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Service-Oriented Computing (Cooperative Information Systems)

MIT Press, 2008

Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) promises a world of cooperating services loosely connected, creating dynamic business processes and agile applications that span organizations and platforms. As a computing paradigm, it utilizes services as fundamental elements to support rapid, low-cost development of distributed applications in heterogeneous...

Smart Light-Responsive Materials: Azobenzene-Containing Polymers and Liquid Crystals

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This book reviews the cutting-edge significant research in the field of smart light-responsive materials based on azobenzene polymers and liquid crystals. Emphasis is placed on the discovery of new phenomena from the past 5 years, their underlying mechanisms, new functionalities, and properties achieved through rational design. Edited by leading...

Computer Evidence: Collection & Preservation (Networking Series)

Charles River, 2005

Learn to Collect Digital Artifacts and Ensure Evidence Acceptance!

Computer Evidence: Collection and Preservation teaches law enforcement and computer forensics investigators how to identify, collect, and maintain digital artifacts to preserve their reliability for admission as evidence. The book focuses on collection and preservation because...

Bose-Condensed Gases at Finite Temperatures

Cambridge University Press, 2009

The discovery of Bose Einstein condensation (BEC) in trapped ultracold atomic gases in 1995 has led to an explosion of theoretical and experimental research on the properties of Bose-condensed dilute gases. The first treatment of BEC at finite temperatures, this book presents a thorough account of the theory of two-component dynamics and...

Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers

Oxford University Press, 2006

"A vivid picture of how one man, by force of rigorous analysis and clear writing, taught a generation of biologists how to think about evolution."--New York Times

ith the publication of the international bestseller The Selfish Gene some thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of...

Peace-Building by, between, and beyond Muslims and Evangelical Christians

Lexington Books, 2009

When Evangelical Christian and Muslim scholars meet to dialogue, to explore the interface between their perspectives, and to deepen the shared understandings, common resources, and relationships, they discover that they have much to talk about.

There is much that is shared in common. Both take their Scriptures seriously. Both care deeply...

The Green Book of Mathematical Problems

Dover Publications, 1997

There is a famous set of fairy tale books, each volume of which is designated by the colour of its cover: The Red Book, The Blue Book, The Yellow Book, etc. We are not presenting you with The Green Book of fairy stories. but rather a book of mathematical problems. However, the conceptual idea of all fairy stories, that of mystery, search, and...

Alternative Methods of Regression (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

John Wiley & Sons, 1993

Since its discovery almost 200 years ago, least squares has been the most popular method of regression analysis. A statistics book with the word "regression" in its title, without any qualifying adjective such as "robust" or "nonparametric" or "alternative", can be assumed to be about least-squares...

From Certainty to Uncertainty: The Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century

Joseph Henry Press, 2002

The first year of a new century always appears auspicious. The year 1900 was no exception. Americans welcomed it in with the three Ps: Peace, Prosperity, and Progress. It was the culmination of many outstanding achievements and looked forward, with great confidence, to a century of continued progress. The twentieth century would be an age of...

The Alexander Technique

Bantam, 1981

Nobel Prize-winner Nikolaas Tinbergen hailed the discovery of the. technique. With "growing amazement" he and his family noted "very striking improvements" in high blood pressure, depth of sleep, overall cheerfulness and mental alertness. Tinbergen concluded that the technique may often produce "profound and beneficial...

Nanomagnetism and Spintronics

Elsevier Limited, 2009

Spintronics is a newly developing area in the field of magnetism, where the interplay of magnetism and transport phenomena is studied experimentally and theoretically. This book introduces the recent progresses in the researches relating to spintronics.

- From electronics to spintronics.
-...

From Clockwork to Crapshoot: A History of Physics

Harvard University Press, 2007

This book is a survey of the history of physics, together with the associated astronomy, mathematics, and chemistry, from the beginnings of science to the present. I pay particular attention to the change from a deterministic view of nature to one dominated by probabilities, from viewing the universe as running like clockwork to seeing it as a...

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