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  • Thinking in Systems

    International Bestseller

    by Donella Meadows ...
    The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!“This is a fabulous book… This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing.”—Forbes“A modern classic”—The New YorkerIn the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a ... ... Read more

    R294,50

  • Lessons From Systems Thinkers

    The Systems Thinker Series, #7

    by Albert Rutherford ...
    Series Book 7 - The Systems Thinker Series
    How did the world's greatest systems thinkers handled crises, invented revolutionary ideas, and solved complex problems?How did the field of systems thinking develop? Who were the pioneers in the field?Learn about the answers in Lessons from Systems Thinkers.Norbert Wiener's pioneering contribution on positive and negative feedback.Warren McCulloch's research on feedback mechanisms in neurology ... Read more

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  • Learn Game Theory

    Strategic Thinking Skills, #1

    by Albert Rutherford ...
    Series Book 1 - Strategic Thinking Skills
    Master strategic thinking and gain a competitive advantage.Have you ever wondered how to make better decisions and solve problems with more ease?Learn Game Theory shares the well-hidden secrets of great decision-makers.Use Logic and Reason to Manage Uncertainty.Life is full of uncertainty. You don't know what lies ahead. But you can learn to control the controllable by using logic and reason.With ... Read more

    R80,05

  • The Red Planet

    A Natural History of Mars

    by Simon Morden ...
    **Uncover the mysteries, wonders and natural history of Mars: as close as you'll get to an eye-witness perspective of the incredible 'Red Planet'.‘Impassioned and thought-provoking, it’s a highly readable work of popular science’** The Observer‘A book of titanic clashing elements, stupendous impacts, cataclysmic eruptions, devastating forces, planet-wrenching seisms... You’ll never look at that ... Read more

    R214,23

  • I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works

    Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

    by Nick Bilton ...
    Are we driving off a digital cliff and heading for disaster, unable to focus, maintain concentration, or form the human bonds that make life worth living? Are media and business doomed and about to be replaced by amateur hour?The world, as Nick Bilton—with tongue-in-cheek—shows, has been going to hell for a long, long time, and what we are experiencing is the twenty-first-century version of the ... Read more

    R204,57

  • Think in Systems

    Cognitive Development, #1

    by Zoe McKey ...
    Series Book 1 - Cognitive Development
    Get out of that rut. Find long-term solution to your problems.We have the best of intentions to improve our conditions, but often our solutions fall short of improving our lives. Our best efforts can result in the opposite of what we want over time. If we apply conventional thinking to complex issues, we often maintain or feed the very problems we want to fix. How to avoid this trap? I will tell ... Read more

    R80,05

  • Chaos In Nature (Second Edition)

    by Christophe Letellier ...
    Series Book 94 - World Scientific Series On Nonlinear Science Series A
    This book is devoted to the history of chaos theory, from celestial mechanics (three-body problem) to electronics and meteorology. Many illustrative examples of chaotic behaviors exist in various contexts found in nature (chemistry, astrophysics, biomedicine). This book includes the most popular systems from chaos theory (Lorenz, Rössler, van der Pol, Duffing, logistic map, Lozi map, Hénon map etc ... Read more

    R1 585,38

  • The Darwinian Delusion

    The Scientific Myth Of Evolutionism

    by Michael Ebifegha ...
    Pseudoscience Advocates DarwinismWhereasScience Endorses Anti-DarwinismDarwin's theory of evolution, which asserts that new species are formed gradually through competition, is being challenged as empirical studies show that new species are, instead, produced rapidly through cooperation. In other words, the mechanism set forth in Darwin's theory are not the ones that result in the development of ... Read more

    R60,48

  • Hamiltonian Partial Differential Equations and Applications

    Edited by Philippe Guyenne, David Nicholls, Catherine Sulem ...
    Series Book 75 - Fields Institute Communications
    This book is a unique selection of work by world-class experts exploring the latest developments in Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their applications. Topics covered within are representative of the field’s wide scope, including KAM and normal form theories, perturbation and variational methods, integrable systems, stability of nonlinear solutions as well as applications to ... Read more

    R746,11

  • Analytics for the Sharing Economy: Mathematics, Engineering and Business Perspectives

    Edited by Emanuele Crisostomi, Bissan Ghaddar, Florian Häusler, Joe Naoum-Sawaya, Giovanni Russo, Robert Shorten ...
    The book provides an encompassing overview of all aspects relating to the sharing economy paradigm in different fields of study, and shows the ongoing research efforts in filling previously identified gaps in understanding in this area. Control and optimization analytics for the sharing economy explores bespoke analytics, tools, and business models that can be used to help design collaborative ... Read more

    R1 790,77

  • Dynamical Aspects of Teichmüller Theory

    SL(2,R)-Action on Moduli Spaces of Flat Surfaces

    by Carlos Matheus Silva Santos ...
    Series Book 7 - Atlantis Studies in Dynamical Systems
    This book is a remarkable contribution to the literature on dynamical systems and geometry. It consists of a selection of work in current research on Teichmüller dynamics, a field that has continued to develop rapidly in the past decades. After a comprehensive introduction, the author investigates the dynamics of the Teichmüller flow, presenting several self-contained chapters, each addressing a ... Read more

