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by Robert J Vanderbei, Erhan Çınlar
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book offers a first course in analysis for scientists and engineers. It can be used at the advanced undergraduate level or as part of the curriculum in a graduate program. The book is built around metric spaces. In the first three chapters, the authors lay the foundational material and cover...
Essays in Production, Project Planning and Scheduling
A Festschrift in Honor of Salah Elmaghraby
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
From the Preface:
This festschrift is devoted to recognize the career of a man who not only witnessed the growth of operations research from its inception, but also contributed significantly to this growth. Dr. Salah E. Elmaghraby received his doctorate degree from Cornell University in 1958,...
by Michael Herzfeld, Margot D. Lenhart
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume contains the majority of the papers presented at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Lubbock, Texas, October 16-19, 1980. The varied styles topics, methodologies, and intellectual traditions represented here reflect the current state of flux in semiotics--a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry research has made unparalleled advancements in understanding every expanding area of science and technology. This volume presents the state-of-the-art research and progress made by eminent researchers in the area of theoretical computational chemistry and physics....
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Corruption, Decadence, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Illustrated Guide to Jewelry Appraising
Antique, Period, and Modern
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is more to appraising jewelry than just being parable sales and a value determination. Then, all this able to put a dollar value on an item. The title of ap information, with clear jewelry descriptions, must be praiser distinguishes the individual who is able to iden succinctly put together...
by David Federman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since early 1989, a gem dealer I've known for years has been calling me every few weeks to brief me on mounting mayhem in Colombia's lucrative emerald market. The troubling gist of these calls is always this: There is a full-fledged turf war going on between that South American country's bustling...
The Messages of Tourist Art
An African Semiotic System in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Tourist art may be a billion dollar business. Nevertheless, such art is despised. What is worse, the "bad" culture is seen as driving out the "good. " Commer cialization is assumed to destroy traditional arts and crafts, replacing them with junk. The process is seen as demeaning...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Adrian Raine Department of Psychology. University of Southern California. USA Jose Sanmartin Queen Sojia Center for the Study of Violence. Valencia. Spain The problems that psychopathic and violent offenders create for society are not restricted to North America. Instead, these offenders create havoc...
Culture Change and the New Technology
An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Harpers Ferry was one of America's earliest and most significant industrial communities - serving as an excellent example of the changing patterns of human relations that led to dramatic progress in work life and in domestic relations in modern times. In this well-illustrated book, Paul A. Shackel...
Resolving the Antibiotic Paradox
Progress in Understanding Drug Resistance and Development of New Antibiotics
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Antibiotic resistance, once a term appreciated only by microbiologists, has become a common topic in the popular press. Stuart Levy, one of the contributors to this collection, bears some of the responsibility for increasing public awareness with the publication of his book "The Antibiotic Paradox"...
by Harold Mytum
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This practical volume focuses on the study of historic burial ground monuments but also covers some below ground archaeology, as some projects will involve the study of both. It will be an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government...
An Archaeology of History and Tradition
Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As the foundations of the modern world were being laid at the beginning of the 19th century, Annapolis, Maryland, identified itself as the Ancient City. This unusual appellation has served Annapolis into the present as a city that has consistently defined and redefined for itself what being ancient...