When eighteen-year-old Danny is fatally stabbed in a random attack his family struggles to find meaning and forgiveness. His mother's determination to under stand the atrocity brings her face to face
Stochastic geometry deals with models for random geometric structures. Its early beginnings are found in playful geometric probability questions, and it has vigorously developed during recent decades,
How could scholarship justify the horrors of nazism? Mees (history, RMIT U., formerly the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) notes that national socialist ideology is often dismissed as a random
This handbook gathers international research on issues that networks face as they enter the next generation, and highlights promising new technologies for networks. The first section focuses on the sh
The key to wealth is... a four-letter word.Debt, growth assets and time are the perfect ingredients for Generation X to create real wealth.If you were born in the '60s or '70s, remember Billy Ray Cyru
Computer-aided automatic processing of images requires the control of a series of operations, which this book analyzes. Knowing the statistical properties of images, sampling them to reduce the observ
The Net Generation Has Arrived. Are you ready for it? Chances are you know a person between the ages of 11 and 30. You've seen them doing five things at once: texting friends, downloading music, uplo
Do religious experiences come from God, or are they merely the random firing of neurons in the brain? Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, neuroscientist Mario Beauregard shows that genuin
The first wave of the Millennial Generation—born between 1980 and 2001—is entering the work force, and employers are facing some of the biggest management challenges they've ever encountered. They are
Written by leading experts from industry and academia, this comprehensive resource addresses recent developments in next generation DNA sequencing technology and their impact on genome research, drug
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured hip hop and is building a movement that will change not only th
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Members of the Lost Generation, American writers and artists who lived in Paris during the 1920s, continue to occupy an important place in our literary history. Rebelling against increased commercial
Examines the impact that the first generation born into an entirely digital world will have on society as a whole with regard to innovation, privacy, safety, and the digital future itself.
Handguns have a long and fascinating history, beginning with crude, almost toy-like unreliable weapons of the 14th century and progressing to the sleek revolvers and automatic pistols in use today. Fi
Examines the potential influence of Generation Xers, who grew up in the affluence of the 1980s and who have experienced the economic uncertainty and technological revolution of the following era, and
By focusing on the importance of human and social interactions in the workplace, What Every Engineer Should Know About Career Management helps engineers navigate the seemingly random whims of those a
The barbarians who destroyed the glory that wasRome demolished civilization along with it, and for the next four centuries the peasants and artisans of Europe barely held on. Random violence, mass
Geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this introductory text surveys random variables, conditional probability and expectation, characteristic functions, infinite sequences of r
The relaxed, gritty and candid writing of the revolutionary Beat Generation, including Kerouac's On the Road and Ginsberg's Howl, has inspired generations. In his chronicle of the inner workings of th
Lucinda Hoekke works at The Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Lucinda also plays bass in a struggling band whose lyricist, Bedwin, is suffering from writer's
Hungarian mathematics has always been known for discrete mathematics, including combinatorial number theory, set theory and recently random structures, combinatorial geometry as well. The recent volum
This book provides a comprehensive discussion of automatic testing, diagnosis and tuning of analogue, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuits and systems in a single source. The book contains eleven
Designed for both novice and practicing electrical workers, Electricity: Power Generation and Delivery, 9th Edition, explores various types of generators and the delivery of single phase and three-ph
Hungarian mathematics has always been known for discrete mathematics, including combinatorial number theory, set theory and recently random structures, and combinatorial geometry. The recent volume co
Providing a basic tool for studying nonlinear problems, Spectral Theory for Random and Nonautonomous Parabolic Equations and Applications focuses on the principal spectral theory for general time-depe
As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, aprogram alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrongresponded by switching of
Despite the masses still lining up to enter mega-churches with warehouse-like architecture, casually dressed clergy, and pop Christian music, the "Post-Boomer" generation-those ranging in age from tw
Placebo responses are automatic and unconscious and cannot be predicted based on conscious volition. Instead, they reflect complex interactions between the innate reward system of the nervous system a
Point processes and random measures find wide applicability in telecommunications, earthquakes, image analysis, spatial point patterns, and stereology, to name but a few areas. The authors have signi
An excellent reference for the signal processing field this book includes material on both random signals and deterministic signals in one volume. It combines signal processing theory with worked MATL
This book discusses automatic reactive power control of autonomous hybrid power system modelling based on power equations. The modelling can be easily extendable to an autonomous hybrid power system
For the last forty years the label ?black voter” has been virtually synonymous with ?Democrat” but a new generation of voters is changing that. In her provocative new book Party Crashing, political co
This exposition examines fundamentals of Monte Carlo methods plus discrete and continuous random walk processes and standard variance reduction techniques. It focuses on methods of superposition and r
Monte Carlo Methods in Fuzzy Optimization is a clear and didactic book about Monte Carlo methods using random fuzzy numbers to obtain approximate solutions to fuzzy optimization problems. The book inc
If you want to engage, motivate, and retain young workers without driving the veteran workers away, Generation Blend can help you. This timely book explores how generational attitudes toward technolog
The economics of search is the study of the optimal strategy when choosing from a series of potential opportunities of random quality, given that delaying choice is costly. It is commonly applied to w
Sekkei Harada is of automatic interest to anyone with an interest in modern Zen history. Like such big Zen names as Seung Sahn and Taizan Maezumi, he’s very no-nonsense and gets right to the ma
Automatic feedback control systems play crucial roles in many fields, including manufacturing industries, communications, naval and space systems. At its simplest, a control system represents a feedba
Vienna, 1902. Already in the grip of a brutal winter, the city faces the greatest menace of the new century: a serial killer. In a seemingly random pattern, a madman is murdering prostitutes, leaving
