Kirjahaku

A poetry book in Russian. Poems written in 1978-84 and 1988-89 in Moscow by the author who has left his country for Germany and is currently living and working in New York. The book contains introduction and comments by the author. Arcus NY Publishing.

Very concise graduate-level textbook on classical mechanics, mostly close to Landau & Lifshitz. Minimum words. In addition to standard material, chapters on dynamical chaos and microscopic origin of damping in conservative systems are included. Rotational dynamics is illustrated by the problem of a wheel rolling on a plane (picture on the cover). Arcus NY Publishing