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The Infected Implant

Springer, 2009

Musculosketal infections are potentially devastating for the patient, his family and the health care services, as they may lead to functional impairment, long lasting disability, or even permanent handicap.

This problem may also have socioeconomic implications. Infection commonly results in prolonged use of antibiotics, multiple...

Schaum's Outline of German Vocabulary, 3ed (Schaum's Outline Series)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course...

Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications

Apress, 2010

I believe in the W3C’s principle of One Web—that services and information on the web should be thematically consistent and accessible to all kinds of devices, without regard to differences in presentation capabilities. Informally, the One Web principle means that if I write my grocery list online at home in Firefox, I should be...

Silverlight Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Books for Professionals by Professionals)

Apress, 2009

Being asked to write a foreword for a book is like being asked to be the best man or maid of honor in a wedding. You participate with the intention to support and to represent the curators of a new entity (in this case, a book) with pride and integrity. You also have to be genuine or the “crowd” will see right through you.

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How Does One Cut a Triangle?

Springer, 2009

How Does One Cut a Triangle? is a work of art, and rarely, perhaps never, does one find the talents of an artist better suited to his intention than we find in Alexander Soifer and this book.

—Peter D. Johnson, Jr.

This delightful book considers and solves many problems in dividing...

Explanation and Proof in Mathematics: Philosophical and Educational Perspectives

Springer, 2009

In the four decades since Imre Lakatos declared mathematics a "quasi-empirical science," increasing attention has been paid to the process of proof and argumentation in the field -- a development paralleled by the rise of computer technology and the mounting interest in the logical underpinnings of mathematics. Explanantion...

Meaning and Mystery: What It Means To Believe in God

John Wiley & Sons, 2010

Meaning and Mystery offers a challenge to the way Philosophy has traditionally approached the issue of belief in God as a theoretical problem, proposing instead a form of reflection more appropriate to the practical nature of the issue.

Makes use of abundant illustrative material, from both literature, such as Les...

MHD Flows in Compact Astrophysical Objects: Accretion, Winds and Jets (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)

Springer, 2009

Accretion flows, winds and jets of compact astrophysical objects and stars are generally described within the framework of hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) flows. Analytical analysis of the problem provides profound physical insights, which are essential for interpreting and understanding the results of numerical simulations....

Machine Learning Methods in the Environmental Sciences: Neural Networks and Kernels

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Machine learning is a major subfield in computational intelligence (also called artificial intelligence). Its main objective is to use computational methods to extract information from data. Neural network methods, generally regarded as forming the first wave of breakthrough in machine learning, became popular in the late 1980s, while kernel...

Perfect Phrases in French for Confident Travel: The No Faux-Pas Phrasebook for the Perfect Trip (Perfect Phrases Series)

McGraw-Hill, 2009

More than your average phrasebook, this portable title shows you how to be a well-mannered visitor and speak the local language in the correct context

Any phrasebook can give you a line listing of essential phrases. But if you use a phrase or term without knowing the correct way to use it, you can find yourself in an...

Spacetime, Geometry and Gravitation (Progress in Mathematical Physics)

Birkhauser, 2009

Teaching Einstein’s general relativity at introductory level poses problems because students cannot begin to appreciate the basics of the theory unless they learn a sufficient amount of Riemannian geometry. Most elementary books take the easy course of telling the students a few working rules stripping the mathematical details to a minimum...

The Meltdown Years: The Unfolding of the Global Economic Crisis

McGraw-Hill, 2009

The Meltdown Years offers the most lucid and useful explanation to date about why home values, life savings, job security, and investments around the world are in peril.

Rather than focus on who is to blame, though, author Wolfgang Münchau takes the more practical approach of focusing on...

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