Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996
ISBN 10: 0521484286 ISBN 13: 9780521484282
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo: 349 p. Original printed blue paper wrappers. Crisp and unmarked. A very good copy.
Seller Inventory # 72666
Published by Springer, Berlin, 1995
ISBN 10: 3540602585 ISBN 13: 9783540602583
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. "The authors explore dynamo action under conditions appropriate to large astrophysical bodies, the magnetic Reynolds number of the flow being large compared to unity." Lecture Notes in Physics, New Series m: Monographs, Volume 37. Octavo: 406 p. with textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. Light edgewear; else near fine.
Seller Inventory # 74850
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011
ISBN 10: 1107005752 ISBN 13: 9781107005754
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. "Using examples taken from everyday life, from hydraulic jumps in a kitchen sink to Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in clouds, the book provides readers with a better understanding of the world around them. It teaches the art of fluid-mechanical estimates and shows how the ideas and methods developed to study the mechanics of fluids are used to analyze other systems with many degrees of freedom in statistical physics and field theory." Octavo: 167 p. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74881
Published by CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 2005
ISBN 10: 0849333555 ISBN 13: 9780849333552
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Reviews emerging from the Durham Symposium on Astrophysical Fluid Mechanics, July 29 to August 8, 2002. Octavo: 442 p. with textual figures (some color). Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74753
Published by American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 1999
ISBN 10: 0875900941 ISBN 13: 9780875900940
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. ".the first comprehensive review of magnetic helicity in laboratory plasmas, the Sun, interplanetary space, planetary dynamos, and astrophysical objects." Geophysical Monograph 111. Quarto: 304 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74920
Published by American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 1995
ISBN 10: 0875900755 ISBN 13: 9780875900759
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Geophysical Monograph 93. Quarto: 306 p. with color plates, textual figures, and tables. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. The top corners are lightly bumped; else near fine.
Seller Inventory # 74922
Published by Springer, 2008
ISBN 10: 1402043597 ISBN 13: 9781402043598
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Fundamental Theories of Physics, Volume 149. Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Near fine.
Seller Inventory # 65885
Published by Springer, Singapore, 1998
ISBN 10: 9813083360 ISBN 13: 9789813083363
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. ".contains a series of important subjects such as stellar structure and evolution, stellar oscillation and stellar atmosphere. This text is divided into four parts. The first part gives a solid theoretical foundation of stellar astrophysics, which includes radiation theory, stellar convection, nuclear energy generation, opacity and equation of state of stellar matter. The second part deals with the structure and evolution of single and binary stars of various masses.The third part presents the theory of stellar oscillations based on radiation hydrodynamics. The last part deals with the theory of stellar atmosphere including LTE and Non-LTE model atmosphere, line formation and radiative transfer in the moving atmosphere." Octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A crisp and clean copy.
Seller Inventory # 69224
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003
ISBN 10: 0521818095 ISBN 13: 9780521818094
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Tall octavo: 416 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74573
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998
ISBN 10: 0521452538 ISBN 13: 9780521452533
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. ".describes the progress that had been made towards the development of a comprehensive understanding of the formation of complex, disorderly patterns under far-from-equilibrium conditions." Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series 5. Tall octavo: 674 p. with numerous textual figures (some color). Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Mild bumping to the corners and tips; otherwise very good in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 74687
Published by Springer, Berlin, 1998
ISBN 10: 3540627448 ISBN 13: 9783540627449
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. "This monograph consists of two parts and gives an approach to the physics of open nonequilibrium systems. Part I derives the phenomena of dissipative structures on the basis of reduced evolution equations and includes Benard convection and Belousov-Zhabotinskii chemical reactions. Part II discusses the physics and structures of chaos." Octavo: 299 p. with 142 figures and 5 tables. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74759
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997
ISBN 10: 0521418909 ISBN 13: 9780521418904
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. ".a comprehensive discussion of complexity as it arises in physical, chemical, and biological systems, as well as in mathematical models of nature." Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series 6. Tall octavo: 318 p. with numerous textual figures. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 74777
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005
ISBN 10: 0521849608 ISBN 13: 9780521849609
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. ".takes the reader through the theory of gravitational radiation and rotating black holes, and the phenomenology of GRB-supernovae. Topics covered include Kerr black holes and the frame-dragging of spacetime, luminous black holes, compact tori around black holes, and black-hole spin interactions. It concludes with a discussion of prospects for gravitational-wave detections of a long-duration burst in gravitational-waves as a method of choice for identifying Kerr black holes in the Universe." Tall octavo: 308 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74774
Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004
ISBN 10: 140202830X ISBN 13: 9781402028304
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. "This book, for the first time, ties together physical processes across the full scale of the heliosphere." Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 317. Octavo: 422 p. with numerous textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. Light bumping to the corners and tips; else near fine.
Seller Inventory # 74788
Published by Springer, Dordrecht, 2007
ISBN 10: 0387450947 ISBN 13: 9780387450940
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Second Edition. ".describes the history of the progress made in auroral science and magnetospheric physics by providing examples of ideas, controversies, struggles, acceptance, and success in some instances." Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 346. Octavo: 288 p. with numerous textual photographs and figures (some color). Original paper wrappers. Light bump to the top edge; else a crisp and clean copy.
Seller Inventory # 74790
Published by Springer, Dordrecht, 2009
ISBN 10: 1441902384 ISBN 13: 9781441902382
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Previously published in Space Science Reviews, Volume 144, Issues 1-4, 2009. Space Sciences Series of ISSI. Octavo: 428 p. with numerous textual figures (some color). Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A very good copy.
