Authors:David M. Wells, J. Douglas Faires,  J.Douglas
Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Keywords: problem, books, maa, book, contest
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2008-07-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0883858266
ISBN-13: 9780883858264

This is the ninth book of problems and solutions from the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) contests. It chronicles 325 problems from the thirteen AMC 12 contests given in the years between 2001 and 2007. The authors were the joint directors of the AMC 12 and the AMC 10 competitions during that period. The problems have all been edited to ensure that they conform to the current style of the AMC 12 competitions. Graphs and figures have been redrawn to make them more consistent in form and style, and the solutions to the problems have been both edited and supplemented. A problem index at t

Authors:J. Douglas Faires, David Well,
Publisher: Mathematical Assn of Amer
Keywords: problem, book, series, maa, viii, contest
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0883858258
ISBN-13: 9780883858257

For more than 50 years, the Mathematical Association of America has been engaged in the construction and administration of challenging contests for students in American and Canadian high schools. The problems on these contests are constructed in the hope that all high school students interested in mathematics will have the opportunity to participate in the contests and will find the experience mathematically enriching. These contests are intended for students at all levels, from the average student at a typical school who enjoys mathematics to the very best students at the most special school.

Authors:J. Douglas Faires, Richard L. Burde,
Publisher: Brooks Cole
Keywords: methods, numerical
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2002-06-18
List price: $205.95
ISBN-10: 0534407617
ISBN-13: 9780534407612

This text emphasizes the intelligent application of approximation techniques to the type of problems that commonly occur in engineering and the physical sciences. Students learn why the numerical methods work, what type of errors to expect, and when an application might lead to difficulties. The authors also provide information about the availability of high-quality software for numerical approximation routines. The techniques are essentially the same as those covered in the authors’ top-selling Numerical Analysis text, but in this text, full mathematical justifications are provided only

Authors:Richard L. Burden, Douglas J. Faires,
Publisher: I.T.P. Latin America
Keywords: spanish, analysis, numerical, numerico, analisis
Number of Pages: 872
Published: 2001-06-12
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 9706861343
ISBN-13: 9789706861344

Author: Nicole Faires
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: guide, homesteading, ultimate, life, deliberate
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2008-02-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1435710878
ISBN-13: 9781435710870

Can you make your own bread? Homeschool your kids? Grow a garden all winter? What can you use instead of toilet paper? What if the power was out for a month? What if the grocery store closed? Can you make a solar oven? A food storage? Raise a water buffalo? Make fine linen from stinging nettle? Is it possible to be totally self-sufficient? This book answers all these questions. All of the information included had to meet this criteria: It is something that ANYONE can do, without special training. It can be done with relatively few supplies, or with stuff you can make yourself. It came fr

Authors:Douglas,  Marion J. Ball, Judith V. Douglas, J
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: health, management, information, improvement, performance
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-12-21
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387984526
ISBN-13: 9780387984520

Performance Improvement through Information Management highlights performance improvement and business strategies throughout various health care settings, focusing on business drivers and management mechanisms, explaining when, how, and why information technology solutions are of value. Structured on three levels: Market Environment, Transformational Processes, and Enabling Technologies, the text describes the current state of the art of health care and the shape of things to come, and provides practical solutions and strategies for implementing applications of technology within the current co

Authors:Prof Ian Douglas, Ian Douglas, Richard John Hugget, M
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: routledge, world, reference, humankind, environment, encyclopedia, geography, companion
Number of Pages: 1056
Published: 2002-05-31
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0415277507
ISBN-13: 9780415277501

The Companion Encyclopedia of Geography provides an authoritative and provocative source of reference for all those concerned with the earth and its people. Examining both physical and human geography and charting human activities within their habitat up to the present day, this Companion also looks towards the future. The forty-five self contained chapters are bound into a unifying whole by the editors’ general and section introductions and each chapter provides details of the most useful sources of further reading and research. Now available in paperback, this work is an invaluable res