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Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design

CRC Press, 2003

This is a well-written solid engineering oriented book … an excellent book for a first course which concentrates on digital electronics at the transistor level.
-IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2004

…Ayers discusses a wide range of topics-each properly arranged, concisely explained, and clearly...

Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices, and Prospects

Springer, 2008

"The material presented here is largely accessible to anyone interested in nuclear energy. This book is the best of its kind in providing a well-written survey of the science, technology, safety, and economics of the full range of nuclear issues, including power, waste, weapons, terrorism, biological effects, and the future of the nuclear...

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Vintage)

Vintage, 1990

Dozens of examples in innumeracy show us how it affects not only personal economics and travel plans, but explains mischosen mates, inappropriate drug-testing, and the allure of psuedo-science.

Innumeracy, an inability to deal comfortably with the fundamental notions of number and chance, plagues far too many otherwise...

Textbook of Medical Administration and Leadership

Springer, 2018

This textbook covers all general areas of knowledge required for a trainee, generalist medical administrator, and doctor undergoing training to be a medical administrator specialist. Chapters cover all the key topics on medical administration and leadership. Some of the key topics included are: health systems and policy, health law,...

Peacebuilding and Sustainable Human Development: The Pursuit of the Bangsamoro Right to Self-Determination (The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science)

Springer, 2019

This book presents the protracted right to self-determination conflict between the Philippine state and the Bangsamoro group in Mindanao, Philippines. In the five decades of attempts to achieve peace, a key element is the Bangsamoros’ search for a kind of development that is compatible with their aspirations for freedom and...

Economics For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Economics is all about humanity’s struggle to achieve happiness in a world full of constraints. Too little time and money is available to do everything people want. And things like curing cancer are still impossible because the necessary technologies haven’t yet been developed.

But people are clever. They tinker and...

Broadband Services: Business Models and Technologies for Community Networks

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Ubiquitous access to the internet is essential to prevent the deepening of modern society’s ‘digital divide’.

Remote communities are at a disadvantage when it comes to seeking better education, better jobs, and higher levels of civic participation. Governments around the world have recognised the damage...

At a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet (Leonardo Books)

MIT Press, 2005

"The book is an exhilarating, eye-opening read that restores the body to the virtual and pulls the virtual out of the digital and back into lived and produced social relations." - Patricia R. Zimmermann, Department of Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College"

Networked collaborations of artists did not begin on the Internet....

The Price of Prosperity: A Realistic Appraisal of the Future of Our National Economy (Peter L. Bernstein's Finance Classics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperitywhich have...

Introduction to Insurance Mathematics: Technical and Financial Features of Risk Transfers

Springer, 2011

The book aims at presenting technical and financial features of life insurance, non-life insurance, pension plans. The book has been planned assuming non-actuarial readers as its "natural" target, namely - advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Economics, Business and Finance; - professionals and technicians operating in...

Ageing And Pension Reform Around The World: Evidence From Eleven Countries

Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005

Population ageing and the resulting pressures on existing pension systems constitutes one of the most important challenges modern societies will have to face over the coming decades. Although governments have responded to such pressures by adopting a plethora of pension reforms, the adaptation process is far from over. This book comprehensively...

Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture

Springer, 2009

The stories presented in Success Stories in Asian Aquaculture reflect the unique nature of Asian aquaculture, providing first-time insight into how and why it has become so successful. Overall, the book demonstrates how the resilience, adaptability, and innovation of small-scale aquaculture farmers have been crucial to this success. It...

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