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Legend has it that in Baghdad the magnificent, a great and particularly dark-minded vizier, who answers to the name of Iznogoud, works on his ambition to steal the throne of Caliph Haroun al Plassid. Thus his favourite saying: I want to be caliph instead of the caliph! Iznogoud, seconded by his fait... More

As a reference tool for engineers and as an advanced text for graduate students, Multiphase Flow and Fluidization takes the reader beyond the theoretical to show how multiphase flow equations provide practical solutions to industrial fluidization problems. Written to advance progress in the emerging... More

With the accession of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids to power and the foundation of Baghdad, a Graeco-Arabic translation movement was initiated, and by the end of the tenth century, almost all scientific and philosophical secular Greek works that were available in late antiquity had been translat... More

There has been a marked increase in debte surrounding the issue of the cognitive foundations of economic behavior in recent years. This debate seeks to explain the determinants of a variety of activities such as forecasting economic variables, perception and decision under uncertainty and communicat... More

Everything the ophthalmologist needs to know about the different surgical techniques used with intraocular lenses (IOLs), as well as the theory behind using these techniques to treat various conditions, in a well-written format. More comprehensive than any other IOL book available, this solid refere... More

OmeGA: A Competent Genetic Algorithm for Solving Permutation and Scheduling Problems addresses two increasingly important areas in GA implementation and practice. OmeGA, or the ordering messy genetic algorithm, combines some of the latest in competent GA technology to solve scheduling and other perm... More

Whether philosophy of science is crucially tied down to epistemological justification is a significant topic of current debates. This book sets out an extensive argument against the foundationalist theories of justification. In developing a project of a hermeneutic context of constitution, it advoca... More

I've always had trouble describing this book, personal journey, historical expos relating to the troubles in Cyprus and the massacres of 1963 or, and, a wake-up call for Humanity? Most people would celebrate completing their first book, I went to bed and wept myself to sleep. The experience of writi... More

The late-night visit of a Russian Orthodox priest draws Yuri Nevsky into a struggle by would-be leaders of post-Soviet Russia to possess a treasure cache created for Czar Nicholas II to use in an exile that never came. At once he is caught up in a lethal web with strands stretching from Imperial Rus... More