This important book gives an interconnected presentation of some basic ideas, concepts, results of the theory of generalised functions (first of al...

From the first Bumper V-2 launch in1950 to the Atlas V vehicles of today, over 55 years of Cape Canaveral history is captured in this exhaustive co...

The task given to the authors of these essays-three scholars from three different continents-was to examine the phenomenon of intelligence. We unde...

The struggle to obtain grants constitutes an important part of millions of lives. Even experienced grantees concede that the process is rife with m...

As the title suggests, this book addresses its subjects with wit and with weight, as the author brings the latest insights of contemporary physics ...

Generations of practical and ingenious Maritimers have given the word great things. Since the mid-nineteenth century, scientists have fanned out in...

H∞ Robust design is an advancing technology which aims to achieve the system design purpose under intrinsic random fluctuation and external disturb...

When alchemy emerged in Roman Egypt, early adepts knew their wisdom came from the Egyptian temples. Yet these deep roots in ancient Egypt have rema...

The mysterious Unipolar Dynamo, so simple that even the earth's core has one, so powerful that it forges metal alloy billets and launches a rail gu...

If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowin...

Collectors have long admired uranium and thorium minerals for their brilliant colors, intense ultraviolet fluorescence, and rich variety of habits ...

A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader repre...

A reprint of the Prentice-Hall edition of 1992. Prepared by nine distinguished philosophers and historians of science, this thoughtful reader repre...

This book presents the main results and methods on inverse spectral problems for Sturm-Liouville differential operators and their applications. Inv...

The scope of public ignorance concerning how things work inevitably grows explosively. It is unreasonable to expect widespread or detailed understa...

For a variety of historical, cultural, social, and/or economic reasons, adults may experience the need to continue their mathematics education in s...

There is contrast to the belief that all energy and matter came into existence after the Big Bang. If we wish to understand the way the Greeks and ...

Enter the world of the occultist: where the spirits of the dead dwell amongst us, where the politics of ecstasy are played out, and where magick sp...

The report is divided into seven chapters. Chapter I can be regarded as an overview of certain common problems within the community of science and ...

Communities all over the world are discovering that maps provide a valuable tool for recording local knowledge and discussing land-use issues. In a...

Physics and mathematics have always been closely intertwined, with developments in one field frequently inspiring the other. Currently, there are m...

This volume of Northern Lights originates from the research programme Global Media Cultures. It is concerned with the ways in which media take part...

Based on the mature development of microfabrication technology, micro-scale electrodes, i.e., microelectrodes, for the electrical observation of ac...

This book explores both general and specific ideas of the formation and development of modern natural sciences. Some basic problems characteristic ...

Most Wonderful in the Smallest, written for the general public, presents a first-person journal of a yearlong record of collecting, identifying, de...

The scientific point of view has gained dominance in our growing world culture by basing its authenticity on an empirical foundation. Yet mystics c...

New concepts, ideas, and innovations in aerospace, technology, and human science promise revolutions in aerospace, technology and human life. In ae...

New Research on Biofeedback

Cryptography is the study of methods to transform information from its original comprehensible form into a scrambled incomprehensible form, such th...

This book primarily deals with non-linear operator theory in topological vector spaces and applications. Recently, non-linear functional analysis h...

Numerical Methods of Solving Ill-Posed Problems of Dielectric Spectrometry

Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Elliptic Problems Via Preconditioning Operators - Theory & Applications

An "other transaction" (OT) is a special vehicle used by federal agencies for obtaining or advancing research and development (R&D) or prototyp...

Explore the rich fossil record of the Paleozoic Era, from the Cambrian (545 million years ago) through the Permian (almost 300 million years ago) w...

Optical phase conjugation, or time reversal, of an optical wave front is an important technique to correct distortions in electromagnetic waves whi...

Modern science is so much specialised that it seems utopic to try to follow it all at once. This new book is aimed at crossing the gap between spec...

Research in science education has recognised the importance of presenting physical science within a history and philosophy of science (HPS) perspec...

A reprint of the Routledge edition of 1935.

This book is about the already present supremacy of technology in the contemporary world. As we speak, the mind is being substituted by thinking ma...

Most books in cryptography deal with theory, generally introducing mathematically expressed algorithms without taking into account new research or ...

Applying mathematics to biology has a long history, but only recently has there been an explosion of interest in the field. Some reasons for this i...

The central problem in QSPR (Quantitative Structure-Property Relationship) I QSAR (Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship) is to convert chem...

Science, like the universe, is expanding and accelerating. This book outlines the many gifts that science has bestowed upon our quality of life ran...

This publication presents findings on students' perceptions of their teaching experience in New Zealand science classrooms. It highlights some impo...

The role of universities in constructing regional advantage is high on the political as well as on the research agenda.

This book provides clear evidence that Science and Engineering (S&E) research is becoming an increasingly international endeavour. Science and ...

Trust in the unity of knowledge was initially shaken by Descartes' Cartesian dualism. This quake was followed by positivism in the 19th century. On...