Seller Inventory # 74792
Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1998
ISBN 10: 0792350758 ISBN 13: 9780792350750
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Proceedings of the 185th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Tokyo, Japan, August 18-22, 1997. Octavo: 487 p. with numerous textual figures and tables. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The top corners are a bit bumped; else a crisp and clean copy in a very lightly rubbed dust jacket. Near fine.
Seller Inventory # 74785
Published by Springer, Dordrecht, 2005
ISBN 10: 1402031084 ISBN 13: 9781402031083
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. "This book presents studies of complexity in the context of nonequilibrium phenomena using theory, modeling, simulations and experiments, both in the laboratory and in nature." Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 321. Octavo: 340 p. with numerous textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Light wear to the corners and tips; else a crisp and clean copy. Near fine.
Seller Inventory # 74781
Published by Springer, Berlin, 1997
ISBN 10: 3540630724 ISBN 13: 9783540630722
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This volume brings together theoretical ideas on the plasma physics of both hot and dense plasmas in the solar atmosphere and similar physics applied to the tenuous and cooler plasmas found in the heliosphere. Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 489. Octavo. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74854
Published by Springer, Berlin, 1997
ISBN 10: 3540630511 ISBN 13: 9783540630517
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. This volume collects contributions to a workshop where engineers, physicists, and mathematicians discussed the statistical description of turbulence. They cover practical aspects as well as rigorous mathematics. Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 491. Octavo: 245 p. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. Some mild edgewear; else a crisp and clean copy. Near fine.
Seller Inventory # 74857
Published by Springer, Berlin, 1999
ISBN 10: 3540666974 ISBN 13: 9783540666974
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. The aim of this meeting was to survey the current knowledge on two main topics: (i) propagation of plasma waves (like Alfven, whistler or ion-acoustic waves), their instabilities and the development of a nonlinear dynamics leading to solitonic structures, wave collapse or weak turbulence; (ii) turbulence in magnetohydrodynamic flows and its reduced description in the presence of a strong ambient magnetic fleld. Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 536. Octavo: 385 p. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74853
Published by World Scientific, Singapore, 2003
ISBN 10: 9810246765 ISBN 13: 9789810246761
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. "This book investigates the impact of noise upon the emergence and sustenance of patterns. 'Patterns' loosely refers to coherent spatial structures, including fronts, as well as temporal patterns." World Scientific Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 70. Octavo: 238 p. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74849
Published by Springer, Berlin, 2006
ISBN 10: 1402045212 ISBN 13: 9781402045219
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. ".offers a succinct and self-contained treatment of general relativity and its application to neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology, at an intermediate level." Octavo: 291 p. with 114 figures, including 16 in color, and 12 tables. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. Just a hint of edgewear; else a fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74883
Published by Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 1995
ISBN 10: 0195085299 ISBN 13: 9780195085297
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. ".presents a synthesis of the convection and substorm literatures, and an analysis of convection and substorm interactions." International Series on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 2. Octavo: 408 p. with textual figures. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Near fine.
Seller Inventory # 74894
Published by American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2003
ISBN 10: 0875904076 ISBN 13: 9780875904078
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. ".reviews key issues in our new, multifaceted view of the complex synergies between storms, substorms and convection in the magnetosphere." Geophysical Monograph 142. Quarto: 268 p. with color plates, figures (some color), and tables. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74918
Published by American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2005
ISBN 10: 0875904246 ISBN 13: 9780875904245
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. ".presents important new insights on data acquisition, current interpretations, and modeling efforts on primary geospace phenomena, including: hot-cold plasma interactions, plasmasphere dynamics and direct effects of the interplanetary magnetic field on the inner magnetosphere, ring-current/ionosphere interactions, ring-current effects on global electric fields, and ring-current/radiation-belt interactions." Geophysical Monograph 159. The CD-ROM is still sealed in the rear pocket. Quarto: 293 p. with color plates, figures (some color), and tables. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Some bumping to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 74919
Published by American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2005
ISBN 10: 0875904203 ISBN 13: 9780875904207
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presents new advances in inner magnetosphere science, both in terms of observations and modeling, while depicting areas where progress is still to come. Five contexts predominate: sources and losses of particle populations, energetic particle acceleration mechanisms, external driving mechanisms, observational specifications, and large-scale models. Geophysical Monograph 155. Quarto: 318 p. with color plates, textual figures, and tables. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Mild bumping to the corners and tips; else crisp and clean. Better than very good.
Seller Inventory # 74923
Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2003
ISBN 10: 1402015097 ISBN 13: 9781402015090
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Volume 293. Octavo: 699 p. with numerous textual figures. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74690
Published by Springer, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0387329439 ISBN 13: 9780387329437
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fourth Edition. This classic text presents a quantitative understanding of a range of astrophysical concepts. Emphasizing physical concepts, the book outlines cosmic events through a series of astrophysical sketches. Octavo: 714 p. with textual figures. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 74746
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998
ISBN 10: 0521475147 ISBN 13: 9780521475143
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. "This book treats turbulence from the point of view of dynamical systems. The exposition centres around a number of important simplified models for turbulent behaviour in systems ranging from fluid motion (classical turbulence) to chemical reactions and interfaces in disordered systems." Cambridge Nonlinear Science Series 8. Tall octavo: 350 p. with numerous textual figures. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Light bumping to the corners and tips, with some minor edgewear to the dust jacket; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 74778