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Health Economics and Policy
Selected Writings by Victor Fuchs
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
"The collection represents an extraordinary intellectual achievement and ... a handbook for anyone thinking about health and health policy."
Foreword by Sir Angus Deaton
winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
"Victor Fuchs ... is one of the world's most influential figures...
by Raymond Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Raymond Smullyan presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems incredible that there could be any solution at all! But there is indeed a solution — moreover, one that requires a chain of lesser puzzles to be solved first. The reader is thus taken on a journey through a maze of subsidiary...
by Sze-Bi Hsu
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
During the past three decades, the development of nonlinear analysis, dynamical systems and their applications to science and engineering has stimulated renewed enthusiasm for the theory of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE).
This useful book, which is based on the lecture notes of a well-received...
by Albert W Stetz
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This elegant book presents a rigorous introduction to the theory of nonlinear mechanics and chaos. It turns out that many simple mechanical systems suffer from a peculiar malady. They are deterministic in the sense that their motion can be described with partial differential equations, but these equations...
by Peter Rowlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Unique among celebrated scientists, Newton was equally gifted at theoretical physics, experimental physics and pure mathematics. He was also exceptional in another, less well-recognised sense. No one has come near to equalling his extraordinary analytical power.
Analytically-derived truths...
Selforganizology
The Science of Self-Organization
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This invaluable book is the first of its kind on "selforganizology", the science of self-organization. It covers a wide range of topics, such as the theory, principle and methodology of selforganizology, agent-based modelling, intelligence basis, ant colony optimization, fish/particle swarm...
Henri Poincaré
A Biography Through the Daily Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
On July 17, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincaré's death was commemorated; his name being associated with so many fields of knowledge that he was considered as the Last Universalist. In Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering and Philosophy, his works have had a great impact...
by Andrzej Szczepański
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Crystallographic groups are groups which act in a nice way and via isometries on some n-dimensional Euclidean space. They got their name, because in three dimensions they occur as the symmetry groups of a crystal (which we imagine to extend to infinity in all directions). The book is divided into...
by Jorge Ghiso, Agueda Rostagno
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This exciting new book explores the dark side of the molecular protein assembly bringing an updated view of how failures in the homeostatic mechanisms that efficiently regulate protein folding leads to the accumulation of structurally abnormal pathogenic assemblies, encompassing an emerging group...
The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures
19881999
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture series has become a very successful tradition in Swedish physics since it started in 1988. Theoretical high-energy physics dominates the subjects of the lectures, mirroring one of Klein's own main interests.
This single volume is a compilation of the unique...
Research on the Physics of Cancer
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
There is something special about cancer compared to other diseases. It is a horrific disease that has defied attempts to find a reliable cure. Life spans after diagnosis have increased, but the mortality rate has remained about the same even after 40 years of extensive research. Cancer provides a...
Modern Thoracic Oncology
(In 3 Volumes)Volume 1: General Principles of Thoracic OncologyVolume 2: Trachea, Lung, and PleuraVolume 3: Esophagus, Mediastinum, Chest Wall, and Diaphragm
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Modern Thoracic Oncology is the first comprehensive publication on thoracic oncology. Contributors who are world experts have authored concise, relevant and current topics in this field. Whether one desires information regarding l
by Milton W Cole, Angela D Lueking, David L Goodstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Whether on personal health, politics, or climate change, we are constantly bombarded with more numerous 'breaking news' articles than we have time for. In such an environment, how can we tell which to read, or which is even true.
Science of the Earth, Climate and Energy helps readers understand...
Let There Be Light
The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
This book is the first of its kind to devote itself at this level to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry, and universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences...