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The First Half of the Age of Oil
An Exploration of the Work of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
According to the conventional wisdom, we live in a post-industrial information age. This book, however, paints a different picture: We live in the age of oil. Petroleum fuels and feedstocks are responsible for much of what we take for granted in modern society, from chemical products such as fertilizer...
Network-Embedded Management and Applications
Understanding Programmable Networking Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Despite the explosion of networking services and applications in the past decades, the basic technological underpinnings of the Internet have remained largely unchanged. At its heart are special-purpose appliances that connect us to the digital world, commonly known as switches and routers. Now,...
The Next Economics
Global Cases in Energy, Environment, and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
The Next Economics focuses on how the field of economics must change and incorporate environment, energy, health and new technologies that are called externalities for stopping and reversing climate change. The field of economics needs to become a science. Economics in this book for the Green Industrial...
The Changing Business Landscape of Romania
Lessons for and from Transition Economies
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Romania stands at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Since 1990, when the country experienced the bloodiest revolution of all of the Warsaw Pact members, Romania has gone through withering change. While the formal transition from a totalitarian, communist state was completed in 2007...
New Perspectives on Industrial Organization
With Contributions from Behavioral Economics and Game Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
This book covers the main topics that students need to learn in a course on Industrial Organization. It reviews the classic models and important empirical evidence related to the field. However, it will differ from prior textbooks in two ways. First, this book incorporates contributions from...
by Philip Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Amateur astronomers have to start somewhere. Most begin by buying a modest astronomical telescope and getting to know the night sky. After a while, many want to move on to the next stage, but this can be problematic. The magazines advertise a mass of commercially-made equipment – some of it very...
Mathematica® in Action
Problem Solving Through Visualization and Computation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Plenty of examples and case studies utilize Mathematica 7's newest tools, such as dynamic manipulations and adaptive three-dimensional plotting.
Emphasizes the breadth of Mathematica and the impressive results of combining techniques from different areas.
Whenever possible, the book...
Disney Stories
Getting to Digital
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Disney Stories: Getting to Digital explores how Disney, the man and the company, used technological innovation to create characters and stories that engage audiences in many different media, in particular in Video Games and on the Internet.
Drawing on Disney films from the twenties and thirties,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Terrorist groups throughout the world have been studied primarily through the use of social science methods. However, major advances in IT during the past decade have led to significant new ways of studying terrorist groups, making forecasts, learning models of their behaviour, and shaping policies...
Applied Fourier Analysis
From Signal Processing to Medical Imaging
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The first of its kind, this focused textbook serves as a self-contained resource for teaching from scratch the fundamental mathematics of Fourier analysis and illustrating some of its most current, interesting applications, including medical imaging and radar processing. Developed by the author from...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
With the growth of information and focus on Healthcare Informatics, there remains an interest in case studies. In the current field of Health Informatics there is no text that uses case studies to explain the difficulties that occur. . Edited by specialists in the field of Health Informatics, the...
Neuroscience for Clinicians
Evidence, Models, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This book fills the need for an introductory text that opens the field up to the beginner and takes them to higher-level thinking about neuroscience. Neuroscience has captured the interest of students, professionals, and the general public. In fact it is so new, that there are very few books that...
Brain, Mind and Consciousness
Advances in Neuroscience Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2011
Neuropsychological research on the neural basis of behavior generally asserts that brain mechanisms ultimately suffice to explain all psychologically described phenomena. This assumption stems from the idea that the brain consists entirely of material particles and fields, and that all causal mechanisms...
by Leonard F. Koziol, Deborah Ely Budding, Dana Chidekel
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
ADHD as a Model of Brain-Behavior Relationships
Leonard F. Koziol, Deborah Ely Budding, and Dana Chidekel
Series Title: Springer Briefs in Neuroscience
Subseries: The Vertically Organized Brain in Theory and Practice
It's been a basic neurological given: the brain does...