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The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

Harper Perennial, 2002

What are the keys to success? Scientists have studied the traits, beliefs, and practices of successful people in all walks of life. But the answers they find wind up in stuffy academic journals aimed at other scientists.

The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People takes the best and most important research results from over a thousand...

Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness

Harvard University Press, 2006

This book celebrates Albert Einstein’s 1905. In six months Einstein wrote five papers that deeply influenced the course of twentieth-century science. These papers from the hand of a thenunknown physicist make 1905 one of the most memorable years in the history of science and, without doubt, make the six months from March 17 to September 27...

Data Just Right: Introduction to Large-Scale Data & Analytics (Addison-Wesley Data & Analytics Series)

Addison Wesley, 2013

Making Big Data Work: Real-World Use Cases and Examples, Practical Code, Detailed Solutions

Large-scale data analysis is now vitally important to virtually every business. Mobile and social technologies are generating massive datasets;...

An Introduction to Modern Mathematical Computing: With Maple(TM)

Springer, 2011

Thirty years ago mathematical, as opposed to applied numerical, computation was difficult to perform and so relatively little used. Three threads changed that: the emergence of the personal computer; the discovery of fiber-optics and the consequent development of the modern internet; and the building of the Three “M’s”...

Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids

Packt Publishing, 2014

Technology today is growing rapidly, with all sorts of cool gadgets, applications, and games made thanks to the rise of computer programming. The Raspberry Pi is a crafty device that has promoted the teaching of basic computer science in schools, catching the attention of both young and old. Although learning to program offers a unique set of...

Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You

Simon & Schuster, 2003

At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world as the ability to read and write. But in the twenty-first century, we are often overwhelmed by a baffling array of percentages and probabilities as we try to navigate in a world dominated...

Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys (Forensic Science and Medicine)

Humana Press, 2007

In this revised and expanded edition, leading forensic scientist John Trestrail offers a pioneering survey of all that is known about the use of poison as a weapon in murder. Topics range from the use of poisons in history and literature to convicting the poisoner in court, and include a review of the different types of poisons, techniques...

Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences (Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice)

Springer, 2019

This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the social sciences, notably his work on arms races and their...

UNIX Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems & Network Management

CRC Press, 2002

Unix Administration: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for Effective Systems and Network Management attempts to make UNIX essential and network administrative topics more accessible to a wide audience, including both academic and professional users. The selected book title...

OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems

John Wiley & Sons, 2002

OLAP enables users to access information from multidimensional data warehouses almost instantly, to view information in any way they like, and to cleanly specify and carry out sophisticated calculations. Although many commercial OLAP tools and products are now available, OLAP is still a difficult and complex technology to master.

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Evolving Connectionist Systems: The Knowledge Engineering Approach (Evolving Connectionist Systems)

Springer, 2007

This second edition of Evolving Connectionist Systems presents generic computational models and techniques that can be used for the development of evolving, adaptive modelling systems, as well as new trends including computational neuro-genetic modelling and quantum information processing related to evolving systems. New applications, such as...

Crossroads between Innate and Adaptive Immunity (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

Springer, 2006

This compilation presents minireviews derived from work presented at the Aegean Conference: “First Crossroads between Innate and Adaptive Immunity,” which occurred October 9–14, 2005 at the Hilton Conference Center on the island of Rhodes, Greece. The conference included sessions dedicated to host recognition of...

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