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"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

At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration, sustainability is the most important issue facing the world today. Can we create a sustainable society? What would that mean? How should we go about doing it? How can we bring about such a profound change in the way things are organized? T... More

Technical writers need the instruction on communicating electronically as well as designing and creating documents for an electronic medium that Anderson provides. Technical Communication is still a process-oriented text that focuses on audience and purpose while presenting important additional info... More

Featuring more than 2,000 cross-referenced entries, the encyclopedia includes four essays, interspered throughout the text, that discuss compounds, the functions within a crime lab, molecular modeling and the presence of chemistry in everyday life. Enhanced by more than 150 black-and-white illustrat... More

Avoiding or controlling fatigue damage is a major issue in the design and inspection of welded structures subjected to dynamic loading. Life predictions are usually used for safe life analysis, i.e. for verifying that it is very unlikely that fatigue damage will occur during the target service life ... 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

Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead - and remarked, to his great surprise, that the lamp took as many beats to complete an arc when hardly moving as when it was swinging widely. Galileos Pendulum tells the story of what... More

The third edition of this well known text continues to provide a solid foundation in mathematical analysis for undergraduate and first-year graduate students. The text begins with a discussion of the real number system as a complete ordered field. (Dedekind's construction is now treated in an append... More