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Three Dialogues on Knowledge

John Wiley & Sons, 1991

The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary...

Conceptual Database Design: An Entity-Relationship Approach

Addison Wesley, 1991

Database design is the process of determining the organization of a database, including its structure, contents, and the applications to be run. For a long time, database design was considered a task for experts, and was regarded as more of an art than a science. However, much progress has been made in database design, and it is now...

Introduction to Organic Photochemistry

John Wiley & Sons, 1991

Introduction to Organic Photochemistry John D. Coyle, The Open University, Milton Keynes The purpose of this book is to provide an introductory account of the major types of organic photochemical reactions, to enable those with a prior knowledge of basic organic chemistry to appreciate the differences between processes which occur photochemically...

A Unified Approach to Interior Point Algorithms for Linear Complementarity Problems

Springer, 1991

The recent remarkable developments of interior point algorithms began in 1984 with Karmarkar's polynomial-time interior point algorithm for linear programs using a log- arithmic potential function and a projective transformation. The progress has been made so rapidly and extensively that it seems difficult to get a comprehensive...

Meetings with Remarkable Men (All and Everything)

Phoenix Books, 1991

Meetings with Remarkable Men, G. I. Gurdjieff’s autobiographical account of his youth and early travels, has become something of a legend since it was first published in 1963. A compulsive Âread” in the tradition of adventure narratives, but suffused with Gurdjieff’s unique perspective on life, it is organized...

Probability, Statistical Optics and Data Testing (Springer Series in Information Sciences)

Springer, 1991

Scientists in optics are increasingly confronted with problems that are of a random nature and that require a working knowledge of probability and statistics for their solution. This textbook develops these subjects within the context of optics using a problem-solving approach. All methods are explicitly derived and can be traced back to three...

Circuits, Devices and Systems: A First Course in Electrical Engineering, 5th Edition

John Wiley & Sons, 1991

This book is also available through the Introductory Engineering Custom Publishing System. If you are interested in creating a course-pack that includes chapters from this book, you can get further information by calling 212-850-6272 or sending email inquiries to engineerjwiley.com. The authors offer a set of objectives at the beginning of...

Computer Architecture: Design and Performance

Prentice Hall, 1991

Although computer systems employ a range of performance-improving techniques, intense effort to improve present performance and to develop completely new types of computer systems with this improved performance continues. Many design techniques involve the use of parallelism, in which more than one operation is performed...

X Window System User's Guide (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)

O'Reilly, 1991

The X Window System User's Guide, Motif Edition, orients the new user to window system concepts and provides detailed tutorials for many client programs, including the xterm terminal emulator and the window manager. Building on this basic knowledge, later chapters explain how to customize the X environment and...

Project Management: How to Plan and Manage Successful Projects

AMACOM, 1991

If you were asked to define the term project, what words would come to mind? Time? Resources (or lack of)? One-of-a-kind effort? Deliverables or products? Complex? No authority over other groups? Budget? A project is a unique effort to introduce or produce a new product or service conforming to certain specifications and applicable standards....

How to Lie with Maps

University of Chicago Press, 1991

Originally published to wide acclaim, this lively, cleverly illustrated essay on the use and abuse of maps teaches us how to evaluate maps critically and promotes a healthy skepticism about these easy-to-manipulate models of reality. Monmonier shows that, despite their immense value, maps lie. In fact, they must.

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The Cichlids Yearbook Volume 1 (1)

Cichlid Press, 1991

Fascination with cichlids has taken many aquarists to the point where they go and observe these wonderful fishes in the natural habitat. The hunger for more knowledge about the cichlids’ behavior and distribution, and especially for more new species has led to the introduction of an overwhelming array of previously unknown species and...

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