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A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia -- or dystopia -- was just an acid trip away. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi -- prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter -- turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions: Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him? And how did Manson -- an illiterate ex-con -- turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.
The articles in this Control and Chaos volume are an outgrowth of a US-Australia workshop held in Hawaii in 1995. Experts in dynamical systems theory and control theory from the US and Australia, as well as England and Japan, focused on the problem of controlling nonlinear and potentially chaotic systems using limited control effort. The formal contributions take into account the discussions and commentaries of the participants and are reflected at the end of each article. Part I contains papers dealing with modeling, behavior, reconstruction, prediction and numerics. Part II deals with controlling complex systems by means of embedding unstable periodic orbits, targeting, filtering, optimization and adaptive methods. Part III contains four applications papers including the control of a bouncing ball, evolutionary stability, chaos in ecosystems, and neural networks. Contents and Contributors: Understanding Complex Dynamics Triangulating Noisy Dynamical Systems S. Allie, A. Mees, K. Judd, D. Watson Attractor Reconstruction and Control Using Interspike Intervals T. Sauer Modeling Chaos from Experimental Data K. Judd, A. Mees Chaos in Symplectic Discretization of the Pendulum and Sine-Gordon Equations B.M. Herbst, C.M. Schober Collapsing Effects in Computation of Dynamical Systems P. Diamond, P. Kloeden, A. Pokrovskii Bifurications in the Falkner-Skan equation C. Sparrow Some Characterizations of Low-dimensional Dynamical Systems with Time-reversal Symmetry J.A.G. Roberts Controlling Complex Systems Control of Chaos by Means of Embedded Unstable Periodic Orbits E. Ott, B.R. Hunt Notch Filter Feedback Control for k-Period Motion in a Chaotic System W.J. Grantham, A.M. Athalye Targeting and Control of Chaos E.J. Kostelich, E. Barreto Adaptive Nonlinear Control: A Lyapunov Approach P.V. Kokotovic, M. Krstic Creating and Targeting Periodic Orbits K. Glass, M. Renton, K. Judd, A. Mees Dynamical Systems, Optimization, and Chaos J.B. Moore Combined Controls for Noisy Chaotic Systems M. Paskota, K.L. Teo, A. Mees Complex Dynamics in Adaptive Systems I.M.Y. Mareels Hitting Times to a Target for the Baker's Map A. Mazer Applications Controllable Targets Near a Chaotic Attractor T.L. Vincent The Dynamics of Evolutionary Stable Strategies Y. Cohen, T.L. Vincent Nitrogen Cycling and the Control of Chaos in a Boreal Forest Model J. Pastor, Y. Cohen Self-organization Dynamics in Chaotic Neural Networks M. Watanabe, K. Aihara, S. Kondo Series: Mathematical Modeling, Volume 8
Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics introduces students, scientists, and engineers to the full range of activity in the rapidly growing field on nonlinear dynamics. Using a step-by-step introduction to dynamics and geometry in state space as the central focus of understanding nonlinear dynamics, thisbook includes a thorough treatment of both differential equation models and iterated map models (including a derivation of the famous Feigenbaum numbers). It is the only book at this level to include the increasingly important field of pattern formation and a survey of the controversial questions ofquantum chaos. Important tools such as Lyapunov exponents and fractal dimensions are treated in detail. With over 200 figures and diagrams, and analytic and computer exercises for every chapter, the book can be used as a course-text or for self-instruction. This second edition has been restructuredto make the book even more useful as a course text:many of the more complex examples and derivations have been moved to appendices. The extensive collection of annotated references has been updated through January 2000 and now includes listings of World Wide Web sites at many of the major nonlineardynamics research centers. From reviews on the 1/e: 'What has been lacking is a single book that takes the reader with nothing but a knowledge of elementary calculus and physics all the way to the frontiers of research in chaos and nonlinear dynamics in all its facets. [...] a serious student,teacher, or researcher would be delighted to have this book on the shelf as a reference and as a window to the literature in this exciting and rapidly growing new field of chaos.' J.C. Sprott, American Journal of Physics, September 19944 'I congratulate the author on having managed to write anextremely thorough, comprehensive, and entertaining introduction to the fascinating field of nonlinear dynamics. His book is highly self- explanatory and ideally suited for self-instruction. There is hardly any question that the author does not address in an exceptionally readable manner. [...] Istrongly recommend it to those looking for a comprehensive, practical, and not highly mathematical approach to the subject.' E.A. Hunt, IEEE Spectrum, December 1994
Chaos control refers to purposefully manipulating chaotic dynamical behaviors of some complex nonlinear systems. There exists no similar control theory-oriented book available in the market that is devoted to the subject of chaos control, written by control engineers for control engineers. World-renowned leading experts in the field provide their state-of-the-art survey about the extensive research that has been done over the last few years in this subject. The new technology of chaos control has major impact on novel engineering applications such as telecommunications, power systems, liquid mixing, internet technology, high-performance circuits and devices, biological systems modeling like the brain and the heart, and decision making. The book is not only aimed at active researchers in the field of chaos control involving control and systems engineers, theoretical and experimental physicists, and applied mathematicians, but also at a general audience in related fields.
Chaos is a fascinating phenomenon that has been observed in nature, laboratory, and has been applied in various real-world applications. Chaotic systems are deterministic with no random elements involved yet their behavior appears to be random. Obser- tions of chaotic behavior in nature include weather and climate, the dynamics of sat- lites in the solar system, the time evolution of the magnetic field of celestial bodies, population growth in ecology, to mention only a few examples. Chaos has been observed in the laboratory in a number of systems such as electrical circuits, lasers, chemical reactions, fluid dynamics, mechanical systems, and magneto-mechanical devices. Chaotic behavior has also found numerous applications in electrical and communication engineering, information and communication technologies, biology and medicine. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first book edited on chaos applications in intelligent computing. To access the latest research related to chaos applications in intelligent computing, we launched the book project where researchers from all over the world provide the necessary coverage of the mentioned field. The primary obj- tive of this project was to assemble as much research coverage as possible related to the field by defining the latest innovative technologies and providing the most c- prehensive list of research references.
One of the first books in this area, this text focuses on important aspects of the system operation, analysis and performance evaluation of selected chaos-based digital communications systems – a hot topic in communications and signal processing.
Do decisions and ever-changing strategies make you believe that your organization operates in a state of chaos? Maybe it does - and for good reason. This issue describes the characteristics of chaos and complexity theory found in most organization and how it affects decisions and business management. A beginners guide shows you how to apply these complex theories to understand your organization and the direct consequences for trainers. A glossary of terms is provided as a guide to your baseline understanding of the field.
The essays in this volume collectively transform perspectives previously experienced as divergent, conflicting, and inconsistent into a common and complex orientation to problems central to the natural and social sciences involving transitions between order and disorder."--Jacket.
Psychology and the social sciences are in need of a new foundation, one that provides a better model for understanding complex behavior. Chaos theory and its newest permutation, complexity theory, offers an innovative, exciting and potentially revolutionary leap forward in the evolution of scientific thought. In Clinical Chaos, therapists and theoreticians from various areas in the social sciences will explore the relevance and implications for non-linear dynamics in observing, explaining, and understanding human behavior. At last, the scientific search can again encompass surprise, transformation, unpredictability, and pattern. This book is intended to introduce social scientists to chaos through paths that are already familiar. By linking chaos theory with existing psychological theories and established areas of clinical pursuit, Clinical Chaos emphasizes the relevance of this new science in providing a more flexible useful model for complexities of life.
