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Why There's Antifreeze in Your Toothpaste: The Chemistry of Household Ingredients

Chicago Review Press, 2007

This book started in my shower.

The label on my shampoo bottle listed many compounds, and, due to my interest in chemistry, most of them were familiar or had obvious functions. However, one compound stood out as puzzling: sodium chloride.

Why was there salt in my shampoo?

Since I wasn't likely to be eating it, I...

The First Computers--History and Architectures (History of Computing)

MIT Press, 2000

"A cohesive, well-defined discussion of the architecture of early computers."
— Mary Croarken, Business History

"A well-balanced and fascinating perspective on a wide range of early computing devices."
— Nathan Ensmenger, IEEE Spectrum...

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a key technique in modern reproductive medicine. Originally developed to help couples who were at risk of transmitting single-gene genetic abnormalities to their children, the development of the FISH technique broadened chromosome analysis to include detection of more complex inherited abnormalities....

Foundations of Oscillator Circuit Design (Artech House Microwave Library)

Artech House Publishers, 2006

My interest in oscillators started many years ago when I was an undergraduate student and one of the laboratory experiments was the design of a Colpitts oscillator. It was amazing to see how a sinusoidal signal appeared when the power supply was turned on. What an interesting way of controlling the motion of electrons in the circuit!...

Concepts of Modern Mathematics

Dover Publications, 1995

Concepts of Modern Mathematics began as an extramural course nowadays we would say 'continuing education—taught at Warwick University in 1971. Several dozen citizens of Coventry, ranging from school students to a retired automotive engineer, gathered for two hours every week to grapple with what was then called...

Topology of Digital Images: Visual Pattern Discovery in Proximity Spaces

Springer, 2014

This book carries forward recent work on visual patterns and structures in digital images and introduces a near set-based a topology of digital images. Visual patterns arise naturally in digital images viewed as sets of non-abstract points endowed with some form of proximity (nearness) relation. Proximity relations make it possible to...

Creating Belonging in San Francisco Chinatown’s Diasporic Community: Morphosyntactic Aspects of Indexing Ethnic Identity

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents a much-needed discussion on ethnic identification and morphosyntactic variation in San Francisco Chinatown?a community that has received very little attention in linguistic research. An investigation of original, interactive speech data sheds light on how first- and second-generation Chinese Americans...

Recent Trends in Algebraic Combinatorics (Association for Women in Mathematics Series)

Springer, 2019

This edited volume features a curated selection of research in algebraic combinatorics that explores the boundaries of current knowledge in the field. Focusing on topics experiencing broad interest and rapid growth, invited contributors offer survey articles on representation theory, symmetric functions, invariant theory, and...

Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford University Press, 2002

We are surrounded by cryptography, from the ATM, where we withdraw cash, mobile phones, and the Internet, to workplace security systems that protect business secrets, and the civil and military codes that protect the skies above us.

In this fascinating introduction to how cryptography actually works, Fred Piper and Sean Murphy highlight...

MPEG-4 Facial Animation: The Standard, Implementation and Applications

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

One of the more revolutionary parts of the MPEG-4 International Standard is the Face and Body Animation, or FBA: the specification for efficient coding of shape and animation of human faces and bodies. This specification is a result of collaboration of experts with different backgrounds ranging from image coding and compression to video analysis,...

Origins and Foundations of Computing: In Cooperation with Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

Springer, 2009

The book examines how intellectual developments in logic and mathematics were gradually matched by technical solutions in first mechanics and then electronics, and how the resulting machines found application in engineering, science and business.

The author was among the pioneers of computing science, and he offers a personal and...

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)

MIT Press, 2009

In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthropologists reconsidered the role of innovation in particular, and have moved toward characterizing innovation in cultural systems not only as a product but also as an evolutionary process. This...

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