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The End of Certainty : Time, Chaos, and the New Laws of Nature
Isabelle Stengers, Ilya Prigogine
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Current:
9.6 |
In this intellectually challenging book, Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine tackles some of the difficult questions that bedevil physicists trying to provide an explanation for the world we observe. How is it, for instance, that basic principles
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The Visualization Toolkit
William Schroeder
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Current:
9.5 |
This Java-built "Visualization Toolkit (VTK)" will enable readers to represent any set of data--medical, scientific, or financial--in 3D. Users will learn to build 3D Java applets with the VTK software on the CD-ROM. The book covers Web app
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| 3
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Turbulent Mirror : An Illustrated Guide to Chaos, Theory and the Science of Wholeness
John Briggs
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Current:
9.5 |
The concept of chaos is one of today's most exciting scientific breakthroughs, with far-reaching implications for thermodynamics, our concept of time, and the way we perceive the universe. Turbulent Mirror offers a perfect introduction to t
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| 4
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Chaos and Fractals : New Frontiers of Science
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
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Current:
9.4 |
Fascinating and authoritative, Chaos and Fractals: New Frontiers of Science is a truly remarkable book that documents recent discoveries in chaos theory with plenty of mathematical detail, but without alienating the general reader. I
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| 5
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Frontiers of Complexity : The Search for Order in a Chaotic World
Peter Coveney, Roger Highfield
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Current:
9.3 |
Accessible yet rigorous, this book goes far beyond most popularizations of "chaos" theory and presents the science of complexity, its historical origins, and current applications to cosmology, particle physics, ecology, evolution,
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Chaos : Making a New Science
James Gleick
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Current:
9.3 |
Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category. In Chaos
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The Predictors
Thomas A. Bass
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Current:
9.3 |
Using a computer to beat Wall Street from afar is, arguably, the new American dream. While it will remain just that for most of us, an offbeat gang of academics turned financial wizards is showing it can be done. Led by acclaimed physicists
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| 8
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Systems Thinking : Managing Chaos and Complexity : A Platform for Designing Business Architecture
Jamshid Gharajedaghi
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Current:
9.2 |
This book is a direct result of the author's work with the systems methodology first introduced by the author's partner, Russell Ackoff. It's a holistic approach to systems methodology. It deals with all dimensions of a system: structure, f
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| 9
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Emergence : From Chaos to Order (Helix Books)
John H. Holland
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Current:
9.2 |
"Emergence" is the notion that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. John Holland, a MacArthur Fellow known as the "father of genetic algorithms," says this seemingly simple notion will be at the heart of the deve
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Small Worlds : The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Duncan J. Watts(Preface)
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Current:
9.1 |
"This is a remarkably novel analysis, with implications for a broad range of scientific disciplines, including neurobiology, sociology, ecology, economics, and epidemiology. . . . The results are potentially profoundly important."--Simon A.
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Chemometrics : A Practical Guide (Wiley-Interscience Series on Laboratory Automation)
Kenneth R. Beebe
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Current:
9.1 |
Explains how to apply the most widely used pattern recognition & multivariate calibration techniques to solve data analysis problems & describes all key methods in terms of processes & applications in order to help the reader easily identif
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| 12
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Schaum's Outline of Analytical Chemistry
Adon A. Gordus
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Current:
9.0 |
Chemistry students love Schaum's for their thorough introduction to each topic, including easy-to-follow explanations of the necessary mathematics and procedures. With 590 fully solved problems and hundreds more to solve on your own (with a
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Introduction to Mass Spectrometry
J. Throck Watson
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Current:
8.9 |
Completely revised and updated in its Third Edition, this text provides an easy-to-read guide to the concept of mass spectrometry and demonstrates its potential and limitations. Utilizing real life examples of analyses and applications, the
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Seven Life Lessons of Chaos : Timeless Wisdom from the Science of Change
John Briggs
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Current:
8.8 |
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| 15
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Complexity and Postmodernism : Understanding Complex Systems
Paul Cilliers
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Current:
8.8 |
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| 16
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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos : With Applications in Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering (Studies in Nonlinearity)
Steven H. Strogatz
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Current:
8.8 |
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| 17
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Mastering SIMULINK 2
James Dabney, Thomas L. Harman
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Current:
8.7 |
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| 18
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Global Positioning System : Theory and Practice
B. Hofmann-Wellenhof
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Current:
8.6 |
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| 19
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Hidden Order : How Adaptation Builds Complexity
John H. Holland, Heather Mimnaugh
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Current:
8.6 |
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| 20
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General System Theory : Foundations, Development, Applications
Ludwig, Von Bertalanffy
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 21
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Simulation With Arena
W. David Kelton
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 22
