Combining philosophical and historical background, Chances Are is a lay person’s journey into the realm of probability–from poker to politics, weather to war, Monte Carlo to mortality. Illustrations.

Computeralgebra bezeichnet den Grenzbereich zwischen Algebra und Informatik, der sich mit Entwurf, Analyse, Implementierung und Anwendung algebraischer Algorithmen befasst. Der Autor stellt einige Computeralgebra-Systeme vor und zeigt an Beispielen deren…

Jonathan Kaplan weighs the evidence for genetic determinism of such human traits as intelligence, depression, homosexuality and violence, and argues that neither genes nor the environment alone can explain the…

A comprehensive survey of tattooing. It collects designs from around the globe that span a range of styles, including Japanese and East Asian iconography, classic Americana, tribal blackwork, biomech, black-and-gray…

When a young rabbit quits soccer after a disappointing first game, her family encourages her to keep trying.

Provides what is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. The book illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth…

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Colossal Magnetoresistance and Vibronic Interactions and the XVth International Jahn-Teller Symposium on Vibronic Interactions in Crystals and Molecules, Boston August 16-22, 2000

Threat Intelligence Analysis allows analysts to gain tactical, operational, and strategic advantages for customers of their intelligence product. Using highly developed analytical skills, analysts can maximize the benefits and efficiency…