Wspc imprint: 2707 books
by Anders Liljas, Lars Liljas, Miriam-Rose Ash;Göran Lindblom;Poul Nissen;Morten Kjeldgaard
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the basic principles of structural biology, as well as an up-to-date summary of some main directions of research in the field. The relationship between structure and function is described in detail for soluble proteins, membrane proteins, membranes, and...
Einstein Relatively Simple
Our Universe Revealed in Everyday Language
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
"Outstanding Academic Title for 2014" by CHOICE
Einstein Relatively Simple brings together for the first time an exceptionally clear explanation of both special and general relativity. It is for people who always wanted to understand Einstein's ideas but never thought they could.
Told...
by Franz Aurenhammer, Rolf Klein, Der-Tsai Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Voronoi diagrams partition space according to the influence certain sites exert on their environment. Since the 17th century, such structures play an important role in many areas like Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ecology, Economics, Mathematics and Computer Science. They help to describe...
Understanding the Universe
From Quarks to the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2004
The Big Bang, the birth of the universe, was a singular event. All of the matter of the universe was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons and neutrons of atoms did not yet exist, but rather were replaced by a swirling maelstrom of energy, matter...
Lessons from Nanoelectronics
A New Perspective on Transport
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Everyone is familiar with the amazing performance of a modern smartphone, powered by a billion-plus nanotransistors, each having an active region that is barely a few hundred atoms in length.
These lecture notes are about a less appreciated by-product of the microelectronics revolution, namely...
Beyond the Stars
Our Origins and the Search for Life in The Universe
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
What is the origin of the universe? Are we alone in the Universe? Using clear and plain language, the author explores these two interesting scientific-philosophical themes with a broad range of studies, including astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, biology, geology and planet science.
The first...
The Global Economy in Transition
Debt and Resource Scarcities
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book is a collection of essays written by Ambassador, Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller from the middle of 2009 to end of 2012, commenting on global economic and political events, which reflect Moeller's judgment and evaluation on these issues.
Readers get an overview to the collection...
by Donald Pfaff
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The book, written for a general educated public, compares the most important elements of the human nervous system to the corresponding capacities of robots. Crucial are the areas of activities for which the constraints limiting human and robot performances are much different. Those areas offer opportunities...
Liveability in Singapore
Social and Behavioural Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning. Just like in other highly-urbanised cities, life and living in Singapore is highly dependent on many other dimensions such as health, access to...
Dispelling the Darkness:Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin
Voyage in the Malay Archipelago and the Discovery of Evolution by Wallace and Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”T H Huxley (1887)
Darwin is one...
by Natasha Shur, Paulina Shur
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
How to Succeed in Breastfeeding Without Really Trying provides new mothers with humorous, easy-to-use, hands-on advice and step-by-step instructions on how to initiate, sustain, and actually succeed in breastfeeding. After giving birth, many women are shocked to discover that breastfeeding does not...
Pore Scale Phenomena
Frontiers in Energy and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The field of pore scale phenomena is now emerging as one of the frontiers of science and many engineering disciplines. Transport phenomena in the subsurface of the earth play key roles in the energy and environmental domains. For example, the shale gas and oil boom is revolutionizing the world's energy...
Quantum Statistical Mechanics
Selected Works of N N Bogolubov
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
In this book we have solved the complicated problem of constructing upper bounds for many-time averages for the case of a fairly broad class of model systems with four-fermion interaction. The methods proposed in this book for solving this problem will undoubtedly find application not only for the...
Cosmology with MATLAB
With Companion Media Pack
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
This volume makes explicit use of the synergy between cosmology and high energy physics, for example, supersymmetry and dark matter, or nucleosynthesis and the baryon-to-photon ratio. In particular the exciting possible connection between the recently discovered Higgs scalar and the scalar field responsible...