Authors:Vere Shannon, Gotthilf Hempel, Coleen Moloney, John D
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: large, marine, ecosystems, volume, ecosystem, benguela, predicting
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0444527591
ISBN-13: 9780444527592

This is a book which examines much of what we know and also what we don’t know about the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem and its inherent variability. Building on recent work and exciting findings about the predictability of the Benguela and other coastal upwelling ecosystems, the book takes a look towards the future and highlights the difficulty of making predictions in such a complex and variable region. The book illustrates what scientists and managers from developed and developing countries can achieve by working together, and it lays a solid base upon which to build wise man

Author: Amy Hempel
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: hempel, amy, stories, collected
Number of Pages: 407
Published: 2007-09-18
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743291638
ISBN-13: 9780743291637

Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short collections of stunning stories about marriages, minor disasters, and moments of revelation.With her inimitable compassion and wit, Hempel introduces characters who make choices that seem inevitable, and whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience.For readers who have known Hempel’s work for decades and for those who are just discovering her, this indispensable volume contains all the stories in Reasons to Live, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Tumble Hom

Author: Amy Hempel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: live, reasons
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1995-08-30
List price: $13.99
ISBN-10: 0060976721
ISBN-13: 9780060976729

Hempel’s now-classic collection of short fiction is peopled by complex characters who have discovered that their safety nets are not dependable and who must now learn to balance on the threads of wit, irony, and spirit.

Author: Thomas Hempel
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: audience, signals, communication, technology, target, listening, speech, dialog, systems, usability
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 3540783423
ISBN-13: 9783540783428

Many technical issues like speech recognition and signal processing have to be addressed for the design of speech communication systems. However, before designing a speech application starts, 3 key questions that have to be answered: who will use it, why and how often? Only if the designer is clear about these questions, he is able to provide a maximum of target group orientation. This book focuses on these high-level questions and gives a criteria when and how to design speech systems. After an introduction, the state of the art in modern voice user interfaces is displayed. The following part

Author: Carl Hempel
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: philosophy, series, foundations, science, natural
Number of Pages: 116
Published: 1966-08-25
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 0136638236
ISBN-13: 9780136638230

This volume explores the logic and methodology of scientific inquiry rather than its substantive results.

Author: John Hempel
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: publishing, chelsea, ams, manifolds
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2004-11
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0821836951
ISBN-13: 9780821836958

For many years, John Hempel’s book has been a standard text on the topology of 3-manifolds. Even though the field has grown tremendously during that time, the book remains one of the best and most popular introductions to the subject. The theme of this book is the role of the fundamental group in determining the topology of a given 3-manifold. The essential ideas and techniques are covered in the first part of the book: Heegaard splittings, connected sums, the loop and sphere theorems, incompressible surfaces, free groups, and so on. Along the way, many useful and insi

Author: Paul Schmid-Hempel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: insects, social, parasites
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1998-11-02
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0691059241
ISBN-13: 9780691059242

This book analyzes for the first time how parasites shape the biology of social insects: the ants, wasps, bees, and termites. Paul Schmid-Hempel provides an overview of the existing knowledge of parasites in social insects. Current ideas are evaluated using a broad database, and the role of parasites for the evolution and maintenance of the social organization and biology of insects is carefully scrutinized. In addition, the author develops new insights, especially in his examination of the intricate relationships between parasites and their social hosts through the rigorous use of evolutionar