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  • Designing the Mind

    The Principles of Psychitecture

    by Designing the Mind, Ryan Bush ...
    The Instant Cult Classic on the Art of Reprogramming Your Own Psychological SoftwareA bold and fascinating dive into the nuts and bolts of psychological evolution, Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture is part philosophical manifesto, part practical self-development guide, all based on the teachings of legendary thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Abraham ... Read more

    8,91 €

  • The Ends of the World

    Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

    by Peter Brannen ...
    One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the DecadeNew York Times Editors' Choice 2017Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass e... ... Read more

    7,83 €

  • Chaos

    Making a New Science

    by James Gleick ...
    The "highly entertaining" New York Times bestseller, which explains chaos theory and the butterfly effect, from the author of The Information ( Chicago Tribune).For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung ... Read more

    17,27 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Linked

    How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life

    by Albert-László Barabási ...
    The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social lifeA cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution. In Linked, Albert-László Barabási, the nation's foremost expert in the new science of networks, takes us ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

    The Science of a Connected Age

    by Duncan J. Watts ...
    The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks.In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • A Brief History of Earth

    Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

    by Andrew H. Knoll ...
    Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible style” (AP)“A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED reviewHow well do you know the ground beneath your feet?Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • Effective Non-Hermiticity and Topology in Markovian Quadratic Bosonic Dynamics

    by Vincent Paul Flynn ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This thesis provides an in-depth investigation of effective non-Hermiticity and topology in many-mode, non-interacting, bosonic systems. It also establishes the extent to which one must move beyond the Hamiltonian, closed-system setting, in order to uncover signatures of genuine symmetry-protected topological (SPT) physics in "free" (mean-field) bosons. While SPT phases of free fermionic matter ... Read more

    190,79 €

  • Introduction to the Physics of the Economy and Finance

    by João Pires da Cruz ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The book is the result of some years of teaching a course in Physics Modeling in Economics and Finance to M.Sc. students of Physics/Astrophysics and Eng. Physics. It is devoted to show economics and finance as a part of a physics system by its own right and, with that, to provide students with the basic tools to face a career in finance or in research developing physics models to a very unusual ... Read more

    66,77 €

  • Mobile Data Mining and Applications

    by Hao Jiang, Qimei Chen, Yuanyuan Zeng, Deshi Li ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on mobile data and its applications in the wireless networks of the future. Several topics form the basis of discussion, from a mobile data mining platform for collecting mobile data, to mobile data processing, and mobile feature discovery. Usage of mobile data mining is addressed in the context of three applications: wireless communication optimization, applications of mobile ... Read more

    114,47 €

  • Introduction to Averaging Dynamics over Networks

    by Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book deals with averaging dynamics, a paradigmatic example of network based dynamics in multi-agent systems. The book presents all the fundamental results on linear averaging dynamics, proposing a unified and updated viewpoint of many models and convergence results scattered in the literature.Starting from the classical evolution of the powers of a fixed stochastic matrix, the text then ... Read more

    95,39 €

  • The Law of Persistence

    by Sandeep Chavan ...
    What if nothing truly "survives"?What if everything that remains—whether in nature, systems, or human life—does so not because it is strong, adapted, or chosen… but because it aligns?In The Law of Persistence, Sandeep J Chavan presents a unified framework that challenges some of our most fundamental assumptions about reality. Across physics, biology, human behavior, and society, we are taught to ... Read more

    21,99 €

  • Transport Properties in Non-Equilibrium and Anomalous Systems

    by Dario Villamaina ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The study of fluctuations in statistical physics has a long history, and a general theory is well established, connecting fluctuations to response properties of equilibrium systems. Remarkably, this framework fails as soon as some current is flowing across the system, driving it out of equilibrium.The presence of currents is quite common in nature and produces rich phenomena which are far from ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Emerging Frontiers in Nonlinear Science

    Edited by Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Jesús Cuevas-Maraver, Avadh Saxena ...
    Series Book 32 - Nonlinear Systems and Complexity
    This book explores the impact of nonlinearity on a broad range of areas, including time-honored fields such as biology, geometry, and topology, but also modern ones such as quantum mechanics, networks, metamaterials and artificial intelligence. The concept of nonlinearity is a universal feature in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology, and is used to characterize systems whose behavior does ... Read more

