Electronic Media connects the traditional world of broadcasting with the contemporary universe of digital electronic media. It provides a synopsis …
This book rigorously explores the critical, initial stage of cluster emergence in which the seeds for further growth are sown. …
In The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, lucidly explains everything you …
Righting the Mother Tongue tells the cockamamie story of English spelling. When did ghost acquire its silent 'h'? Will cyberspace …
Provides an inter-disciplinary exploration of the development of social cognition in humans and looks at the psychiatric implications when these …
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its …
A new, evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market, yet economists …
Sidney Ochs begins his survey with a chronological look at the history of nerves from the fifth century B.C. to …
Animal behavior has long been a battleground between the competing claims of nature and nurture, with the possible role of …
Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence presents the application of GP to a wide variety of problems involving automated …
Before email, before the web,” before hackers and GPS and sexting, before titanium implants, before Google Goggles, before Siri, and …
How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, …
If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed, these tiny structures inside our cells …
This is a companion transcript of the audio series, Beyond The Phoenix Project, intended to be used for reference and …
Can language change be modelled as an evolutionary process? Can notions like variation, selection and competition be fruitfully applied to …
In this comprehensive introduction, Henriette Walter provides the reader with a panoramic view of the development of the French language …
Origins of Life on the Earth and in the Cosmos suggests answers to the age-old questions of how life on …
Astrobiology–the study of life in space–is one of today’s fastest growing and most popular fields of science. In this compelling, …
G?nter Lumer was an outstanding mathematician whose work has great influence on the research community in mathematical analysis and evolution …
The present volume is self-contained and introduces to the treatment of linear and nonlinear (quasi-linear) abstract evolution equations by methods …
Second order linear parabolic and elliptic equations arise frequently in mathematical physics, biology and finance. Here the authors present a …
This book, which is a continuation of Almost Automorphic Type and Almost Periodic Type Functions in Abstract Spaces, presents recent …
Prior to the nineteenth century, algebra meant the study of the solution of polynomial equations. By the twentieth century algebra …
The Evolution of Matter explains how all matter in the Universe developed following the Big Bang and through subsequent stellar …
Most well-read, but non-scientific, people will have heard of the term Big Bang as a description of the origin of …
At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. …
This ... book presents evidence that our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but actually cosmic. [The …
