This book contains about 500 exercises consisting mostly of special cases and examples, second thoughts and alternative arguments, natural extensions, and some novel departures. With a few obvious exceptions they are neither profound nor trivial, and hints and comments are appended to many of them. If they tend to be somewhat inbred, at least they are relevant to the text and s...(展开全部)

狄考文，19世纪美国基督教北长老会来华传教士、教育家、翻译家和慈善家、中国近代科学教育的先驱。在山东从事宣教、教育长达45年之久，创办了中国第一所现代高等教育机构文会馆、广文大学（齐鲁大学之前身）；开设博物馆，传播西方的科学与文化，被誉为“十九世纪后期最有影响的传教士教育家”。在其人生最后十八年，担任圣经翻译委员会主席，主持翻译了流传至今的圣经中文译本“和合本”。

狄考文，19世纪美国基督教北长老会来华传教士、教育家、翻译家和慈善家、中国近代科学教育的先驱。在山东从事宣教、教育长达45年之久，创办了中国第一所现代高等教育机构文会馆、广文大学（齐鲁大学之前身）；开设博物馆，传播西方的科学与文化，被誉为“十九世纪后期最有影响的传教士教育家”。在其人生最后十八年，担任圣经翻译委员会主席，主持翻译了流传至今的圣经中文译本“和合本”。

Clarity, readability, and rigor combine in the second edition of this widely used textbook to provide the first step into general relativity for undergraduate students with a minimal background in mathematics. Topics within relativity that fascinate astrophysical researchers and students alike are covered with Schutz’s characteristic ease and authority – from black holes to gra...(展开全部)

The purpose, level, and style of this new edition conform to the tenets set forth in the original preface. The authors continue with their tack of developing simultaneously theory and applications, intertwined so that they refurbish and elucidate each other. The authors have made three main kinds of changes. First, they have enlarged on the topics treated in the first edition. ...(展开全部)

Recognised as the most practical and comprehensive text in the field of phonetics, this third edition of English Phonetics and Phonology includes revised transcriptions, a wider discussion of different varieties of English and an updated treatment of intonation.

Product Description Agent-based modeling is a new technique for understanding how the dynamics of biological, social, and other complex systems arise from the characteristics and behaviors of the agents making up these systems. This innovative textbook gives students and scientists the skills to design, implement, and analyze agent-based models. It starts with the fundamentals ...(展开全部)

A heartwarming picture book tale of the power of the small, from bestselling author and retired NASA astronaut Commander Mark Kelly. Astronaut Mark Kelly flew with “mice-tronauts” on his first spaceflight aboard space shuttle Endeavour in 2001. Mousetronaut tells the story of a small mouse that wants nothing more than to travel to outer space. The little mouse works as har...(展开全部)

Stochastic processes are tools used widely by statisticians and researchers working in the mathematics of finance. This book for self-study provides a detailed treatment of conditional expectation and probability, a topic that in principle belongs to probability theory, but is essential as a tool for stochastic processes. The book centers on exercises as the main means of expla...(展开全部)