Botany IllustratedThis easy-to-use book helps you acquire a wealth of fascinating information about plants. There are 130 pages with text, each facing 130 pages of beautiful illustrations. Each page is a separate subject. Included is a coloring guide for the realistic illustrations. The illustration pages are composed of scientifically accurate line drawings with the true sizes of the plants indicated. Using colored pencils and the authors’ instructions, you can color the various plant structures to stand out in vivid clarity.
From China to Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical IdeasContents: K. Vogel: A Surveying Problem Travels from China to Paris - J. Hoyrup: Seleucid Innovations in the Babylonian oAlgebraico Tradition and their Kin Abroad - J. L. Berggren: Some Ancient and Medieval Approximations to Irrational Numbers and Their Transmission - J. Sesiano: A Reconstruction of Greek Multiplication Tables for Integers - A. Breard: Problems of Pursuit: Recreational Mathematics or Astronomy? - K. Chemla / A. Keller: The Sanskrit karanis and the Chinese mian - and others
Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New WebPraise for Engage!
"It's no longer an era of business as usual. Executives and entrepreneurs must embrace new media in order to not only compete for the future, but for mind share, market share, and, ultimately, relevance. This book helps you engage. Without it, you're competing for second place."
Chaotic Dynamics: Theory and Applications to EconomicsThis book is a tool for the theoretical and numerical investigation of nonlinear dynamical systems modeled by means of ordinary differential and difference equations. The work is divided into two parts: a book, comprising a theoretical overview of the subject matter and a number of applications; and an integrated software program. The book first discusses the fundamental concepts and methods of chaos theory, and then applies these theoretical results
Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy, from Plato to the PresentSince the very birth of democracy in ancient Greece, the simple act of voting has given rise to mathematical paradoxes that have puzzled some of the greatest philosophers, statesmen, and mathematicians. Numbers Rule traces the epic quest by these thinkers to create a more perfect democracy and adapt to the ever-changing demands that each new generation places on our democratic institutions.
