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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Little, Brown and Company, 2000

The Tipping Point is that magical moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshhold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a sick individual in a crowded store can start can epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend or the popularity of a new restaurant to take off overnightor...

Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Their Origins & Applications

CRC Press, 2000

This is the first comprehensive text to cover this fascinating field from origins to present-day practices. Secret agents are no longer the only people using spycams, radio beacons, and tiny audio listening devices called 'bugs.' Spy devices are now an important part of almost every investigation, office environment, phone system, traffic...

A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica, Second Edition

Academic Press, 2008

Mathematica enables the user to solve a wide range of physics problems and provides an environment that allows the user to develop a greater intuitive understanding of physics. This book will aid the reader in using Mathematica for numerical, symoblic, and graphical calculations, and also will demonstrate the program's capability to animate two-...

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...

Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability (Cambridge Mathematical Library)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

'This second edition remains true to the remarkable standards of scholarship established by the first edition ... it will no doubt be a very welcome addition to the literature.' Peter W. Glynn, Prologue to the Second Edition

Meyn & Tweedie is back! The bible on Markov chains in general state spaces has been brought up to...

$Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)$

Diffraction, Fourier Optics and Imaging (Wiley Series in Pure and Applied Optics)

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Learn Fourier and diffractive optics through examples and computer simulation

This book presents current theories of diffraction, imaging, and related topics based on Fourier analysis and synthesis techniques, which are essential for understanding, analyzing, and synthesizing modern imaging, optical communications and...

Classical and Quantum Information Theory: An Introduction for the Telecom Scientist

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Information theory lies at the heart of modern technology, underpinning all communications, networking, and data storage systems. This book sets out, for the first time, a complete overview of both classical and quantum information theory. Throughout, the reader is introduced to key results without becoming lost in mathematical details. Opening...

Terrorism's Unanswered Questions (Praeger Security International)

Praeger Publishers, 2008

Despite the growth of interest in the study of terrorism since 9/11, terrorism analysts rarely take a multidisciplinary approach to the subject. This leaves a number of terrorism's characteristics to be explored in new and unique ways. Terrorism's Unanswered Questions brings together scholars from the fields of criminology,...

Handbook of Matrices

John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Nowadays matrices are used in many fields of science, Accordingly they have become standard tools in statistics, econometrics, mathematics, engineering and natural sciences textbooks, In fact, many textbooks from these fields have chapters, appendices or sections on matrices, Often collections of those results used in a book are included, Of...

Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)

John Wiley & Sons, 2000

"The first edition of this book, published 30 years ago by Duda and Hart, has been a defining book for the field of Pattern Recognition. Stork has done a superb job of updating the book. He has undertaken a monumental task of sifting through 30 years of material in a rapidly growing field and presented another snapshot of the field,...

Lectures On Computation (Frontiers in Physics)

Basic Books, 1996

From 1983 to 1986, the legendary physicist and teacher Richard Feynman gave a course at Caltech called Potentialities and Limitations of Computing Machines. Here are some of his lectures from that course. DLC: Electronic data processing.

About the Author

The late Richard P. Feynman was Richard...

Time Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You A Stronger, More Effective Leader

AMACOM, 2005

"To be most effective, leaders must move beyond time management to time mastery. Time managers are reliant on clocks and calendars; time masters develop an intuitive sense of timing. Time managers see time as a fixed, rigid constant; time masters view it as relative and malleable. Time masters have what John Clemens and Scott Dalrymple call...

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