Chaos: A very short introduction

Chaos: A very short introduction

Chaos: A very short introduction

... example above: we could have made the linear growth faster by adding not one additional grain for each square, but instead, say, 1,000 additional grains. This parameter, the number of additional ... use onboard ship, and it is hard to overestimate the value of a barometer to a captain lacking access to satellite images and radio reports. Major storms are associated with low atmospheric pr...

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Economics: A Very Short Introduction

Economics: A Very Short Introduction

... Shaw ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew ... a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. Very Short Introductions available now: ANARCHISM Colin Ward ANCIENT...

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Game theory: A very short introduction

Game theory: A very short introduction

... eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm and a union negotiating next year’s wage are playing a bargaining game. When opposing candidates choose their platform in an election, they are playing ... Koser INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson ISLAM Malise Ruthven JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves JUDAISM Norman Solomon JUNG Anthony Stevens KABBALAH Joseph Dan KAFKA Ritchie Robertson KANT Roger...

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Global catastrophes: A very short introduction

Global catastrophes: A very short introduction

... Colin Ward ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas ANCIENT WARFARE Harry Sidebottom THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ARCHITECTURE Andrew ... Richards Wittgenstein A. C. Grayling WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar Available soon: AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker and Richard Rathbone ANGLICANISM Mark...

Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2014, 18:43

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Photography: a very short introduction

Photography: a very short introduction

... be easier to identify a particular pathological condition from an abstracted image than from the contingent forms it actually takes. Photographs make available an archive of diseases unfamiliar ... less knowable in the absence of these images: our familiarity with tropical islands and deserts, anacondas and aardvarks, stems, in the main, from lens-based imagery. (Perhaps zoological and bota...

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Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction

Nuclear weapons: A very short introduction

... in initiating a nuclear attack. But, according to nuclear analysts, it’s not because they can’t. With a small quantity of enriched uranium, a handful of military supplies readily available on ... Internet, and a small team of dedicated terrorists, they could potentially assemble a nuclear weapon in a matter of months, and deliver it by air, sea, rail, or road. The impact of...

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The meaning of life: A very short introduction

The meaning of life: A very short introduction

... Sexuality was packaged as a profi table commodity in the marketplace, while culture meant for the most part profi t-hungry mass media. Art was a matter of money, power, status, cultural capital. ... the more eagerly as the public domain itself became increasingly drained of meaning. Fact and value seemed to have split apart, leaving the former a public affair and the latter a priv...

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