This book focuses on computational intelligence techniques and its applications - fast-growing and promising research topics that have drawn a great deal of attention from researchers over the years. It brings together many different aspects of the current research on intelligence technologies such [...]
Stephen King wrote that H.P. Lovecraft "has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." Now enthusiasts and newcomers alike have the opportunity to enjoy five of Lovecraft's best tales in a unique package. Included are four short stor[...]
Industrial desalination of sea water is becoming an essential part in providing sustainable sources of fresh water for a number of communities around the world. This book focuses on the processes used in industry, which include multi-stage flash desalination and reverse osmosis. It also features oth[...]
Contains twenty four short stories, novelettes, and short novels, including "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" and "At the Mountains of Madness, " as well as twenty six poems. This edition has a fine introduction by S.T. Joshi, photographs of H.P. Lovecraft, and an attractive binding, uniform with ot[...]
Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models [...]
Why do our government leaders continually make decisions and craft policies that everybody knows are foolish? Because they, like the rest of us, remain trapped in foolish and unproductive habits of thinking. "You Can't Enlarge the Pie" analyzes the unspoken assumptions that lead to bad policy, waste[...]
NOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A COLLEGE GRADUATE TO GET A GREAT JOB! Fierce competition for jobs makes a quality resume more important than ever if you want to set yourself apart from the pack. But what if you didn't go to college? In this timely book, bestselling career author and consultant Richard Bea[...]
Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the embodiment of the German culture hero. Mann's novelistic biography of Goethe was first published in English in 1940. Lotte in Weimar is a vivid dual portrait--a complex[...]
With mathematical and computational models furthering our understanding of lung mechanics, function and disease, this book provides an all-inclusive introduction to the topic from a quantitative standpoint. Focusing on inverse modeling, the reader is guided through the theory in a logical progressio[...]
"Business demands innovation. There is a constant need to feel around the fringes, to test the edges, but business schools, out of necessity, are condemned to teach the past.'-- Mark H. McCormack, from "What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School" published by Bantam Books.Mark McCormack is[...]
He set his star by a simple motto: duty, honor, country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation. But such a man is General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, comma[...]
Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.[...]
Walk the path of the Buddhist and reach the pinnacle of human achievement - the realization of Truth. With warmth and simplicity, "Don't Give Up Until You Do" introduces this experience-based discipline in which the path itself is the goal. Dr. Fred Meyer, a practising Buddhist for over thirty-five [...]
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introver[...]