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Optical Physics

By: Ariel Lipson,Stephen G. Lipson,Henry Lipson

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Optical Physics

By: Ariel Lipson,Stephen G. Lipson,Henry Lipson

This fourth edition of a well-established textbook takes students from fundamental ideas to the most modern developments in optics. Illustrated with 400 figures, it contains numerous practical examples, many from student laboratory experiments and lecture demonstrations. Aimed at undergraduate and advanced courses on modern optics, it is ideal for scientists and engineers. The book covers the principles of geometrical and physical optics, leading into quantum optics, using mainly Fourier transforms and linear algebra. Chapters are supplemented with advanced topics and up-to-date applications, exposing readers to key research themes, including negative refractive index, surface plasmon resonance, phase retrieval in crystal diffraction and the Hubble telescope, photonic crystals, super-resolved imaging in biology, electromagnetically induced transparency, slow light and superluminal propagation, entangled photons and solar energy collectors. Solutions to the problems, simulation programs, key figures and further discussions of several topics are available at www.cambridge.org/lipson.

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1139492608

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Evangelizing the Chosen People

Missions to the Jews in America, 1880 - 2000

By: Yaakov Ariel

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Evangelizing the Chosen People

Missions to the Jews in America, 1880 - 2000

By: Yaakov Ariel

With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, the book analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts and describes the reactions of the Jewish community, which in turn helped to shape the evangelical activity directed toward it. Ariel delineates three successive waves of evangelism, the first directed toward poor Jewish immigrants, the second toward American-born Jews trying to assimilate, and the third toward Jewish baby boomers influenced by the counterculture of the Vietnam War era. After World War II, the missionary impulse became almost exclusively the realm of conservative evangelicals, as the more liberal segments of American Christianity took the path of interfaith dialogue. As Ariel shows, these missionary efforts have profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish relations. Jews have seen the missionary movement as a continuation of attempts to delegitimize Judaism and to do away with Jews through assimilation or annihilation. But to conservative evangelical Christians, who support the State of Israel, evangelizing Jews is a manifestation of goodwill toward them.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807860530

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An Unusual Relationship

Evangelical Christians and Jews

By: Yaakov Ariel

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An Unusual Relationship

Evangelical Christians and Jews

By: Yaakov Ariel

In this enormously well researched and gracefully argued book, Ariel develops a nuanced theme: the complexity, ambivalence, and even paradox that has characterized conservative Protestant beliefs regarding Jews and Israel, and the diverse responses among Jews. . . . First-rate scholarship presented in a pleasingly accessible style." —Stephen Spector, author of Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism It is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in common. Yet special alliances developed between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to recognize their true savior. Consequently, they set out to influence the course of Jewish life by attempting to evangelize Jews and to facilitate their return to Palestine. Their double-edged perception caused unprecedented political, cultural, and theological meeting points that have revolutionized Christian-Jewish relationships. An Unusual Relationship explores the beliefs and political agendas that evangelicals have created in order to affect the future of the Jews. This volume offers a fascinating, comprehensive analysis of the roots, manifestations, and consequences of evangelical interest in the Jews, and the alternatives they provide to conventional historical Christian-Jewish interactions. It also provides a compelling understanding of Middle Eastern politics through a new lens. Yaakov Ariel is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book, Evangelizing the Chosen People, was awarded the Albert C. Outler prize by the American Society of Church History. In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

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NYU Press

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0814770681

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The Age of Louis XIV

The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

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The Age of Louis XIV

The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII: A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715. This is the eighth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451647654

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Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation (Second Edition)

By: Ariel Dinar,Shlomi Dinar,Daene C Mckinney,Stephen C Mccaffrey

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Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation (Second Edition)

By: Ariel Dinar,Shlomi Dinar,Daene C Mckinney,Stephen C Mccaffrey

Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines, such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics. It demonstrates their application, using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling, quantitative negotiation theory, and game theory. Case-studies of particular transboundary river basins, lakes, and aquifers are also considered.This second edition updates the literature on international water and in-depth analyses on political developments and cooperation between riparian states. With an appended chapter on principles and practices of negotiation, and a new case study on the La Plata Basin, this edition is a timely update to the field of transboundary water studies.

