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How to buy Spivak's A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry

This sounds a bit stupid, but how can I buy Spivak's A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry (the third edition)? It does not seem to be available on Amazon (at least most of it is not ...
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Duistermaat and Kolk's lost chapters on Lie groups

In Duistermaat and Kolk's book Lie Groups, it is written in the preface that "the text contains references to chapters belonging to a future volume". I could not find this second volume anywhere. Has ...
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Good introduction to Morse-Novikov theory?

Morse theory investigates the topology of compact manifolds using critical points of real-valued functions $f\colon\, M\to \mathbb{R}$. Motivated by problems in dynamical systems, Novikov (Multivalued ...
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frechet manifolds book

hi, does anyone know a good book or some lecture notes on the theory of frechet manifolds ?
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On a remark in Foundations of mechanics, 2nd Edition, by Abraham and Marsden

I don't know if this question is appropriate to this site, but I posted here without an answer, so I tried this alternative. Given a $2$-form $\omega$ on a manifold $M$, let us denote by $N$ the ...
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