Based on their extensive experience with teaching R and statistics to applied scientists, the authors provide a beginner's guide to R. To avoid the difficulty of teaching R and statistics at the same time, statistical methods are kept to a minimum. The text covers how to download and install R, import and manage data, elementary plotting, an introduction to functions, advanced ...(展开全部)

Focusing on the impact of engineering on society and the world, McCarthy details the development of the discipline, explains what makes an engineering mind, and shows how every aspect of our lives has been engineered: from gadgets to our national infrastructure. Long considered tinkerers, problem solvers, and visionaries, engineers hold the keys to our real and virtual future.

瓦茨拉夫·斯米尔（Vaclav Smil） △欧佩克研究奖、美国科学促进会授予的科学和技术公众普及奖得主 △ 加拿大马尼托巴大学环境学院荣誉教授 瓦茨拉夫·斯米尔是一位备受比尔·盖茨和扎克伯格推崇的能源科学家和科普作家，经常现身世界经济论坛和气候变化国际圆桌会议，担任主要发言人。他在能源、环境、食品、人口、经济、历史和公共政策等方面均有突出建树，并且非常善于进行跨学科研究。他还将跨学科的研究方法带到了他对中国能源、食品和环境问题的阐述中。 斯米尔也是一位高产的学者，出版了 40 部专著，发表了近 500 篇论文。代表作包括畅销书《美国制造》《能源神话与现实》《材料简史与材料未来》《我们应该吃肉吗？》《能源与文明》《全球化的原动机》《收割生物圈》，其中前四部已有中文版本。

Written in a step by step tutorial style, learning comes as a result of creating a complete dance music track, along with the explanations that follow each stage. You have a computer and a love for dance and electronic music. Maybe you’ve been to some clubs, and the energy of electronic dance music has you completely under its spell. You see a DJ spinning, and everyone is dancing. It’s infectious. You want to make music that affects people that way. Today the open source community has offered you LMMS. Read this book, and you’ll be shown a process to creating great dance music. This book is going to connect the dots if you have already started making dance music, and provide a very solid foundation if you are just getting started – no matter what your skill level is.

Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world’s greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn’t. Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he’d felt certain they must have had a designer. Learning about evolution changed his mind. Now one of the worl...(展开全部)

Starting with its origins in the work of Charles Darwin, the book covers all the key areas of evolutionary psychology, including the role played by genetics in our sexual behavior, parental decision-making, and how babies learn about and adapt to the world.

作者:(美) Eric Chaisson（艾瑞克.简森），Steve McMillan（史蒂夫.麦克米兰） 译者:孙艳春 Eric Chaisson: 哈佛大学天体物理学博士，曾任太空望远镜科学研究所高级科技人员，约翰?霍普金斯大学和塔夫茨大学教授。现任教于哈佛大学，并在哈佛大学史密斯天体物理中心从事研究工作。出版关于天文学的书籍12本，两次获美国文学奖，两次获美国物理研究奖，一次获哈佛大学Smith-Weld奖。发表论文200余篇，其中一些原创性论文为其赢得了哈佛大学天体物理B. J. Bok奖。 孙艳春: 北京师范大学副教授, 长期从事天文学教学与研究工作, 发表论文多篇, 出版专著1部, 译著多部, 曾多次获教学奖, 研究项目10多项.

Inspired by the beloved Harry Potter films, Imagining Hogwarts: A Beginner’s Guide to Moviemaking teaches kids everything they need to know about making a movie—then gives them the chance to do it themselves. Imagining Hogwarts is a fun, practical guide to making your very own movie set at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With guided activities on every aspect of mov...(展开全部)

Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as its primary tools. You’ll first cover the f...(展开全部)