Author: Chandra Alexander
Publisher: Boston Ma
Keywords: works, reality
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1590030095
ISBN-13: 9781590030097

Combining eastern wisdom with a hip, contemporary, very American point of view, Reality Works is a refreshing look at life and its periods of celebration and desolation. Fifty-two simple, succinct chapters (one for every week in the year) provide brief but explicit lessons on how to live with a grounding sense of wonder and full responsibility. Chapters include: When You Are Confused, Do Nothing; Love Grows If You’re Not In A Coma; You Are Always In The Right Place At The Right Time; Becoming Less - Not An Option; Regardless of how clever we are, reality is. There is no way around it...

Author: Harold M. Edwards
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Boston
Keywords: approach, forms, differential, calculus, advanced
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1994-01-05
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0817637079
ISBN-13: 9780817637071

An outstanding textbook, complete with examples, exercises, and solutions, for an advanced calculus course in which differential forms can be used to introduce the subject. Enriching reading for its modern viewpoint and techniques. The diverse set of topics from which advanced calculus courses are created are presented here in beautiful unifying generalization. This text has been adopted at: University of California, Davis Layfayette College, Easton, PA Western Illinois University, Macomb University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Eastern Washington University, Cheney

Authors:R. P. Bambah, V. C. Dumir, R. J. Hans-gill,
Publisher: Birkhauser Boston
Keywords: mathematics, trends, theory, number
Number of Pages: 527
Published: 2000-07
List price: $169.00
ISBN-10: 3764362596
ISBN-13: 9783764362591

Contains 23 papers on various branches of number theory by leading mathematicians, giving an overview of the developments in their respective fields together with open problems.

Authors:Hardeo Sahai, Mario M. Ojeda,
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Boston
Keywords: data, analysis, theory, methods, applications, volume, variance, random, models, unbalanced
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-11-12
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0817632298
ISBN-13: 9780817632298

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) models have become widely used tools and play a fundamental role in much of the application of statistics today. In particular, ANOVA models involving random effects have found widespread application to experimental design in a variety of fields requiring measurements of variance, including agriculture, biology, animal breeding, applied genetics, econometrics, quality control, medicine, engineering, and social sciences. This two-volume work is a comprehensive presentation of different methods and techniques for point estimation, interval estimation, and tests of hy

Authors:Pierre Bernhard, Vladimir Gaitsgory, Odile Pourtalli
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Boston
Keywords: dynamic, games, annals, international, society, developments, analytical, applications, advances, numerical
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2009-04-14
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 081764833X
ISBN-13: 9780817648336

This book—an outgrowth of the 12th International Symposium on Dynamic Games—presents current advances in the theory of dynamic games and their applications in several disciplines. The selected contributions cover a variety of topics ranging from purely theoretical developments in game theory, to numerical analysis of various dynamic games, and then progressing to applications of dynamic games in economics, finance, and energy supply. Thematically organized into eight parts, the book covers key topics in these main areas: * theoretical developments in general dynamic and differe

Authors:Andreas Deutsch, Lutz Brusch, Helen Byrne, Gerda De V
Publisher: Birkhaeuser Boston
Keywords: modeling, data, biomedicine, analysis, engineering, technology, development, science, regulatory, systems, biological, volume, cellular, mathematical, biophysics, networks
Number of Pages: 382
Published: 2007-07-16
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 0817645578
ISBN-13: 9780817645571

Volume I of this two-volume, interdisciplinary work is a unified presentation of a broad range of state-of-the-art topics in the rapidly growing field of mathematical modeling in the biological sciences. Highlighted throughout the work are mathematical and computational approaches to solving central problems in the life sciences, ranging from the organizational principles of individuals cells to the dynamics of large populations. The chapters are thematically organized into the following main areas: Cellular Biophysics; Regulatory Networks; Developmental Biology; Biomedical Applications; and,

Author: Bernice M. Martin
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: introduction, techniques, culture, tissue
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1994-08-01
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0817636439
ISBN-13: 9780817636432

This book, which is the most up-to-date laboratory course on the subject, is designed to teach the fundamentals of tissue culture to readers ranging from undergraduate students taking their first courses to veteran scientists needing a quick review. Written by an experienced teacher with student-tested techniques and protocols, this volume carefully covers the field and has safety and sterility as key underlying themes. Its ultimate goal is to help the reader think like a tissue culturist. Extensively illustrated and written in an informal easy-to-read style, this book progresses with a log