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  • Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society

    Edited by Armin Bunde, Jürgen Caro, Christian Chmelik, Jörg Kärger, Gero Vogl ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    What do the movements of molecules and the migration of humans have in common? How does the functionality of our brain tissue resemble the flow of traffic in New York City? How can understanding the spread of ideas, rumors, and languages help us tackle the spread a pandemic? This book provides an illuminating look into these seemingly disparate topics by exploring and expertly communicating the ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society

    Edited by Armin Bunde, Jürgen Caro, Jörg Kärger, Gero Vogl ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book deals with randomly moving objects and their spreading. The objects considered are particles like atoms and molecules, but also living beings such as humans, animals, plants, bacteria and even abstract entities like ideas, rumors, information, innovations and linguistic features. The book explores and communicates the laws behind these movements and reports about astonishing similarities ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Extreme Events and Natural Hazards

    The Complexity Perspective

    Edited by A. Surjalal Sharma, Armin Bunde, Vijay P. Dimri, Daniel N. Baker ...
    Series Book 196 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 196.Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective examines recent developments in complexity science that provide a new approach to understanding extreme events. This understanding is critical to the development of strategies for the prediction of natural hazards and mitigation of their ... Read more

    $118.00 USD

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  • Complexity

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    by Melanie Mitchell ...
    What enables individually simple insects like ants to act with such precision and purpose as a group? How do trillions of neurons produce something as extraordinarily complex as consciousness? In this remarkably clear and companionable book, leading complex systems scientist Melanie Mitchell provides an intimate tour of the sciences of complexity, a broad set of efforts that seek to explain how ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Materials Science Reading Sampler

    Book Excerpts by J. Genzer, D. Richerson, A. Tiwari, M. Horstemeyer, K. Kolasinski, M. Köhl, R. Tilley

    by Wiley ...
    The 2013 Materials Science eBook Sampler includes select material from seven Materials Science titles. Titles are from a number of Wiley imprints including Wiley, Wiley-VCH, Wiley-American Ceramic Society, Wiley-Scrivener and Wiley-The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. The material that is included for each selection is the book’s full Table of Contents as well as a sample chapter. If you ... Read more

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  • Rainbow And The Worm, The: The Physics Of Organisms (3rd Edition)

    by Mae-wan Ho ...
    This highly unusual book began as a serious inquiry into Schrödinger's question, “What is life?”, and as a celebration of life itself. It takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through many areas of contemporary physics, from non-equilibrium thermodynamics and quantum optics to liquid crystals and fractals, all necessary for illuminating the problem of life. In the process, the reader is ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Complexity and the Arrow of Time

    Edited by Charles H. Lineweaver, Paul C. W. Davies, Michael Ruse ...
    There is a widespread assumption that the universe in general, and life in particular, is 'getting more complex with time'. This book brings together a wide range of experts in science, philosophy and theology and unveils their joint effort in exploring this idea. They confront essential problems behind the theory of complexity and the role of life within it: what is complexity? When does it ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Chemical Engineering

    An Introduction

    by Morton Denn ...
    Series series Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering
    'Chemical engineering is the field of applied science that employs physical, chemical, and biological rate processes for the betterment of humanity'. This opening sentence of Chapter 1 has been the underlying paradigm of chemical engineering. Chemical Engineering: An Introduction is designed to enable the student to explore the activities in which a modern chemical engineer is involved by focusing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Dynamic Models in Biology

    by Stephen P. Ellner, John Guckenheimer ...
    From controlling disease outbreaks to predicting heart attacks, dynamic models are increasingly crucial for understanding biological processes. Many universities are starting undergraduate programs in computational biology to introduce students to this rapidly growing field. In Dynamic Models in Biology, the first text on dynamic models specifically written for undergraduate students in the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Topics in Mathematical Modeling

    by Ka-Kit Tung ...
    Topics in Mathematical Modeling is an introductory textbook on mathematical modeling. The book teaches how simple mathematics can help formulate and solve real problems of current research interest in a wide range of fields, including biology, ecology, computer science, geophysics, engineering, and the social sciences. Yet the prerequisites are minimal: calculus and elementary differential ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Modeling Life

    The Mathematics of Biological Systems

    by Alan Garfinkel, Jane Shevtsov, Yina Guo ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book develops the mathematical tools essential for students in the life sciences to describe interacting systems and predict their behavior. From predator-prey populations in an ecosystem, to hormone regulation within the body, the natural world abounds in dynamical systems that affect us profoundly. Complex feedback relations and counter-intuitive responses are common in nature; this book ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Climate Modelling Primer

    by Kendal McGuffie, Ann Henderson-Sellers ...
    As a consequence of recent increased awareness of the social and political dimensions of climate, many non-specialists discover a need for information about the variety of available climate models. A Climate Modelling Primer, Fourth Edition is designed to explain the basis and mechanisms of all types of current physically-based climate models.A thoroughly revised and updated edition, this book ... Read more

    $59.00 USD