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Regulating Religion: The Courts and the Free Excercise Clause

Oxford University Press, 2004

"...an authoritative and constructive study of the US Supreme Court's free exercise jurisprudence."
--Choice

"Cookson's conclusion is powerful . She has the courage to assert that current free exercise jurisprudence is not working and to present argue for a more effective alternative. This book offers a fascinating...

Signal Processing and Linear Systems

Oxford University Press, 2000

This text presents a comprehensive treatment of signal processing and linear systems suitable for juniors and seniors in electrical engineering. Based on B. P. Lathi's widely used book, Linear Systems and Signals, it features additional applications to communications, controls, and filtering as well as new chapters on analog and digital filters and...

Introduction to Parallel Computing (Oxford Texts in Applied and Engineering Mathematics)

Oxford University Press, 2004

In the last few years, courses on parallel computation have been developed and offered in many institutions in the UK, Europe and US as a recognition of the growing significance of this topic in mathematics and computer science. There is a clear need for texts that meet the needs of students and lecturers and this book, based on the author's...

Beyond Programming: To a New Era of Design (Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory Series in Science and Engineering)

Oxford University Press, 1995

This book provides a unique examination of the software development process, arguing that discipline, still dominated by methods conceived in the framework of older technologies, must undergo a fundatmental reexamination of its guiding principles in order for significant progress to take place. To gain fresh insights into how we ought to direct...

Language and Communication: Essential Concepts for User Interface and Documentation Design

Oxford University Press, 1999

Computer interfaces and documentation are notorious for being difficult to learn and use. This timely volume shows how ideas developed by linguists and language teachers can be used to design computers which are truly user-friendly. The author argues that software and hardware designers should see users as language learners and consider such...

Agency and the Semantic Web

Oxford University Press, 2006

This highly topical text considers the construction of the next generation of the Web, called the Semantic Web. This will enable computers to automatically consume Web-based information, overcoming the human-centric focus of the Web as it stands at present, and expediting the construction of a whole new class of knowledge-based applications that...

A First Course in Logic: An Introduction to Model Theory, Proof Theory, Computability, and Complexity

Oxford University Press, 2004

'a clear and unifying treatment of fundamental concepts underlying Computer Sciences and Foundations of Mathematics' Professor Boris Zilber (Professor of Mathematical Logic, University of Oxford)

'an excellent book' Professor Dov Gabbay (King's College, London)

The ability to reason and think in a logical manner...

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

Oxford University Press, 2006

This concise, accessible text provides a thorough introduction to quantum computing - an exciting emergent field at the interface of the computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences. Aimed at advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in these disciplines, the text is technically detailed and is clearly illustrated...

Computational Text Analysis: For Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

Oxford University Press, 2006

This book brings together the two disparate worlds of computational text analysis and biology and presents some of the latest methods and applications to proteomics, sequence analysis, and gene expression data. Modern genomics generates large and comprehensive data sets but their interpretation requires an understanding of a vast number of genes,...

Beer: Tap Into the Art and Science of Brewing

Oxford University Press, 2003

"Brilliant! There has been an unfilled market for this type of book. . . . Happily, this book . . .is by a wide margin the best reference now available . . . The book is very well written. It has a light, almost breezy style that is mixed with a subtle yet attractively understated British wit. It is above all a great read that is hard to...

The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero

Oxford University Press, 1999

A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. As we enter the year 2000, zero is once again making its presence felt. Nothing itself, it makes possible a myriad of calculations. Indeed, without zero mathematics as we know it would not exist. And without mathematics...

Passionate Engines: What Emotions Reveal about the Mind and Artificial Intelligence

Oxford University Press, 2004

In this unique contribution to philosophical debate, Craig DeLancey shows that our best understanding of emotion provides essential insight on key issues in philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. DeLancey offers us a bold new approach to the study of the mind based on the latest scientific research, and provides an accessible overview of...

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