This two-volume collection of Abner Shimony's essays written over a period of forty years explores the interrelations between science and philosophy. Zobraziť viac
Using specific industry examples the challenges, trends and key business questions in RFID development and implementation are addressed using insights from world-leading laboratories. For researchers, practitioners and managers in electrical... Zobraziť viac
When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could... Zobraziť viac
A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths... Zobraziť viac
Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project once consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything... Zobraziť viac
Statistical science's first coordinated manual of methods for analyzing ordered categorical data, now fully revised and updated, continues to present applications and case studies in fields as diverse as sociology, public health, ecology, marketing,... Zobraziť viac
Analyzing the role of journalists in science communication, this book presents a perspective on how this is going to evolve in the twenty-first century... Zobraziť viac
Social insects--ants, bees, termites, and wasps--can be viewed as powerful problem-solving systems with sophisticated collective intelligence. Composed of simple interacting agents, this intelligence lies in the networks of interactions among... Zobraziť viac
What is the source of our environmental problems? Why is there in modern societies a persistent tendency to environmental damage? From within neoclassical economic theory there is a straightforward answer to those questions: it is because environmental... Zobraziť viac
The relationships between humans, animals and the natural world across history and between cultures. Zobraziť viac
The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life and linguists are increasingly concerned with how it is impacting on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark... Zobraziť viac
A thoroughly updated and expanded step-wise guide to the study of animal behaviour. Zobraziť viac
This book offers an up-to-date coverage of the basic principles and tools of Bayesian inference in econometrics, with an emphasis on dynamic models. It shows how to treat Bayesian inference in non linear models, by integrating the useful developments... Zobraziť viac
An introduction to measure theory and Lebesgue integration rooted in the historical questions that led to its development. Zobraziť viac
A non-intimidating approach to learning or reviewing math skills essential in quantitative research methods. Zobraziť viac
From its initial publication this book has been the standard text on the subject. Since then, there has been a continuing high level of activity, and work has developed in all major areas, including univariate and multivariate data, linear models,... Zobraziť viac
This book develops econometric techniques for the estimation of production, cost and profit frontiers, and for the estimation of the technical and economic efficiency with which producers approach these frontiers. Since these frontiers envelop rather... Zobraziť viac
Among the great discoveries of the nineteenth century, few offer a more fascinating insight into Victorian society than the new science of anaesthesia. This vivid and engaging history reveals how the worlds of Victorian medics, moralists, and clergymen... Zobraziť viac
The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of... Zobraziť viac
Since publication of the first edition of Computer Relaying for Power Systems in 1988, computer relays have been widely accepted by power engineers throughout the world and in many countries they are now the protective devices of choice... Zobraziť viac
