1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466796103316

Titolo

Global Structure and Evolution in General Relativity [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the First Samos Meeting on Cosmology, Geometry and Relativity Held at Karlovassi, Samos, Greece, 5–7 September 1994 / / edited by Spiros Cotsakis, Gary W. Gibbons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1996

ISBN

3-540-49361-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1996.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 173 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 460

Disciplina

530.1/1

Soggetti

Gravitation

Mathematical physics

Differential geometry

Observations, Astronomical

Astronomy—Observations

Astrophysics

Geophysics

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Differential Geometry

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

Astrophysics and Astroparticles

Geophysics/Geodesy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Yang-Mills plasmas -- Relativistic fluids and gravitational collapse -- The einstein vacuum constraints and trapped surfaces -- Black hole collisions, analytic continuation and cosmic censorship -- The structure of quantum conformal superspace.

Sommario/riassunto

The five lectures presented in this volume address very timely mathematical problems in relativity and cosmology. Part I is devoted to the initial value and evolution problems of the Einstein equations.



Especially it deals with the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Boltzmann system, fluid models with finite or infinite conductivity, global evolution of a new (two-phase) model for gravitational collapse and the structure of maximal, asymptotically flat, vacuum solutions of the constraint equations which have the additional property of containing trapped surfaces. Part II focuses on geometrical-topological problems in relativity and cosmology: on the role of cosmic censorship for the global structure of the Einstein-Maxwell equations and on the mathematical structure of quantum conformal superspace.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996580163903316

Autore

Kalb Martin

Titolo

Environing Empire : Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berghahn Books, 2022

New York, NY : , : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-80073-289-9

1-80073-457-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 pages)

Collana

Environment in History: International Perspectives ; ; v.23

Disciplina

968.8102

Soggetti

Environmental management - Namibia - History

Nature and civilization - Namibia

Technological innovations - Environmental aspects - Namibia

HISTORY / Africa / West

Namibia History 1884-1915

Namibia Colonization Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - Currents, Chances, Commodities -- Chapter 2 - Accessing Arid Lands -- Chapter 3 - Harbors, Animals, Trains -- Chapter 4 - Solving Aridity -- Chapter 5 - Access and Destruction -- Chapter 6 -



Expanding War and Death -- Chapter 7 - Creating a Model Colony -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Places -- Index of Persons -- Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich’s everyday violence.