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  • Dynamical Chaos in Planetary Systems

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This is the first monograph dedicated entirely to problems of stability and chaotic behaviour in planetary systems and its subsystems. The author explores the three rapidly developing interplaying fields of resonant and chaotic dynamics of Hamiltonian systems, the dynamics of Solar system bodies, and the dynamics of exoplanetary systems. The necessary concepts, methods and tools used to study ... Read more

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  • The Lidov-Kozai Effect - Applications in Exoplanet Research and Dynamical Astronomy

    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book deals with an effect in celestial mechanics that has become quite important in exoplanet research. The Lidov-Kozai effect reveals itself in coherent periodic variations (which can be very large) of the inclination and eccentricity of an orbiting body in the presence of an inclined perturber. The effect is known to be important in the motion of many asteroids and planetary satellites. ... Read more

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  • Select Poems and Folk Songs of Ukraine, Select Works of Ivan Alekseevich Bunin, and There's Not A Bathing Suit in Russia

    What “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” did for the negroes of the United States of America the poems of Shevchenko did for the serfs of Russia. They aroused the conscience of the Russian people, and the persecutions suffered by the poet at the hands of the autocracy awakened their sympathy. It was two days after the death of Shevchenko that the czar’s ukase appeared granting freedom to the serfs. Possibly the ... Read more

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