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UNINA9910463763103321 |
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The Lordship of the Isles / / edited by Richard D. Oram |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Northern World, , 1569-1462 ; ; Volume 68 |
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Nobility - Scotland |
Clans - Scotland - History |
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Scotland History 1057-1603 |
Highlands (Scotland) History |
Hebrides (Scotland) History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material / Richard D. Oram -- Introduction: A Celtic Dirk at Scotland’s Back? The Lordship of the Isles in Mainstream Scottish Historiography since 1828 / Richard D. Oram -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Climate, Weather and the Rise of the Lordship of the Isles / Richard D. Oram -- The MacDonald Lordship and the Bruce Dynasty, c.1306–c.1371 / Michael A. Penman -- From the River Farrar to the Loire Valley: The MacDonald Lord of the Isles, the Scottish Crown, and International Diplomacy, 1428–1438 / Lachlan Nicholson -- Ghille Chattan Mhor and Clann Mhic an Tòisich Lands in the Clann Dhomhnail Lordship of Lochaber / Alasdair Ross -- Bishops, Priests, Monks and Their Patrons: The Lords of the Isles and the Church / Sarah Thomas -- ‘Contumaciously Absent’?: The Lords of the Isles and the Scottish Crown / Sonja Cameron -- A Maritime Dominion – Sea-Power and the Lordship / Colin Martin -- West Highland Heraldry and the Lordship of the Isles / Alastair Campbell of Airds -- Organising a Lordship: The Castles of the MacDonald's of Dunivaig and the Glens / T.E. McNeill -- The Lordship of the Isles: Identity Through Materiality / David H. Caldwell -- A Spent Force?: The Clan Donald in the Aftermath of 1493 / |
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Alison Cathcart -- Castle Tioram and the MacDonald's of Clanranald: A Western Seaboard Castle in Context / Geoffrey Stell -- Bibliography / Richard D. Oram -- Index / Richard D. Oram. |
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In The Lordship of the Isles , twelve specialists offer new insights on the rise and fall of the MacDonald's of Islay and the greatest Gaelic lordship of later medieval Scotland. Portrayed most often as either the independently-minded last great patrons of Scottish Gaelic culture or as dangerous rivals to the Stewart kings for mastery of Scotland, this collection navigates through such opposed perspectives to re-examine the politics, culture, society and connections of Highland and Hebridean Scotland from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. It delivers a compelling account of a land and people caught literally and figuratively between two worlds, those of the Atlantic and mainland Scotland, and of Gaelic and Anglophone culture. Contributors are David Caldwell, Sonja Cameron, Alastair Campbell, Alison Cathcart, Colin Martin, Tom McNeill, Lachlan Nicholson, Richard Oram, Michael Penman, Alasdair Ross, Geoffrey Stell and Sarah Thomas. |
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UNINA9910438124703321 |
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Narayanan A. Satya |
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An introduction to waves and oscillations in the sun / / A. Satya Narayanan |
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New York, : Springer, 2013 |
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1-283-62403-6 |
9786613936486 |
1-4614-4400-4 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (231 p.) |
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Astronomy and astrophysics library, , 0941-7834 |
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Solar oscillations |
Solar radiation |
Solar radio emission |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1: Historical Perspectives -- 1.2: The Core of the Sun -- 1.3: Radiative Zone -- 1.4: Convection Zone -- 1.5: Photosphere -- 1.6: Chromosphere -- 1.7: Corona -- 1.8: Solar Wind -- Chapter 2: Electro-Magneto Statics -- 2.1: Charge and Current Distributions -- 2.2: Coulomb's Law -- 2.3: Gauss's Law -- 2.4: Ampere's Law -- 2.5: Faraday's Law -- 2.6: Vector Magnetic Potential -- 2.7: Maxwell's Equations -- Chapter 3: MHD Equations and Concepts -- 3.1: Assumptions -- 3.2: Dimensionless Parameters -- 3.3: Mass Continuity -- 3.4: Equations of Motion -- 3.5: Energy Equation -- 3.6: MHD Equilibrium -- 3.7: Magnetic Flux Tubes -- 3.8: Current-free (Potential) fields -- 3.9: Force-Free Fields -- 3.10: Parker's Solution for Solar Wind -- Chapter 4: Waves in Uniform Media -- 4.1: Basic Equations -- 4.2: SoundWaves -- 4.3: Alfv'enWaves -- 4.4: Shear Alfv'enWaves -- 4.5: Compressional Alfv'enWaves -- 4.6: Magneto acoustic Waves -- 4.7: Internal and Magneto acoustic Gravity Waves -- 4.8: Phase-Mixing and Resonant Absorption of Waves -- Chapter 5: Waves in Non-Uniform Media- 5.1: Waves at Magnetic Interface -- 5.2: Surface and InterfacialWaves -- 5.3: Waves in a Magnetic Slab -- 5.4: Waves in Cylindrical Geometries -- 5.5: Waves in Untwisted and Twisted Tubes -- Chapter 6: Instabilities -- 6.1: Introduction -- 6.2: Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) Instability -- 6.3: Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) Instability -- 6.4: Parametric Instability -- 6.5: Parker Instability -- Chapter 7: Waves in the Sun -- 7.1: Five minute oscillations -- 7.2: Oscillations in Sunspots -- 7.3: Chromospheric Oscillations -- 7.4: CoronalWaves -- 7.5: Coronal Seismology -- 7.6: Coronal Heating due to Waves -- 7.7: EIT and MoretonWaves -- Chapter 8: Heliosesimology -- 8.1: Equations of Motion -- 8.2: Equilibrium Structure -- 8.3: Perturbation Analysis -- 8.4: Acoustic Waves -- 8.5: Internal Gravity Waves -- 8.6: Equations of Linear Stellar Oscillations -- 8.7: Properties of Solar Oscillations (Internal) -- 8.8: p and g modes -- References -- Index. |
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Astrophysicists and others studying the Sun will find this expansive coverage of what we know about waves and oscillations in our nearest star an informative introduction to a hot contemporary topic. After a section summarizing the Sun's physical characteristics, the volume moves on to explore the basics of electrodynamics, which in turn facilitate a discussion of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The material also details the often complex nature of waves and oscillations in uniform and non-uniform media, before categorizing the observational signatures of oscillations and exploring the instabilities in fluid, dealing with a range of known forms. Lastly, a section on helioseismology explores our growing familiarity with the internal structure of the Sun. This book is a unified portal to a thorough grounding in solar waves that includes a wealth of explanatory vignettes demystifying concepts such as flux tubes, current-free and force-free magnetic fields, the prominences, and the relationship between the vorticity and the induction equation. It also sets out the elegant Parker solution describing the phenomenon of solar wind. The volume will inspire readers with the unbridled enthusiasm of astrophysicists who view the Sun as a giant natural plasma laboratory, in interstellar terms located right on our doorstep, in which they can apply and then verify experimental and theoretical studies on plasma through their own observation. |
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