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Foer, Jonathan Safran

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between carnivore and vegetarian. As he became a husband and a father, he kept returning to two questions: Why do we eat animals? And would we eat them if we knew how they got on our dinner plates?Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, and his own undercover detective work, Eating An...

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Edward Ellis

W.h. Bell

Kishor S.trivedi

Book News: This introduction to probability, stochastic processes, and statistics for computer science and engineering applications uses Markov chains and other statistical tools to illustrate processes in reliability of computer systems, fault tolerance, and performance. Chapters cover discrete random variables, continuous random variables, expectation, conditional distributi...

James F. Kurose

E.t.bell

La obra está dirigida al lector común y a todos aquellos que quieren saber qué tipo de seres son los hombres que han creado la Matemática moderna. ...

Fonseca García, Agustín / Sergio Aldrey

En el sofá, en tu habitación, en el cuarto de baño, en el tren o en el autobús... Cualquier sitio es bueno para divertirte con Pasatiempos Cúpula. Juegos divertidos y eficaces para mantener tus neuronas a punto. ...

Ravindra Nanda / Kapila Sunil

Christophe Chevallier / Christopher Brunner

Books News: WCDMA, or Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, is a protocol used in third-generation mobile wireless communication. Scientists from a California engineering services company explain to network planners and optimization engineers how to implement a network based on it, replaced those dusty old second-generation and even early third-generation models. They discus...

Harri Holma Antti Toskala

Book News: High-speed downlink and uplink packet access for universal mobile telecommunications systems are discussed by contributors with primarily Nordic names, though no more information is divulged about them. They cover standardization and background; architecture and protocols; principles; radio resource management; bit rates, capacity, and coverage; application and end-...

Jaana Laiho

WILEY: Radio Network Planning and Optimisation for UMTS, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and fully updated introduction to WCDMA radio access technology used in UMTS, featuring new content on key developments. Written by leading experts at Nokia, the first edition quickly established itself as a best-selling and highly respected book on how to dimension, plan and optimise U...

Katharine Suding / Richard Hobbs

As scientific understanding about ecological processes has grown, the idea that ecosystem dynamics are complex, nonlinear, and often unpredictable has gained prominence. Of particular importance is the idea that rather than following an inevitable progression toward an ultimate endpoint, some ecosystems may occur in a number of states depending on past and present ecological co...

Randolph Nelson

Blackwell North Amer: This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to probability and stochastic processes, and shows how these subjects may be applied in computer performance modeling. The author's aim is to derive probability theory in a way that highlights the complementary nature of its formal, intuitive, and applicative aspects while illustrating how the theory is ...

Henk Tijms

Book News: Tijms (operational research, Vrije U., Amsterdam) introduces novices to probability not through the standard theorem-proof style, but informally by using examples from real-life contexts. The account can be used as the core text in courses ranging from social sciences to engineering that require a good deal of student participation, or as a supplement in a more mathe...

Steven M. Kay

Featuring MATLAB examples to provide motivation for the theory to come, this introductory text incorporates MATLAB code to allow students to understand how the theory is applied in practice. Numerous computer exercises familiarize the student with MATLAB and how it is used to solve real problems. "Real-world" problems from various disciplines are emphasized in each chapter to i...

Dirigido a la enseñanza de la ecología como disciplina para alumnos universitarios de distintas titulaciones de ciencias, la presente obra de este catedrático de Ecología de la Universidad de Málaga presenta en su índice los siguientes aspectos: introducción conceptual, modelos , el soporte físico, diversidad metabólica, producción primaria, crecimiento de poblaciones aisladas,...

Rios, Ruben

Los hackers, los verdaderos hackers, no son etiquetables con tanta facilidad. Se los ha llamado ciberpiratas, programadores de virus, ciberterroristas, enemigos-jurado de Internet, chistosos que entran en las computadoras ajenas, ciberanarquistas...... La imagen que difunden de ellos los medios de comunicación de masas caricaturizan uno de los fenómenos más fascinantes de nuest...

Cabrera, Adriana Patricia

Hace más de veinte años que los científicos alertaron sobre un lento pero sostenido aumento de la temperatura media de la tierra. Las lluvias intensas e infrecuentes, los fríos glaciales y prolongados, las olas de calor en zonas tradicionalmente frías y los vientos huracanados de inusitada violencia son algunos de los síntomas del calentamiento global que ya está experimentado ...

Darwin, Charles

Charles Darwin fue un precursor en el estudio de los seres vivos. La claridad en la exposición, la apelación permanente a ejemplos, y su claro tono didáctico, hacen que la lectura de El origen de las especies trascienda el círculo de los especialistas. A lo largo de varios años, Darwin recogió en un viaje hasta las costas patagónicas, datos botánicos, zoológicos y geológicos qu...

Charles Darwin

La primera edición completa de El origen de las especies se agotó el mismo día que apareció, el 24 de noviembre de 1859. Fue un libro importante en tiempos de su autor y lo sigue siendo, ya que la teoría de la evolución es la piedra angular de la biología moderna, y la obra de Darwin es el cimiento en que descansa dicha teoría.Aun cuando Darwin no fue el primero en proponer que...

Hawking, Stephen W.

Hawking pasa revista a las grandes teorías cosmológicas desde Aristóteles hasta nuestros dias. Tras explicar con gran claridad las aportaciones de Galileo y Newton, nos lleva paso a paso, hasta la teoría de la relatividad de Einstein y hasta la otra gran teoría física del siglo XX, la mecánica cuántica. Finalmente explora las posibilidades de combinar ambas teorías en una sola ...

David Williams

Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics - an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history - took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period - the 1960s and 1970s - much of the foundation of modern systematic methodology was established as cladistic approaches became widely accepted. Virtu...

Derek Onley / Paul Scofield

This is the first comprehensive field guide to the world's 136 species of albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters, storm petrels, and diving petrels. This field guide includes information on breeding, feeding, distribution, migration, and conservation. And it illustrates for the first time several extremely rare species, such as Beck's and MacGillivray's Petrels, and the New Zealand ...

J.p. Croxall

Cambridge Univ Pr: Originally published in 1986, this book is concerned with the ways in which seabirds function as predators in the marine environment; in particular about how they find and catch food and how much of it they consume. It reviews both the feeding ecology of seabirds (including adaptations for flight and diving) and also most of the leading field studies (in pol...

Richard Chandler

Baker & Taylor: An illustrated guide to all 134 shorebird species found in the Northern Hemisphere includes key identification features, age and sex differences, variations in plumage, similar species, status, habitat, and distribution.Princeton University Press: Shorebirds are prized among birders for their stunning plumages, evocative calls and songs, extensive migration pa...

Maria Chivers

British founder of the Swindon Dyslexia Centre, Chivers surveys some of the alternative therapies that are being used for dyslexia in particular but also attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, hearing difficulty, and other conditions that can interfere with learning. Some chapters focus on groups of conditions and others on groups of therapies. Among the information she prov...

Mario Livio

El autor de La proporción aurea se cuestiona en este libro si las matemáticas están en la Naturaleza o en el cerebro: ¿existen leyes matemáticas en la Naturaleza o, por el contrario, es nuestro cerebro el que las crea? Desde la antigüedad y hasta hoy, los científicos y los filósofos se han maravillado de cómo una disciplina tan aparentemente abstracta es capaz de explicar de un...