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Offers graduates and researchers in theoretical or applied mechanics, mathematics, and physics a unified conceptual framework for dealing with problems of chaotic oscillations of mechanical systems. Oscillating between theoretical and practical aspects, defines attractors and chaotic behavior, illustrates methods for determining and investigating oscillations, provides classical equations and examples of application and analysis in mechanical and civil engineering. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.