    162,17 €

  • Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5

    Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2022

    Edited by Matt Allen, Sheyda Davaria, R. Benjamin Davis ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 40th MAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the fifth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of ... Read more

    228,00 €

  • Chemical Complexity

    Self-Organization Processes in Molecular Systems

    by Alexander S. Mikhailov, Gerhard Ertl ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book provides an outline of theoretical concepts and their experimental verification in studies of self-organization phenomena in chemical systems, as they emerged in the mid-20th century and have evolved since. Presenting essays on selected topics, it was prepared by authors who have made profound contributions to the field.Traditionally, physical chemistry has been concerned with ... Read more

    81,08 €

  • Ethical Reasoning in Big Data

    An Exploratory Analysis

    Edited by Jeff Collmann, Sorin Adam Matei ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational, and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical implications of research in human affairs using big data. The need to cultivate and enlist the public’s trust in the abilities of particular scientists and scientific institutions constitutes one of this book’s major themes. The advent of the Internet, the mass digitization ... Read more

    104,93 €

  • Highlighting the Importance of Big Data Management and Analysis for Various Applications

    Edited by Mohammad Moshirpour, Behrouz Far, Reda Alhajj ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book addresses the impacts of various types of services such as infrastructure, platforms, software, and business processes that cloud computing and Big Data have introduced into business. Featuring chapters which discuss effective and efficient approaches in dealing with the inherent complexity and increasing demands in data science, a variety of application domains are covered. Various case ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Rural Sustainability

    A Complex Systems Approach to Policy Analysis

    by Qing Tian ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China. Author Qing Tian operationalizes the concept of sustainability and provides useful scientific analyses for sustainable development in ... Read more

    52,46 €

  • State Space Consistency and Differentiability

    by Demetrios Serakos ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    By investigating the properties of the natural state, this book presents an analysis of input-output systems with regard to the mathematical concept of state. The state of a system condenses the effects of past inputs to the system in a useful manner. This monograph emphasizes two main properties of the natural state; the first has to do with the possibility of determining the input-output system ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Disordered Materials

    An Introduction

    by Paolo M. Ossi ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This self-contained textbook takes readers on a comprehensive journey through the intricate realm of physics in structurally disordered condensed materials. Tailored for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, this book unfolds the complexities step by step.In this updated and enlarged 3rd edition, fundamental building blocks serve as the foundation for constructing structural models of ... Read more

    95,39 €

  • Advances in Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration and Control -2021

    The proceedings of 2021 International Conference on Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibration and Control (ICANDVC2021)

    Edited by Xingjian Jing, Hu Ding, Jiqiang Wang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is to provide readers with up-to-date advances in applied and interdisciplinary engineering science and technologies related to nonlinear dynamics, vibration, control, robotics, and their engineering applications, developed in the most recent years. All the contributed chapters come from active scholars in the area, which cover advanced theory & methods, innovative technologies, ... Read more

    304,32 €

  • A Concise Course in Elasticity

    Nonlinear and Linear Theories with Statics and Dynamics

    by Jiashi Yang ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This textbook presents a concise and comprehensive treatment of the theory of elasticity. It covers both the linear and nonlinear aspects of the theory, including both statics and dynamics. Written to be accessible to the graduate student reader, this text promotes approachability by minimizing the use of complex mathematical tools, and instead emphasizing the formulation of the initial boundary ... Read more

    62,00 €

  • Semiotic Perception and Dynamic Forms of Meaning

    by Antonino Bondi, David Piotrowski, Yves-Marie Visetti ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within the encompassing framework of a dynamic theory of semiotic fields and forms? Can we redeploy the concept of form in such a way as to make explicit such a native solidarity (‘chiasmatic’ would have said Merleau-Ponty) between perception, praxis and expression -- and first and ... Read more

    114,47 €

  • Traffic Flow Dynamics

    Data, Models and Simulation

    by Martin Treiber, Arne Kesting ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The new edition of this well-received textbook has been thoroughly updated and expanded. It now includes new chapters on pedestrian dynamics, non-lane-based and mixed traffic (e.g., in developing countries), dynamic navigation, map matching, and routing oscillations. Additional sections cover the complete specification of the Wiedemann models, the piecewise linear model, IDM+, as well as advanced ... Read more

    76,31 €