Science
Wonders of the Universe
Experience our universe as you've never seen it before 13.7 billion years old. 93 billion light-years across. It contains over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars. This infinite, vast and complex Universe has been the subject of human fascination and scientific exploration for thousands of years. The wonders of the Universe [...]
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks turns to the building blocks of human [...]
Pediatric Cardiology: Requisites (Requisites in Pediatrics)(PDF)
This new title in the REQUISITES IN PEDIATRICS series guides you through evaluation of the pediatric heart patient with the most common congenital and acquired diseases. As in other volumes in the Pediatric Requisites series, this volume provides rapid-reference features such as uniform, consistently formatted chapters; tables of differential diagnosis; lab values/radiologic studies; treatment/therapy options; [...]
Introduction to Differential Equations with Dynamical Systems(PDF)
Many textbooks on differential equations are written to be interesting to the teacher rather than the student. Introduction to Differential Equations with Dynamical Systems is directed toward students. This concise and up-to-date textbook addresses the challenges that undergraduate mathematics, engineering, and science students experience during a first course on differential equations. And, while covering all [...]
Stochastic Processes (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics) (PDF)
This comprehensive guide to stochastic processes gives a complete overview of the theory and addresses the most important applications. Pitched at a level accessible to beginning graduate students and researchers from applied disciplines, it is both a course book and a rich resource for individual readers. Subjects covered include Brownian motion, stochastic calculus, stochastic differential [...]
Praxisbuch MRT Abdomen und Becken (German Edition) (PDF)
Der Band liefert fundiertes Basiswissen zur Magnetresonanztomographie (MRT) des Abdomens und des Beckens. Wie wird ein MRT des Abdomens bzw. Beckens richtig durchgeführt? Wie lassen sich falsche Befunde vermeiden? Alle Fragen, die Anfängern begegnen, beantworten die Autoren kenntnisreich. In dem Praxisbuch werden Vorgehensweisen übersichtlich dargestellt und technische Grundlagen prägnant erläutert. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt den Untersuchungsstrategien, [...]
Electrode Kinetics: Reactions(PDF)
Volumes 26 and 27 are both concerned with reactions occurring at electrodes arising through the passage of current. They provide an introduction to the study of electrode kinetics. The basic ideas and experimental methodology are presented in Volume 26, whilst Volume 27 deals with reactions at particular types of electrodes. Chapter 1 of the present [...]
Supercomputing, Collision Processes, and Applications (Physics of Atoms and Molecules) (PDF)
This book contains 18 scientific papers setting out the latest developments in the scientific disciplines and endeavours to which Professor P. G. Burke has contributed over the last 40 years, prior to his formal retirement in September 1998. The aim of the volume is to provide an up-to-date survey of the latest developments in many [...]
Stimmtherapie mit Erwachsenen: Was Stimmtherapeuten wissen sollten (Praxiswissen Logopädie) (German Edition)
Das Lehrbuch liefert verständlich und kompakt aufbereitetes Fachwissen für eine ganzheitliche Stimmtherapie: von Anatomie, Physiologie und Pathophysiologie über Anamnese und Diagnostik bis zur Therapie. Ein aus fünf Bausteinen bestehender methodenübergreifender Therapieansatz wird präsentiert, weitere Therapiekonzepte werden vergleichend dargestellt. Hinweise für die Praxis liefern die Kapitel zum Therapieaufbau und -ablauf mit Übungen und Beispielen. Der Band [...]
Insect Conservation: A Handbook of Approaches and Methods(PDF)
With up to a quarter of all insect species heading towards extinction over the next few decades, there is now a pressing need to summarize the techniques available for measuring insect diversity in order to develop effective conservation strategies. Insect Conservation outlines the main methods and techniques available to entomologists, providing a comprehensive synthesis for [...]