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Algorithms

McGraw-Hill, 2006

This text, extensively class-tested over a decade at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego, explains the fundamentals of algorithms in a story line that makes the material enjoyable and easy to digest. Emphasis is placed on understanding the crisp mathematical idea behind each algorithm, in a manner that is intuitive and rigorous without being unduly...

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

Princeton Press, 2012

Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism? Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source...

Beginning Objective-C

Apress, 2012

Objective-C is today's fastest growing programming language, at least in part due to the popularity of Apple's Mac, iPhone and iPad. Beginning Objective-C is for you if you have some programming experience, but you're new to the Objective-C programming language and you want a modern—and fast—way forwards...

Global Overshoot: Contemplating the World's Converging Problems

Springer, 2013

Global Overshoot is a multidisciplinary analysis (including history and pre-history) from an ecological and evolutionary perspective of the contemporary world system. This book compares and critiques attitudes held by people with different world views to the hypothetical prospect of large widespread falls in quality of life. It...

Handbook on Business Process Management 2: Strategic Alignment, Governance, People and Culture (International Handbooks on Information Systems)

Springer, 2014

Business Process Management (BPM) has become one of the most widely used approaches for the design of modern organizational and information systems. The conscious treatment of business processes as significant corporate assets has facilitated substantial improvements in organizational performance but is also used to ensure the conformance of...

Seduction: A History From the Enlightenment to the Present

Pegasus Books, 2020

A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and men throughout history.

If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the...

Information Resources Management: Global Challenges

IGI Global, 2007

The recent surge of technology outsourcing has intensified the cross-cultural effects of information systems designs and constructions, as well as the potential shortage of suitable information specialists at strategic locations. Millions of dollars of investments in information systems are at risk of being underutilized or rejected by users for...

Flavonoids: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Applications

CRC Press, 2005

It is with great pleasure that we accepted the offer by CRC Press to assemble and edit this compilation of reviews on flavonoids and their properties and functions for the present volume. We considered the volume timely in that the last book of this general type, The Flavonoids—Advances in Research Since 1986 (edited by...

Cardiac Drug Therapy (Contemporary Cardiology)

Humana Press, 2007

This book addresses the pharmacology and therapeutic application of drugs used to treat heart diseases and hypertension. Additions and updates to the sixth edition include six new chapters on current controversies in cardiac drug therapy such as the beta blocker issue many cardiologists are presently grappling with. The book provides...

The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

John Wiley & Sons, 2016

The Blackwell Companion to Naturalism provides a systematic introduction to philosophical naturalism and its relation to other schools of thought.

Features contributions from an international array of established and emerging scholars from across the humanities

Explores the historical development of...

Evidence-based Ayurveda: Defining a New Scientific Path

Routledge, 2019

This groundbreaking work calls for the overhaul of traditional Ayurveda and its transformation into a progressive, evidence-based practice.

This book begins by looking back at the research of the last three centuries, Indian medicinal plants, and Ayurveda in a twenty-first-century context. The first part of this book...

Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security

Gale, 2003

In composing The Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security (EEIS), our goal was to shape a modern encyclopedia offering immediate value to our intended readers by emphasizing matters of espionage, intelligence, and security most frequently in the news.

EEIS is not intended as a classical “spy book,” filled with...

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