Integer Programming and Combinatorial OptimizationThe course is a comprehensive introduction to the theory, algorithms and applications of integer optimization and is organized in four parts: formulations and relaxations, algebra and geometry of integer optimization, algorithms for integer optimization, and extensions of integer optimization.
A Concise Introduction to LogicThis work covers all the standard topics for any introductory logic course in neatly-packaged learning units. Known for its concise, direct style that emphasizes clarity, this text aims to avoid the peculiar quirks, technicalities and wordiness of others.
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Scientific American Online - How Things Work
In this exclusive online issue, Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti explains the inner workings of 20 commonly used technologies. Learn how noise-cancelling headphones silence unwanted background noise and how digital cameras overcome shaky hands. Discover how crude oil is refined and how cochlear implants enable hearing. You’ll also find out how radar guns spot speeders, how air traffic control systems minimize accidents in the sky, and how medical patches enable continuous drug delivery.
Analyzing Newspapers - An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis
This book offers both an understanding of newspaper reporting and a means for readers to develop their own critical analysis. Using a wealth of contemporary case studies, students are taught how the language of journalism works, providing students with an accessible and user-friendly guide to analyzing newspapers around the globe.
What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics. In the first book in English exclusively devoted to this discussion, Ursula Coope argues that Aristotle sees time as a universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables her to explain two striking Aristotelian claims: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind.