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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9814436674

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Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation

By: Ariel Dinar,Shlomi Dinar,Daene C Mckinney,Stephen C Mccaffrey

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Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation

By: Ariel Dinar,Shlomi Dinar,Daene C Mckinney,Stephen C Mccaffrey

Latest Edition: Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation and Cooperation (2nd Edition) Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines (such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics), analyzing them using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling and game theory. Case studies of particular transboundary river basins, lakes and aquifers are also considered. This is the first textbook for a relatively recent yet rapidly expanding field of study. Errata(s) Errata

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9813106778

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The Age of Voltaire

The Story of Civilization, Volume IX

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

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The Age of Voltaire

The Story of Civilization, Volume IX

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: A history of civilization in Western Europe from 1715 to 1756, with special emphasis on the conflict between religion and philosophy. This is the ninth volume of the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

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1451647662

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Topological Dynamics in Metamodel Discovery with Artificial Intelligence

From Biomedical to Cosmological Technologies

By: Ariel Fernández

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Topological Dynamics in Metamodel Discovery with Artificial Intelligence

From Biomedical to Cosmological Technologies

By: Ariel Fernández

The leveraging of artificial intelligence (AI) for model discovery in dynamical systems is cross-fertilizing and revolutionizing both disciplines, heralding a new era of data-driven science. This book is placed at the forefront of this endeavor, taking model discovery to the next level. Dealing with artificial intelligence, this book delineates AI’s role in model discovery for dynamical systems. With the implementation of topological methods to construct metamodels, it engages with levels of complexity and multiscale hierarchies hitherto considered off limits for data science. Key Features: Introduces new and advanced methods of model discovery for time series data using artificial intelligence Implements topological approaches to distill "machine-intuitive" models from complex dynamics data Introduces a new paradigm for a parsimonious model of a dynamical system without resorting to differential equations Heralds a new era in data-driven science and engineering based on the operational concept of "computational intuition" Intended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners interested in dynamical systems empowered by AI or machine learning and in their biological, engineering, and biomedical applications, this book will represent a significant educational resource for people engaged in AI-related cross-disciplinary projects.

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CRC Press

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1000806421

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9781000806427

Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Reverse Engineering of the Big Bang

By: Ariel Fernández

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Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Reverse Engineering of the Big Bang

By: Ariel Fernández

As we prod the cosmos at very large scales, basic tenets of physics seem to crumble under the weight of contradicting evidence. This book helps mitigate the crisis. It resorts to artificial intelligence (AI) for answers and describes the outcome of this quest in terms of an ur-universe, a quintessential compact multiply connected space that incorporates a fifth dimension to encode space-time as a latent manifold. In some ways, AI is bolder than humans because the huge corpus of knowledge, starting with the prodigious Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, poses almost no burden to its conjecture-framing processes. Why not feed AI with the SM enriched by the troubling cosmological phenomenology on dark matter and dark energy and see where AI takes us vis-à-vis reconciling the conflicting data with the laws of physics? This is precisely the intellectual adventure described in this book and – to the best of our knowledge – in no other book on the shelf. As the reader will discover, many AI conjectures and validations ultimately make a lot of sense, even if their boldness does not feel altogether "human" yet. This book is written for a broad readership. Prerequisites are minimal, but a background in college math/physics/computer science is desirable. This book does not merely describe what is known about dark matter and dark energy but also provides readers with intellectual tools to engage in a quest for the deepest cosmological mystery.

