“yakov pachepsky”

The scaling issue remains one of the largest problems in soil science and hydrology. This book is a unique compendium of ideas, conceptual approaches, techniques, and methodologies for scaling soil physical properties. Scaling Methods in Soil Physics covers many methods of scaling that will be usefu... More

Etymology has been largely neglected since the beginning of this century. Professor Yakov Malkiel here sets out to rescue it from its fate. He enquires into the style, structure, presuppositions, and purposes of etymological enquiries over the last two centuries, and sets them against the practice o... More

Humans aren't perfect. Sometimes we get sick or behave irrationally, with negative consequences. Although much of our behavior is guided by various social institutions, this formal manner of regulation is less effective than a personally designed system of rational self-management. At a societal lev... More

Written in the early days of the Soviet Unionand using examples from Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Charles Darwin, and their Russian counterpartsthis lively bestseller from the 1930s is filled with answers to basic questions about physics.... More

J2EE is the server side specification that all corporate Java developers need to understand regardless of the vendor (BEA, IBM, open source) they use for their Java applications. This new specification release will drive the need for current and new Java developers to learn the new technologies an... More

Environmental and agricultural modeling and assessment have a multitude of uses for soil parameters governing retention and transport of water and chemicals in soils. These parameters are notorious for the difficulties and high labor costs involved in measuring them. Good estimates instead of direct... More

Everyone makes decisions, but not everyone is a decision analyst. A decision analyst uses quantitative models and computational methods to formulate decision algorithms, assess decision performance, identify and evaluate options, determine trade-offs and risks, evaluate strategies for investigation,... More