Buku ini menyajikan empat artikel survei tentang berbagai topik dalam analisis matematika yang terkait erat dengan konsep dan aplikasi dalam fisika. Secara khusus, buku ini membahas aspek global PDE eliptik, kuantisasi Berezin-Toeplitz, stabilitas gelombang soliter, dan geometri sub-Riemannian. Kontribusi tersebut didasarkan pada ceramah yang diberikan oleh para ahli terkemuka di sekolah musim …
Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A discussion of the opportunities and challenges involved in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger travel.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace…
"For more than two decades, in such landmark studies as The Second Self and Life on the Screen, Sherry Turkle has challenged our collective imagination with her insights about how technology enters our private worlds. In The Inner History of Devices, she describes her process, an approach that reveals how what we make is woven into our ways of seeing ourselves. She brings together three traditi…
Previously published in French as: Trois le?cons sur la soci?et?e post-industrielle.A noted economist analyzes the upheavals caused by revolutions in technology, labor, culture, financial markets, and globalization.In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial socie…
A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS VOU are a tulip seen to-day, •*• But, dearest, of so short a stay That where you grew scarce men can say. You are a lovely July-flower, Yet one rude wind or ruffling shower Will force you hence, and in an hour.
By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of millions of users to gain access to a global communication infrastructure spurred the creation of new firm…
A provocative argument that the frustrations of globalization stem from the gap between the expectations created and the lagging economic reality in poor countries.The enemies of globalization--whether they denounce the exploitation of poor countries by rich ones or the imposition of Western values on traditional cultures--see the new world economy as forcing a system on people who do not want …
Deskripsi kuantitatif terpadu tentang tektonik lempeng, yang menggabungkan perspektif geologi dan geofisika. Perangkat lunak profesional, contoh verifikasi manual, dan aplikasi tersedia sebagai materi tambahan. Termasuk perhitungan terperinci, contoh, dan rangkaian masalah per bab. Buku teks tentang tektonik lempeng ini dirancang untuk mahasiswa geologi dan geofisika untuk memperoleh pengetahua…