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1000925293

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9781000925296

The Age of Reason Begins

A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

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The Age of Reason Begins

A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558-1648

By: Will Durant,Ariel Durant

If there is a linchpin to understanding modern European history, it lies in the period of religious strife & scientific progress between the 1550s & 1650s. In The Age of Reason Begins, Will & Ariel Durant bring together a fascinating network of stories in their discussion of the bumpy road toward the Enlightenment. This is the age of great monarchs & greater artists: on the one hand, Elizabeth the First of England, Philip II of Spain & Henry IV of France; on the other, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne & Rembrandt. It also encompasses the heyday of Bacon, Galileo, Giordano Bruno & Descartes--the fathers of modern science & philosophy. But it is equally an age of extreme violence, a moment in which all Europe was embroiled in the horrible Thirty Years' War--in some respects, the real First World War. Whatever the case, this is a chapter in cultural history one can't set aside. "Mr & Mrs Durant are admirably lucid...This is a book that can be commended very warmly."--The New York Times.

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0671013203

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9780671013202

Artificial Intelligence Models for the Dark Universe

Forays in Mathematical Cosmology

By: Ariel Fernández

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Artificial Intelligence Models for the Dark Universe

Forays in Mathematical Cosmology

By: Ariel Fernández

The dark universe contains matter and energy unidentifiable with current physical models, accounting for 95% of all the matter and energetic equivalent in the universe. The enormous surplus brings up daunting enigmas, such as the cosmological constant problem and the apparent distortions in the dynamics of deep space, and so coming to grips with the invisible universe has become a scientific imperative. This book addresses this need, reckoning that no cogent physical model of the dark universe can be implemented without first addressing the metaphysical hurdles along the way. The foremost problem is identifying the topology of the universe which, as argued in the book, is highly relevant to unveil the secrets of the dark universe. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a valuable tool in this effort since it can reconcile conflicting data from deep space with the extant laws of physics by building models to decipher the dark universe. This book explores the applications of AI and how it can be used to embark on a metaphysical quest to identify the topology of the universe as a prerequisite to implement a physical model of the dark sector that enables a meaningful extrapolation into the visibile sector. The book is intended for a broad readership, but a background in college-level physics and computer science is essential. The book will be a valuable guide for graduate students as well as researchers in physics, astrophysics, and computer science focusing on AI applications to elucidate the nature of the dark universe. Key Features: · Provides readers with an intellectual toolbox to understand physical arguments on dark matter and energy. · Up to date with the latest cutting-edge research. · Authored by an expert on artificial intelligence and mathematical physics.

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1040100910

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9781040100912

Querying Artificial Intelligence on the Dark Universe in a Quintessential Encoding of Space-time

By: Ariel Fernández

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Querying Artificial Intelligence on the Dark Universe in a Quintessential Encoding of Space-time

By: Ariel Fernández

This book explores the possibility of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to solve one of the cosmos’ biggest mysteries: the nature of undetectable forms of matter, namely dark matter and dark energy, which make up 95% of the universe. The book describes the outcome of this quest in terms of an entangled ur-universe that admits no observer, and incorporates an extra dimension to encode space-time as a latent manifold. A cosmic engine fueled by dark energy that maintains the topology of the universe during its expansion, involving autocatalytic vacuum creation, is identified. The physical picture of the cosmos presented in the book paves the way for a solution to the cosmological constant problem and provides a cogent explanation for the huge gap between the predicted and measured values that has troubled physicists for decades.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152753118X

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Optical Physics

Optical Physics

Evangelizing the Chosen People

Evangelizing the Chosen People

An Unusual Relationship

An Unusual Relationship

The Age of Louis XIV

The Age of Louis XIV

Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation (Second Edition)

Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation (Second Edition)

Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation

Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation

The Age of Voltaire

The Age of Voltaire

Topological Dynamics in Metamodel Discovery with Artificial Intelligence

Topological Dynamics in Metamodel Discovery with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Artificial Intelligence on Dark Matter and Dark Energy

The Age of Reason Begins

The Age of Reason Begins

Artificial Intelligence Models for the Dark Universe

Artificial Intelligence Models for the Dark Universe

Querying Artificial Intelligence on the Dark Universe in a Quintessential Encoding of Space-time

Querying Artificial Intelligence on the Dark Universe in a Quintessential Encoding of Space-time

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