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Metaphors For God's Time in Science and Religion

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Metaphors for God's Time in Science and Religion examines the exploratory work of metaphors for time in astrophysical cosmology, chaos theory, evolutionary biology and neuroscience. Stephen Happel claims that the Christian God is intimately involved at every level of physical and biological science. He compares how scientists and...

Classroom Wars: Language, Sex, and the Making of Modern Political Culture

Oxford University Press, 2015

The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of the political concept of "family values." Through Spanish-bilingual and sex education, moderates and conservatives in California came to define the family as a politicized and racialized site in the late 1960s and 1970s. Sex education became a vital...

Verification Techniques for System-Level Design (Systems on Silicon)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

A must-read in formal and semi-formal verification!

This book will explain how to verify SoC logic designs using formal and semi-formal verification techniques. The critical issue to be addressed is whether the functionality of the design is the one that the designers intended. Simulation has been used for checking the...

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library

O'Reilly, 2008

Learning OpenCV puts you right in the middle of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. Written by the creators of OpenCV, the widely used free open-source library, this book introduces you to computer vision and demonstrates how you can quickly build applications that enable computers to "see" and make decisions based on the...

The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First

Encounter Books, 2005

Takes the reader inside the often bizarre world of the Earth First! Movement and the back to nature counterculture of California's North Coast.

Kate Coleman traces Judi Bari's rise from college activist to would-be Mother Jones of the Redwoods. Drawing on extensive interviews with Bari's friends and comrades as well as critics, Coleman...

Working GlobeSmart: 12 People Skills for Doing Business Across Borders

Davies-Black Publishing, 2003

By any measure, business success is no longer solely about hard work, good intentions, and technical expertise. Relationship building, communication, and the ability to forge cooperation across organizational lines are key--especially when operating across borders, spanning time zones, and crossing cultures.

Whether you are working for...

Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition) (GOAL Series)

Prentice Hall, 2007

A presentation of the basics of both distributed and single-processor computer systems, this book reflects real-world experience that provides practical, hands- on information in constructing and understanding modern operating systems. This book discusses the key principles of both kinds of systems — including MS- DOS, UNIX, Amoeba, and...

Refactoring to Patterns (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

Addison Wesley, 2004

In 1994, Design Patterns changed the landscape of object-oriented development by introducing classic solutions to recurring design problems. In 1999, Refactoring revolutionized design by introducing an effective process for improving code. With the highly anticipated Refactoring to Patterns, Joshua...

The Role of Labour Mobility and Informal Networks for Knowledge Transfer

Springer, 2004

The purpose of this volume is to analyze the microfoundations of knowledge spillovers. The microeconomic analysis of spillovers leads to the insight that the spillover and flow of knowledge is not at all automatic. Instead, this volume suggests that a filter exists between knowledge and its economic application. The focus of this volume is on...

High Dynamic Range Imaging: Acquisition, Display, and Image-Based Lighting

Morgan Kaufmann, 2005

High dynamic range imaging produces images with a much greater range of light and color than conventional imaging. The effect is stunning, as great as the difference between black-and-white and color television. High Dynamic Range Imaging is the first book to describe this exciting new field that is transforming the media and...

A Structural Account of Mathematics

Oxford University Press, 2007

Charles Chihara's new book develops and defends a structural view of the nature of mathematics, and uses it to explain a number of striking features of mathematics that have puzzled philosophers for centuries. The view is used to show that, in order to understand how mathematical systems are applied in science and everyday life, it is not necessary...

Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques

Springer, 2011

This volume contains the papers presented at the 14th International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2011) and the 15th International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM 2011), which took place concurrently in Princeton University, USA, during August 17–19,...

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