From Our List of Top Titles
Selected Papers of Richard Feynman
(with Commentary)
edited by Laurie M Brown (Northwestern University, USA)
The Selected Papers of Richard Feynman should become a fixture on the bookshelf of every physicist..
David Goodstein Caltech
This reprint volume, with commentary by Laurie Brown, will be appreciated by experts and junior scientists alike..
Edwin Salpeter Cornell University
Brown’s commentaries placing the papers in their historical context are most helpful and constitute a valuable addition to the collection...
Sam Schweber Brandeis University
These scientific papers of Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate, influential theoretical physicist, and original thinker, are renowned for their brilliant content and the author’s inimitable style. This volume is a must read for every physicist and a valuable addition to the collection of historians of science as well as all science libraries.
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Introduction to Bioengineering
edited by Yuan Cheng Fung (University of California, San Diego)
This invaluable book has been written for beginning students of bioengineering, and is aimed at instilling a sense of engineering in them. Each author of the book discusses an ongoing project, and gives a sample of a professional publication. Students are asked to work through a sequence of assignments and write a report. Almost everybody soon realizes that more scientific knowledge is needed, and a strong motivation for the study of science is generated. The teaching of inventive thinking is a new trend in engineering education. Bioengineering is a good field with which to begin this revolution in engineering education, because it is a youthful, developing interdisciplinary field.
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Wolf Prize in Mathematics
Vols. 1 and 2
edited by S S Chern (University of California, Berkeley) &
F Hirzebruch (Universität Bonn & Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Germany)
The Wolf Prize, awarded by the Wolf Foundation in Israel, is awarded to mathematicians in their sixties or older, to honor their achievements of a lifetime. The two volumes feature bibliographies, important papers, and speeches of Wolf Prize winners. This is the first time that lectures by some of the Wolf Prize winners have been put together in two volumes, which together, cover much of the mathematics of the twentieth century. These two volumes will be welcomed by all mathematicians.
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Colour Atlas of Ophthalmology
4th Edition
Arthur Lim Siew Ming (National University of Singapore),
Ian J Constable (University of Western Australia) and
Tien Yin Wong (National University of Singapore)
Once in a long while a specialist writes a textbook which even a general practitioner can get excited about...
Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, England
There is an excellent distribution of external and fundus photographs, most of high quality ... a fine, brief atlas and text that deals with ophthalmologic disease on a practical level..
American Journal of Ophthalmology
This excellent volume for medical students, general practitioners, ophthalmic students and all paramedical personnel who have to deal with common eye diseases, has been previously translated into eight languages.
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Linus Pauling: Selected Scientific Papers
(In 2 Volumes)
edited by Barclay Kamb (California Institute of Technology, USA),
Linda Pauling Kamb (LCProgeny Inc., USA),
Peter Jeffress Pauling (University College London, UK),
Alexander Kamb (Arcaris Inc., USA)
& Linus Pauling Jr. (Linus Pauling Institute of Science & Medicine, USA)
This two-volume set is a selection of the most important of Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling’s stellar work on quantum mechanics, chemical bonding, protein structure, molecular disease, molecular medicine, radiation chemistry/biology, and nuclear structure, among other fields. Through these papers the reader gets a fresh, unfiltered view of the genius of Pauling's prolific contributions to chemistry, molecular biology, and medicine. These books will be well received by chemists, biochemists, molecular biologists, and physicists.
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Quantitative Analysis in Financial Markets
Collected Papers of the New York University Mathematical Finance Seminar, Vol. 2
edited by Marco Avellaneda (Courant Institute, New York University)
This book contains lectures delivered at the celebrated Seminar in Mathematical Finance at the Courant Institute. The lecturers and presenters of papers are prominent researchers and practitioners in the field of quantitative financial modeling. Most are faculty members at leading universities or Wall Street practitioners.
The lectures deal with the emerging science of pricing and hedging derivative securities and, more generally, managing financial risk. Specific articles concern topics such as option theory, dynamic hedging, interest-rate modeling, portfolio theory, price forecasting using statistical methods, etc. The book is aimed at students and researchers in economics, finance and applied mathematics.
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The Collected Works of Larry Wos
in 2 Volumes
Volume I: Exploring the Power of Automated Reasoning
Volume II: Applying Automated Reasoning to Puzzles, Problems, and Open Questions
by Larry Wos, with Gail W Pieper (Argonne National Laboratory)
This two-volume set, by one of the world’s pioneers in automated reasoning, provides a wealth of information for college students, teachers, and researchers in automated reasoning, as well as computer scientists, mathematicians, logicians and historians of computer science.
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Intoduction to Coastal Engineering and Management
by J William Kamphuis (Queen’s University, Canada)
This book is aimed as a text for undergraduate students of coastal engineering. It also serves as a reference for graduate students and practicing engineers, building on a basic foundation in coastal engineering. Finally, it is a guide for people in related disciplines. Coastal managers may use the book to cover the more theoretical and engineering-related aspects of their trade. Its subject matter is of interest to geographers, planners and coastal scientists alike.
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