Author: Physics Survey Overview Committee Board on Physic
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: physics, era, new, series, overview
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-06-15
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 0309073421
ISBN-13: 9780309073424
Physics at the beginning of the twenty-first century has reached new levels of accomplishment and impact in a society and nation that are changing rapidly. Accomplishments have led us into the information age and fueled broad technological and economic development. The pace of discovery is quickening and stronger links with other fields such as the biological sciences are being developed. The intellectual reach has never been greater, and the questions being asked are more ambitious than ever before. "Physics in a New Era" is the final report of the NRC’s six-volume decadal physics surve
Author: Harald Baldersheim
Publisher: Budrich
Keywords: overview, science, development, political, disciplin, discipline, world, synthesis, study, local, government, politics, comparative
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $19.90
ISBN-10: 3866490348
ISBN-13: 9783866490345
Author: David Lyo
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: overview, studies, surveillance
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-08-06
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0745635911
ISBN-13: 9780745635910
The study of surveillance is more relevant than ever before. The fast growth of the field of surveillance studies reflects both the urgency of civil liberties and privacy questions in the war on terror era and the classical social science debates over the power of watching and classification, from Bentham to Foucault and beyond. In this overview, David Lyon, one of the pioneers of surveillance studies, fuses with aplomb classical debates and contemporary examples to provide the most accessible and up-to-date introduction to surveillance available. The book takes in surveillance studies in all
Author: Sunder S. Raja
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: overview, conceptual, mri
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 1997-10-03
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0387949119
ISBN-13: 9780387949116
Presented to readers in a visual, image-based style, this guide succinctly explains the scientific principles of MRI and spectroscopy. The book conveys an appreciation for the signal encoding and decoding processes employed in MR, and provides readers with a working understanding of the contrast mechanisms which apply in the acquisition and display of MR data. 117 illus Pub: 7/97.
Author: Gregg Jaeger
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: overview, information, quantum
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0387357254
ISBN-13: 9780387357256
This book is a comprehensive yet concise overview of quantum information science, which is a rapidly developing area of interdisciplinary investigation that now plays a significant role in physics, information technology and engineering. The most well-known applications of quantum information science are quantum key distribution and quantum computation. This book is a handy reference for practitioners and students covering foundational issues as well as these and other applications. It contains more than 25 illustrations that encapsulate essential ideas and fundamental constructs. Foreword by
Author: Ronald J. Bacigal
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Keywords: overview, procedure, law, criminal
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2008-03-17
List price: $156.95
ISBN-10: 1428317414
ISBN-13: 9781428317413
Criminal Law and Procedure: An Overview, third edition, covers the essentials of both substantive criminal law and criminal procedure. Covering both subjects makes this book suitable for a single course designed to provide an overview of the entire criminal justice system, or it can be used in separate courses covering substantive and procedural law. The first part defines criminal responsibility and addresses the major felonies recognized in most, if not all jurisdictions. The second half covers the procedural aspects of the entire criminal justice system from arrest to appeal and habeas corp
Author: SAS Publishing
Publisher: SAS Publishing
Keywords: second, overview, platform, intelligence, sas
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2006-03-08
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1590479165
ISBN-13: 9781590479162
This guide is the point-of-entry document for understanding the basics of the SAS Intelligence Platform. It discusses the benefits of the SAS Intelligence Platform to businesses, describes the architecture of the SAS Intelligence Platform, and provides an overview of each software component in the platform.
