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In Future Cities, three authors - futurists, urban experts and systems architects - consider how the demands of the 21st Century will reshape the places where half of the world's population lives. From the history of urban development to the challenges of climate change and terrorism, they show how technology advances have shaped cities and how the demands of urban living will drive major improvements in energy use, transportation, communications, public safety, security, and human welfare. They challenge policymakers to incorporate the new tools of urban development into their thinking - but even more importantly, to understand the urgent need for a new approach to economic growth, one that severs the ties between production and pollution, between urbanization and degraded quality of life, and between greater individual liberty and increased vulnerability to threat. |
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The endothelium, the cell layer that forms the inner lining of blood vessels, is a spatially distributed system that extends to all reaches of the human body. Today, clinical and basic research demonstrates that the endothelium plays a crucial role in mediating homeostasis and is involved in virtually every disease, either as a primary... | | Murach's Visual Basic 2010
Munich s Visual Basic 2010 is designed to teach you everything you need to know for developing Windows Forms applications with Visual Basic 2010. When you finish this book, you'll be able to develop and deploy object-oriented applications the way the best professionals do. And then, this book will become the on-the-job reference that... | | Applied Radiological Anatomy
This expanded new, full colour edition of the classic Applied Radiological Anatomy is an exhaustive yet practical imaging resource of every organ system using all diagnostic modalities. Every illustration has been replaced, providing the most accurate and up-to-date radiographic scans available. Features of the second edition:
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AsiaSim 2007: Asia Simulation Conference 2007, Seoul, Korea, October 10-12, 2007, ProceedingsThis book includes selected papers of the Asia Simulation Conference 2007, held in Seoul, Korea, October 10-12, 2007.
The 42 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions; after the conference, the papers went through another round of revision. The papers are organized in topical sections on... | | Financial Engineering with Finite Elements (The Wiley Finance Series)The pricing of derivative instruments has always been a highly complex and time-consuming activity. Advances in technology, however, have enabled much quicker and more accurate pricing through mathematical rather than analytical models. In this book, the author bridges the divide between finance and mathematics by applying this proven mathematical... | | |
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