introduction to galactic astrophysics available to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers.

Every part of the book has been thoroughly overhauled, and many sections have been completely rewritten. Many new topics are covered, including N-body simulation methods, black holes in stellar systems, linear stability and response theory, and galaxy formation in the cosmological context. Binney and Tremaine, two of the world's leading astrophysicists, use the tools of theoretical physics to describe how galaxies and other stellar systems work, succinctly and lucidly explaining theoretical principles and their applications to observational phenomena. They provide readers with an understanding of stellar dynamics at the level needed to reach the frontiers of the subject.

This new edition of the classic text is the definitive introduction to the field.

• A complete revision and update of one of the most cited references in astrophysics
• Provides a comprehensive description of the dynamical structure and evolution of galaxies and other stellar systems
• Serves as both a graduate textbook and a resource for researchers
• Includes 20 color illustrations, 205 figures, and more than 200 problems
• Covers the gravitational N-body problem, hierarchical galaxy formation, galaxy mergers, dark matter, spiral structure, numerical simulations, orbits and chaos, equilibrium and stability of stellar systems, evolution of binary stars and star clusters, and much more
• Companion volume to Galactic Astronomy, the definitive book on the phenomenology of galaxies and star clusters

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The rumor that Cinderella's stepfamily tore her lovely dress to shreds so she couldn't go to the ball? According to her stepmother, they were only trying to save Cinderella a lifetime of embarrassment at her fashion faux pas and gently suggesting that she stay at home. (Lady Tremaine says the gown actually looked like it had been sewn together by rodents!).
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Although specifying "motherhood", this book holds treasures for fathers, and for non-parents, as well. It takes the reader on a journey through the "marvelous crises" of child rearing, showing how each crisis offers the discovery of a marvel of spiritual understanding, which heals the problems inherent in that human situation, and blesses both the parents and the child..
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The Butterfly Rises is one woman's transformation through the trance channeling of Verna V Yater, Ph.D, Kevin Ryerson, and others..
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Here’s a great idea for keeping kids quiet while having fun on long car trips and other boredom-inducing situations This miniaturized game will also help kids develop and improve their chess-playing skills. The game kit has heavy board portfolio-style covers that open to present an attached, spiral-bound rule book and player’s guide. The kit’s inside back cover is a chessboard with a metallic interior designed to hold magnetic playing pieces in place. The magnet-tipped pieces come in a box attached to the kit’s inside spine. The attached rule book also presents tips on strategies for winning that will keep beginning players interested and encourage them to sharpen their skill..
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Louise Lawler focuses her camera on high art and its spaces, from the rarefied white cube to the windowless storeroom, from the collector's luxurious bedroom to the featureless boardroom. Part institutional critique, part social commentary and part wandering gaze, Lawler's glossy photographs redirect the viewer's attention from the artworks to their environs, exposing a set of supple relationships surrounding the presentation and marketing of art and its role in conferring and reflecting power. Lawler's emphasis on context as a defining factor in the assignment of an object's value throws her own sumptuous photographs into a state of eloquent suspension. In 1984, Lawler was granted access to the homes of visionary collectors Burton and Emily Tremaine, and she has since tracked the works she photographed there as they have wended their way through museums and auction houses. With texts by Stephen Melville and Andrea Miller-Keller, this publication gathers almost all the Tremaine Pictures produced between 1984 and 2007..
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Eric Marland, though fit and intelligent, has never found his place in our world. Living with his girlfriend and working as a janitor and tutor at the university, he never anticipated actually living out an adventure like one in the computer game he has designed for the Internet. Eric wakes up one day and finds his house is snowed in, in the middle of the summer and the impossible happens, a knock comes from his door. Considering it to be an extravagant dream, he opens the door and in walks an alien creature.This is where the story really begins; Eric decides to cross over to Ethar through the alien's time and dimensional portal to a world where our myths and legends come from. In traveling through the barrier between dimensions Eric is changed and finds himself to have gained magical power he did not have before. He is quickly involved in the affairs of the nearby kingdoms and helping them prepare for impending war. The alien sends him on a journey to learn about the powers he has gained. While on this quick little venture Eric saves the life of an Elvin princess and a couple of other creatures of Ethar. Passion mixes with adventure, and when trouble looks like it might be resolved, things get worse. Eric's girlfriend and his best friend come to join him in his adventures and get caught up in the affairs of the strange new world. War, intrigue, romance and magic of various types weave themselves in a tapestry of adventure uniting several different races in an effort to save their lands from the forces of evil..
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