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Salient features of the book include: An easy-to-understand overview of the principles of Finite Element Analysis.; Emphasis on Applied Techniques rather than theoretical justification of techniques and methods; Rich pedagogy including 165 solved problems including step-by-step solutions, 134 suppl... More

The buzz on PILOTING PALM "Thorough, intelligent, and inspiring, Piloting Palm tells one of the most remarkable stories in the history of American business-- the birth of the handheld industry. There are important lessons for entrepreneurs and managers in almost every chapter. A fascinating book!" ... More

This new edition provides a comprehensive and technically rigorous introduction to data structures such as arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees and graphs and techniques such as sorting hashing that form the basis of all software. In addition, this text presents advanced or specialized data s... More

CONTENTS: Introduction; Elementary Data Structures; Divide-And-Conquer; The Greedy Method; Dynamic Programming; Basic Traversal and Search Techniques; Backtracking; Branch-And-Bound; Algebraic Problems; Lower Bound Theory; NP- Hard and NP - Complete Problems Approximation Algorithms; Pram Algorithms... More

This is the of the programming language-independent text that helped establish computer algorithms as a discipline of computer science. The text incorporates the latest research and state-of-the-art applications, bringing this classic to the forefront of modern computer science education. A major st... More

This innovative book recognizes the need within the object-oriented community for a book that goes beyond the tools and techniques of the typical methodology book. In Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models, Martin Fowler focuses on the end result of object-oriented analysis and design - the model... More

This book begins with an introduction to the principal ideas behind compilation, and then illustrates these ideas by constructing a simple one-pass compiler. The remainder of the book amplifies the ideas presented in the first two chapters and discusses more advanced topics such as syntax analysis, ... More

"Introduction to Applied Geophysics" covers the fundamental principles and common methods of exploration geophysics, preparing students for field study of the shallow subsurface. Offering a chapter on each of the most common methods of exploration, the text explains in detail how each method is perf... More

Mathematical Symbols and Notations / Introduction / Fundamental Concepts of Wavelets Transform / The Method of Wavelet Transform / Wavelets and Fractals / Wavelets and Functional Analysis / Discretization / Applications / Wavelets in Mathematical Physics / Conclusion / IndexWavelet analysis has been... More

Book DescriptionSternberg's text balances accessible writing, practical applications, and research scholarship, interweaving biology throughout the text. Utilizing the theme that human cognition has evolved over time as a means of adapting to our environment, Sternberg explores the basics of cogniti... More

Contents.1. Introduction.2. Tutorial Lessons.3. Interactive Computation.4. Programming in MATLAB: Scripts and Function.5. Applications.6. Graphics.7. Errors8. What Else Is There?... More

This fourth edition continues to improve on the features that have made it the market leader. The text offers a flexible organization, enabling instructors to adapt the book to their particular courses: discrete mathematics, graph theory, modern algebra, and/or combinatorics. More elementary problem... More

A useful reference providing current and accurate information on the subject for high school and college students. Comprehensive coverage includes significant discoveries in chemistry, in addition to definitions of basic terms, thought provoking essays and capsule biographies of notable scientists- ... More

Lathi's trademark user-friendly and highly readable text presents a complete and modern treatment of communication systems. It begins by introducing students to the basics of communication systems without using probabilistic theory. Only after a solid knowledge base--an understanding of how communic... More

Lathi's trademark user-friendly and highly readable text presents a complete and modern treatment of communication systems. It begins by introducing students to the basics of communication systems without using probabilistic theory. Only after a solid knowledge base--an understanding of how communic... More