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Chaos Theory Tamed
Garnett P. Williams
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Current:
8.4 |
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| 23
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How Nature Works : The Science of Self-Organized Criticality
Per Bak
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 24
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Chaos : An Introduction to Dynamical Systems (Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences)
James A. Yorke
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 25
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The Computational Beauty of Nature : Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
Gary William Flake
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Current:
8.3 |
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| 26
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Practical HPLC Method Development, 2nd Edition
Lloyd R. Snyder
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 27
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Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds
Robert M. Silverstein
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 28
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150 And More Basic Nmr Experiments : A Practical Course
Siegmar Braun
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Current:
8.1 |
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| 29
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Fluorescence Microscopy (Microscopy Handbooks, 40)
H. J. Tanke, Brian Herman
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Current:
7.9 |
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| 30
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Handbook of Instrumental Techniques for Analytical Chemistry
Frank A. Settle
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Current:
7.8 |
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| 31
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Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists
Anselm L. Strauss
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 32
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Basic HPLC and CE of Biomolecules
Robert L. Cunico
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 33
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A Complete Introduction to Modern Nmr Spectroscopy
Roger S. Macomber
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 34
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Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry : Fundamentals, Instrumentation, and Applications
Richard B. Cole
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Current:
7.6 |
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| 35
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Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry : A Practical Guide
Fulton G. Kitson
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Current:
7.5 |
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| 36
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Molecular Mechanics Across Chemistry
Anthony K. Rappe
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Current:
7.5 |
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| 37
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Gc/MS : A Practical User's Guide
Marvin C. McMaster, Christopher McMaster
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Current:
7.3 |
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| 38
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Statistics for Analytical Chemistry
James Miller, Jane Miller
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Current:
7.2 |
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| 39
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Does God Play Dice? : The Mathematics of Chaos
Ian Stewart
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Current:
7.1 |
Mathematicians and scientists have now discovered that systems obeying precise laws can behave in a random fashion. And perhaps God can play dice, and create a universe of complete law and order, in the same breath. This new science, the ma
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| 40
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Principles of Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Joseph R. Lakowicz
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Current:
7.0 |
`In the second edition of Principles I have attempted to maintain the emphasis on basics, while updating the examples to include more recent results from the literature. There is a new chapter providing an overview of extrinisic fluorophore
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| 41
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Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry (Saunders Golden Sunburst Series)
Douglas A. Skoog
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Current:
7.0 |
Chemistry students love Schaum's for their thorough introduction to each topic, including easy-to-follow explanations of the necessary mathematics and procedures. With 590 fully solved problems and hundreds more to solve on your own (with a
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| 42
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System Identification : Theory for the User (Prentice Hall Information and System Sciences Series)
Lennart Ljung
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Current:
7.0 |
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| 43
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The Systems View of the World : A Holistic Vision for Our Time (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
Ervin Laszlo
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Current:
7.0 |
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| 44
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Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater (Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 20th Edition)
Arnold E. Greenberg
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Current:
7.0 |
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| 45
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Symmetry and Spectroscopy : An Introduction to Vibrational and Electronic Spectroscopy
Daniel C. Harris, Michael D. Bertolucci
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Current:
7.0 |
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| 46
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Interpretation of Mass Spectra
Fred W. McLafferty
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Current:
6.9 |
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| 47
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Molecular Vibrations : The Theory of Infrared and Raman Vibrational Spectra
Edgar Bright, Wilson
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Current:
6.8 |
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| 48
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Quantitative Chemical Analysis
Daniel C. Harris
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Current:
6.8 |
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| 49
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Principles of Instrumental Analysis (Saunders Golden Sunburst Series)
Douglas A. Skoog
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Current:
6.7 |
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| 50
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Elements of X-Ray Diffraction
Bernard Dennis Cullity, Berrard D. Cullity
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Current:
6.6 |
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