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This book presents four mathematical essays which explore the foundations of mathematics and related topics ranging from philosophy and logic to modern computer mathematics. While connected to the historical evolution of these concepts, the essays place strong emphasis on developments still to come... More

A personal finance guide in the tradition of the bestsellingWhere to Put Your Money, with advice on where and how to invest in these changing times. ... More

The book presents the state of the art and results and also includes articles pointing to future developments. Most of the articles center around the theme of linear partial differential equations. Major aspects are fast solvers in elastoplasticity, symbolic analysis for boundary problems, symbolic ... More

Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and medical devices make it possible to detect and cure diseases. But these aids to existence are not simply neutral instruments: they give shape to what we d... More

Peter Paul Rubens' gifts as an artist were as comprehensive as they were supreme. A prolific painter of illimitable resource and invention, he was a master of intellect and emotion, figure and form, color and sweep. In all his artistic endeavors, he proved himself the true heir of Renaissance art of... More

This book considers the question: to what extent does it make sense to qualify technical artefacts as moral entities? The authors' contributions trace recent proposals and topics including instrumental and non-instrumental values of artefacts, agency and artefactual agency, values in and around tech... More

Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the modern economy that goes beyond disciplinary economic history. This book contributes to the cultural history of capitalism and its different regimes of produ... More

Mr Bumbleticker has to get out of bed to get his presents.... More

This book includes review articles in the field of elliptic integrals, elliptic functions and modular forms intending to foster the discussion between theoretical physicists working on higher loop calculations and mathematicians working in the field of modular forms and functions and analytic soluti... More

With an ever-increasing elderly population and the resultant rising levels of dementia-related disorders, preclinical research based on animal models is pivotal to our knowledge of underlying molecular mechanisms and drug discovery aiming at the development of therapeutic strategies alleviating or p... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Software, ICMS 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2016. The 68 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections n... More

Promoting scientific support for the plethora of health benefits related to nutrition and medicine, Nutraceuticals in Health and Disease Prevention delivers a comprehensive and scientifically sound overview of the latest research findings in disease prevention, therapy, and enhanced body function in... More

In our current landscape of communicative and connective excess, a very novel contemporary exhaustion exacerbated by our relation to the postdigital terrain is ever present. The Brazilian philosopher and schizoanalyst Peter Pál Pelbart pushes the vital question of our nihililstic age to the limits: ... More

Ziel des Buches ist keine Generalschelte aller im Gesundheitswesen tätigen Menschen und Organisationen. Es zeigt aber auf, dass sich in den letzten 50 Jahren systematische Denkfehler eingeschlichen haben und hebt Bereiche hervor, in denen Patienteninteressen zu Gunsten von Marktinteressen zurückgesc... More

A reference to answer all your statistical confidentiality questions.This handbook provides technical guidance on statistical disclosure control and on how to approach the problem of balancing the need to provide users with statistical outputs and the need to protect the confidentiality of responden... More

Namhafte Alpinexperten aus dem deutschen Sprachraum (Schweiz, Deutschland, #65533;sterreich, S#65533;dtirol) geben mit diesem Buch einen umfassenden #65533;berblick #65533;ber die Sport- und Unfallmedizin im Gebirge sowie zur H#65533;henmedizin. Unter anderem beleuchten sie Themen wie Training, Ern... More

Namhafte Alpin- und Höhenmedizinexperten aus dem deutschen Sprachraum und darüber hinaus geben mit diesem Fachbuch einen umfassenden Überblick über die Sport- und Unfallmedizin im Gebirge sowie zur Höhenmedizin. Das Buch deckt dabei alle Inhalte zum „International Diploma in Mountain Medicine“ des W... More

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

Nuclear missiles fill the skies and the world waits for the end to come. However, suddenly, mysteriously, the missiles vanish, along with 187 million people. In an incredible sequence of scenes, readers are treated to a firsthand look at what the world might be like in the minutes and hours followin... More

Thorold Stone is a wanted man. A couterterrorism expert for the One Nation Earth (O.N.E.) government, Stone has long been troubled by the sudden and unexplainable disappearance of his wife, a devout Christian, and their two young daughters. Now he has dared to question the man who most of the world ... More

The automotive industry is still one of the world's largest manufacturing sectors, but it suffers from being very technology-focused as well as being relatively short-term focused. There is little emphasis within the industry and its consultancy and analyst supply network on the broader social and e... More

This novelization based on the bestselling video by the same name tells a compelling story of endtimes through the trials of one family. Surrounded by his loving wife, his sister and his wacky brother-in-law, life had always made sense to Tom Canboro, a decorated police detective. But one evening al... More

The Supreme Leader has won the hearts and minds of countless people around the earth. But not everyone believes and adores this seeming "Prince of Peace." For a conspiracy lurks in the heart of the new world order-a deadly plot to destroy all that is good and allow the Prince of Darkness to reign ov... More

New medicines in the pipeline can extend lives, save money, and even help prevent disease before symptoms appear - if we don’t discourage their innovators and investors by trying to lower drug prices artificially. Unlocking Precision Medicine explores the environment necessary for creation of these ... More

For real-time systems, the worst-case execution time (WCET) is the key objective to be considered. Traditionally, code for real-time systems is generated without taking this objective into account and the WCET is computed only after code generation. Worst-Case Execution Time Aware Compilation Techni... More