    R1 044,53

  • Equivalent-Small-Parameter Analysis of DC/DC Switched-Mode Converter

    by Yanfeng Chen, Bo Zhang ...
    Series series CPSS Power Electronics Series
    This book focuses on the applications of Equivalent-Small-Parameter Method (ESPM) in solving the steady-state periodic solutions, as well as stability analysis, of kinds of open-loop or closed-loop operated DC/DC converters, such as PWM, quasi-resonant and resonant ones. The analytical expressions of DC components and harmonics of state variables (inductor current and capacitor voltage) with DC/DC ... Read more

    R2 089,31

  • Big Data Analytics for Cyber-Physical Systems

    Edited by Shiyan Hu, Bei Yu ...
    This book highlights research and survey articles dedicated to big data techniques for cyber-physical system (CPS), which addresses the close interactions and feedback controls between cyber components and physical components. The book first discusses some fundamental big data problems and solutions in large scale distributed CPSs. The book then addresses the design and control challenges in ... Read more

    R2 537,00

  • Mathematical Foundations and Numerical Analysis of the Dynamics of an Isotropic Universe

    by Sergio Benenti ...
    This book is an enhanced and expanded English edition of the treatise “Fondamenti matematici e analisi numerica della dinamica di un Universo isotropo,” published by the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino in volume no. 42-43, 2018-2019. The book summarizes some of the principal findings from a long-term cosmology research project, aiming to clarify significant results through clear mathematical ... Read more

    R2 463,17

  • Multifractal Theory of Motion

    From Small to Large Scales

    by Maricel Agop, Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc ...
    This book aims to present the topic of nonlinear and chaotic dynamics in a manner that is useful and beneficial to students and young researchers from various domains such as physics, mathematics, biology, or even medicine.A very important aspect of that topic is that the constraints of determinism do not imply a regular behavior or do not rely on predictability in describing the dynamics of ... Read more

    R2 652,69

  • Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in Manufacturing

    with Research and Applications in Thermal Laser Processing

    by J.J. Beaman, John W. Barlow, D.L. Bourell, R.H. Crawford, H.L. Marcus, K.P. McAlea ...
    Solid Freeform Fabrication is a set of manufacturing processes that are capable of producing complex freeform solid objects directly from a computer model of an object without part-specific tooling or knowledge. In essence, these methods are miniature manufacturing plants which come complete with material handling, information processing and materials processing. As such, these methods require ... Read more

    R2 461,91

  • Multi-Paradigm Programming using C++

    by Dirk Vermeir ...
    An Introduction to Multi-Paradigm Programming using C++ is a self-contained reference book for those studying and using C++. Starting from scratch, Dirk Vermeir explains the idea of address, value and type in C++ before quickly moving on to cover the more important aspects of the language such as classes, templates, generic programming and inheritance. He includes recent developments in C++, such ... Read more

    R1 582,62

  • Advances in Non-Archimedean Analysis and Applications

    The p-adic Methodology in STEAM-H

    Edited by W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo, Bourama Toni ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary overview of non-Archimedean analysis and its applications. Featuring new techniques developed by leading experts in the field, it highlights the relevance and depth of this important area of mathematics, in particular its expanding reach into the physical, biological, social, and computational sciences as well as engineering and technology.In the last ... Read more

    R2 084,25

  • Turbulence and Self-Organization

    Modeling Astrophysical Objects

    by Mikhail Ya Marov, Aleksander V. Kolesnichenko ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The book deals with the development of continual models of turbulent natural media. Such models serve as a ground for the statement and numerical evaluation of the key problems of the structure and evolution of the numerous astrophysical and geophysical objects. The processes of ordering (self-organization) in an originally chaotic turbulent medium are addressed and treated in detail with the use ... Read more

    R2 434,08

  • Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity

    Edited by Xilin Fu, Albert C. J. Luo, Valentin Afraimovich ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This important collection presents recent advances in nonlinear dynamics including analytical solutions, chaos in Hamiltonian systems, time-delay, uncertainty, and bio-network dynamics. Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity equips readers to appreciate this increasingly main-stream approach to understanding complex phenomena in nonlinear systems as they are examined in a broad array of disciplines. ... Read more

    R1 564,68

  • Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, and Complexity

    In Memory of Professor Valentin Afraimovich

    Edited by Dimitri Volchenkov ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book demonstrates how mathematical methods and techniques can be used in synergy and create a new way of looking at complex systems. It becomes clear nowadays that the standard (graph-based) network approach, in which observable events and transportation hubs are represented by nodes and relations between them are represented by edges, fails to describe the important properties of complex ... Read more

    R1 477,74

  • Irreversibility and Dissipation in Microscopic Systems

    by Édgar Roldán ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    After an insightful introductory part on recent developments in the thermodynamics of small systems, the author presents his contribution to a long-standing problem, namely the connection between irreversibility and dissipation. He develops a method based on recent results on fluctuation theorems that is able to estimate dissipation using only information acquired in a single, sufficiently long, ... Read more

    R1 564,68

  • Measurement across the Sciences

    Developing a Shared Concept System for Measurement

    by Luca Mari, Mark Wilson, Andrew Maul ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and psychology. The authors, who themselves span these disciplines, argue that the justification of the public trust attributed to measurement results can in principle apply identically to both physical and psychosocial ... Read more

    R1 381,14

  • New Approaches to Nonlinear Waves

    Edited by Elena Tobisch ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The book details a few of the novel methods developed in the last few years for studying various aspects of nonlinear wave systems. The introductory chapter provides a general overview, thematically linking the objects described in the book.Two chapters are devoted to wave systems possessing resonances with linear frequencies (Chapter 2) and with nonlinear frequencies (Chapter 3).In the next two ... Read more

    R782,33