Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook (Spiral Manual)

Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors of the Present (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)

Springer, 2009

This book describes inventions and designs of ancient engineers that are the precursors of the present. The ages mainly range from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with some exceptions from before and after this period.

As for the very ancient ones, the book describes inventions (documented by archaeological finds mainly from Pompei, Ercolano and Stabia)...

Handbook of Operations Research for Homeland Security

Springer, 2012

This new Handbook addresses the state of the art in the application of operations research models to problems in preventing terrorist attacks, planning and preparing for emergencies, and responding to and recovering from disasters. The purpose of the book is to enlighten policy makers and decision makers about the power of operations research...

Excel 2010 Just the Steps For Dummies

For Dummies, 2010

Welcome to the world of Microsoft Excel, the most popular and powerful spreadsheet program in the world. You may ask: “What is a spreadsheet program?” A spreadsheet program is a computer program that features a huge grid designed to display data in rows and columns. You can use it to perform mathematical, logical, and other types...

The Rubato Composer Music Software: Component-Based Implementation of a Functorial Concept Architecture (Computational Music Science)

Springer, 2009

Both modern mathematical music theory and computer science are strongly influenced by the theory of categories and functors. One outcome of this research is the data format of denotators, which is based on set-valued presheaves over the category of modules and diaffine homomorphisms. The functorial approach of denotators deals with generalized...

Solaris 9 Sun Certified System Administrator Study Guide

Sybex, 2003

Here’s the book you need to prepare for Sun’s Solaris 9 System Administrator Exams. This Study Guide provides:

Assessment testing to focus and direct your studies
In-depth coverage of all official exam objectives

Authoritative coverage of all exam objectives, including:

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Dynamics of the Vascular System (Series on Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering - Vol. 1)

World Scientific Publishing, 2004

Recent advances in vascular biology and vascular engineering have led to the understanding and integration of the two fields. A feature that is fundamental to both is the dynamic aspects of the vascular system. Although the basic principles governing blood flow and the circulatory function are known, new approaches to examining the...