1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910162879103321

Autore

Riva Jean-Luc

Titolo

Les enfants de Loyada / / Jean-Luc Riva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : , : Nimrod, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

2-915243-87-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

363.232

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450401303321

Autore

Harris John G.

Titolo

Linear elastic waves / / John G. Harris [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11667-8

9786612389047

1-282-38904-1

0-511-64285-7

0-511-04041-5

0-511-15490-9

0-511-55625-X

0-511-75541-4

0-511-05196-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 162 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge texts in applied mathematics ; ; 26

Disciplina

531/.1133

Soggetti

Elastic waves

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Simple Wave Solutions; 2 Kinematical Descriptions of Waves; 3 Reflection, Refraction, and Interfacial Waves; 4 Green's Tensor and Integral Representations; 5 Radiation and Diffraction; 6 Guided Waves and Dispersion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Wave propagation and scattering are among the most fundamental processes that we use to comprehend the world around us. While these processes are often very complex, one way to begin to understand them is to study wave propagation in the linear approximation. This is a book describing such propagation using, as a context, the equations of elasticity. Two unifying themes are used. The first is that an understanding of plane wave interactions is fundamental to understanding more complex wave interactions. The second is that waves are best understood in an asymptotic approximation where they are free of the complications of their excitation and are governed primarily by their propagation environments. The topics covered include reflection, refraction, the propagation of interfacial waves, integral representations, radiation and diffraction, and propagation in closed and open waveguides. Linear Elastic Waves is an advanced level textbook directed at applied mathematicians, seismologists, and engineers.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453504803321

Autore

Joy Mark S.

Titolo

American expansionism, 1783-1860 : a manifest destiny? / / Mark S. Joy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-83561-7

1-317-87844-2

1-315-83896-6

1-317-87845-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Seminar studies in history

Disciplina

973.5

Soggetti

Manifest Destiny

Migration, Internal - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Territorial expansion History

United States History 1783-1865

United States Politics and government 1783-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2003 by Pearson Education Limited"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Maps; Chronology; Preface; 1. EARLY AMERICAN EXPANSIONISM; Dispossessing the Eastern Indians; The Northwest Ordinances; Constitutional Developments; Further Conflicts in the Trans-Appalachian West; Diplomatic Concerns; Early Settlement in the Trans-Appalachian West; 2. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE; An Empire of Liberty; Concerns over the Mississippi River; An Incredible Offer; Responses to the Purchase; The Lewis and Clark Expedition; Early Settlement and Development; Significance of the Louisiana Purchase

3. ROUNDING OUT THE NATIONAL DOMAIN: DIPLOMACY AND BOUNDARY ISSUESEarly Settlement in the Louisiana Territory; The Rise of the West in Politics; Indian Conflicts on the Eastern Frontier; The War of 1812; Diplomatic Developments; The Acquisition of Florida; The Monroe Doctrine; Border Controversies; Indian Removal; 4. OREGON AND TEXAS; The Oregon Controversy; 'Oregon Fever'; Settlement of the



Oregon Crisis; The American Southwest; American Settlers in Texas; The Republic of Texas; The Annexation of Texas; 5. THE WAR WITH MEXICO; Origins of the War

'Hostilities May Now Be Considered as Commenced'Divisions in the US over the War; Conduct of the War; Peace Negotiations; Consequences of the War; The Gadsden Purchase; 6. CONCLUSION; Why Did Expansionist Fervor Decline?; American Expansionism: A Case of Manifest Destiny?; Was Early American Expansionism Imperialistic?; DOCUMENTS; GLOSSARY; WHO'S WHO; BIBLIOGRAPHY; GUIDE TO FURTHER READING; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This new Seminar Study surveys the history of U.S. territorial expansion from the end of the American Revolution until 1860. The book explores the concept of 'manifest destiny' and asks why, if expansion was 'manifest', there was such opposition to almost every expansionist incident. Paying attention to key themes often overlooked - Indian removal and the US government land sales policy, the book looks at both 'foreign' expansion such as the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and the war with Mexico in the 1840s and 'internal' expansion as American settlers moved west .Finally, the b