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Rock, Paper, Scissors: Game Theory in Everyday Life

Basic Books, 2008

“Physicist and Ig Nobel Prize–winner Fisher explores how game theory illuminates social behavior in this lively study…. Fisher does succeed in making the complex nature of game theory accessible and relevant, showing how mathematics applies to the dilemmas we face on a daily basis.”

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Wikipedia Revolution, The: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia

Hyperion, 2009

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."

--Jimmy Wales

With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer...

Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009

You want to write professional-grade applications: Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework, with integrated support for unit, functional, and integration testing. It enforces good design principles, consistency of code across your team (and across your organization), and proper release management.

But Rails is more than a set of best...

Electromagnetics Explained: A Handbook for Wireless/ RF, EMC, and High-Speed Electronics, Part of the EDN Series for Design Engineers

Newnes, 2002

*Covers topics using conceptual explanations and over 150 lucid figures, in place of complex mathematics
*Demystifies antennas, waveguides, and transmission line phenomena
*Provides the foundation necessary to thoroughly understand signal integrity issues associated with high-speed digital design

Written for engineers by an...

Integrated Chemical Processes: Synthesis, Operation, Analysis, and Control

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

"It is probably as comprehensive, didactic, and rich in examples as is possible at the present time." (Angewandte Chemie)

This is the first book dedicated to the entire field of integrated chemical processes, covering process design, analysis, operation and control of these processes. Both the editors and authors are...

Hilbert Space Operators in Quantum Physics (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)

Springer, 2008

Some praise for the previous edition:

“I really enjoyed reading this work. It is very well written, by three real experts in the field. It stands quite alone....” (John R. Taylor, Professor of Physics and Presidential Teaching Scholar, University of Colorado at Boulder)

This course-tested book explains in detail the theory...

The Discovery of the Germ (Revolutions in science)

Icon Group International, 2002

Words, like coins, are subject to devaluations and debasement. Big words, like revolution, are particularly vulnerable. Because of its proper coupling with adjectives such as American, French or Industrial, the term ‘revolution’ has been exploited by a myriad writers seeking to hype up some comparatively minor change in, say, the...

Surgical Oncology (Vademecum)

Landes Bioscience, 2000

An admirable addition...texts that provide students with a manageable and very understandable reference to the topics of surgical oncology. -- Peter R. Jochimsen, MD(University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)Doody Book Review Service

This book presents the most important information in surgical oncology in an easily...

Small Water Supplies: A Practical Guide (Clay's Library of Health and the Environment)

Taylor & Francis, 2004

There are approximately 50,000 small water supplies in the UK alone, and thousands more worldwide. Dealing with idiosyncratic characteristics of small water supplies requires specialist knowledge. Small Water Supplies: A Practical Guide provides invaluable guidance for their appropriate management.

This book covers how small,...

Organic Chemistry: An Intermediate Text

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

A foundation for success in advanced organic chemistry courses–and careers

Graduate students taking advanced organic chemistry courses often need a refresher on the discipline before they can move on to more specialized topics. This is especially true of students whose last formal exposure to organic chemistry was during...

Gas Well Deliquification, Second Edition (Gulf Drilling Guides)

Gulf Professional, 2008

The trusted choice for engineers handling gas wells, now with 30% more information

Liquid loading can reduce production and shorten the life-cycle of a well costing a company millions in revenue. A handy guide on the latest techniques, equipment, and chemicals used in de-watering gas wells, Gas Well Deliquification, 2nd ed....

System-level Test and Validation of Hardware/Software Systems (Springer Series in Advanced Microelectronics)

Springer, 2005

New manufacturing technologies have made possible the integration of entire systems on a single chip. This new design paradigm, termed system-on-chip (SOC), together with its associated manufacturing problems, represents a real challenge for designers.

SOC is also reshaping approaches to test and validation activities. These are beginning to...

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