Ilya: 78 books

Pentagruel is an old dragon who has lost his fire. The last of his kind in the Kingdom of High Ideals.  As he struggles to accept this great loss, his eyes flash shut, again and again. And every time they do, many kingdoms away, Dasdemora the elf shudders.  At first these shudders are a source...

This book is devoted to the probabilistic description of the behavior of a network in the process of random removal of its components (links, nodes) appearing as a result of technical failures, natural disasters or intentional attacks. It is focused on a practical approach to network reliability and...

This book provides a concise survey of modern theoretical concepts of X-ray materials analysis. The principle features of the book are: basics of X-ray scattering, interaction between X-rays and matter and new theoretical concepts of X-ray scattering. The various X-ray techniques are considered in...

Shimmering within the ordinary is the yearning we as a people have to belong somewhere more perfectly suited to our nature...to what defines us as human beings. Our restlessness, our sense of lack and absence, our constant falling and rising…indeed our incorruptible belief that we belong somewhere...

Democracy promotion, security and energy are the predominant themes of US policy in Central Asia after the Cold War. This book analyses how the Bush administration understood and pursued its interests in the Central Asia states, namely Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan....

Ransom is the story about a young boy, Oscar, who discovers that his pet frog, Louis, has been kidnapped. To save Louis from a horrific death he must successfully accomplish several ordeals which test his character and courage. Instructed to not tell anyone, Oscar is forced to emerge out of...

This monograph, now in a thoroughly revised second edition, offers the latest research on random sets. It has been extended to include substantial developments achieved since 2005, some of them motivated by applications of random sets to econometrics and finance. The present volume builds on...

Ternary means “based on three”. This book deals with reliability investigations of networks whose components subject to failures can be in three states –up, down and middle (mid), contrary to traditionally considered networks having only binary (up/down) components. Extending binary case to...

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This is a Starter guide designed to enable the reader to start using MinGW to develop Microsoft Windows applications as quickly, and as efficiently, as...

This is the first scientic book devoted to the Pauli exclusion principle, which is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics and is permanently applied in chemistry, physics, and molecular biology. However, while the principle has been studied for more than 90 years, rigorous theoretical foundations...

The Monte Carlo method is a numerical method of solving mathematical problems through random sampling. As a universal numerical technique, the method became possible only with the advent of computers, and its application continues to expand with each new computer generation. A Primer for the Monte...

This book presents essential algorithms for the image processing pipeline of photo-printers and accompanying software tools, offering an exposition of multiple image enhancement algorithms, smart aspect-ratio changing techniques for borderless printing and approaches for non-standard printing modes....

Angular is not just a framework, but rather a platform that empowers developers to build applications for the web, mobile, and the desktop. This book provides an overview of some essential Angular tools--such as Angular CLI, Angular Augary, and Sublime Text--as well as outlining some must-have...

This book provides a systematic overview of football development from a scientific perspective. The proposed multidimensional framework of assessing the concept of sports development (with a deliberate emphasis on association football) goes beyond the conventional medal tally counts and win percentages....